SoulCollage® is a powerful tool for exploring liminal or threshold space, a place of transition, a state of unknowing, a time of waiting....If you've enjoyed exploring this deep, yet reachable process with Diane Lampitt, we invite you to join us for a new workshop she's offering September 13th: Crossing Thresholds and Opening Doorways.

Standing on the threshold of a door open to uncertainty can be a doorway to personal transformation.  Symbolically, doorways are portals into other worlds, invitations to new places, and openings to fresh perspectives. Doors symbolize transition and change, rebirth and new beginnings. Doors themselves can signify protection – a place of safety and refuge, or a locked door can indicate separation or lack of freedom

No prior art experience needed. This online workshop is open to beginners as well as those with SoulCollage® experience who are looking to grow their practice.

• Card making supplies provided will include:
  3 Mat Boards (5×8)
  3 Crystal Clear Bags (5.25×8)
  Curated images for a quick card

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.

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. Creative art activities will include:

Birth Certificate, Guided Hand Exploration, and Creation of Family Hands.  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”.

“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.

"I was thrilled by observing my hands in a mindful manner. My hands witnessed my stories, and my family stories too."-Mr So

Fiona Chang, PhD (CUHK), REAT (R217), RSW, Certified Supervisor (ACA) has been practicing person-centered expressive arts and psychotherapy in a diverse setting for 30 years, particularly in the oncology psychosocial field, arts-based couple groups, grief and trauma work. Read her full bio.

The session will be recorded and a Certificate of Completion provided if you attend live.

Join us for thoughtful conversations geared toward, culture, race, and other social topics.  Learn how Expressive Arts can build a bridge to facilitate these dialogues, and gain tools to help support the need to address these discussions in your neighborhood. 

Here's a Sneak Peak of our October Offerings!  Returning presenters and processes to comfort and ground you this Fall Season.  All of our workshops, offerings, and training can be viewed more fully on our website.

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.  Register early to receive your kit in the mail, the workshop will be held October 6th

Belinda and Chandini will join us from Banglore, India October 10th to share their work and passion for expressive arts.  Inspired by insights into the human experience, Chandini is committed to a path of self-inquiry, examining the nature of mind and reality by applying critical enquiry and direct embodied experience.  Belinda is an Expressive Arts Therapist, who passionately believes that every individual has the potential to use their creativity and imagination to tap into inner wisdom and participate in their own healing.

Join Kathleen Horne, and other creative seekers, October 17th, to shine the light of your own creative wisdom on the potent question:  Exploring a Polarity: the Mandorla.  What are you currently experiencing as a polarity, or point of tension in your life? Perhaps it is something that you go back and forth on, and resolution is elusive.

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. 

All of our workshops, offerings, and training can be viewed more fully on our website.

Ready to Begin Your Certificate Training Journey?

There's still time to apply to the certificate program, but please act soon as spots are filling up.  Our first in-person intensive weekends since 2020 will begin in October and November and at the First Congregational United Church of Christ -.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. 

EAFI 130: Scope of Expressive Arts introduces the continuum of Expressive Arts work –  form intrapersonal to global, from individual to group to community.

Join with a small group of creative explorers from around the US and Canada. There are still a few spaces in this course.

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. 

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.

• Art as a Healing Practice 
• 10 Steps Personal Expressive Arts Practice
• Introduction to Mandala
• Expressive Arts Intention Setting
• Expressive Arts Discovery Self-Study
• Creative Wisdom Introductory Online Training

• Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, NCC, REACE, MHC Intern, K-12 Art Teacher
• Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC(S), REACE, REAT
• www.expressiveartsflorida.com