Hello Creative Family,
We will be taking a break for the month of July to rest, reflect, recharge and do some visioning for the upcoming year. There will be no Workshops or Open Studios in July; and it may take a bit longer to reply to emails. Your Weekly e-news will still arrive each Sunday to inspire you. During this time we encourage you to explore and engage with some of our
complimentary resources. Filled with self guided meditations and prompts we hope you'll continue to carry on your creative journey at your own pace in your own time.
In This Moment. Is a powerful place to begin. All you need is
10 minutes a piece of paper and few markers, crayons or even just a pen! A little willingness will help open you up to discovering This Moment.
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!
We look forward to seeing you again, online via ZOOM, refreshed and ready after our July recess. We'll be eager to re-visit the creative space with you, and make new expressive arts
discoveries. We're grateful to host many offerings happening in August and thru the fall; all of which can be viewed more fully on our website. We are envisioning and creating new opportunities for you!
Creative Wellness Service Initiative from IEATA
with Manju Jain and Aslam Khader
Monday August 2nd
6-8:30 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Manju and Aslam will be facilitating a workshop using a design from the free, online, global, Creative Wellness Service Initiative that they launched from the Social Action Committee of IEATA. The workshop design is such that non-professional caregivers can be trained to facilitate unserved and underprivileged populations worldwide to benefit from the healing power of the expressive arts. The
workshop integrates positive psychology, healing traditions from around the globe, and neuroscience, and is delivered using the multimodal expressive arts process. We invite you to join this workshop to experience it and maybe sign up to become an IEATA Creative Wellness Ambassador or Guide.
Restoring Balance: Exploring Your Ecological Self Through Expressive Arts Practice
with Kathleen Horne and Tamara Teeter Napp
Thursday August 5th
10am-5 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Explore the concept of your Ecological Self, through an intermodal, nature – informed expressive arts process. What is your relationship to the natural world? How has your ecological awareness been shaped and developed over time? Through this gentle and powerful process, listen deeply for any messages that are emerging, and come away with a commitment/intention. Our ecological self is our broad, expansive sense of self, related not only to other humans but also to our home—the living earth—and the nonhuman others that co-inhabit it. Come prepared to witness, to meditate, to make images, to move gently, to write, to share and collaborate. We will set a safe and accepting container for creative engagement with yourself and with others. No prior experience is necessary. Your willingness and full
presence are the only requirements.
Art as a Healing Practice: Creative Self
with Kathleen Horne
Monday August 8th
6pm-9pm EDT
Online via Zoom
What is your relationship to your creativity? How has it been shaped and developed over time? What is it asking of you now? Our creative birthright, when fully reclaimed, is an unparalleled resource and a source of joy
and well-being. You can develop this as an ongoing practice, continuing to use the recorded meditation and resources on your own. 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. As facilitator, Kathleen will offer you some creative invitations to encounter this question, and you can decide how to engage with it.
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
We will learn about Expressive Arts Projects happening in Nepal and Kenya: Harambee Arts. Gloria Simoneaux, Rina Pratik, and Lillian Obonyo return to facilitate this workshop and share their
wisdom.
Fiona Chang joins us at the end of the summer months to
present a project launched in Hong Kong. Healing Our Home is
a Community Arts Project that helps to transform struggles, pain, helplessness, and sadness into healing resources through art
Intermodal Expressive Arts Certificate Training Program
New Fall Dates for Training Program Courses are On Our Website
Enroll in Creative Wisdom: Introductory Online Training in Expressive Arts. Complete this over the summer as your pre-requisite to more training in the fall!
Online Open Studios will Return in August.
We encourage you to use this time to explore some of our Complimentary Creative Resources. Full of self guided
meditations and gentle invitations to go inward and outward, these gifts are a powerful, yet reachable resource to continue your personal creative practice habit. We look forward to witnessing and sharing creatively again in a few weeks.
SELF-STUDY TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS...
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Telehealth and in-person
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, REACE, NCC, MHC Intern
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.
With warm regards and much gratitude,
Tamara and Kathleen
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