Celebrating and Honoring
Paolo J. Knill
We lost one of the brightest shining stars of the global expressive arts community this week. To have studied with Paolo is to have touched the source of Expressive Arts. Paolo, you have shone your light and inspiration into so many lives. May we carry that light on in the world, as your legacy. Love and blessings to Margo Fuchs Knill and your
family. Rest in Peace.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Both were sold out, and we thank everyone who participated!
This is an amazing line-up of Expressive Arts teachers.
All the workshops are interactive and live online.
Next, we are thrilled to host Manju Jain and Aslam Khader, Their contribution to the field of Expressive Arts in India, Nepal, and the U.S. will inspire and inform you.
Resilience Building
The Power of Self-Compassion in Building Resilience
Manju Jain & Aslam Khader
Tues. September 29, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
In their work with under-served populations that have experienced extreme hardship and trauma, Manju and Aslam have found self-compassion to be an important step in building resilience. In the Professional Development training workshop, they introduce the theory of self-compassion through expressive arts, and humanistic and positive psychology.
I feel self worth. I see myself for who I am and I started loving myself. So I don’t feel alone anymore. I am thankful to you. You are really amazing. Psychology student, India
In the last year, Manju and Aslam have facilitated over 100 workshops in India, Nepal and the U.S. with over 2000 children and adults. Since the start of the pandemic they have moved their work online, and conduct weekly workshops for a set of 12 global groups.
I am very thankful for your valuable support to our team and the precious girls. They are so grateful. Head of Trafficked Girls NGO
Manju and Aslam are the Co-Chairs of the Social Action Committee of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association)and they are inspiring and mobilizing us with their passion, vision, and innovative programming in service of social justice.
I was amazed to see the way you were able to hold the kids and the mothers attention so easily... The way the kids and their mothers got into it was something I would not have expected. The kids really got into it. The ones who had to leave were so eager to come back asap. Volunteer in a NGO working with kids with cancer
Re-Firing On All Cylinders!
The Evolution of a Canadian, Rural Expressive Arts Practice
with H. Fay Wilkinson, REACE
Saturday October 3, noon to 2 pm ET
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.
For over 30 years Fay has designed and delivered Expressive Arts experiences for both individuals and groups with a current focus on mental health and those living with cancer. Her published paper (in the Journal of Arts & Health), contributes to the growing body of evidence that now supports the value of engaging in creative processes on our mental and physical well-being.
Living with Uncertainty
Expressive Arts Therapy:
Trauma, Resiliency and Attunement
with Mitchell Kossak, PhD, LMHC, REAT
Wednesday October 7, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via ZOOM
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.
Mitchell is a Professor in the Expressive Therapies program at Lesley University. He has presented his work and research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation, psychospiritual and community-based approaches to working with trauma at conferences internationally. He is the author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy. In 2019 he helped to
create Voces Arts and Healing, to work with asylum seekers in Juarez Mexico. He is also a professional musician.
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
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.
Nicki is a Multi-Media Artist, Expressive Arts Psychotherapist and Educator. She is devoted to playfulness, joy, embodied earth-based spirituality and transforming trauma into empowerment through creativity. She has a private practice in German and English in Berkeley, CA. She is adjunct faculty at Sofia University, California Institute of Integral Studies, and co-supervisor at Art of
Health and Healing of Contra Costa Medical Centers (CCRMC).
www.express-explore-expand.com.
Traditional Indigenous and Popular Art Practices and Expressive Arts
Inspiration for our work with clients and communities
Wendy Phillips, PhD, LMFT, REACE, REAT Saturday November 14, noon-2 pm, ET
Live Online via Zoom
This workshop is FULL. Email us if you would like to be added to the wait list.
In this training workshop, Wendy will focus on El Colectivo Macondo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She 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. Wendy 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. She will share excerpts from this and also experientials from a curriculum she developed for the first El Colectivo Macondo workshop.
Wendy is a Psychotherapist, an Expressive Arts Therapist, a faculty member, and a Research Psychologist. She is a conceptual visual artist whose favorite practice is analog photography. Wendy is drawn to historical and alternative photographic processes and fiber arts. In her research, Wendy uses photography as a method of Arts Based inquiry.
https://www.goddard.edu/people/wendy-phillips/
http://www.elcolectivomacondo.com/
Melting and Growing
in Person-Centered Expressive Arts
with Fiona Chang, REAT, RSW, PhD Candidate CUHK
Wednesday December 2, 7-9 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
This workshop combines the theoretical foundation of person-centered expressive arts and experiential learning about the creative connection process for growth. It is a practice-based training of applying multi-modal expressive arts to connect with our body-mind-spirit, to listen, understand, let go and heal. This creative practice is person-centered, engagement-oriented and
process-focused. We shall co-create a sacred place for genuineness, compassion and positive regard.
Fiona is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist with IEATA, Certified Supervisor of the Australian Counseling Association (ACA), and a Registered Social Worker. She is faculty of the Person- centered Expressive Arts Program founded by Dr. Natalie Rogers. She founded the Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program of the Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong and the Expressive Arts Therapy Association of Hong Kong
(EATA HK).
We are a Florida CEU provider for LMHC, LCSW, LMFT. You will receive a Certificate of Completion to submit to your CE Board
**Each workshop is $50.
If you register for three, we invite you to sign up for an additional one,
as our guest.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Are You Ready to Begin Your Training?
Live Online Oct. 10 to Oct. 24 There are a few spaces left in this class.
Live Online Oct. 29 to Dec. 3
All core courses will be offered online in 2021. The new schedule will be published next week.
ONLINE OPEN STUDIOS 3 times each week
A space and time to show up and experience the gifts of your own creative presence.
Tuesday Open Studio 1-4 pm EDT
With Kathleen Horne
Tuesday sessions open with a Loving Witness Meditation
(Sorry, no session on Oct. 6)
Wednesday Open Studio 10 am to 1 pm EDT
Thursday Pop-up Open Studio 5 pm to 8 pm EDT
With Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Opens with Art Check-in, and an inspirational reading or poem
(Sorry, no session on Sept. 24)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
There is no fee for Open Studios. Love Offerings are gratefully accepted.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS DISCOVERY
90-minute live online workshop
Monday October 5, 7-8:30 pm Eastern time
$27
LOVING WTINESS ART MEDITATION
(no charge)
You can return to it as often as you like.
We recommend SoundsTrue
Here, Tami Simon interviews Justin Michael Williams
We at Expressive Arts Florida Institute are committed to being 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.
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.
In creative community,
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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