M.Ed., SoulCollage® Facilitator

Tuesday August 11

6-9pm EDT

$40 ($35 + $5 fee for SoulCollage® kit)

Re-Firing On All Cylinders!

The Evolution of a Canadian, Rural Expressive Arts Practice

with H. Fay Wilkinson, REACE

Saturday October 3, 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

with Nicki Koethner, MA, MFT

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, sound healing, 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.

Traditional Indigenous and Popular Art Practices and Expressive Arts

Inspiration for our work with clients and communities

In this training workshop, Wendy will focus on  El Colectivo Macondo in Oaxaca, Mexico. 

In this workshop, Wendy will share about how the program was founded, the priorities, and how their way of working is related to the way we define social justice. She will also talk about the work she is doing with students in Cuba. She has begun a journal project about traditional cultural practices and Expressive Arts and hopes that the first issue will be printed by fall. Wendy will share excerpts from this and also experientials from a curriculum she developed for the first El Colectivo Macondo workshop.

We at Expressive Arts Florida Institute are committed to becoming better allies to Black, Indigenous and People of Color. We stand in solidarity with victims of systemic brutality and racial injustice. We are committed to examining and dismantling our unconscious and/or unchecked white privilege. We uphold a commitment to educate ourselves, a willingness to have difficult conversations and take informed actions, as we continue to build a healing organization that actively promotes diversity, equity, justice and compassion.