In-person and online sessions for women who need a room where nothing is required except showing up. No art experience needed. No performance. Just presence, paint, and each other.
One to one, 75 minutes. My complete attention, and a safe, quiet space shaped around what you personally want and need.
See This SessionA guided online session for women running on fumes. Make something with your hands, in community, from wherever you are.
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This is for any woman who is looking to bring more connection and creativity into her life. A lot of us are living at different stages of burnout with varying stress levels and thirteen thousand reasons for them. And often with no time or space to recharge, to do what we want to do, to prioritize our wants and needs over everyone else's expectations.
Even more of us are missing a community - our tribe of women, the essential female friendships we were never taught to prioritize, the village we forgot we had, and need.
This is my humble attempt to create the space and build that village, starting with this room. You belong here if this speaks to you.
This is neither therapy nor a replacement for it. I see therapy as important, hard work. It is examining, making sense of, and changing long standing behaviour and belief systems.
Here, we play. We create a safe, supportive space to allow that tiny voice to speak without trying to correct it. There's no way to fail at this. We follow our body and spirit and let the mind rest or wander, without performance, without the goal to accomplish anything, with the single intention to be as you are now, not become something better. This present version of you deserves to exist as she is too.
As a Therapeutic Arts Practitioner, I trained to facilitate these sessions ethically and in an informed way, but my biggest qualification as this space holder is having walked this path myself. I'm still on it, and would be honoured to be your companion and guide, as you get started.
This is a guided experience where I hold the space for you so you don't have to hold anything for some time. You're seen, you're heard, you're paid attention to. You deserve some time where you're being cared for too.
I built this room like the rooms I want to be in — with no pressure to perform, no expectation to mask, no box to fit in; a room where I can be whimsical, funny, tired, angry, sad, and I don't have to pretend to be anything else; a room where I don't have to negotiate how much of me is allowed to be there; a room I don't have to contort myself to fit in. I built this room for the wonderful, unique, beautiful you, in all your glory. I built this room for us.
Full refund within 48 hours of booking, as long as it's more than 72 hours before the session. After that, spots are final. Cancellations due to a genuine emergency may be considered case by case.
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This fall, a six-week in-person cohort is opening to explore more specific themes over six weeks, two hours each week. More info coming soon.
As part of the Founding Circle and being amongst the first women to go through this work with me, I'd like to reinvest your investment back in to you, as a token of my appreciation for your trust in me. If you choose to join the fall cohort, your investment from the preview is credited in full towards the fall cohort.
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