Your Storylines: Points in Racial Awareness
with Pat B. Allen and Rhonda Johnson
Wednesday July 14th
6-8:30pm EDT
on Zoom
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.
Participants will:
- Set an intention about exploring racial awareness
- Create art about a point of personal history
- Witness their process
www.studiopardes.org
Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her books – Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala
2005) – explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action and are considered classics in the field of expressive arts therapy. Her novel Cronation (Blue Jay Press, 2016) offers an inspiring vision of a world infused by the revolutionary creative energy of women. Author of numerous professional articles, Dr. Allen
lectures and delivers workshops nationally and internationally. Her artwork has been exhibited in a wide variety of juried and invited exhibits. Dr. Allen served on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for twenty years and has taught at many colleges and universities nationally and internationally. Dr. Allen co-founded the Open Studio Project in Chicago and of Studio Pardes in Oak Park, IL. She is currently Senior Consulting Faculty for the Jewish Studio Project,
which was founded by her daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen. Pat is the delighted grandmother of Adina’s two boys, Remy and Tovi.
Rhonda Johnson, ATR-BC
Rhonda graduated Wellesley College with a degree in Economics, then pursued a career in corporate marketing. Reprioritizing her love for art, years later she made a mid-course correction to pursue a graduate degree in Creative Art Therapies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. As a board-certified art therapist, and certified Open Studio Process facilitator; she offers art experiences in her home studio
as well as at various community spaces. Before the pandemic, Rhonda worked at a behavioral health center in Newark, NJ, creating and running their art therapy program for over 50 children and teens.
Rhonda now provides art therapy via telehealth to kids who can benefit from art as a means of self-expression. In her spare time, she indulges in Britcoms, knitting, drawing and reading.
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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 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. 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
Your Spiritual Journey
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
Friday August 13th
1-4 pm ED
How has your spiritual journey evolved over time? What has shaped this aspect of you? What is most potent for you at this time in your life?
Fiona Chang
Solo-to-Duet: Arts-Based Couple Group Model
Wednesday August 25th
6-8:30pm EDT
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.
https://www.eatahk.org/fionachang
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
Wednesday September 8th
6-9pm EDT
Discovering 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.
Ecological Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Friday September 10th
1-4 pm EDT
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
Explore the concept of your Ecological Self, through an integrated expressive arts process. What is your relationship to the natural world? How has your ecological awareness been shaped and developed over time? Through this gentle and powerful process, listen deeply for any messages that are emerging. We are not separate from the natural world. By developing an
awareness of our ecological self, we begin to heal and spirit and live the connection with increased consciousness and intention.
The Body Sings: Explorations in Embodied Voicework
with Topaz Weis
Tuesday September 14th
6-8:30pm EDT
The Body Sings; Explorations in Embodied Voicework is a Professional Development course that draws on techniques from a range of practices to explore the transformative power of expressing oneself with an embodied voice. Through the combined use of breath, vocalizing, movement, and improvisation we will engage in a mindful exploration of the body’s numerous songs.
Expressive Arts Adventures from Rural Ontario, Canada
with H. Fay Wilkinson
Saturday September 25th
12-2:30pm EDT
Expressive Arts Adventures from rural Ontario, Canada is a whistle stop tour of offerings that have guided people to make the invisible, visible through Expressive Arts in a rural context and beyond. Hear about innovative programs that have been designed for those living with cancer and/or mental health challenges as well as individuals navigating stress and anxiety. An experiential component
will round out our time together.
Exploring a Polarity with Mandorla
with Kathleen Horne
Friday October 1st
1-4 pm EDT
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
What are you currently experiencing as a polarity, or point of tension in your life? Perhaps it is something that you go back and forth on, and resolution elusive. Join me in this step-by-step expressive arts process, and create a mandorla (Venn diagram, Vesica Piscis) as a powerful container to explore polarity in a new way. The mandorla is a geometric form that is made up of two overlapping
circles. Through art-making and writing, a new path is invited to emerge.
Embodied Empathy and Expressive Arts
with Mitchell Kossak
Tuesday October 29th
6-8:30pm EDT
The word empathy was originally derived from the German word ‘einfuhlung’, and earlier from the Greek ‘empatheia’, both referring to the physical and emotional connection when viewing a painting or sculpture. As we view a piece of art or when we witness a dance, listen to a musical expression or spoken word piece, our mind translates this into a sensory embodied response, and we are ‘moved’. When we
engage in the arts, we enter into a deep and intimate relational encounter with the materials, sounds, colors, shapes or the space we are moving within, as well as the interactions between individuals in a dyadic or group situation. Engagement in this way can lead to flow states that help to form an embodied resonance response that is directly linked to the sense of embodied empathy. This flow state has been called ‘limbic resonance’ or the capacity for sharing deep emotional states
including what is called ‘empathic harmony’.
In this workshop we will work with breath, sound, rhythms, movement and imagery to explore embodied empathy, with self, with others, in communities and in a larger metaphysical realm.
Certificate Training Program Dates Announced for 2022!
Its a time of transition....
In 2022, we will be offering some of our core courses in person, in our Sarasota, Florida studio, and some online.
If you want to do your whole program online, we invite you to begin with our Level 1 Course coming up in August.
The next start date will be January 2022, in-person,
and you can choose a hybrid (online/in-person) training. Browse the schedule and email us with your questions.
OPEN STUDIO: Connect and Share Online and In the Studio!
We are making a few changes as we return to in-person offerings
Tuesday Online Open Studios with Kathleen (1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month, 1-4 pm EDT) will continue.
Wednesday Weekly Open Studios with Tamara (every Wednesday 10 am – 1 pm) will start up in the studio on August 11. On the last Wednesday of each month, beginning August 25th, we will invite Zoom participation as well, so that you can join in from wherever you are.
with Kathleen
July 6th and 20th: August 3rd and 17th
1pm-4pm EDT
with Tamara
In the Studio Beginning August 11th, and continuing August 18th and 25th
10am-1pm EDT
On the last Wednesday of each month, we will invite Zoom participation as well, so that you can join in from wherever you are. (beginning August 25)
SELF-STUDY TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS...
ART MEDITATIONS
Our Gift to You
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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