We extend a warm welcome to one of our most popular presenters!
There are just a few spots left in this year's workshop, and we invite you to join us as we learn from Mitchell Kossak.
The perfect balance of therapeutic information mixed with a
full mind, body, spirit engagement.
-2020 workshop participant
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’.
Mitchell's passion, experience, and education shine through in his practice. He inspires and soothes all at once, as though he himself is a balanced accumulation of the elements. I would gladly study under him on a daily basis as I am truly moved and transformed.
Thank you for feeding my soul.
-2020 Workshop Participant
In this workshop participants 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.
Participants will:
- Learn the roots and history of how empathy has been applied in aesthetics and psychology to achieve states of health and well-being
- Understand the neurobiological functions of embodied empathy.
- Learn how to apply the concepts of embodied empathy to expressive arts practice.
Embodied Empathy and Expressive Arts
Online via Zoom
with Mitchell Kossak
Friday October 22 (rescheduled from October 1),
1-4 pm EDT
with Kathleen Horne
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 is 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 that polarity in a new way. The mandorla is a geometric form that is made up of 2 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: Mandorla
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Online Open Studios
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
2nd and 4th Wednesdays
October 13th and 27th
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.
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Expressive Arts Discovery
Friday October 29, 1-2:30 pm EDT
Listen. Learn. Make Art. Share. Witness. Discover
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 others.
Witness yourself and one another.
‘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
Next start date: January, 2022
(there are just a few spaces left)
Browse the schedule and email us with your questions.
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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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