Online Expressive Arts Retreats, Professional Development and More

Published: Sun, 03/07/21

A Full Menu of Offerings for You!

We are pleased to be able to offer you many opportunities for professional development, personal growth, and continued connectivity to the expressive arts community. What calls you?

There's so much here - scroll down to see it all.

Professional Development

Expand your Expressive Arts Training

Limited Special Price Offer for the Whole Series - Deadline this Week!

We have gathered expressive arts professionals from around the world to share their exciting work and expertise in the field with you. We invite you to register for as many workshops as you would like or sign up for all of them with the Full Bundle. Workshops will be held live, online via Zoom with an online learning platform to make access to all of your courses easy. Scroll below and click for details on each workshop or go right to bundle, save money, and learn all year long.

View the Complete Professional Development Series

When you invest in the full bundle, you will have access to each of the professional development workshops in the series. After adding each one to your library of courses, you will have full access to links, recordings, and notifications as well as any resources that are shared after the workshop.

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Special Price Offer Expires March 14th

Happening Next in the Series...

Taking It Off the Page: Adapting Your Expressive Arts Practice to Your Community of Choice

with Pat B. Allen and Rabbi Adina Allen

Monday March 15th

6-8:30pm ET

Expressive arts training is exciting, offering many opportunities for self - exploration and growth. The next step is figuring out how to adapt your insights, gifts and skills to make a contribution to your community of choice. This workshop will combine a presentation about how Rabbi Adina Allen adapted the Open Studio Process, the work of Dr. Pat Allen, to the Jewish world and an experiential exercise to help you assess your resources and challenges and to create an image to map where your passion and the world’s need intersect.

Info & Registration

The Art of Grief

with Annie Rousseau

Monday March 29th

6-8:30pm ET

This session will outline the purpose and guidelines for developing a 6-session Grief and Loss workshop. This workshop was developed for the bereaved, however, it could be adapted it to suit those who are experiencing other types of loss: divorce, loss of identity, home, country, career, job, etc. Come prepared to work with a loss in your life.

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The Plane of Possibilities: Our Mind and It's Workings

with Manju Jain and Aslam Khader

Wednesday April 14th

6-8:30pm ET

In this expressive arts workshop the facilitators will lead participants through the use of the various modalities to explore a personal life situation and the different ways to look at that situation. Based on the model of the mind proposed by Dr. Dan Siegel, the workshop explores how we can use our minds to help ourselves.

Manju and Aslam are a husband-wife team dedicated to making emotional and well-being practices universally accessible.

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Magical Child
with Markus G. Scott-Alexander

Saturday May 1

Noon to 2:30 ET

The Magical Child is the ambassador of your essence.

The Magical Child is the ambassador of your essence. This training calls upon several art forms to intimately enrich the relationship between your inner magicalness and your ability to bring that magic into the world. Expand the play range through artful play. Learn to let go into the more of you and shape that 'more' in new ways. Give your evolving, conscious awareness arts-based vehicles to navigate in.

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Touch Drawing: Integrating It Into Your Expressive Arts Practice
with Deborah Koff-Chapin

Tuesday June 1

6 -9pm ET

A workshop for Expressive Arts students and professionals who are interested in facilitating Touch Drawing in your intermodal work. This Touch Drawing experience will be focused on deepening your personal experience of the process, while also learning the essential elements needed to apply Touch Drawing appropriately in the settings within which you work.

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Expressive Arts Discovery

A Virtual Expressive Arts Workshop

Online Via Zoom

Wednesday March 31st

7pm -8:30pm EST

Tueday April 27th

7pm -8:30pm EST

Listen. Learn. Make Art. Share. Witness. Discover.

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Two Opportunities to Experience SoulCollage®

"SoulCollage® has given me the opportunity to pause, reflect, and explore myself more deeply. It's a wonderful expressive activity that feels nurturing and centering." ~ A "SoulCollage® Participant

SoulCollage® Community Suit -

Honoring Treasured Relationships

with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed.

SoulCollage® Facilitator

Wednesday, March 24, 6-9 pm EST

Online via Zoom

SoulCollage® : Community Suit, Honoring Treasured Relationships is a workshop specifically designed for you to experience how each SoulCollage® suit offers its own treasures for you. In this workshop, you’ll deepen your relationship and excitement with the Community Suit. This suit honors relationships that you have with others. Your Community cards reflect people, pets, and other external voices, that you would like to have a conversation with.

This workshop is designed for those who have attended a SoulCollage® Introductory workshop and are looking to go deeper into their SoulCollage® practice.

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Discover a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®

with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed.

SoulCollage® Facilitator

Tuesday April 6th, 6-9 pm EST

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.

"I've known about SoulCollage for years but I never was able to attend an introductory session. This one worked well for me at last and I found it very helpful to be led into the process rather than just reading the book. It was worth waiting for." ~Rachelle Oppenhuizen

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Live, Virtual Expressive Arts Retreats:

Rejuvenate, Recharge, and Reconnect with Yourself

A retreat is an incredible way to give back to yourself. We have looked for ways to offer you this space for self-care and personal growth online.

We have a few offerings here and more to come...

Creative Wisdom: Live Online Training Retreat

Theme: Expressive Arts and The Natural World

Saturday April 10th 12-5pm EST

Online via Zoom

In this retreat, we will guide you through our 5-step process with a focus on our inner experience as a reflection of the cycles and rhythms of the natural world. Drawing on the wisdom and lessons of nature, your human experience will be illuminated through a nature-based intermodal arts process.

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Wisdom of the Wild: Writing and Art Half Day Retreat

with Anne Hofland and Tamara Knapp

Tuesday April 13th 1pm -5pm EST

Online via Zoom

In this retreat, participants will engage in both expressive writing, art, and movement in response to prompts related to nature and will explore their own innate creative wisdom through their stories and images.

Info and Registration

Art as a Healing Practice is returning this spring, in a new format, with new content! Kathleen is busy creating a whole new way of bringing this body of work to a wider and larger community. Stay tuned - details will be announced in the upcoming week.

OPEN STUDIO: Connect and Share Weekly

Loving Art Witness Open Studio with Kathleen

First and Third Tuesdays

of the Month Online

March 16th and

April 6th and 20th

1pm-4pm

Wednesday Open Studio Online with Tamara / Victoria

Every Wednesday 10am-1pm

ART MEDITATIONS

Our gift to you

In This Moment

Loving Witness

Meditation with a Stone

Mandorla: Working with Polarities

SELF-STUDY TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS

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

ANTI-RACISM STATEMENT

We at Expressive Arts Florida Institute are committed to being 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.

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.

We look forward to seeing you!

Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria

www.expressiveartsflorida.com

Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT

Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, K-12 Art, REACE

Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE