deeper than
words
your story through art
deeper than words
visual art journaling
Deeper Than Words is an opportunity to explore specific issues that are important to you…things that may want further attention and exploration.
It’s a way to express, process, and embrace your story using the journal as your soul’s kitchen.
Visual Art Journaling is a process of noticing, responding, and tapping into your own inner wisdom and knowing.
- It uses simple art materials, but it’s not about making a pretty picture or following a step-by-step tutorial.
- It is about checking inside, listening and paying attention to those inner stirrings, that quiet voice guiding you, and then expressing yourself using a language of colour, image, shape, form and texture.
- It’s about using words to dialogue and communicate with yourself about the imagery created as a way to integrate the visual, intuitive, feeling-side of your brain with your logical, thought-centred brain.
- NO special skills or previous art experience are required.
This creative practice is a gift you give yourself for self-care, guidance and healing.
Results may bring surprising epiphanies, shifts in perception, prompts for action, and radical self-care!
As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation.
Art captures the eternal in the everyday, and it is the eternal that feeds soul
- the whole world in a grain of sand.
Open the voice of your intuition…
here are the details:
Date and Time:
- Thursday, August 10
- 10:30 to 12:30 (Mountain Time)
Theme:
- Going Deeper with Music!
- Our musical memories are very powerful; they connect us to certain people, places and times in our lives.
Where:
- In the comfort of your own home, via Zoom
- Please note this will not be recorded.
What we’ll do:
- Explore a song and/or associated memory that is meaningful to you;
- Use a variety of expressive art prompts to creative a visual response;
- Include journal writing to tap into your intuitive knowing.
What you need:
- A computer with good internet connection, a webcam and microphone;
- A notebook and pen for the written response;
- Your art journal OR loose 11×14 mixed media paper;
- Images + a few basic art materials (pen, scissors, glue); a detailed list will be provided.
Registration & Cost:
- Please see Payment Options below:
- Registration ends Monday, August 7th
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories...water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
