We humans are a part of nature. The rhythms and cycles of the natural world live in us, and we in them. When we remember that, and live accordingly, we are healthier. We find answers to life's questions by attuning to the elements, the seasons, the moon, the
sun, the tides.
We humans often move too fast, and with unhealthy rhythms of action and rest. Many of our workplaces and institutions reinforce and expect this. Nature teaches us balance, harmony, and wise use of our energy. She also teaches us presence and awareness, the capacity of being alert and ready, without being hyper-vigilant and anxious. When we open our
lives to this wisdom, we honor the letting go, the hibernation times, the darkness, the laying fallow, as well as the seasons of activity and growth.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —Lao Tzu
Our individual grief and suffering, as well as our transcendent experience, live within both the collective planetary grief, and the wisdom of the natural world. So much harm - individual, interpersonal, collective, cultural, and planetary - has been caused by we humans separating ourselves from nature. It is essential that we not only connect with nature, but that we
remember and experience ourselves as nature.
Expressive arts is a pathway to that remembrance. The more we practice our work within a conscious embrace of the natural world, the deeper and more effective the work is.
The more we love nature, the more we love ourselves. And, the more we love our essential selves, the more we love nature. And, we protect what we love.
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Rainer Maria Rilke
Here are 3 opportunities to consciously integrate a nature-informed perspective into your Expressive Arts practice:
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.
Emotional Landscape
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
This Week! Friday May 28th
1-4 pm EDT
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. In this workshop, you will be invited to look within and explore your current emotional state. This is a powerful and helpful way to connect with yourself in the present moment, and bring your compassionate mindful attention to your inner
experience.
By considering our emotions as a landscape, we are invited to move from the literal to the imaginal and to engage with the complexity of the inner territory and discover its wisdom through nature-witnessing, image-making and writing.
The Entire Art as a Healing Practice Series
Available for Purchase at a Reduced Rate
Creative Community 2021:
A Deeper Exploration of Arts as a Healing Practice Themes
May 28 is the deadline to register for this option.
More Online Creative Opportunities Happening Soon
Expressive Arts Discovery
A Virtual Expressive Arts Workshop
This Week! Wednesday May 26th
7pm -8:30pm EDT
Listen. Learn. Make Art. Share. Witness. Discover.
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Touch Drawing: Integrating It Into Your Expressive Arts Practice
with Deborah Koff-Chapin
Tuesday June 1
6-9pm EDT
on Zoom
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, familiarity with set-up and supplies
Discover a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt, M.Ed.
SoulCollage® Facilitator
Tuesday June 8th
1-4 pm EDT
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.
Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts: The Felt Sense as a Doorway to Intermodal Expression
with Laury Rappaport,
Ph.D., MFT, ATR-BC, REAT
Tuesday June 14
6-8:30pm EDT
on Zoom
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.
Listening to the Body
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the expressive arts
Friday June 18th
1-4 pm EDT
Join Kathleen, and other creative seekers, on Zoom from wherever you are, to engage in the arts as a way to listen to the messages and wisdom of your body. Using gentle and powerful Art as a Healing Practice model, tune in to your somatic experience and receive the information your body is giving you. As your guide, I will offer you some creative invitations to encounter this
theme, and you can engage with it in your own way.
Your Storylines: Points in Racial Awareness
with Pat B. Allen and Rhonda Johnson
Wednesday July 14
6-8:30pm 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
Creative Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the expressive arts
Friday July 16th
1-4 pm ED
What is your relationship to your creativity? How has it been shaped and developed over time? What is it asking of you now? Our creative birthright, when fully reclaimed, is an unparalleled resource and a source of joy and wellbeing.
Harambee Arts: Expressive Arts in Kenya and Nepal
with Gloria Simoneaux, Rina Pratik, and Lillian Obonyo
Saturday August 7
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. The presenters 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
Are you ready to get started on your Expressive Arts Training?
It's All Online for You Now
August 14th -21st course
"Kathleen, Victoria, and Tamara are inspiring teachers and worthy guides dedicated to sharing the riches and magic of the expressive arts with others. They are gracious hosts, wonderful models of joyful creative engagement and sparkling artists. They inspire deep engagement with a whole lot of fun!"
-Pat B Allen, PhD. ATR Co-Founder, Open Studio Project, Author: Art as a Way of Knowing, Art is a Spiritual Path, Cronation
OPEN STUDIO: Connect and Share Weekly
with Kathleen
First and Third Tuesdays
of the Month
June 1st and 15th
1pm-4pm EDT
with Tamara /Victoria
Second and Fourth Wednesdays of the Month
May 26th
June 9th, 23rd
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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