Getting to Know Your Ecological Self; and Your Weekly Creative Menu

Published: Sun, 08/29/21

Explore Your Ecological Self

ART AS A HEALING PRACTICE WORKSHOP

Deep Listening through Expressive Arts

Ecological Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne, LMHC, REACE, REAT

Friday, September 10th

1-4pm EDT

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.

This session 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

"Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.”
― Lao Tzu

I really enjoy the different prompts and creative applications used to lead one on a new journey of self discovery about an aspect of self. Buried wisdoms and affirmations reveal themselves in color, line and theme as Kathleen gently guides and holds the space to witness and be witnessed in group. So many possibilities for healing, transformation and growth. -Julia A

Ecological Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne, LMHC, REACE, REAT

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Listen to what stirs inside of you. Listen to your longing. Learn about Expressive Arts by engaging in it! Make Art. Tune in. Be aware of the images that are waiting to emerge. Explore creating those images with simple art materials. Let the images speak – in words, in movement, perhaps. Be amazed. Find your way. Share the gifts that your images bring. Connect with tribe. Witness yourself and each other. Just witness. There is nothing that needs to be said or done. Discover your next step.

Expressive Arts Discovery

August 30th 7-8:30pm EDT

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All Open Studio Offerings are Back Online for Now

Join us from anywhere to create!

Loving Witness Open Studio

with Kathleen

Online via Zoom

1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month:

September 7th and 21st

1pm-4pm EDT

Join our creative circle of support; begin with a guided meditation focused on self-compassion and move into 2+ hours of open creative time. During the last half hour we witness and share. Join from wherever you are in the world. No charge. Donations gratefully accepted at PayPal.Me/eafistudio if that works for you.

Wednesday Open Studio

with Tamara

Back Online for Now

September 15th, and 29th

10am-1pm EDT

Join us via Zoom to gather in creative community. We will continue to evaluate current health and safety recommendations and will update you when we are able to safely return to an in-person studio. Drop in via Zoom, Relax, and have fun- bring a project you are working on, or start something new.

Your Full Menu of Creative Opportunities

Happening in the Coming Months

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.

Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.

Registration is still open for this event, however, if you register and your kit does not arrive in time you may need to prepare your own materials.

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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.

The Body Sings: Explorations in Embodied Voicework
with Topaz Weis

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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.

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Expressive Arts Adventures from Rural Ontario, Canada
with H. Fay Wilkinson

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.

This session 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

Exploring a Polarity with Mandorla

Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne

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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.

Embodied Empathy and Expressive Arts
with Mitchell Kossak

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‘Mandala’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘sacred circle’ or simply ‘circle’. Discover the gentle power of creating a personal mandala to invoke centering and integration. Creating within a circle invokes a sense of wholeness and invites us to connect with our essence. You can revisit this meditation again and again, through the recording, whenever you are seeking a centering experience.

Centering with Mandala

Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne

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As we weave through the mythology of Parvati, Durga and Kali lets meet these powerful energies within ourselves. As we weave through the myth of one goddess who has many faces, an experiential session where you can engage with art, movement and ritual.

Devi-Many Faces of the Goddess
with Belinda Rego and Chandini Harlalka

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SoulCollage® : Playing with a Full Deck is a series designed to help you find clarity and insight through the creation and consultation of SoulCollage® cards. A full deck is meant to mirror balance and wholeness. This workshop is for those who have attended an introduction to SoulCollage® workshop and would like to go deeper into the SoulCollage® process and practice. During this Zoom workshop we will explore the various Neters that appear in our Committee, Community, Companion, and Council suits, create new SoulCollage® cards adding to our deck, and listen deeply as our inner wisdom speaks.

SoulCollage® Playing with a Full Deck
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.

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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Certificate Training Program

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For more information about REACE (Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator) and REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) visit www.ieata.org to learn more.

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Meditation On a Tree

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In This Moment

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Meditation with a Stone

Mandorla: Working with Polarities

EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY

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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

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Through workshops, programs, certificate training, and therapy Expressive Arts Florida Institute empowers individuals, groups and communities by cultivating the creative wisdom inherent in all.

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Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria

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Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT

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

Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE