19 Feb 2023 | Opening to Joy and Expression | 1st of 4 “Art Therapy & Mindfulness” Workshop Series | Online | Sunday Afternoons

This will be four afternoon workshops, over a four-month period. Each session includes guided art-making and mindfulness meditations, and has a specific focus (find out more below). You can attend each individually or book all four and receive a 10% discount.

This Workshop: Opening Joy and Expression

Future Sessions:
5 Mar | Workshop Two: Inviting Compassion
23 Apr | Workshop Three: Exploring Resilience and Creativity
11 June | Workshop Four: Active Hope

1- 4 pm on Sundays 19 February, 5 March, 23 April, 11 June 2023
 – offered online by London Art Therapy Centre

How can we open to joy and creative expression? This is a creative and explorative workshop integrating therapeutic art-making with guided mindfulness meditation, open to all levels of experience.

This session will develop your understanding of mindfulness, gratitude and appreciation practices. During this time of environmental and economic challenges (amongst other individual and collective challenges) the practices of mindfulness and opening to joy have the potential to support our own personal wellbeing, and ways in which you can meet others facing their own challenges. Through our own resourcing and resilience, we may find new ways to be able to meet and respond to the collective challenges we are experiencing.

Aims:

• Deepen your understanding of mindfulness, gratitude and appreciation practices 
• Understand some of the potential barriers to these practices
• Find ways to resource and nourish yourself in challenging times

All levels of experience with mindfulness and/or art-making are welcome to attend!

This workshop will be delivered via Zoom. You will need access to a private space to make art, and at least two art materials of your choice.

Feedback from former attendees:

‘I could not recommend this series of workshops enough’
– C.Smith, Art Therapist

‘Very useful and insightful experience’
– C. Kiff, Trainee Integrative Art Therapist

‘A great introduction to mindfulness linking it with creative arts therapy’.
– R. Tate, Play therapist

Course Facilitators/Leaders

Nicky Roland, is an experienced HCPC registered Art Therapist, and a trained mindfulness teacher, with several years work experience in the NHS, voluntary sector and in private practice.