In the African Language of Kiswahili, Harambee means "Let's Pull Together." Since 2008 Harambee
Arts has been using Expressive Arts in workshops and trainings to support women and children who have suffered tremendous trauma caused by violence, human trafficking, illness, poverty, and other crisis events. Join us Thursday for an inspiring presentation by Founding Director Gloria Simoneaux, and long time staff members Rina Pratik, and Lillian Obonyo as they share
their innate wisdom, lessons learned, and how expressive arts has supported them to become empowered and members of their community. Below is a video featuring courageous participants and a glimpse of their experience with Harambee Arts. 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 Rina Pratik facilitates groups in Nepal for young girls who have been rescued from trafficking, HIV+ women and those who have experienced domestic
violence. This Week! Harambee Arts: Expressive Arts Projects in Kenya and
Nepal
with Gloria Simoneaux, Rina Pratik, and Lillian Obonyo Thursday August 18th
6-8:30 pm EDT
Online via Zoom 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. Certificate Training; Online and In Person Join us in Sunny Sarasota
Florida for In Person Certificate Training Intensives! We are so looking forward to welcoming both new and returning students to Sarasota in October for our first in-person intensives since early 2020! EAFI 130: Scope of Expressive Arts
October 11th-14th 2022 In Person; Sarasota, FL EAFI 130: Scope of
Expressive Arts introduces the continuum of Expressive Arts work – Through experiential process and didactic presentation, students are guided through individual and collaborative experiences utilizing intermodal expressive arts to enrich well-being, develop relationships, cultivate empathic witnessing, practice communication, and build community to cultivate cultural understanding. EAFI 210: Foundations of Expressive Arts
October 18th-21st 2022 In Person; Sarasota, FL EAFI 210: Foundations of
Expressive Arts is a presentation of the work of a variety of Expressive Arts practitioners who have influenced, and are shaping, this field. The focus will be on pioneers whose work is intermodal. There's still time to apply to the certificate program, but please act soon! Find all the information at this link here, and email us if you have questions. We are happy to help! Ready to apply now? Follow this link to get started on your Creative Training Journey. If you haven't yet taken Creative Wisdom: Introductory Online Training
you can learn more about it and sign up here. It's a pre-requisite to the upcoming training courses and will help prepare you for the study and exploration ahead. Your Creative Menu Follows with What's Happening in the Coming Weeks and thru September. All of Our Workshops are Meeting via Zoom Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed. This Tuesday! August 16th
6-9 pm EDT
Online via Zoom 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.
The mailing deadline has passed; participants may still register but will need to provide their own art making materials. Looking for more from Diane? Coming up September 13th: Crossing Thresholds and Opening Doorways Seeing things from a different perspective can help us to make real life choices and changes. In this workshop we will explore the metaphor of
thresholds and doorways and how they can lead us to new options and self-discovery. 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.
Art as a Healing Practice: Spiritual Journey
with Kathleen Horne
Monday August 22nd
6pm-9pm EDT
Online via Zoom
How has your Spiritual Journey evolved over time? What has shaped this aspect of you? How does nature inform your spiritual life? What is most potent for you at this time in your life? 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
Looking for more healing work? Consider Exploring the Concept of your Ecological Self in September's Art as a Healing Practice workshop. We are not separate from the natural world. By developing an awareness of our ecological self, we begin to heal the split and live the connection with increased consciousness and intention, happening
September 26th. More ahead from our Professional Development Series: Discussion, History, and Cultural Experiences...Lessons Abound from Around the Globe.
"Healing Our Home" Four-Generation Community Arts Program
with Fiona Chang
Monday August 29th
6-8:30 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
“Healing our Home” Community Arts Program with its past 4 generations of clients, was launched in Hong Kong to transform the struggles, hurts, sadness and helplessness into healing resources through arts. Children,
youth, adults and seniors were recruited to make creative dialogues about healing our home.
Inspired by this program, this workshop will be a creative and interactive learning about the therapeutic process of arts as healing resources to face personal, family and societal shadows. In the person-centered expressive arts avenue, we shall go back to our birth, listen to the wisdom in the creative connection, and find ways to
heal our “home”.
Meeting Point: Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a cross-cultural expressive art based study alongside Russian expressive arts students. Participants will also get acquainted with the theoretical foundations and practical applications of culture-oriented expressive arts therapy. 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. Transforming our racial awareness is an inside job. Your Story Lines: Exploring Points of Inflection in Racial Awareness Uses Open Studio Process (OSP). We will
identify points in personal history that make up our racial understanding and invite you to join us in an exploration of the strengths and vulnerabilities in our personal and collective stories. Expressive Writing Returns! With Anne Hofland as your guide Mondays thru October and November; Find your voice in a safe, small group of participants and explore the transformative and healing power of writing. No experience necessary! The foundational work of this series emphasizes that everyone is a writer and capable of expressions thru this modality. Looking to make a habit out of art making with a creative community? Expressive Arts
Discovery and Open Studio gather via zoom on a regular basis. Upcoming meetings are shown below, and additional dates and times will appear in future
emails. Expressive Arts Discovery
with Kathleen Horne and Tamara Teeter Knapp Tuesday August 23rd
7-8:30 pm EDT
Online via Zoom Listen to what stirs inside you. Listen to your longing. Learn about Expressive Arts by engaging in it. Make
art; tune in. Be aware of the images that are waiting to emerge. Explore creating those images with simple art materials. Find your way. Share the gifts that your images bring. Connect with tribe. Witness yourself and each other. Just witness. There is nothing that needs to be said or done. Discover your next step. Tuesday Online Open Studio Returns; Welcome Back Tuesday August 16th
1-4 pm EDT
with Kathleen 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 words. Join our creative circle of support; begin with a guided meditation 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. 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.
With warm regards and much gratitude,
Tamara and Kathleen
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