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Dear Creative Friend, Have you ever traced the development of your own creativity? The steps on your unique unfolding creative
journey? How has your relationship with your creativity been shaped by your life experiences? Are there times when your creativity, or aspects of it, have 'gone underground' or become stagnant? What has helped your creativity flow, or blossom? In one of the Art as a Healing Practice modules, we consider these questions, and more, as we explore our 'creative steppingstones'. I see these as points on our creative journey, over our life. Starting with something from the natural world, we move in to
guided meditation, writing our creative steppingstones, an image of our creative journey, exploring and receiving a message to weave into our lives. Try this: Get quiet and travel back in time. Feel into the development your relationship with your creativity. Be curious about events, experiences, relationships, realizations, moments in time that have shaped
your relationship with your creativity. Be curious about what in your life has challenged this relationship and what has enhanced or fostered it.Consider the idea of creative stepping stones. What are those events, people, situations, realizations, experiences that have influenced your creative development and your relationship with your creativity? List any creative stepping stones that come to mind. Take about 10 minutes, then make an image, and do a little writing. What did you
learn? Lesson 4 of Art as a Healing
Practice is entirely devoted to this theme, and you can expect to come away with a much clearer relationship with your own creative journey. Art as a Healing Practice is offered at a 40 % discount just until the end of January. LMHC, LCSW, LMFT can earn 12 CEU's. Use coupon code NEWYEAR2025 at checkout. Art as a Healing Practice helped me discover a genuine expression of myself. With Kathleen's excellent guidance, we explored, through meditations and our artwork, the deep messages our art offered up to
us. This program helped me navigate through grief and was profoundly healing. ~ Terry This past week, we have been with our students in the studio! How wonderful it is to be creating and learning together in-person. This week is another intensive - EAFI 210: Foundations of Expressive Arts - and we welcome a new group of students on Tuesday! We
are filled with gratitude and inspiration, and our days are full. By next weekend we will have time to sift through all the amazing jewels from the trainings, and share more with you then! |
With love and gratitude, Kathleen, Tamara, and the Expressive Arts Florida team
Are you looking for some new and innovative ways to bridge into metaphorical but truth-full stories? Join us next month (February 4th, 11th & 18th) for Bridging Into Story: Exploring Ways to Tell the Untold a 3 part
online workshop series featuring H. Fay Wilkinson. Learn creative and innovative storytelling strategies you can use with yourself and others. Fay always brings a treasure trove of ideas and practices to her workshops! Register for the whole series and save 10%
Bridging into Story: Creating Story Cards
Fay has taught me to expand my perceptions using techniques that have shown me new ways of looking at myself, my relationships, my world.
I am forever transformed and forever grateful!!! - Renee
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A SoulCollage® workshop: Seeking Wisdom
Also happening in February we have a new SoulCollage® Seeking Wisdom workshop! Join Diane Lampitt in a gentle, creative practice that will help you reconnect with your inner wisdom and intuition.
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Sand, Soul & Metaphor: And Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy Journey
On Friday, March 21st we have a special IN-PERSON Training collaboration with Eliana Gil, Kathleen, and Tamara that will provide CEUs for Play Therapists, LMHC, LCSW, LMFT. Sand, Soul, & Metaphor is an integrative training in Sarasota that weaves together the threads of Sand, Play and Expressive Arts therapies into a dynamic intermodal journey that will
nourish you and enliven your work. The three of us are delighted to join together and offer you the synergy of our combined experiential work. With 7 CEU's!
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The final opportunity to complete the Certificate Training Program in its final form will be in April, starting with EAFI 110 Dive into Expressive Arts. This course can also be taken as a stand alone course and counts for 18 CEU's for LMHC, LMFT and LCSW. If you would like to attend an upcoming course or have questions, please email us at
admin@expressiveartsflorida.com. |
Would you like to share your personal practice images? Our private Facebook group is a sanctuary for witnessing one another. (If you are a new member, please be sure to answer the questions and agree to the rules. That helps us to hold a safe and welcoming space.) |
February 13th, March 10th and April 17th Expressive Arts Discovery monthly sessions are back! Learn more here!
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February 4th, 11th, 18th (1-3pm EST) A 3 part online storytelling workshop series featuring Fay Wilkinson! Register for all 3 sessions and save. Learn more here!
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Open Studio February 7th from 10am-1pm ET Join Kathleen and Tamara with our local creative community to connect and engage, explore, and witness. 1031 S. Euclid Ave, Sarasota Room 9 Registration not required.
This is an IN-PERSON Training collaboration with Eliana Gil, Kathleen, and Tamara that will provide CEUs for Play Therapists, LMHC, LCSW, LMFT. Register early - we expect this to fill up!
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All Self-Study Courses contain detailed, yet approachable instructions, videos, and meditations facilitated by Kathleen & Tamara. The imagery and guidance from this work can assist you, whether dipping your
toes into expressive arts or seeking a deeper connection. *All courses come with lifetime access so you can refer back to them at any time! *No previous art experience
is necessary! |
Featured Self-Study Course 40% OFF! use NEWYEAR2025 coupon code Give as a gift! |
Art as a Healing Practice
Art as a Healing Practice is an expressive arts workshop series of 9 themed lessons
that embrace the positive power of creative work/play to change your life. Kathleen has expertly crafted each process to guide you as you explore yourself deeply and freely through nature, guided meditation, the arts, and writing. Along the way, you can deepen your relationship with your creativity, access your own creative wisdom, improve your overall wellbeing, discover a satisfying personal
practice, and empower and transform your life.
If you are an LMHC, LCSW, or LMFT you can earn a certificate of completion and receive 12 CEU's. *No prior art or expressive arts experience is necessary. |
Tamara is accepting new expressive arts therapy clients seeking support using to heal and grow. Using her expertise in expressive arts and a compassionate approach, she helps clients access their inner strengths and create the change they need in their
lives. To inquire about services, you can go HERE, call/text 941-444-9585 or email tknappcounseling@gmail.com ~Tamara and Kathleen Tamara Teeter Knapp MA, NCC, LMHC, REACE® Kathleen Horne MA, LMHC(S), REACE®, REAT® www.expressiveartsflorida.com |
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