Workshops & Events

“Symbols do not flow from the unconscious to tell us what we already know, but to show us what we have yet to learn.”—Robert A. Johnson, We

The aim of my workshops is to bring together people who are interested in exploring and opening a dialog with their creative inner selves. We use guided meditation to enter your inner world, bring forth those discoveries onto paper using charcoal, then discuss our imagery with the group. This process teaches you to yield—to open to your unique creative authentic self.

The drawings are visual symbols of our inner journeys to be looked at and learned from in the same manner that we learn from our dreams. Dreams are scenes from the subconscious which you observe as if from a seat in the audience. Meditation, as we are using it here, puts you in the director’s seat. You are in total control of which images you choose to focus on. The meditation puts you in a place of receptivity. Paying attention puts you in a place of conscious awareness.

After the guided meditation and before we speak and re-enter our public selves, we will draw with charcoal on newsprint something of what we saw, heard or felt. Just like writing down a dream to later analyze, think about or reflect upon, we draw down our experience as visual symbol to later reflect upon or transpose into color as art work. Because we only use one color—black, we avoid alot of decision making. No color choices—no confusion—just the flow of information or experience through our hands onto paper.

After drawing, we discuss our imagery with the group. Once you become comfortable with your inner world and familiar with how you express that world, and how others respond to your expressions, you will come to a place of trust—trust in others and trust in yourself. The energy and interplay of the individuals in a group is what enables us to gather the courage and trust ourselves to reach beyond where we are now or where we think we are capable of going. Therein lies the transformational quality of these workshops.