Discerning the Questions that Guide Your Expressive Arts Practice
A very special workshop for practitioners, students, and anyone interested in this field.
We are thrilled to welcome back Pat B. Allen and Rabbi Adina Allen!
This mother/daughter duo invites you to listen deeply and respond to what calls you, and what the world is calling for. This is a wonderful opportunity to be held in a nurturing space and try something new, while guided by two inspiring leaders. This Professional Development training workshop is this Thursday May 12, and will be recorded. You will receive a
certificate of completion, which you can submit for CEU's, if you attend and participate live.
What last year's participants have to say.....
Contemplation via word and image clarified how I can continue to hear, discern and refine my unique calling as I bring it heARTfully to my people, my community and my small, yet significant part of this beautiful island home we share. My deepest appreciation and thanks for
reorienting me to the star my wagon is hitched to while supporting me in keeping my feet on terra firma! 2021 Workshop participant
I found Expressive Arts Florida Institute online workshops a few years ago. They were my salvation and helped me through some difficult life struggles. After a brief hiatus, I have now returned and recently participated in Pat Allen and Rabbi Adina Allen's 2021 workshop. It was a
perfect blend of experiential artmaking, didactic lecture, and group connection through sharing. And of course, the Allens were exceptional presenters! Thank you EAFI for drawing me back in! Barbara A., PhD, LPC
Rabbi Adina and Pat supported the participants to know themselves, their particular talents and follow their hearts. It was a safe, meaningful workshop. Gail Braverman, San Diego, CA.
This was a truly transformative and unifying workshop, please bring more!
2021 participant
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
Live on Zoom
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.
Participants will learn:
- To identify a guiding passion
- Assess resources and challenges
- Create an image for ongoing inspiration
Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of creativity to revitalize our lives and transform Jewish tradition. Integrating a lifetime of experience in the expressive arts with her rabbinic training, Adina has taught clergy, educators
and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions across the country. She is a recipient of the Covenant Foundation’s 2018 Pomegranate Prize for emerging Jewish Educators and is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship. She was ordained by Hebrew College in 2014. Rabbi Adina is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Jewish Studio Project. www.jewishstudioproject.org
Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source
through art and writing. Her books – Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005) – explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action and are considered classics in the field of expressive arts therapy. Her novel Cronation (Blue Jay Press, 2016) offers an inspiring vision of a world infused by the revolutionary creative energy of women. Author of numerous professional articles, Dr. Allen lectures and delivers workshops
nationally and internationally. Her artwork has been exhibited in a wide variety of juried and invited exhibits. Dr. Allen served on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for twenty years and has taught at many colleges and universities nationally and internationally. Dr. Allen co-founded the Open Studio Project in Chicago and of Studio Pardes in Oak Park, IL. She is currently Senior Consulting Faculty for the Jewish Studio Project, which was founded by her
daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen. Pat is the delighted grandmother of Adina’s two boys, Remy and Tovi.
Happening Tomorrow!
Where Am I Now?
Exploring the ''Now Period' in My Life
with Kathleen Horne,
LMHC, REACE, REAT
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.
The self-care of an Expressive Arts workshop with Kathleen becomes care for the world by some beautiful alchemy that brings the benefits of the session beyond the personal to the global. Mend and heal the self. Mend and heal the world. - A recent Art as a Healing Practice workshop participant
Tomorrow (Monday May 9) is the last day you can sign up for the whole series and save some money!
For the time being all of our Workshops and Gatherings will continue online via ZOOM.
In-person Certificate Training Program courses are scheduled for October!
The Emotional Landscape
with Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Monday May 23
6-9 pm ET
Online via Zoom
Join Kathleen, and other creative seekers, from wherever you are, to shine the light of your own creative wisdom on a gentle exploration of your Emotional Landscape.
In this workshop, you will be invited to look within and explore your current emotional state. This is a powerful and helpful way to connect with yourself in the present moment, and bring your compassionate mindful attention to your inner experience.
By considering our emotions as a landscape, we are invited to move from the literal to the imaginal and to engage with the complexity of the inner territory and discover its wisdom through image-making and writing.
You can develop this as an ongoing practice, continuing to use the recorded meditation and resources on your own.
Expressive Arts Discovery
Listen. Learn. Make Art. Witness. Discover.
May 18th 10am-11:30am EDT &
June 24th 1pm - 2:30pm EDT
Learn about Expressive Arts by engaging in it! Listen to what stirs inside of you. Respond to your longing. Make Art. Tune in. Be aware of the images that are waiting to emerge. Explore creating those images with simple art materials and let the
images speak - in words, movement, or sound, perhaps. Be amazed. Find your way. Share the gifts that your images bring. Connect with others and witness. There is nothing that needs to be said or done. Discover your next step.
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.
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 of what some have 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!
RESTORING BALANCE:
Exploring Your Ecological Self with Expressive Arts Practice
with Kathleen Horne
& Tamara Knapp
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.
Harambee Arts: Expressive Arts Projects in Kenya and Napal
with Gloria Simoneaux, Rina Pratik, & Lillian Obonya
Thursday August 18th
6pm-8:30pm EDT
Expressive Arts projects in Kenya and Nepal: Community owned and led projects have huge impact with Harambee Arts.
This workshop will familiarize you with the Harambee Arts Expressive Arts methodology that focuses on a culturally sensitive, collaborative, and relational approach to working with different societies around the world. Rina Pratik from Nepal and Lillian Obonyo from Kenya, both long time staff members of Harambee Arts, will lead exercises and be available to answer questions. Rina facilitates groups for young
girls who have been rescued from trafficking, HIV+ women and those who have experienced domestic violence. Lillian is the Country Director of Harambee Arts program in Kenya, overseeing and supervising three sites: Langata Women’s’ Prisons, Mathare Special school for special needs children, and Kibera slums, offering art therapy to children. They will share their innate wisdom, lessons learned and how expressive arts has supported them to become empowered and courageous members of
their community.
www.harambeearts.org
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
May 17th
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
May 10th & 24th
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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