Maria Gonzalez-Blue has been a guiding light in the Expressive Arts field for many years. With deep wisdom and integrity, Maria embodies and teaches the very spirit of this work.
We are thrilled that she is the first presenter in our Professional Development Series for 2022.
Your participation will earn you a Certificate of Completion and lifetime access to the recording. We invite you to join us in learning from this wise teacher.
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”.
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.
Maria Gonzalez-Blue, M.A., REAT, REACE, is in private practice as an Expressive Arts Therapist and Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator. She has taught Person-Centered Expressive Arts in several academic settings in the U.S. and internationally. As a bilingual facilitator, she helped seed expressive arts programs in Argentina, Mexico and Guatemala. She is a founding member and board
member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. In this capacity, she drafted the first qualifying standards for registration for Expressive Arts Consultant/Educators. Maria brings to her work a dedicated commitment to diversity and cross-cultural understanding. A 35-year relationship with indigenous shamans from Mexico underlies her perception of the arts as rituals for self-understanding and as pathways to spiritual exploration.
Bundle and Save on the Professional Development Series. By purchasing the entire bundle you'll save money and if you can't be available for the live session you can still access the workshops anytime in your library of events. Live attendance to Professional Development workshops earns you
CEUS.
This special discount price ends this Friday!
For the time being all of our Workshops and Gatherings are still happening online via ZOOM.
SoulCollage® Council Suit:
Mother Archetype
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
May 2nd 6pm-9pm EDT
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.
Where Am I Now?
Exploring the ''Now Period' in My Life
Monday May 9
6-9 pm EDT
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.
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
From Our Professional Development Series:Hearing the Call: Discerning the Questions that Guide Your Expressive Arts Practice
with Pat B. Allen and Rabbi Adina Allen
Thursday May 12th
6pm-8:30pm EDT
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.
From Our Professional Development Series: The Mystic and the Artist: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay
with Markus G. Scott-Alexander
Thursday May 26th
6pm-8:30pm EDT
Who we are is informed by our growing sense of what we 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.
From Our Professional Development Series: Reconnecting to Our Own Nature and the Soul of the World
with Hector Aristizabal
Monday June 13th
6pm-8:30pm EDT
How can Deep Ecology and The Work that Reconnects illuminate the work that we do as expressive arts therapists? 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!
In honor of Earth Day, we have created a new nature-informed complimentary creative resource for you.
Ecological Self Expressive Arts Practice includes a new audio meditation, and
step by step guidance for art-making,
intermodal exploration, and writing.
Let's all support one another expand our sense of self to include all of life - human and non-human - and to discover and commit to an action that supports the flourishing of all beings and the living Earth.
We invite you to add this resource to your learning library and return to it as often as you like. You have unlimited lifetime access, and there is no charge.
Your unique creativity is an offering to the world. Embrace its power.
RESTORING BALANCE:
Exploring Your Ecological Self with Expressive Arts Practice
with Kathleen Horne and Tamara Knapp
Offered at a new date and time
Friday August 5th
10am-5pm EDT
Explore 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.
Guided meditation, nature witnessing, intermodal expressive arts, witnessing, sharing, collaborating.
Intermodal Expressive Arts Certificate Training Program
2022 Training Program Dates are On Our Website
in-person sessions scheduled for October
EAFI 120: Expressive Arts for Body, Mind, and Spirit
June 4th -11th (online)
The focus of this course is on Intermodal Expressive Arts as a holistic field, effecting change in all aspects of human experience: body, mind and spirit. The course will explore ways in which the different arts modalities bring growth and change, and how they work together as a holistic model. A variety of individual and group experiential processes will be introduced which focus on physical,
emotional, mental, and spiritual experience. Students will utilize the mandala as a form that incorporates mind, body, spirit and also be introduced to Touch Drawing (TM) as a modality that encompasses many aspects of the self.
Online Open Studios
Join us from anywhere to create!
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.
with Kathleen
Online via Zoom
April 26, May 3 & 17
1pm-4pm EDT
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.
with Tamara
Online via Zoom
April 27th, May 10 & 24
10am-1pm EDT
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.
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!
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.
We are proud to be an Organizational Member
We look forward to seeing you!
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
- Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
- Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, NCC, K-12 Art, REACE
- Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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