Community owned and lead projects have huge impact with Harambee Arts.  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.

To witness the ways that Expressive Arts touch the lives of many people in very difficult situations around the world can be an amazing window to the significance of what we are trained to offer others!"

~A participant in Gloria Simoneaux’s 2020 workshop

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® 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.

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.

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. 

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.