Creating a Healing Flow: Expressive Art Therapy and Somatic Interventions for Summer

Workshop Title

Creating a Healing Flow: Expressive Art Therapy and Somatic Interventions for Summer

Workshop Description

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We would love to invite you for our new part of Healing Flow workshop series: Expressive Arts and Somatic Interventions for Summer. 

Mountains are often seen as places of refuge and reconnection with the natural world. In summer, we often visit mountains to experience more grounding, restoration, and rest. They symbolize stability, strength, and resilience. In some cultures, mountains are seen as sacred beings and treated as persons. In Japan, Fuji-san holds profound symbolic meaning in Japanese culture, representing natural beauty, endurance, and national identity.

In this workshop, we will take care of our minds, bodies, and hearts through the experience of connection with the image of a mountain. We will also make space for more grounding using gentle movement and visualization.

Key components:

• Creating a Safe Space: Learn strategies to cultivate a trauma-informed and creative environment within a therapy context.

• Minimalistic Approach: Discover how to facilitate impactful sessions using minimal resources and art materials.

• Somatic Interventions: Explore effective somatic tools suitable for both individual and group settings.

• Expressive Art Therapy Flow: Understand the structure of a therapeutic session that seamlessly blends expressive arts with somatic practices.

• Improvisation and Playfulness: Embrace creativity and improvisation, making therapy sessions engaging and adaptive.

• Restorative Practices: Develop techniques for finding moments of calm and restoration for yourself and your clients.

This workshop is ideal for therapists, counselors, and anyone interested in incorporating expressive art therapy and somatic interventions into their practice. Through practical training and hands-on activities, you'll gain the skills to create a soothing somatic flow, fostering holistic well-being for yourself and those you work with. Join us to experience the transformative power of creative and somatic healing practices.

Presenters

Joanna Wróblewska [PhD, MA-ET] is a visual artist & expressive art therapist based in Belgium. She holds an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy with Minor in Psychology from the European Graduate School (2020). In her practice, Joanna combines somatic and creative approaches to offer restorative and resourceful mental health support especially to migrants, refugees, and displaced persons. She uses imagination, play, and various forms of expression to provide trauma-informed and culturally-sensitive care to individual clients, groups, and organizations. Currently Joanna collaborates with The Red Pencil, First Aid of the Soul, and works at her own Art Studio JW.

Yi Jen Chang [MA Cand. Expressive Arts Therapy, MSc. Neuroscience] is an expressive arts facilitator based in Reykjavik and Berlin, currently pursuing an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School. Her passion lies in using creative approaches to foster social justice, restore dignity, and promote peacebuilding and systemic change. This calling led her to the Icelandic Red Cross, where she supports refugees and asylum seekers through expressive arts. As a member of The Liminal Expressive Arts Collective in Berlin, she leads workshops that encourage self-exploration and connection, supporting individuals in navigating personal journeys through arts and embodied practices. Before transitioning to expressive arts, she spent a decade in life sciences and holds a Master’s in Neuroscience from the Charité Berlin.

Date & Time:

Saturday, June 14th

7:00 pm - 9:15 pm Kyiv Time

12:00 pm - 2:15 pm EST

Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/T_bHErfoS2O1PsUM8zsR0w