Group Arts Workshops
Group Workshops take place on most Saturdays and Sunday afternoons in the Rubislaw area AB15 Aberdeen.
Each month, I offer seasonal workshops based on trees, plants, flowers, colours, breathing movement, songs, and stories.
The structure is based on the Twelve months of the year that relate to particular qualities of Virtues that Rudolf Steiner offered as being related to our Twelve senses. Additionally, some of the workshops will be tailored to enable participants to experience the Seven Life processes; as seen in the rainbow, days of the week, the planets, and musical octaves.
TRANSPERSONAL ART THERAPY
We live in a world where we may look to external sources for meaning and happiness. Yet within each of us, lies the key to feeling stronger, happier and more capable. The answer is as simple as taking a few moments to ourselves, picking up a pen, pencil or paintbrush, or a lump of clay, and seeing what comes through.
Transpersonal Art therapy is a creative approach that can be used to tap into our inner landscapes to explore our own personal imagery. You do not need to be an artist to try art therapy either; you simply need to put pencil, crayon or paint to paper and let the creativity flow.
Longings, Love, and Loss are universal experiences.
Losses of health, of a loved one, a job or even our homes will unearth deep emotions at some time in our lives. This can leave a void, making us ask, “Why me?” It is often in the darkness of despair, at moments of great loss that the jewels of wisdom can be found, and a powerful form of healing and personal growth reached.
By approaching the wound and injustice through arts, stories, poems, and songs, we can practice waiting for insights to meet us, as and when we feel ready and not by force or personal will.
Transpersonal Art Therapy allows you to travel within yourself in search of strength to hear about ourselves and our needs. The processes can take us on a journey beyond our conditioned thinking and into a deeper state of relaxation where we can access new consciousness. Doing this, allows us to release what is hidden in our subconscious by bringing it to a conscious level.
To create art from within has an inherent power to inspire change. The images you see can be deepened into and parts amplified, to help facilitate new understandings and intuitive insights. Mark-making as art-making can be particularly useful to help verbalise overwhelming emotions from the past traumas and unresolved issues and to meet present crises.
My work can help with life transitions, stress, loss, grief, anger, body image and eating disorders. The imagery created is all about the meaning it has to you, not anyone else, as Transpersonal Art Therapy is relationship-centred; not diagnostic. It can help us to formulate new perceptions that in turn can lead to positive growth and healing.
For group workshops, I facilitate our making of agreements, and connecting in playful heart-warming ways.
We aim to start and close together after sharing reflections and the questions we carry onwards.
The structure is based on the Twelve months of the year, which relate to particular qualities of Virtues that Rudolf Steiner offered as being related to our Twelve senses.
Please feel free to email me, to receive a timetable. Thank you.