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Markus G. Scott Alexander was the IEATA- International Expressive Arts Therapy Association's Member Spotlight for March 2021.
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His Online workshop is coming up, reserve your spot today!
Magical Child
with Markus G. Scott-Alexander
Saturday May 1
Noon to 2:30 EDT
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.
Learning Objectives:
- Expanding the play range through artful play.
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Learning to let go into the more of you and shape that ‘more’ in new ways.
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Giving your evolving, conscious awareness arts-based vehicles to navigate in.
"Expressive Arts Florida brings the Masters of the field to engage with students in an intimate zoom platform. I am so grateful for the opportunity to learn from leaders in the field like Markus Scott-Alexander. What a gift."
- Topaz Weis, REACE, owner Expressive Arts Burlington
"Markus is a gifted presenter able to engage and inspire. His choice of language is connective to previous concepts yet feels wholly new."
- Jenny Campagna LPCC-S
Where Am I Now?
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the expressive arts
Friday April 23
1-4 pm EDT
In order to make change, to achieve goals, to find our way from where we are to where we want to be, we must start right here, in the now.
This Art as a Healing Practice workshop will allow you to ground and witness yourself, in the present, through a series of gentle and powerful expressive arts practices.
This workshop will include:
- An introduction to the theme
- A nature-based practice
- A guided meditation
- Art-making time
- Writing prompts and writing time
- (Optional) small group witnessing and sharing
- (Optional) Large group sharing
- Extracting a nugget of wisdom to take, as a practice, into your life
Expressive Arts Discovery
A Virtual Expressive Arts Workshop
Tuesday April 27th
7pm -8:30pm EDT
Listen. Learn. Make Art. Share. Witness. Discover.
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SoulCollage® Retreat:
Renew Your Spirit
with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed.
SoulCollage® Facilitator
Saturday May 8th
10am-5 pm EDT
In SoulCollage® Retreat: Renew Your Spirit give yourself the gift of time to listen deeply to what your body, mind, and soul are telling you. Unwind, relax, and have fun as you discover and rediscover the spirit of wisdom that resides in you. Join together with a group of kindred spirits on a journey to renew your soul. You will leave refreshed and confident to live your truth in the
world. This retreat day will include meditation, reflection, SoulCollage® card making and reading, along with a closing ritual.
Touch Drawing: Integrating It Into Your Expressive Arts Practice
with Deborah Koff-Chapin
Tuesday June 1
6-9pm EDT
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.
Prerequisite: An introductory Touch Drawing workshop.
Creative Wisdom Live Online Training Retreat:
Expressive Arts and the Natural World
with Kathleen Horne, Tamara Knapp, and Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Saturday June 5th 12pm -5pm EDT
In this retreat we will guide you through our five 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.
Inspired by and adapted from Creative Wisdom: Introductory Online Training in Expressive Arts, this retreat is a natural next step to bring your learning into a live, interactive format.
Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts: The Felt Sense as a Doorway to Expression
with Laury Rappaport
Tuesday June 14
6-9pm EDT
Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) is a mindfulness and somatic based approach to the expressive arts developed by Dr. Laury Rappaport. This workshop provides an overview of the history, foundational principles, and main approaches of FOAT®— and teaches how the felt sense is a doorway to all of the expressive arts modalities and intermodal expression. The workshop includes a theoretical overview along with experiential
exercises to teach an introduction to Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) as an intermodal approach.
Your Storylines: Points in Racial Awareness
with Pat B. Allen and Rhonda Johnson
Wednesday July 14
6-9pm EDT
Transforming our racial awareness is an inside job. Using Open Studio Process (OSP) we will identify points in personal history that make up our racial understanding. We invite you to join us in an exploration of the strengths and vulnerabilities in our personal and collective stories.
www.studiopardes.org
Harambee Arts: Expressive Arts Projects in Keny and Nepal
with Gloria Simoneaux, Brandon Okoth, and Rina Pratik
Saturday August 7th
1-3:30pm EDT
This workshop will familiarize you with the Harambee Arts Expressive Arts methodology that focuses on a culturally sensitive, collaborative, and relational approach to working with different societies around the world. Rina Pratik from Nepal and Brandon Okoth from Kenya, both long time staff members of Harambee Arts, will lead exercises and be available to answer questions. Rina facilitates groups for young
girls who have been rescued from trafficking, HIV+ women and those who have experienced domestic violence. Brandon works with children who live in poverty in Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera. They will share their innate wisdom, lessons learned and how expressive arts has supported them to become empowered and courageous members of their community.
wwww.harambeearts.org
Person Centered Expressive Arts in Hong Kong
with Fiona Chang
Wednesday August 25th
6-8:30pm EDT
This Arts-based couple group model was empirically formulated in Hong Kong for couples with breast cancer challenges. Solo-duet-group activity design through expressive arts and person-centered facilitation were founded to be therapeutic in facilitating personal growth, couple relationship and group development.
Are you ready to get started on your Expressive Arts Training?
It's All Online for You Now
You can begin in either May or August with these Level 1 Courses
May 15th-22nd course
August 14th -21st course
"My training at EAFI has transformed my capacity to engage in mindful practice in my life and my work. As a social work professor, I have brought the expressive arts into my teaching and mentoring with students and our university community. Having participated in the intensive in-person training, I have found the
experience to be of the highest quality in both formats. I am genuinely appreciative of the faculty for their commitment to offering excellent programming in both venues."
-Dr. Heidi Heft LaPorte
Associate Professor, Barry University
Ellen Whiteside McDonnell School of Social Work
"Expressive Arts Florida offers the Gold Standard of expressive arts training programs. Their intensive certificate program was the best thing to happen to me when I was in the” in-between.” It gave me the reboot I needed to hone my skills as an expressive arts practitioner, revitalized my commitment to the work and brought me up to date with current best practices. The instructor’s professionalism,
expertise and well-balanced, teaching style afforded me a safe container in which to explore profound play. As a result I grew as a person and as a facilitator."
-Topaz Weis, REACE
OPEN STUDIO: Connect and Share Weekly
with Kathleen
First and Third Tuesdays
of the Month
April 20th
May 4th and 18th
1pm-4pm EDT
with Tamara /Victoria
Every Wednesday 10am-1pm EDT
ART MEDITATIONS
Our gift to you
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
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
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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