Hello Friends. I had the opportunity recently to take a long beach walk at a very low tide. Later, at home, still touched by the magnificence and vulnerability of what was revealed, I found myself reflecting on lessons, messages and questions arising within me in
response.
The shoreline, or the intertidal zone, is the place where two worlds overlap and interact, and it is vitally important to life and health both on land and in the sea. Low tide reveals hidden jewels, potential threats, glimpses into how things work and how things connect, new
questions, and deeper mysteries. In our human psyches, I am fascinated by this zone - the place where the inner and the outer, the invisible and the visible, the unconscious and the conscious interact. An expressive arts practice allows us to enter this space, to witness and attend to the inner world as it shapes outer choices and actions, and to notice how the circumstances of our outer life affect our values and beliefs. By attending to the natural world with open-hearted curiosity and love,
we become better stewards not only of the planet, but of our own health and wellbeing. - Kathleen
We invite you to join us in a newly created, spacious, full-day opportunity to engage with the natural world and investigate that vital inner 'shoreline' place of mystery, jewels, and possibility. Kathleen and Tamara will guide you as we explore this territory together in Restoring
Balance on Friday August 5. Our previous email showed the wrong date, we apologize and look forward to seeing you.
Restoring Balance: Exploring Your Ecological Self Through Expressive Arts Practice
with Kathleen Horne and Tamara Teeter Napp
Friday 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.
We are enjoying our summer recess spent reconnecting with family and developing new and exciting offerings for you. Tuesday Open Studio returns in August and next week we'll share a sneak peak of what's happening in September! More workshops and training can be viewed
more fully on our website. Until then, we encourage you to continue your creative practice and hope you find these Complimentary Resources engaging and useful. We'll see you soon!
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!
Tuesday Online Open Studio Returns
We look forward to welcoming you back.
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.
Tuesday August 2nd and 16th
1-4 pm EDT
with Kathleen
Art as a Healing Practice: Creative Self
with Kathleen Horne
Monday August 8th
6pm-9pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Kathleen will lead an exploration of the jewels and mysteries of your relationship with your creativity.
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.
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.
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
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.
"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!
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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