We send you well wishes for 2022. It was lovely to gather with some of you for our Online Intention Setting, and set our inner compasses for the upcoming year, while acknowledging the profound uncertainty we are all living with.
In 2022, we will send you a comprehensive message, like this one, at the beginning of each quarter. You will continue to receive your Sunday morning 'creative menu' emails each week, and occasionally a mid-week notice if we have something special to share.
As you know, we have moved out of our physical studio space and, therefore, more completely into the online world, for now. If you missed the email addressing that, you can read it here.
We are deep in the planning process for 2022. Here is a summary of what is coming up, and what changes we are making.
For details and registration information, keep reading.
SoulCollage®
We treasure and celebrate our 2+ year partnership with Diane Lampitt. Diane's workshops continue to build a vibrant SoulCollage® community, bringing many variations of this powerful and popular process to you. You will have workshop options every month!
Discover a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage® Feb. 8, 6-9 pm
Labyrinth and SoulCollage® March 21
Expressive Writing
We welcome Anne Hofland back for another popular series of Expressive Writing Workshops. We know that many of you are looking forward to getting started again, and we welcome anyone with an interest! We know you will love Anne's clear and gentle facilitation. She creates a safe and welcoming container for you to access your written voice. And, Anne and Tamara are collaborating in another
mini-retreat!
Expressive Writing Series with Anne Hofland, 6 Mondays beginning February 21
Embracing Magic: Expressive Writing and Art Mini-Retreat with Tamara Teeter Knapp and Anne Hofland, March 2
Open Studios
Described by many as a 'lifeline' during covid, these open art-making times will continue online in 2022. We gratefully accept Love Offerings, and payment is not required in order to participate.
Kathleen's Tuesday Loving Witness Open Studio is on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1-4 pm EST
Tamara's Wednesday Open Studio is on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, 10 am - 1 pm EST
Occasionally a date will be canceled because of teaching commitments and/or travel.
Professional Development Training Workshops
Expressive Arts Around the World
This year, our Professional Development workshops will be offered between April and October. We will be welcoming back some of our/your favorite presenters, as well as adding s few more. These workshops provide expressive arts students and professionals an opportunity to learn from expert practitioners from around the world. Stay tuned, as we are working on the schedule now.
Art as a Healing Practice
Based on the enthusiastic response in 2021, Kathleen is refining the 2022 schedule, and we will publish it soon. In addition to the series, (which can also be taken as individual workshops) Kathleen is planning a couple of day-long workshops for a fuller, more intimate dive in to some of the favorite themes. Kathleen and Tamara presented Exploring Your Ecological Self at the recent IEATA conference.
It was well received, and it will be expanded into a day-long workshop, available for you in early spring.
Self-Study Workshops and Courses
All of the current self-study courses remain available for you to register and work through at your own pace. Some will be updated within the next couple of months, and new ones will be added.
We will be raising the prices slightly on March 1. If you have been wanting to dive into Creative Wisdom,Introduction to Mandala, or any of the others, register before March 1 to get the current rate.
Complimentary Creative Resources
We will continue to build our library of art meditations and expressive arts resources for you in 2022. Whether you are new to expressive arts, or looking for a way to re-center or re-connect, these easily accessible, brief processes give guidance and inspiration. Share them with anyone who might be interested in learning about the expressive arts field.
Expressive Arts Discovery
Our monthly live Expressive Arts Workshop will resume in February.
90 minutes of intermodal Expressive Arts to connect with yourself and with others.
Dates will be in next Sunday's email.
Certificate Training Program
We are welcoming both new and returning students into our upcoming core courses, While all courses have been held online since June 2020, we are evaluating the possibility of holding some in-person classes in the upcoming months. Our registration system is currently being streamlined to make it smoother for you. Apply now for a March
start date.
Tuition and Fees in our Certificate Training Program increase March 1. This is the first increase in many years, and, as our program grows and the market value of services increase, we are simply bringing our pricing in alignment with our costs.You can visit the website to see the revisions. We know that price increases are never fun, and we trust you will understand.
We are excited to welcome Renee Bhatia to our Expressive Arts Florida Team.
Renee joins Theresa Foster, Brandy Schafer, and Susan Paul Johnson as a Graduate Mentor. Our mentors are a valued and integral part of our educational team, providing individual and group mentoring to our current students, and assisting in teaching our core courses. You can read their bios here.
For graduates of EAFI: Are you ready for a stronger, deeper community? We are in the process of creating a graduate circle of support and connection. Details will be available soon. Our graduates, and students, are an amazing group of people, and a wonderful resource for one another, and for the greater Expressive Arts community. Stay tuned.
Thank you for being a part of our community! We welcome your feedback and your questions.
Below you will find the details and registration information for upcoming offerings.
Warmly,
Tamara, Kathleen, Victoria
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®
The Labyrinth and SoulCollage® are spiritual tools that help us navigate our life journey as well as access our own inner resources and wisdom. This workshop will offer background and insights to better understand and experience the Labyrinth. We will engage in a reflective experience using a finger Labyrinth combined with a creative expression through
SoulCollage®. The Labyrinth and SoulCollage® both give us a way to integrate mind, body, and spirit allowing us to develop a deeper awareness of ourselves and the world around us.
A SoulCollage® kit will be prepared and mailed to you prior to the workshop
The desire to tell our stories has been part of the human experience since the beginning of time, in all cultures around the world. Writing can offer us a vehicle to better understand ourselves and each other, can empower us to find our voice, and can provide a transformative and healing experience. It is also an art form, and another medium to express ourselves creatively. Everyone is
inherently a writer, and everyone can use words to create art.
Has there ever been a time when we were more in need of magic, of connecting with the healing power of magic in the world around us? Come search for magic with us, immerse yourself in it and explore it through creativity. In this workshop, participants will engage in both expressive writing, visual art, and movement in response to prompts related to magic, and will conjure their own magic
through their stories and images. Everyone is inherently both a writer and an artist; everyone can create art using both words and simple art materials. These creative activities can offer us a vehicle to better understand ourselves and each other, can empower us to find our voice and our vision, and can provide a transformative and healing experience. The writing activities in the workshop will follow the Amherst Writers and Artists method, based on the premise that everyone is a
writer, and everyone deserves a safe environment in which to experiment and strengthen their writing voice.
Embracing Magic: Expressive Writing and Art Mini-Retreat
Intermodal Expressive Arts Certificate Training Program
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
