Many Creative Opportunities Happening This Week:
Expressive Arts Discovery on Monday
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Art as a Healing Practice Workshop with Kathleen Horne on Friday
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Deadline for Submissions to Present
at IEATA's International Conference also Friday
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Exploring a Polarity with Mandorla
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Friday October 1st 1-4pm 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
I originally created Art as a Healing Practice twenty years ago. It emerged organically out of my own personal practice of blending guided meditation, visual art, and writing. Working with these modalities in sequence was, and is, a powerful part of my own healing journey, and, at some point I
began to shape it into a form that I could share with others. I have offered this body of work live in the studio as individual sessions, series, and retreats. I have crafted it to an online format, and a self-study workshop series. I have had the privilege to witness its powerful effects on many.
-Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC(S), REACE, REAT,
Co-Founder & Core Faculty Member of Expressive Arts Florida Institute
Exploring a Polarity with Mandorla
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
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:
October 5th and 19th
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 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.
Save the Date for this Informative Gathering
of Expressive Arts Facilitators, Therapists, and Artists
More Information Coming Soon!
Submit a Proposal to Present at the Conference!
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And Here is Everything Coming Up
at Expressive Arts Florida Institute!
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Happening this Week!
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
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®.
SoulCollage® Labyrinth Mini Retreat
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
Register soon to receive your mailed kit before the workshop!
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.
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
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.
Through a guided movement sequence with elemental energies and free-flowing movement we connect to the wisdom and resources of our innate body wisdom. The movement will lead into deeper exploration and connection with our true essence as well as shadow material through painting, drawing and writing. The shadow of our egos are manifested through thoughts that are critical and judgmental against ourselves and/or others and life circumstances, i.e. a non-acceptance of what is. Embracing the pain of our egos is a task that brings us in connection to our souls that opens us up to the larger dimension of universal energies that support our wholeness and belonging within the
larger earth body. In this exploration you will gain a greater connection to yourself and the truth of your soul and also have an outlet to move, shift and be with the pain and grief of disconnection and separation.
Shadow and Light Work
with Nicki Koethner
Synthesize and complete your experience with the Art as a Healing Practice work. Whether you have participated in one session or the whole series, this workshop will assist you in more fully assimilating your experience. As your guide, I will offer you some creative invitations to synthesize, integrate, and engage with the question “What’s Next?”
Synthesis
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Certificate Training Program Update:
Next start date: January, 2022
Due to the current Covid situation, we have moved the January class online. Times have been adjusted accordingly.
Browse the schedule and email us with your questions.
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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