We are continuing to build our 2022 schedule of workshops and classes for you. Before you scroll down for the menu, we have a few things to announce.
After much consideration, we have decided to offer all of our spring Certificate Training courses online - EAFI 110, 130, and 210. The dates remain the same, and the hours are adjusted slightly. Visit the website for details.
Kathleen and Tamara’s brand new day-long workshop Restoring Balance: Exploring your Ecological Self with Expressive Arts Practice is now open for registration! We offered a short version of this workshop at the recent IEATA
conference, and we can’t wait to share it as a spacious, deep, and integrative full day experience. April 23. See below for info and registration.
Kathleen’s Art as a Healing Practice workshop series will begin on May 2, with Where Am I Now? - Exploring the Now Period in Your life. This year, the workshops will all be on Monday evenings, 6-9 pm
ET. Registration will open later this week.
Our Professional Development series is almost ready!
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.
Beloved teacher Markus Scott-Alexander will return on May 26 with The Mystic and The Artist:Exploring the Dynamic Interplay.
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, over the next few months: Manju Jain and Aslam Khader, Pat Allen and Rhonda Johnson, Rabbi Adina Allen, Mitchell Kossak, Fiona Chang, Chandini Harlalka and Belinda Rego, Varvara Sidorova, and Gloria Simoneaux and the Harambee Arts team will teach and guide you.
We are putting the finishing touches on this Expressive Arts in the World Series, and we anticipate opening registration next week - for both a special series price, and the individual workshops.
READ ON to learn about Expressive Writing, SoulCollage®, Expressive Arts Discovery, Open Studios, and much more!
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.
There is just one spot left in this workshop series!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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.
