and the whole Expressive Arts Florida team!
How are you entering 2022?
With so much chaos, tragedy and uncertainty around us, how do we center and ground ourselves, set our course. and align with the truth of our inner wisdom? How do we empower ourselves?
In the flow of our lives, there is a deeper knowing than we are aware of consciously. Even when external circumstances seem to be pointing us in one direction, or when we are mired in confusion or uncertainty, there is always a deep river of knowing moving beneath the surface. How do we access that river?
Many of us get there through the arts, through the body, through dreams. A reliable way to discover and connect with what is going on at a deeper level is to spend a few minutes in meditation, and then to make a visual image, explore that image in the body, and write from the voice of the image. Sometimes, we also use sound or rhythm exploration as part of this. What is revealed is what we have come to
call creative wisdom. If you haven’t tried this, we invite you to.
This is what we do in our annual Intention Setting workshop, coming up this Wednesday January 5, live online.
Like spring secretly at work within the heart of winter, below the surface of our lives huge changes are in fermentation.
John O'Donohue
Re-setting our internal compass is so important, especially as we are living in a sea of uncertainty. It is both difficult and essential that we discover and re-connect with a place of internal deep knowing, so that we can move forward in our lives from that place, whether it is expressed through personal healing, creative work,
improved relationships, refinement of purpose, or social action.
We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new beginning, as a unique opportunity to make everything new. Imagine that we could live each moment as a moment pregnant with new life. Imagine that we could live each day as a day full of promises.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
We invite you to join us for any or all of January's opportunities to listen deeply to, and act from, your own creative wisdom. Loving Witness Open Studio and Intention Setting are happening this week, and SoulCollage® Wisdom Circle, and the IEATA Conference the following week. If you are ready to begin your Expressive Arts training, it is not too late to apply to begin January 25.
Join our live online circle from wherever you are and welcome in the New Year with a powerful Expressive Arts Process. As we welcome the New Year, we embrace the opportunity for powerful new beginnings. At this potent time of year we embrace the Solstice and move into the returning of the light.
*Listen within through guided meditation
*Set your 2022 intention with visual art and writing
*Share energy with creative community
Intention Setting 2022
Live Online
Wednesday January 5th, 2022
6:30-8:30pm EST
The new year is the perfect time to create a Wisdom Circle using your SoulCollage® cards. Join us for this special gathering of experienced SoulCollagers. Using your existing deck of cards, you will draw a Wisdom Circle providing you with guidance, direction and support. Through
reflective exercises, readings, and journaling, you will learn ways to consult your Wisdom Circle throughout the year. Let your Wisdom Circle assist you in manifesting your 2022 intention!
In preparation for this workshop, gather all of your SoulCollage® cards.
Wisdom Circle Using Your SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
Tuesday January 11th 6pm-9pm EST
Discover a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage® is a introduction to the contemplative and insightful process of self-discovery. It gently opens you to a new way of exploring your inner wisdom. It is a practice that leads to a greater ability to be present to yourself in the here
and now. It is this mindfulness energy that connects you to the unique aspects of yourself while you deepen connections with others – all while engaging your creativity! Using simple tools – scissors, glue, magazine images, and mat board – you create cards that are uniquely yours. This process honors your own time, pace, inner-language and spirituality.
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
February 8th 6pm-9pm EST
Intermodal Expressive Arts Certificate Training Program
It's not too late to begin in January
EAFI 120: Body, Mind, and Spirit
The focus of this course is on Intermodal Expressive Arts as a holistic field, effecting change in all aspects of human experience: body, mind and spirit. The course will explore ways in which the different arts modalities bring growth and change, and how they work together as a holistic model.
EAFI 120: Body, Mind, and Spirit
January 25th-28th 2022; Online
EAFI 110: Dive Into Expressive Arts
Immerse yourself into Expressive Arts process, including visual art, sound, music, movement, drama, writing, and guided meditation. In a safe and supportive retreat atmosphere, set an intention and follow the thread of your own creative process and imagery through a series of guided experiences. Experiential in nature, this course is a great introduction to the power of intermodal expressive arts. It is a gift to yourself!
EAFI 110: Dive Into Expressive Arts
March 5th- 12th 2022; Online
EAFI 130: Scope of Expressive Arts
EAFI 130: Scope of Expressive Arts introduces the continuum of Expressive Arts work – from the intrapersonal, to the interpersonal, to the social/cultural/planetary -through engagement in experiential processes focused on different aspects of the continuum. Both individual and collaborative expressive arts processes are utilized in this course, and some attention is given to designing and
facilitating collaborative art projects.Through experiential process and didactic presentation, students are guided through individual and collaborative experiences utilizing intermodal expressive arts to enrich well-being, develop relationships, cultivate empathic witnessing, practice communication, and build community to cultivate cultural understanding.
EAFI 130: Scope of Expressive Arts
March 29th- April 1st 2022; Online
Online Open Studios
Join us from anywhere to create!
with Kathleen
Online via Zoom
January 4th & 18th
1pm-4pm EST
Join our creative circle of support; begin with a guided meditation focused on self-compassion and move into 2+ hours of open creative time. During the last half hour we witness and share. Join from wherever you are in the world. No charge. Donations gratefully accepted at PayPal.Me/eafistudio if that works for you.
with Tamara
Online via Zoom
January 12th
10am-1pm EST
Join us via Zoom to gather in creative community. We will continue to evaluate current health and safety recommendations and will update you when we are able to safely return to an in-person studio. Drop in via Zoom, Relax, and have fun- bring a project you are working on, or start something new.
SELF-STUDY TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS...
ART MEDITATIONS
Our Gift to You
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Telehealth and in-person
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, REACE, NCC, MHC Intern
Expressive arts therapy is a multimodal, holistic approach to counseling. It acknowledges the complexity of human experience by facilitating the client in exploring all aspects of the self, by inquiring through the imagination and the body about subjective experience, and expanding the play space to allow for new possibilities and shifts in consciousness that lead to desired changes in one’s
life. More
OUR MISSION
Through workshops, programs, certificate training, and therapy Expressive Arts Florida Institute empowers individuals, groups and communities by cultivating the creative wisdom inherent in all.
We look forward to seeing you!
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, NCC, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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