Finding New Inspiration in Challenging Times

Re-Firing On All Cylinders!

The Evolution of a Canadian, Rural Expressive Arts Practice

with H. Fay Wilkinson, REACE

September 19^th, 2020

Noon – 2 pm ET

$50

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Often it seems to take a major catalyst to force a re-think, a re-arrange, and a re-charge. That catalyst can give us a real opportunity to jolt us out of the safety of the known and catapult us into new territory. Join me as I share how my Canadian, rural expressive arts practice has evolved in these ‘new’ days. I’ll cover what I’ve learned, the mistakes I’ve made and how I’ve found fresh, effective ways of doing my personal and professional work using technology. You will have a chance to say yes to a hands-on art-making experience which will highlight best practices.

Living with Uncertainty

Expressive Arts Therapy:
Trauma, Resiliency and Attunement

Wednesday October 7, 6-8 pm ET

Live Online via ZOOM

$50

In these uncertain and distressed times, the skills that we can bring as expressive arts practitioners become even more important in helping to guide ourselves and others through difficult emotions.  This ‘Woke-Shop’ will be a time to reflect on the inner and outer landscapes with a focus on how expressive arts can address individual and collective trauma through a lens of inter and intra- personal neurobiology. Through guided exercises that use breath, sound, rhythmic drumming, movement and image making we will explore how a re-alignment with personal and transpersonal rhythms can help to facilitate a sense of psychospiritual unity and begin a process of healing.

Rising Up to the Dream of Your Soul

Grounding through the Expressive Arts in times of upheaval and uncertainty

Tuesday October 27, 6-8 pm ET 

Live Online via Zoom

$50

Connecting with elemental energies through movement, painting, writing, poetry, storytelling and ritual, we will connect with earth body wisdom to remember our essential natures, grief the heartbreak of separation, isolation and disconnection and reclaim the dream of our souls that connect us with all of our relations.

The soul dream serves as a resource to be with the imprints of the human cultural shadow of war, violence, abuse, “isms,” injustices, and separation from ourselves and each other and the earth as well as the current impact of the pandemic. We will provide a safe container to grieve the impact of those societal structures and global crisis on our psyche and utilize the intermodality of the expressive arts as well as earth as a resource to process, digest, express and reconnect.

We will rise up through the embodiment of our soul dream in various modalities and access the field of love and compassion, supporting our resiliency and reconnection with our bodies and the larger earth body through guided meditation, soundhealing, breathing exercises and ritual.

This is an experiential workshop in which participants will take away tools to provide cultural shadow grief-work based in trauma-informed care, eco-psychology, energy work and self-care tools to do this work from a resourced place. Applications of the work are discussed and explored.

Recordings of Online Summit : The Role of Arts & Arts Therapies in the context of Pandemic.

The Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University, UK together with the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium, New York University, and Christopher Bailey, Arts & Health Lead World Health Organisation, are delighted to share recordings from the online summit Arts and Therapies in the Time of the Pandemic. This series of presentations, panel discussions and workshops from prominent international arts therapists explore the role of the arts and arts therapies to health and wellbeing during the pandemic.