We have designed a free, creative resource to assist you in moving through these extraordinary times: The Loving Witness Art Meditation. An audio guided meditation, this
expressive arts practice will help you open up into spontaneous art-making and writing. You can return to this practice as often as you like, and perhaps find yourself in a happy habit with the process as you re-connect and honor where You Are.
If you are curious to explore more Self-Care arts based practices, Kathleen Horne continues her Art as a Healing Practice Series. August 8th we will focus on our Creative Self. The circle will explore Our Spiritual Self
August 22nd.
Art as a Healing Practice: Creative Self
with Kathleen Horne
Monday August 8th
6pm-9pm EDT
Online via Zoom
What is your relationship to your creativity? How has it been shaped and developed over time? What is it asking of you now? Our creative birthright, when fully reclaimed, is an unparalleled resource and a source of joy
and well-being. 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.
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!
We will be taking a break for the month of July to rest, reflect, recharge and do some visioning for the upcoming year. Your Weekly e-news will still arrive each Sunday to inspire you. We look forward to seeing you again, online via ZOOM, refreshed
and ready after our July recess. We're grateful to host many offerings happening in August and thru the fall; all of which can be viewed more fully on our website. Fall workshops will be announced in the coming weeks! We are excited to share what we have been envisioning and creating for you.
Creative Wellness Service Initiative from IEATA
with Manju Jain and Aslam Khader
Monday August 2nd
6-8:30 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
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. The
workshop integrates positive psychology, healing traditions from around the globe, and neuroscience, and is delivered using the multimodal expressive arts process. We invite you to join this workshop to experience it and maybe sign up to become an IEATA Creative Wellness Ambassador or Guide.
Restoring Balance: Exploring Your Ecological Self Through Expressive Arts Practice
with Kathleen Horne and Tamara Teeter Napp
Thursday August 5th
10am-5 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Explore the concept of 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. Our ecological self is our broad, expansive sense of self, related not only to other humans but also to our home—the living earth—and the nonhuman others that co-inhabit it. Come prepared to witness, to meditate, to make images, to move gently, to write, to share and collaborate. We will set a safe and accepting container for creative engagement with yourself and with others. No prior experience is necessary. Your willingness and full
presence are the only requirements.
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed.
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.
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.
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. 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.
"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”.
Intermodal Expressive Arts Certificate Training Program
ARE YOU READY TO BEGIN?
New Fall Dates for Training Program Courses are On Our Website
There are 3 options coming up:
- October in-person in Sarasota
- November online
- January online
Enroll in Creative Wisdom: Introductory Online Training in Expressive Arts. Complete this over the summer as your pre-requisite to more training in the fall!
Online Open Studios and Expressive Arts Discovery will Return in August. We will publish dates and times next week.
We encourage you to use this time to explore some of our Complimentary Creative Resources. Full of self guided
meditations and gentle invitations to go inward and outward, these gifts are a powerful, yet reachable resource to continue your personal creative practice habit. We look forward to witnessing and sharing creatively again in a few weeks.
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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