Active Hope: An Art Therapy and Mindfulness Workshop

A morning series of  art therapy and mindfulness workshops. Beginners welcome, all art materials provided. In person, in Lewes, East Sussex and online.

Face-to-Face
When: 10 - 1pm on Saturday 16th September 2023
Where: The Gather Rooms Upper Stoneham Lewes BN8 5RJ
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/539466608147

Online
When: 12 - 3 pm on Friday 15th September 2023
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/565391520257

Each session includes guided art making and mindfulness meditations, and has a specific focus (find out more below). You can attend each individually or book all four as a series. (Four workshops over four months)

Series of Art Therapy and Mindfulness Workshops - (3 hours)
Workshop One: Opening to Joy - Saturday 29th April (face-to-face) /Sunday 30th April (online)
Workshop Two: Inviting Compassion -  Saturday 10th June (face-to-face) / Sunday 11th June (online)
Workshop Three: Exploring Resilience and Creativity - Saturday 15th July (face-to-face)/ Sunday 16th July (online)
Workshop Four: Active Hope - Saturday 16th September (face-to-face)/ Friday 15th September (online)

Workshop Four: Active Hope 

Active hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world’ -Joanna Macy

A creative and explorative workshop integrating therapeutic art making with guided mindfulness practices.

These are difficult and challenging times we find ourselves in. We are in the context of environmental and economic challenges (amongst other individual and collective challenges)

Through mindfulness meditation, creative art expression and group sharing we will open to our individual and collective responses. We will share and have time to express our responses through image making and discussion. Feelings of fear and grief, will be held with the compassion and care that is the orientation of mindfulness practice and will help us engage and potentially take actions. We will be meeting the challenges and difficulties that are present for us, and move into including our hopes and aspirations. What positive change do we may wish to be part of? We will be connecting with our imagination, potential to be resilient and the ways that we can resource ourselves.

This workshop is inspired by the approach of The Work That Reconnects, and the book Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston, and incorporates elements of mindfulness meditation and art therapy practices. During the session there will be opportunity for self-expression, exploring care for oneself and others, investigating your direct experience and, practicing with others in a group context. You will be guided and supported during the workshop by the facilitator.

As well as traditional art materials you may wish to create with natural materials (e.g. leaves/twigs/shells etc). During some of these workshops we have some of the session outdoors (for online sessions- guidance will be provided).

You are welcome to attend if you are a beginner, or more experienced, to either mindfulness and/or art making.

Facilitator/s:

Nicky Roland, is an experienced HCPC registered Art Therapist, a trained mindfulness teacher, and a Work That Reconnects facilitator with several years work experience in the NHS, voluntary sector and in private practice.

Directions
Free Parking available, side road from A26 on outskirts of Lewes (full directions will be supplied when booking), next to bus stop (number 29 Bus route from Brighton/Uckfield).

Fees:
£40 - General Admission
£25 - Concession
£15 - Reduced Concession
(Plus Eventbrite Booking Fee)

Concessionary rates are available for people who may be experiencing financial constraints at this time (low or no income).

Face-to-Face
When: 10 - 1pm on Saturday 16th September 2023
Where: The Gather Rooms Upper Stoneham Lewes BN8 5RJ
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/539466608147

Online
When: 12 - 3 pm on Friday 15th September 2023
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/565391520257

 

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