Workshops
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Retreats
Ketamine Art Therapy: An Experiential Workshop
Offered by: Jillynn Garcia, LMFT, LCAT, ATR-BC and Emily Lichtenberg, ATR-P, Registered Associate
Crossing the Threshold: A four-month sacred journey culminating in a wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony
Offered by: Jillynn Garcia and Ryan Van Lenning (Wild Nature Heart)
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Connect.
Come connect with others in the human and more-than-human world and allow yourself to be seen, supported and understood. At our core, we are relational beings. Each of us craves to belong. Group workshops and retreats offer a way for you to explore beyond your day to day relationships and be deeply witnessed by others also on a path of self-discovery.
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Create.
Step outside traditional talk therapy and give yourself the gift of knowing through a creative lens. Each workshop or retreat holds artistic expression as a key component in the growth process. Being able to process our thoughts, emotions and physical sensations through creative expression allows us the opportunity to know ourselves beyond our habitual patterning.
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Integrate
A workshop or retreat offers you an opening, a portal, into a new way of seeing, feeling and being in the world. The real gift of these experiences unfolds in the integration and incorporation process. Come find ways to carry yourself anew as you return home to family, friends and systems of modernity.
Past Offering:
Exploring Your Emotional Ecotones
An Eco-Art Therapy Workshop in Preparation for the Coming Year
An ecotone is a region of transition between two (often biological) spaces that, if navigated with conscious intention, can bring new opportunities and growth.
In many cultural traditions, the twelve days between Winter Solstice and New Years day are considered a liminal time of transition; a space where our connection to our ancestors, our guides and our unconscious wants, needs and desires are most accessible. This can be a rich time for feeling our growth edges and envisioning what’s next on our life’s journey. Instead of setting traditional New Year’s resolutions, I invite you to decolonize this time of year, connect in community and feel into what needs tending.
This workshop is an invitation to gather with others and engage in art therapy and ecotherapy practices that can help you refine and manifest your intentions for the coming year.
Overview:
Session 1: IN PERSON - Preparation: Opening the Portal
In this two hour session, you will receive guidance on how to deepen your ability to listen to yourself and your guides during this liminal time. Through guided meditation, nature connection and an art therapy offering we will open the portal to this powerful time.
Listening - Stepping into the Unknown
Over this twelve day period, you will receive daily emails with simple nature connection or art based practices to support your deepening understanding of yourself and your intentions.
Session 2 - IN PERSON - Integration: Envisioning What’s Next
In this two hour session, we will come together to integrate the guidance we’ve received over the past 12 days through art and nature connection, weaving together our individual and collective dreams and drawing from the power of community as we enter a season of incubation.
Past Offerings:
Leaning into Transitions: An Immersive Expressive Arts Ecotherapy Workshop for Women
AUGUST 11 - 13, 2023
Offered by Ecotherapists: Jillynn Garcia, Rachel Mullis, Alison Vooris and Agnieszka Wiosna
Immersing oneself in the natural world can teach us so much about ourselves and our inner strength, especially during times of transition. This workshop is geared towards all female identifying individuals who have or are experiencing a life transition.
Transitions happen throughout our lives, (be it the beginning or end of a significant relationship, the birth of a child, the loss of a loved one, the start of a new job, moving into retirement or embracing a new way of showing up for yourself). Some transitions are expected and gradual and others are abrupt and dysregulating. Whatever the transition is that you are experiencing, you are invited to join a circle of women to explore your thoughts, feelings, strengths and needs during this time.
As a collective we will engage in ecotherapy, art therapy and somatic practices as a means of developing strength, expanding perspective and gleaning insight from this time of transition all while steeped in the lovely natural surroundings of the Christine Center, located in Willard, WI.
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Dreaming the Ecological Self: an International Ecotherapy & Expressive Arts event exploring the ancient practice of “Dreaming Ourselves into Being.”
Often, in the seasonally darkest times of the year, we find ourselves seeking renewal, community,
and direction. This January 8th, come celebrate the changing of the calendar in an experiential,
Ecotherapy & Expressive Arts workshop inspired by the ancient Germanic tradition of
Rauchnächte.
● Connect to & reflect on our dreaming landscapes;
● Tap into our soul’s intentions for this upcoming year;
● Learn basic ecotherapy and expressive arts practices that will support, uplift and provide for us in the year(s) to come;
● Build creative community, leaving renewed and revitalized, with direction and purpose for the coming year.
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Adolescent Social Justice/Community Building Art Therapy Group:
This weekly art therapy group will explore the foundations for building and sustaining connections within a community setting using the modality of Art Therapy as a means to collaborate, connect with and understand one’s impact on others. This group will occasionally take place in local urban and green spaces and use an experiential learning method to cultivate a deeper understanding of one’s role in and impact on a variety of communities. Additionally, each art offering will engage participants in self-reflection and foster skill building in communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution. The art making process will build executive functioning skills in initiation, planning, organizing, time management, emotional regulation and distress tolerance.