H. Fay Wilkinson takes you on a journey of offerings in a rural context...
Expressive Arts Adventures from Rural Ontario, Canada
Part of Our Professional Development Series
Expressive Arts Adventures from Rural Ontario, Canada
with H. Fay Wilkinson
Saturday September 25th
12-2:30 PM EDT
Join us on 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.
Participants will:
- Gain specific ideas on how to design effective exa programs through examples
- Build tools that can turn challenges into opportunities
- Experience intermodal shifts in an expressive arts invitation
“Fay is magic. I felt so connected to the work she does and was inspired by her use of technology to creatively respond to the pandemic. Thank you Fay. Beautiful, touching session. I am uplifted and inspired.“-Workshop Participant
“Fay produces her soul and heart in everything she does. Her leadership and guidance are a gift to this world and to those she touches.” –Michalla Bolton
H. Fay Wilkinson, REACE
Fay is an independent, Registered Expressive Arts Practitioner. For over 30 years she has designed and delivered Expressive Arts experiences for both individuals and groups with a current focus on mental health and those living with cancer. Her published paper (in the international, peer reviewed Journal of Arts & Health), contributes to the growing body of evidence that now supports the value of engaging in creative processes
on our mental and physical well-being. Fay was awarded the Fellowship of Applied Education from Fleming College, nominated for the Innovation and Creativity Award from the Chamber of Commerce and is the founder of Visible Voices, a virtual community hub which encourages everyone to respond creatively to things that matter. She has been invited to speak about her innovative work nationally and internationally including the International Arts & Health Conference in
Australia.
Expressive Arts Adventures from Rural Ontario, Canada
with H. Fay Wilkinson
Last Chance to join Topaz Weis, REACE:
The Body Sings; Explorations in Embodied Voicework
Part of Our Professional Development Series
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.
"Topaz created a safe and stimulating environment that allowed me to explore myself through the arts in its many forms! It was the just right balance of teaching, guidance, variety and space to cultivate and nurture my creative and unfolding self. The work took me to my creative edge and supported my expansion! Truly delightful!
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— Niko Pruesse, Strozzi Life Coach
The Body Sings: Explorations in Embodied Voicework
with Topaz Weis
All Open Studio Offerings are Back Online for Now
Join us from anywhere to create!
with Kathleen
Online via Zoom
1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month:
September 21st & October 5th
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.
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
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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
September 27th 7-8:30pm EDT
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
The Labyrinth and SoulCollage® are spiritual tools that help us navigate our life journey as well as access our own inner resources and wisdom. This workshop will offer background and insights to better understand and experience the Labyrinth. We will engage in a reflective experience using a
finger Labyrinth combined with a creative expression through SoulCollage®. The Labyrinth and SoulCollage® both give us a way to integrate mind, body, and spirit allowing us to develop a deeper awareness of ourselves and the world around us.
SoulCollage® Labyrinth Mini Retreat
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
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
‘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
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
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.
Certificate Training Program
Browse the schedule and email us with your questions.
For more information about REACE (Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator) and REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) visit www.ieata.org to learn more.
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, NCC, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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