Conjure up some magic with Tamara and Anne - Your Weekly Creative Menu
Published: Sun, 03/13/22
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?
Embracing Magic: Expressive Writing and Art Mini-Retreat
with Anne Hofland and Tamara Knapp
Friday March 25th
1pm-5pm EDT
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.
I had no idea what heavy feelings I was holding back. What an honest, raw experience – full of pure love, non-judgment, and acceptance. A truly inspiring course that I would recommend over and over and over again. I will be back!” -Aly, a workshop
participant
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®.
There's still time to register but you may have to provide your own art kit, as one that would be mailed might not arrive in time
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
April 12th 6pm-9pm EDT
If you haven't done SoulCollage® before, this is the place to start.
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.
This workshop is for those who have taken an Introduction to SoulCollage® workshop. It is an invitation to take a deep dive into the process to learn about and explore the Council suit. Cards in the Council Suit represent different archetypal energies,
energies that are universal patterns or themes. Some of these Larger Story archetypes enter and act in one’s personal and local story. They are guides and challengers, as in the other suits, but on a larger scale. Your Council cards may help you identify your unique and personal purpose. We will place a focus on the various archetypes representing Mother energy.
Expand your Professional Development with Presenters from Across the Globe. Registration is Now Open for Our Professional Development Series!
We have gathered expressive arts professionals from around the world to share their exciting work and expertise with you. You are invited to register for as many workshops as you like or sign up for the Full Bundle. at a special price. Workshops will be held live, online via Zoom with an
online learning platform to make access to all of your courses easy. Discover details on each workshop or go right to bundle, save money, and learn all year long.There are 11 workshops total, between May and October. All sessions are recorded and you will receive a Certificate of Completion if you attend live.
We will begin with a very special workshop facilitated by Maria Gonzalez-Blue on April 29. Maria is one of the founding members of IEATA and a true leader in this field. In Expressive Arts as Pathways to theTranspersonalSelf,we will travel together through pathways of breath, movement, writing and art to access guidance that lies beyond the surface
of our awareness.
The amazing Hector Aristizabal from Colombia will be with us on June 13, faciltating Reconnecting to Our Own Nature and the Soul of the
World.Many of you were wowed by Hector's moving keynote presentation at the recent IEATA conference.
And coming up.... Mitchell Kossak, Manju Jain and Aslam Khader, Fiona Chang from Hong Kong, Harambee Arts team in Kenya and Nepal, Varvara Sidorova from Moscow, Pat B. Allen & Rhonda Johnson, Chandini Harlalka and Belinda Rego from India! See
all
Bundle your purchase of the full series and save at a special price
These nine, live, 3-hour, online monthly themed sessions begin in May.
The sessions work well together as a series, and they also work as individual experiences. You can choose how many, and which ones, to sign up for. And, of course, if you want to register for all nine, you can do that and save money.
Each live session will be recorded, so, if you miss it, or want to review it after, the recording will be available. (We will not record the small group sharing, to protect confidentiality of the participants.
Each workshop will consist of:
An introduction to the theme
A nature-based practice
A guided meditation
Art-making time
Writing prompts and writing time
Small group witnessing and sharing
Large group sharing
Extracting a nugget of wisdom to take, as a practice, into your life
This year, all workshops are on Monday evenings, 6-9 pm ET.
Sign up for the full series at a discount of choose the individual workshops you want.
90 minutes of intermodal Expressive Arts to connect with yourself and with others.
Listen to what stirs inside of you.
Listen to your longing. Make art. Tune in. Be aware of the images that are waiting to emerge. Let the images speak - in words, and in movement perhaps. Find your way. Be amazed.
Witness yourself and one another. Just witness. There is nothing else that needs to be said or done.
March 29 – April 1, 2022 (online) Scope of Expressive Arts (EAFI 130) is a Level 1 course that introduces the continuum of ExpressiveArts work – from the intrapersonal, to the interpersonal, to the social/cultural/planetary. Both individual and collaborative expressive arts processes are utilized in this course, and some attention is given to designing and facilitating
collaborative art projects.
EAFI 210: Foundations of Expressive Arts
April 5-8, 2022 (online) Foundations of Expressive Arts is a Level 2 that provides an opportunity to articulate your own foundation while building an understanding of the foundation of the field!
A presentation and exploration of the work of a variety of intermodal Expressive Arts pioneers who have influenced and shaped this field.
EAFI 220: Expressive Arts in the World
Populations, Practices,Settings
April - October (online)
You will learn from and be inspired by guest presenters from around the world, as you expand your view of the practice and possibilities of Expressive Arts!
This course includes six of the workshops (your choice) that are offered in the 2022 Professional Development Series
There is no charge to participate in Open Studio. Donations gratefully accepted at the link provided below. We are grateful to be able to gather in creative community to connect, share, and witness each other's images and work.
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.
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.
We offer these gifts to you in service of your expressive arts journey and practice and hope that you enjoy the process of discovering what lies within your own creative life. We welcome you to share in Your Personal Expressive Arts Practice Facebook group, if you like. Creating and being witnessed is powerful medicine!
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.
