Enrich your life through the light of your creativity
and the wisdom of the natural world
Join Kathleen, and fellow creative seekers, from wherever you are, to shine the light of your own creative wisdom on a gentle exploration of your Emotional Landscape. 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.
The Emotional Landscape
with Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Monday May 23
6-9 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
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.
No previous art-making experience is needed.
This workshop will include:
- An introduction to the theme
- A nature-based practice
- A guided meditation
- Art-making time
- Writing prompts and writing time
- (Optional) small group witnessing and sharing
- (Optional) Large group sharing
- Extracting a nugget of wisdom to take, as a practice, into your life
You can develop this as an ongoing practice, continuing to use the recorded meditation and resources on your own.
Up Next in Our Professional Development Series:
Markus G. Scott-Alexander, PhD, REAT , an international leader in the field of intermodal expressive arts therapy education. At the European Graduate School he worked alongside EXA pioneer Paolo Knilll for 25 years, until Paolo’s passing in 2020. Markus is currently living in Alberta, Canada and is the director of World Arts Organization. www.worldartsorg.com. Markus is the author of Expressive Arts Education and Therapy, (2020), Brill Publishing
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.
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!
Expressive Arts Discovery
Listen. Learn. Make Art. Witness. Discover.
Happening Wednesday!
May 18th 10am-11:30am 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.
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!
SoulCollage® Council Suit: Mother Archetype
with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed.
Thursday June 16th
6pm-9pm EDT
What does the Archetype Great Mother, the Divine Feminine, or Mother Earth mean to you? The Great Mother is the oldest of all archetypal forms. She represents fertility, she controls nature, she is both patient and fierce, and so much more! Join us for this SoulCollage®
workshop as we explore the Council Suit with a focus on the Great Mother and explore how this energy resonates within you.
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.
Pre-registration is necessary. U.S. residents please register 1 week prior to workshop date; International Participants should register at least 2 weeks prior to workshop date. A SoulCollage® kit will be mailed to you
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
It's not too late to begin in June
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 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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