The Healing Through Creative Art PlayShop is a stress buster workshop where a portion of stress and other less than joyful feelings are literally removed from the body and onto your painting! No painting skills necessary; stick figures are just fine. Tools We'll Be Using: Inner Guidance/Intuition, Water Based Paints (Tempera), Brush and Paper. You'll actually feel far better than when you arrived! Benefits: You'll experience feeling more relaxed, calm, balanced, centered and joyful from within The Healing Through Creative Art PlayShop (Intuitive Creative Painting) works wonderfully well for those feeling: Less than joyful Stuck General Stress Anxiety Depression ADD/ADHD Panic Disorder PTS/PTSD Upon leaving the HTCA Playshop you'll have a glowing smile upon your face, an extra bounce in your step and wanting for more!!! (From time to time I do travel to Washington, DC and New York City; feel free to contact me to find out about my schedule) Important Note: You cannot bring your painting home, what would be the point? It would defeat the purpose you intended for yourself-Releasing that which does not serve your higher purpose or feeling joyful. Your painting will contain the less than joyful energies you just released into it. I will properly dispose them for you. AGE GROUPS The Healing Through Creative Art PlayShop is for Children - Adults (Ages 7 & Up) and the participants are placed within age appropriate groups. I've found that Children with ADD/ADHD benefit quite a bit! They're actually calm, balanced, centered, quite gleeful, focused and are stationary throughout the 2.5 hours...A feat within itself! ;-) GOAL Working Intuitively with each participant (Soul to Soul), it's my intention to assist and support those individuals who desire or intend to release those less than joyful feelings (which creates stress) from within their bodies (Layer by layer-The Onion Effect) and open themselves up to Creativity and Joy! This is done in a most gentle, playful, creative fun way and within a safe environment that will allow both Fun and Joy back into their lives! PURPOSE To release stress or those less than joyful feelings held within, in a lighthearted fun way with the use of intuition, water based paint, brush & paper. Some thoughts or elements that create stress, may also impact upon ones overall health. It also has a tendency to crush the joy of creative expression or freedom and this in itself may create a less than joyful situation. As the facilitator, it's my intention to assist others by lending them support in finding their joy once again. I'll do so by helping them to tap into their creative selves or aspects. In this place of spirit there are no rules, regulations, constraints, judgments or critiques, there is only free flowing creative and loving energy. It is this same free flowing loving energy that I'm intending to assist and support others in finding once again. This process of Intuitive Creative Painting may be a delightfully wonderful way or tool one may use to move through stress and into Joy and Love the Fun Way! PARTICIPANT PRE-REQUISITE NOTHING! This is NOT a "How To Paint or Draw Class", there is no end product, this is not for show and there's no judging in this Healing Through Creative Art PlayShop. The participants needn't know how to paint in order to be involved with this process, stick figures are just fine. In fact, it may be better if they have no idea of proportion, curve or depth. They will have to invent as they go along by responding to their intuition, a feeling from the inside, that inner urge, just as children do! The participant's technique will evolve on its own, as contact with that inner creative aspect of their self develops. All they need do is follow where the brush wants to go, without any resistance or preconceived concepts. In short, they follow their feelings and go wherever it and the brush takes 's just that simple! I'll look forward to seeing you there! Blessings! Terisse