Artxpressive, Art Therapy

I learned the Kintsugi pottery method used in art therapy. Wonderful method to use in trauma informed care.

At the Sedona Expressive Arts Summit in Sedona, Arizona this week. Today learning in a workshop about the use of Kensugi, beauty in the broken. 🙏

Today I was honored and received an award for the work I’ve done at the Chemawa Indian school using technology in therapy 😊

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“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert

Artist: Christian Schloe - Find Your Way

When feeling down and out nothing like getting out there with nature. Remembering how we are one with all. ❤️

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" TRUTH IN ME " by R.M Drake
Book: "of love and life"
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"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."
James Baldwin

Artist: Christian Schloe - Lady Midnight

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Having fun being creative with AI and generating new content in select areas via photoshop express. This could be a great directive in creating first fun imagery and following with a narrative.

The kids are so excited to see their work up. We know how courageous one has to be to show the struggle we are going through in visual form. I am so proud of them and they know it.

Three eternal questions can help us into our power and use it judiciously:

👁️ Who am I?
🌞What is real?
🧡 How do I express love?

At each stage in our lives, we must ask these simple yet deeply profound questions.

Finding the answers will open the door to the next stage in our development, and eventually lead us to our complete, truest selves.

We suffer if we do not ask these questions—or if we fail to pay attention to their answers—because we either never act on our power or use it destructively. Only when power is anchored in our identity and in reality will it be able to be in synch with the universe—and be of true benefit to ourselves and to others. ✨

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So excited to announce here that I am organizing the 1st Chemawa Indian school art therapy exhibition happening the 1st week in May at the school. The kids are so incredibly talented and they are eager to show what they have been working on this year. I will be hanging up their traditional artwork and will be projecting their animations and digital works. In 2 years they will be able to exhibit their work at the Portland Museum of Art as I have made a connection there! 👍❤️

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“At any meaningful turning point in life, we must face our deepest fears in order to grow. And typically a turning point can feel like the worst thing that could happen to us. At one level we are at a collective turning point, we're at a place where we must stop and listen to the body of humanity, even listen to the voice of the earth. We have to stop despite the fears of the stock market crashing and in spite of the common belief that everything must keep expanding, so that we must avoid all possibilities of a major descent.

And yet, we may have already reached that point where individual travel is being restricted for the benefit of all. Where instead of rushing about, flying about, we are being asked, not just to stop and hold in place, but in a way to turn inward. For we don't know how long all the journeys of life must come to a stop. Not just that people have to cancel vacations. But pilgrimages to holy places become dangerous, not just for the seeker, but for everyone in contact with those who seek. It's a strange thing. But the human soul is always seeking to grow and transform. That's what usually sets us off on a journey or a pilgrimage. But the essence of a pilgrimage is not simply that we arrive at some Holy Grail place somewhere in the world. Rather, the outward journey is intended to separate us from the daily rounds of life, in order that we might make that great journey, which is the inward journey.

The real aim of any pilgrimage is to arrive at the place of the deep self and soul. And all those holy places outside us are at some level symbolic of the holy place inside ourselves that we are intended to find on this strange journey of life. There may be a great crowd of seekers if we should arrive at the holy place, and yet, each seeker is alone in what they find. Each sees the Holy Temple of the great stone from their own vantage point and in their own way, and each awakens to a deep sense of self, or soul, that albeit is found in that aloneness, tells them they are never alone."

- Michael Meade

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Workshops will be offerd in Salem, Oregon. Excact venue
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The Animation Theater presents workshops I will be offering workshops targeted at clinical settings for counselors and behavioral health staff that would like to learn digital stop motion animation to use as a tool to help clients tell their story. Target dates will be: Saturdays , March 16th, April 13th and May 18th form 10am-1pm. Limited...

Connecting with nature, connecting with mushrooms this winter. Foraging medicinal fungi such as Turkey Tail. Fun times… times of transformation. Thinking about becoming a certified licensed Psilocybin provider here in Oregon.

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Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds.
Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile.
Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain.
Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier.
Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember...you are the medicine.
~María Sabina
María Sabina Magdalena García was a Mazatec curandera, medicine woman and poet who lived in Huautla de Jiménez, a town in the Sierra Mazateca area of the Mexican state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.]
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Naturescapes, playing with natural material placements in a circle to appreciate the here and now and the concept of non-attachment. The items used were randomly placed not glued on and the students created 3 different scapes and photographed each one with an iPad. At the end they chose their favorite to discuss their processes. Incredible directive to introspect and be creative with nature’s collaboration ❤️

The Animation Theater at Chemawa school has emerged and the students are excited to be producers, directors, scriptwriters, voice makers, music designers, etc. Even the staff both clinical and school based will participate in this metaphorical journey. They are in the process of creating their spiritual animal or element. Mine of course is the bird. A student today created the sun. I will keep on adding with the students permission. Exciting times!

I started working with the Native American kids today at the Chemawa School and it was amazing!This is the beginning of “The Animation Theater” where we will be working on group stories that will become animations emulating the reality of their lives and crystallize the path for a positive outcome in their future. ❤️

I went to the coast today with the intention of gathering an offering of natural materials , rocks, sticks, sand among other treasures gifted by nature to use with my students as I begin my therapeutic journey at Chemawa. It was so beautiful at this beach collecting with intention ❤️

So wonderful to connect with the land and the ocean here in Oregon. Having summers off is a blessing and being able to explore and discover sacred spaces is just part of my journey in giving me the strength and energy to heal others.

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Amazing skies here in Oregon. I feel blessed at this opportunity to live and work here serving Native American kids with the use of art to heal. ❤️

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