Complimentary Creative Resources +- Your Weekly Creative Menu
Published: Sun, 02/06/22
Hello Creative Community!
Are your finding time for your own creative practice? It is SO necessary to fill our own creative wells in order to meet the challenges of life and to offer our services to others. Remember to use our complimentary creative resources to assist you - they are brief explorations designed to connect you with your inner wisdom. If you have already signed up for them, find them in your learning library And, if you don't have them yet, we invite you to explore the links below and find something that calls to you.
Complimentary Creative Resources
Our Gift to You
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!
And, here's what is coming up in our online studio!
There are just 2 spaces left in Anne Hofland's Expressive Writing Series, so if you are considering this, now would be the time to register.
There are several upcoming and ever-popular SoulCollage® options for you to choose from, too.
Scroll down for registration.
“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, 2021 Expressive Writing participant
Are you looking for some Professional Development?
Our 2022 series will be open for registration next week, so be sure to check back to learn when and how you can learn from some of these amazing leaders:
Hector Aristizabal, Markus Scott-Alexander, Manju Jain and Aslam Khader, Pat B. Allen and Rhonda Johnson, Rabbi Adina Allen, Mitchell Kossak, Maria Gonzalez-Blue, Fiona Chang, Chandini Harlalka and Belinda Rego, Gloria Simoneaux and the Harambee Arts team and Varvara Sidorova.
Our focus is on Expressive Arts in the world!
Stay tuned for details....
Kathleen and Tamara will be co-facilitating a full day nature-informed expressive arts workshop on April 23, in honor of Earth Day.
Kathleen's Art as a Healing Practice will be offered on Monday evenings, beginning in May, with nine workshops spaced over the following 6 months.
Details in next week's e-news.
Expressive Writing Series
with Anne Hofland
Mondays from February 21st -March 21st
1pm-3pm EDT
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.
Come create and share your stories in a safe and supportive environment.
Each workshop will consist of:
writing prompts
time to write,
the opportunity to share your work
the opportunity to listen and respond to others’ stories.
Sharing is always optional, and feedback is always positive.
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. No previous creative writing experience is necessary.
Secure your place in the circle soon - Only a few spots left!
Embracing Magic: Expressive Writing and Art Mini-Retreat
with Anne Hofland and Tamara Knapp
Friday March 25th
1pm-5pm EDT
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.
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!
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
February 8th, and again April 12
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.
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
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.
February, March and April dates are open for registration.
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.
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!
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.
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.
