6-week online course facilitated by Dr. Lisa Chu, hosted by Transformative Language Arts Network.
In these facilitated exploration sessions, you will be guided and inspired to develop your own creative notebook practice specifically dedicated to processing emotions related to grief, change and loss. With the individual and collective changes and losses sustained throughout the past two years, we will explore how the making of expressive arts forms can support the integration of difficult life experiences and facilitate communicating both with and beyond words. We will see how self-compassion can extend to compassion for others, and how images can support the meaning we seek in stories and words.
In each session, a new mixed media art technique will be demonstrated as inspiration for your own spontaneous work using the materials you have gathered. Between sessions, you will be provided with written and visual inspiration drawn from other artists and creative prompts to start your own expressions. Finally, an important component of our time together will be the sharing of our work and/or our experience of making the work, where we will practice the art of witnessing ourselves and others in a supportive way.
This class will involve 4 live ZOOM sessions (dates listed below) with active participation, along with sharing of work online between sessions via the online platform, Wet Ink. The bulk of our interactions and all instruction will occur “live” in our Zoom sessions, and the Wet Ink platform will be used to share impressions and visual work between sessions for those who wish to engage there.
Zoom sessions:
Saturday, 1/15/22 at 9:00am PT (two hours)
Wednesday, 1/26/22 at 5:00pm PT (75-90 minutes)
Wednesday, 2/9/22 at 5:00pm PT (75-90 minutes)
Saturday, 2/19/22 at 9:00am PT (two hours)
Please note: a basic materials list will be provided upon registration and we will be using these materials during our first class.
Class begins January 12, 2022.
20% off tuition through December 31, 2021.