Social Artist Healing Cohort
A 3-Month Experience
10:30 am – 1:00 pm Pacific US / 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern US / 6:30 pm – 9:00pm London UK
Social Artist Healing Cohort
The Social Artist Healing Cohort is a 3 month online experience designed to grow both a regular intuitive art practice and relationships rooted in realness, respect and unconditional support for creative healing processes. You might be a good fit for this group if this sounds familiar:
When you allow your gut-level knowing to dance and paint, you feel alive and connected with yourself, other people, and the planet. A wise part of you knows that good art is like good sleep: it’s one of the best things you can do to heal. But this can’t happen if you don’t give yourself time on a regular basis to make your one-of-a-kind genius seen and heard. If you have a craving to create that won’t go away and know you need to make art, yet you rarely sit down and express yourself on a piece paper, you are not alone!
You might be a Social Artist
It might be challenging to express yourself as often as you crave because you are a social artist; you are different than people who create best in solitude. If you are a social artist, you need supplies, space, and your people creating beside you. It feels good to make art side by side with other people. This is healthy and super normal! Many isolated social artists have unused supplies crying from the closet, but don't realize they also need a supportive teacher and a group of expressive people in the room creating with them. If this is you, the key to unlocking the magic and healing in art is finding your creative community. You can experience exactly this in the Social Artist Healing Cohort.
Here is what our time together will look like:
Tuesday January 6th, 5:00-7:00pm Pacific Time – Meet your cohort in our opening Sound Healing Circle
Starting on Thursday, January 8th, we will paint together every Thursday morning from 10:30 to 1:00 Pacific Time. Our first circle is on January 8th; our last circle is on March 26th (12 sessions total).
Friday, March 27th, 5:00 pm Pacific Time: Closing Sound Healing Circle
One 90 minute private session with me, scheduled at a time that works for best for you!
The cost of this experience is $620, a 15% discount compared to signing up a la carte. If you sign up by December 15th, the early bird cost is $585. Love a good deal? If you refer a friend who signs up for this cohort, you will receive an additional free one hour private session with me (a $100 value).
Why Three Months?
Creating art is a lot like strength training. One good workout is a wonderful thing, but if you want to develop a resilient body, you need to work out regularly to develop sustained strength.
Similarly, when you show up for an good art class, you never regret it. You feel alive and you love it. Then…it is all too easy to not sign up for another one. Old habits flex, and even though your hunger for artistic play and honesty persists—it does not get fed. You live on a plateau where you mostly experience a craving for art rather than making art, and it doesn’t feel good to be here.
A good way to transform this super-common cycle is to commit a season to your artistic process. If you show up with your creative kin for three months, you will have enough time to understand why it is hard to come back to art class and why it is so worthwhile and essential to keep coming back to make the kind of art that heals. You keep yearning to create because honest expression is directly linked to healthy power and emotional resilience.
If you are ready to sign up, you can do so here. If you would like to meet me first, here are a few ways to do that:
- Sign up for a free Mini Art Party Q & A from 1:00 to 2:00 pacific on December 4th or January 1st.
- Sign up for a Painting Alchemy Appetizer (a single painting circle) on December 9th or January 2nd
- Sign up for the December Painting Alchemy Weekly Circle — your first circle is free!
What you can expect to receive in all This Art Heals Circles:
A kind of painting is 100% for you
I will teach you how to let your intuition lead your painting process, which is a spontaneous and pretty easy way to create. What matters most while you paint is meeting your needs. How your painting looks or what anyone thinks about it doesn’t matter at all.
Discovering you already have all the skills you need
When you give a four-year-old paper, paint and a brush, that child will GO FOR IT. Somewhere around middle school, most of us come to doubt this capacity to freely express. The simple social agreements that are part of every This Art Heals circle makes it safer for this capacity to take lead again.
Discovering you know what to do
The more you create like this, the more you will discover that you know what to paint and that you can trust yourself. Your intuition will guide you to the precise experience you need to heal and grow. Absolutely no artistic experience is necessary for intuitive painting.
One-on-one Support
I believe painting in this way is brave and works best with support, so every person who comes to these circles gets one-on-one support from me when they need it. I am intimately familiar with the challenges of authentic creativity and I trust your genius. I am here to support you and cheer you on.
The deep relief that comes from honest expression
It is a relief to be real. Honest expression releases both tension from the body and stuck feelings. This kind of painting leaves you lighter.
Calling in your non-verbal allies
Talking with someone you trust is awesome, and…we all need more than talking to feel good. Here, you will get to see how noodling around with art invites in parts of you that quietly wait to help you digest what is important in your life: imagination, intuition, and the deep wisdom of your body, to name a few.
Receiving compassion and acceptance
Every This Art Heals circle is a Sacred Witnessing Circle. When we open, we all agree to simply witness each other’s paintings and stories: no judgement, no feedback, no criticism. One of my roles is to help everyone honor this important practice. At the end of each circle, we come together to share the gems of our painting processes, and so far, what I always get to see is a screen full of compassionate and grateful faces who appreciate each person as they offer their final share. This practice generates a lot of compassion and appreciation.
Generating Self-Love
This practice helps self-love grow. As you learn to allow the real you space on a piece of paper, you will find your inner voice gradually becoming kinder and more supportive, which has a good effect on the most important relationships in your life, as the way you talk to yourself has a big influence on how you talk to other people.
Seeing if we are a fit
If you are curious about collaborating with me and you need a little more information about what you can expect in This Art Heals Circles, check out my Good Fit – Bad Fit page.
