Upcoming Groups and Workshops

This interactive arts-based workshop will  provide participants with an opportunity to create their own 'tree of life'.  Through art and writing, they will explore themes of identity, personal and cultural history, skills and strengths, gifts, and hopes for the future.

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The tree of life concept was developed by practitioners of Narrative Therapy and is used around the world to support individuals and communities to step into a 'riverbank' perspective to see themselves and their experiences differently, and to generate hope and self-acceptance. 

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Length: 2-3 hours

Format: Virtual or In-person 

Cost: $400 - $600 (depending on length and format)

​In this interactive workshop, participants will be invited explore their relationship with different emotions, using visual arts and writing. 

 

Through reflection on the naming, aesthetics, tones and kinetics of the emotions we experience, we can embark on an exploration of our relationship to emotions, what they mean to us, and our agency in responding and being with them. 

 

As a way of documenting our relationships to our emotions, participants will have an opportunity to create a personal ‘texture of emotion’ card deck.  

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Length: 2-3 hours

Format: Virtual or In-person

Cost: $400-$600 (depending on length and format)

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In this interactive arts-based workshop, we will explore, what can oftentimes feel like a complicated relationship with hope.  It can be a powerful force that propels, and at times it can feel hard to find.  The question of, how we relate to hope, will be central.  

 

We can think of hope as ‘imagined landscapes’, and participants will be invited to explore, through visual arts and writing, these imagined landscapes of hope in relation to themselves, others and the world.  

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Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to a collective document on Hope. 

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Length: 2-3 hours

Format: Virtual or In-person

Cost: $400 - 600 (depending on length and format)

In this  interactive arts-based workshop, participants will have an opportunity to explore changes in their lives and relationships through the metaphor of ‘Migration of Identity’.  This metaphor has its origins in Narrative Therapy, and invites individuals to map the personal and relational journeys they are in the midst of, or have taken and the changes they have experienced within themselves as a result.  Such journeys might include becoming a parent, loss of a loved one, moving from one place to another, the ending or beginning of a relationship, changes to lifestyle, and many others both small and large.  

 

Through writing and visual arts participants will be guided and invited to explore themes of change, rites of passage, choice, and hope in the context of movement from one way of being to another. 

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Length: 2-3 hours

Format: Virtual or In-person

Cost: $400 - 600 (depending on length and format)

We make meaning of our lives through the storying of experience, at times these stories can become problem-saturated, with the problems stealing the focus. Through art and writing participants will have the opportunity to explore their relationships with a 'problem' in their lives, the history of it, what supports it, and what and influences it. 

 

Participants will be invited deconstruct the 'problem' through exploring, paying attention to, and shining a light on their agency in responding to it and resisting it.   The re-storying process invites a bringing forth of alternative and preferred stories our lives, stories that may be been obscured or pushed to the margins by the dominance of the 'problem'.  

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Length: 3-4 Hours (Can be divided into multiple sessions) 

Format: Virtual or In-person

Cost: $600 - 800 (depending on length and format)

The Membership of Life practice has it’s origins in Narrative Therapy and invites us to consider our personal community. 

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Using art and writing, participants will be invited to reflect on who they feel are important ‘members’ of their life.  Using metaphors, such as a club, a team, or a garden, participants will be guided to explore membership in their lives.  We will explore how important members are not always still with us, may not even be human, and can continue to have a significant impacts on how we understand ourselves and the world.   The process will involve exploration of themes such as hope, choice, accomplishment, goals, loss, community, and belonging.

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Length: 2-3 hours 

Format: Virtual or In-Person

Cost: $400 - 600 (depending on length and format)