A morning series of  art therapy and mindfulness workshops. Beginners welcome, all art materials provided.
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/565347468497

Each session includes guided art making and mindfulness meditations, and has a specific focus (see below). You can attend each individually or attend all four as a series. This workshop series is available to attend either in person or online via Zoom (on different dates).

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)/ Sunday 17th July (online)

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Workshop One: Opening to Joy and Expression 

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives― James Baraz, Author of ‘Awakening Joy’  

How can we open to joy and creative expression? This is a creative and explorative workshop integrating therapeutic art making with guided mindfulness meditation, open to all levels of experience.

This session will develop your understanding of mindfulness, gratitude and appreciation practices.  . During the time of environmental and economic challenges (amongst other individual and collective challenges) the practices of mindfulness and opening to joy have the potential to support our own personal wellbeing, and ways in which you can meet others facing their own challenges. From the basis of our own resourcing and resilience we may find new ways to be able to meet and respond to the collective challenges we are experiencing.

Aims:

• Deepen your understanding of mindfulness, gratitude and appreciation practices
• Understand some of the potential barriers to these practices
• Find ways to resource and nourish yourself in challenging times

All levels of experience with mindfulness and/or art making are welcome to attend!

Facilitator/s:

A morning series of  art therapy and mindfulness workshops. Beginners welcome, all art materials provided.

Face-to-Face
When: 10 - 1pm on Saturday 10th June 2023
Where: The Gather Rooms Upper Stoneham Lewes BN8 5RJ
Book via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/539413910527

Online
When: 1 - 4 pm on Sunday 11th June 2023
Book via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/565367287777

Each session includes guided art making and mindfulness meditations, and has a specific focus (seebelow). You can attend each individually or attend all four as a series

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)/ Sunday 17th July (online)

You can attend this workshop series either in person or online via Zoom (on different dates).

Workshop Two: Inviting Compassion through Art Therapy and Mindfulness

How can we offer compassion and care to ourselves? This is a creative and explorative workshop integrating therapeutic art making with guided mindfulness meditation, open to all levels of experience.

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 15th July 2023
Where: The Gather Rooms Upper Stoneham Lewes BN8 5RJ
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/539450921227

Online
When: 1-4 pm on Sunday 16th July
Book via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/565385993727

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.

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)/ Sunday 17th July (online)

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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.

Next dates (online, via Zoom):
9 am Saturday 9th September
2 pm Tuesday 24th October
10 am Thursday 23rd November

Session Description:

Come and experience this introductory session which includes a guided mindfulness practice and guided art making.

Open to all levels of experience.
Bring some art materials to the session.

There will be an opportunity to learn more what happens in art therapy and mindfulness sessions and ask any questions you may have. You can also find out more about our groups and workshops. This is a short one hour introductory session. You may also be interested in our two hour and day long workshops.

Through mindfulness practice, inner inquiry, and creative expression you can learn to open up to life with all its challenges and delights and to find new ways to accept and live with them. Helping you feel resourced and resilient during these challenging times.

The workshop is facilitated by Nicky Roland, Art Therapist and Mindfulness Teacher.

You will be provided with a Zoom link to attend the session after you book.

Book via Eventbrite here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/taster-session-art-therapy-and-mindfulness-tickets-122229944053

Previous Tasters Nicky has offered:

Nicky has offered art therapy and mindfulness taster sessions online since 2020 and prior to that in person in London, Brighton and elsewhere. If you wish to arrange an in-person Taster session with nicky through your organisation or another way please contact us.
(Previous Tasters include: 25th February 2017, Mindfulness and Art Therapy Taster Workshop, 2 - 4 pm at MADE, 66/67 North Rd, Brighton)

Resourcing and connecting during this pandemic

• A series of art therapy and mindfulness workshops, online via Zoom.
• Attend the whole series or drop-in to one or more.

These workshops are intended as a supportive space during the pandemic, as a way to be with and respond to challenges and stressors that you may be experiencing. Each session will includes a guided mindfulness practice and guided art making. Open to all levels experience. Please bring art materials to the session.

Cultivating Resilience

10 – 12 am Sunday 1st November 2020

How we can we cultivate resilience to support ourselves during the pandemic? This will be explored through guided art making, mindfulness meditation and group sharing.

Bearing Witness

10 – 12 am on Sunday 13th December 2020

How can we witness and respond to the challenges we face as individuals and as a collective? This will be explored through guided art making, mindfulness meditation and group sharing.

Renew and nourish

10 – 12 am Sunday 10th January 2021

How can we invite renewal and nourishment at the transition of the new year? This will be explored through guided art making, mindfulness meditation and group sharing.

Self-Compassion

10 – 12 am Sunday 7th February

How can we offer compassion and care to ourselves? This will be explored through guided art making, mindfulness meditation and group sharing.

Facilitator: Nicky Roland, Art Therapist and Mindfulness Teacher.

Low cost places are available for people who may be experiencing financial constraints at this time (low or no income). Contact us if you require a low cost place.

Book via Eventbrite here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-monthly-series-of-art-therapy-and-mindfulness-workshops-tickets-125607678949

10- 4 pm on Sunday 9^th May 2021
Outdoor Location: Princes Road, Brighton, East Sussex 

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

A day outdoors: meditating, creating and exploring with others, in community. There will be opportunities to connect with nature, create with natural materials and practice a range of guided mindfulness meditations.

The inspiration for the day is ‘Active Hope and The Work that Reconnects’ - experiential group work developed by Joanna Macy (and collaborators). The day will include Insight Meditation, Eco Therapy and Art Therapy practices.

In this creative and supportive context, we will bear witness to our individual and collective experiences. Some of the challenges in the time we live include climate crisis, the global pandemic and structural racism. Feelings of fear and grief, will be held with the compassion and care that is the orientation of mindfulness practice. This 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.

You are welcome to attend if you are a beginner, or more experienced, in meditation or any of the practices - gentle support and encouragement will be offered throughout.

Facilitator:
The workshop is facilitated by Nicky Roland, Art Therapist and Mindfulness Teacher.

Fee: 
Donations/Dana to BodhiTree Brighton. Nicky’s teachings have no charge, with the invitation to offer dana to her at the end of the day.

To book visit BodhiTree Brighton's website:
http://www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk/events/active-hope-meditation-and-art-making-day-retreat-with-nicky-rowland/