Create and Connect:
Create and Connect sessions with Gayle
encourage children to
- creatively explore their own life
experiences, ideas and feelings
- develop skills in being part of a family
and community
Gayle will be fully present to your
child’s experience as they explore, play and create; affirming their
experiences, guiding them towards appropriate and safe expressions of feelings, and
encouraging their sense of self as a valuable human being .
Experiences during sessions may include:
Creating
- Self guided play and expression
- Exploring experiences and ideas through creative arts and play
- Embodied learning that engages the whole
child: body, mind, spirit, feelings
- Creating through various art forms:
- visual arts such as paint, collage,
drawing
- clay, dough
- sewing
- construction
- music and movement
- drama
- creative writing
Connecting
- Connecting to and valuing the sense of
self in experience
- Connecting to and exploring creatively their own
life stories, ideas, and feelings
- Being and sharing with others : with
encouragement to compassionately value their own and others experiences as unique and worthy of
being accepted
- Creating collaborative art work in various forms: eg: creative dramatic
play, shared drawings
- Exploring social interactions and
developing skills in listening, respect, self regulation, self soothing to
build resilience and a healthy sense of self in relationship
(Session content may vary according to the age, interests and needs of
each child. Sessions can be held one to one or in small groups at my or your location)
Experiential Creative Arts Inquiry for adult groups
Embodied Spirituality:
Making sense of a fully embodied spirituality: exploring hands,
heart, and head experiences through creative arts
Spirituality is ultimately experiential occurring in the
everyday moments of our interactions with others and the world. We can have
this information within us even if we can’t articulate a personal theology.
Gaining access to the spiritual experience can begin with the simple task of
paying attention For millennia cultures all over the world have used arts in
various forms to explore spirituality and meaning in their lives. The arts in various forms allow us to access
and express the variety of ways that we can know our experiences: from how we
feel in our bodies, to the significance of objects we surround ourselves with,
to the implicit values and beliefs held within.
This full day workshop will involve time to explore
creatively your experiences of the hands, heart and head experiences of
yourself in your daily life. There is no need to be good at any form of art. I
will guide you through a variety of art forms:
including opportunities to explore through visual arts, gentle movement
and expressive writing. Participants
will have the opportunity to create artisitic representations of their
experiences. There will be time to reflect on your personal experience as well
as to engage in a collaborative dialogue.
Possible themes include: the Cross I bear, Weaving Community,
Mindfulness and Art:
Using mindful attention and creative arts as a form of inquiry into experience participants will be invited to explore their own sense of being through creating a mixed media collage.
The arts can give us access to the sensory and embodied
experiences of being. As we explore colour, texture, image, movement, words we
are tapping into the implicit knowing within ourselves. What is it that we wish to create in our
interaction with each other? This reflective workshop will provide individuals
time and space to explore and express their experiences of creative being.
Participants will create a small mixed media art work as part of the reflective
process. Processes covered in this workshop are easily converted to personal
and /or professional reflective practice.
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Client specific sessions also available:
Do you have an experience that you and/or your colleagues wish to explore? I can design a session to suit your needs.
Sessions can be designed to run from 1.5 hours to full day, weekend or on going.
