The Odd Goddess’ Workshop
Fellow art therapist-Odd Goddess, Nadina Dodd and I will facilitate a mini workshop on Archetypes that Guide You at the Women’s Weekend Connection Retreat held at the Hyatt Regency from Friday April 6th to Sunday April 8th 2018. It is an art based workshop using collage and movement to explore the facets of our personalities that assist us in manifesting our dreams.
This retreat has workshops, yoga, parties, and events all weekend. Local women get a discount!
Nadina and I are planning to run The Odd Goddess workshop several times a year. To be notified of upcoming dates for this and all other workshops, please add your name to my mailing list.
Nadina Dodds website creativepathscounselling.com
Widening the Tightrope
Every two years, Holle Chernis has hosted a day long workshop in her Half Moon Bay home in northern California. Farnsworth has facilitated alone and with another facilitator, yoga instructor, Mary Anne Chu, exploring self-expression working with various creative modalities and with one’s own body.
“This workshop is about play and self-expression more than about self-analysis, even though discoveries and shifts inevitably occur in the process of art-making, expressive arts exercises, and yoga practice.” says Diane.
In this Widening the Tightrope workshop, which was well received in California in 2015 and in 2017, Diane invites you to explore your creative identity through art, clay, movement, and creative writing. In addition to the expressive arts component, Mary Anne Chu brought her life’s passion and experience of Iyengar yoga in the 2017 workshop. This workshop is a creative and safe approach to exploring personal boundaries and experiencing a free flowing dialogue with one self, using these creative modalities. Most exercises are done with a partners. “Expressive arts is for everyone. It inspires, creates freedom of expression and promotes self growth. The therapy is in the art…creating without judgment. Judging it is counterproductive.” says Diane.
Mary Anne begun the workshop with a one hour yoga class before the expressive arts warm up. “My intention is to facilitate a yoga class where participants are encouraged to bring awareness to the sensations and feelings that arise in the body as they move through yogic forms and breathing techniques.” says Mary Anne Chu. At the end of the day, Mary Anne taught a restorative type of yoga before closing the workshop.
About the Facilitators:
Diane Farnsworth has spent a lifetime creating art and collaborating with other art-makers. Diane is a certified expressive art therapist and an interdisciplinary artist. She has a degree in Creative Writing from UBC and received certification as an expressive arts therapist from Langara College and has a background in acting, directing, and dance. Diane facilitates workshops in EXA and has a private practice as an expressive arts therapist; she has worked with pre-teens, survivors of addiction, survivors of war crimes, seniors, and with students training to become ex art therapists.
Mary Anne Chu is a former school teacher and has been a yoga practitioner for well over 20 years in the Iyengar tradition of yoga. She received her yoga teacher certification at Langara College and has studied therapeutic yoga for trauma, resilience and emotional well being. Mary Anne is currently teaching chair yoga to seniors in the lower mainland and teaches yoga at a downtown eastside women’s’ collective.