2022 Professional Development Workshops Now Open for Registration!
Published: Sun, 02/20/22
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 begin with a very special workshop facilitated by Maria Gonzalez-Blue. Maria is one of the founding members of IEATA and a true leader in this field.
Expressive Arts as Pathways to the Transpersonal Self
with Maria Gonzalez-Blue, REACE, REAT
Friday April 29th
1pm-3:30pm EDT
As life travelers, we dance between our conditioned, automatic self and an innate impulse to reach for a higher plane, as if something in us longs for more. The transpersonal self is that aspect of the self that reaches beyond our known identify, that connects us to the
collective, or universal consciousness. This might be called the higher self, higher mind or the Spirit realm. My indigenous teachers call this self “The Knower”. Strengthening our natural senses can assist us in reaching into that space. By creating a community-based, Person-Centered environment of compassion, respect and non-judgmental acceptance, we will travel together through pathways of breath, movement, writing and art in an effort to access guidance and information that lies beyond the
surface of our awareness, retrieving resources that are our birthright, that we may step more fully onto our path in this lifetime.
Participants will receive an introduction to a Person-Centered approach as a way to create a compassionate, trusting environment. Connecting as a community, we will move through a multi-modal arts process, setting aside recognizable conditioning as a way to open to ones greater potential.
On May 12, the dynamic mother-daughter team of Pat B. Allen and Rabbi Adina Allen will guide you in Hearing the Call:Discerning the Questions that Guide Your Expressive Arts
Practice.
We all have life experiences that call out to us from within, that need transformation, that can yield new knowing via the creative process. The world itself is also calling out for transformation of outworn strategies for living. This workshop will focus on using the Open Studio Process of intention and witness as a powerful form of discernment to hear and
respond to what uniquely is calling us.
Beloved teacher Markus Scott-Alexander will return on May 26 with The Mystic and The Artist: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay.
Who we are is informed by our growing sense of whatwe are. The Mystic expands our awareness, and The Artist tracks that expansion with wonder and skill. How this dynamic interplay of the imaginal realm and the mystical realm is brought to our clients will be explored and discussed. This experiential and theoretical
workshop will bridge the gap between the dynamic Knower and the intuitive thinker/feeler.
The amazing Hector Aristizabal from Colombia will be with us on June 13,
facilitating 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 we thrilled to bring him to you.
How can Deep Ecology and The Work that Reconnects illuminate the work that we do as expressive arts therapists and facilitators? The world’s ecosystems and social systems seem to be collapsing under the unsustainable effects of the Industrial Growth Society and its devastating exploitation of nature. Our delusional belief that we are separate from nature, or above nature has guided the hubris
of our destructive behavior to the point of causing the sixth mass extinction or what some called the Antropocene. Art and ritual have offered us symbolic paths for healing our connection to our deep soul as ways to connect to the soul of the world. Let’s explore together some of these paths!
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!
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Art as a Healing Practice Registration is Live!
Sign up for the full series at a discount of choose the individual workshops you want.
Kathleen Horne, LMHC, REACE, REAT
These nine, live, 3-hour, online monthly themed sessions begin in May.
This year, all workshops are on Monday evenings, 6-9 pm ET.
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
In order to make change, to achieve goals, to find our way from where we are to where we want to be, we must start right here, in the now.
This Art as a Healing Practice workshop will allow you to witness yourself, in the present, through a series of gentle and powerful expressive arts practices.
Ira Progoff introduced the term "Now Period" in his Intensive Journal Method, and Kathleen has created an expressive practice to deeply explore this idea.
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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!
EAFI 130: The Scope of Expressive Arts
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
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Through workshops, programs, certificate training, and therapy Expressive Arts Florida Institute empowers individuals, groups and communities by cultivating the creative wisdom inherent in all.
