Group Art Therapy
We offer art therapy groups on topics ranging from processing the impact of the pandemic, to eco-grief and loss, team building, and handling stress and burnout.
Art therapy groups are a collaborative process in which participants explore a particular theme, facilitated by a trained art therapist. Attending an art therapy group is an excellent way to engage in a meaningful creative process alongside others with whom you have some common experience. Connecting around these themes can help normalize your experience, build connections, and provide opportunities to witness others’ experiences which may then inform your own.
Art therapy groups are short-term commitments that tend to focus on immersive shared experiences. The length of a group can range from a few hours to a full weekend or a few consecutive days.
Upcoming Groups
Other Groups Offered
Handling Stress and Burn Out
Facilitated by the following therapists: Katy Vinson, Sylvia Calatayud, Jan Joubert, and Sandra Hewitt-Parsons
A creative group focused on creating deeper self-awareness to avoid exhaustion, helping you to understand your needs and how you handle stress. Burnout is caused by excessive and prolonged stress and it can happen to anyone. It is preventable, but in order to prevent it we need to be able to recognise our body’s signs that tell us we are coming close to the edge. This group can help you to discover personal warning signs that you are exceeding stress limits and are approaching burnout. It can help you to identify resources you can turn to and self-care practices that assist you in releasing stress. By turning inward, identifying your needs, and discovering new strategies to get them met, you can increase your emotional flexibility and overall well-being.
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Team Building
Facilitated by the following therapists: Sylvia Calatayud, Sandra Hewitt-Parsons, and Sarah West
A collective creative experience that promotes and explores shared vision and strengthens the dynamics between your team, enabling greater success. A team is no more than the sum of its parts, meaning each and every member of a team is invaluable to its function. To be a competent team member implies having healthy regard for all other members of the team. In addition, the capacity to be in relationship, whether it’s with family, friends or coworkers, contributes significantly to mental and emotional well-being. Creating art and being creative within a group helps to stimulate and facilitate authentic relating and improve relationships. In this group, teams will engage in creative activities that promote communication and improve group cohesion
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Increasing Flow & Creativity
A group to help access flow states and enhance creative thinking. In addition, it can help with strategic planning and developing vision. A flow state is achieved when an individual is fully engaged in the task at hand - present in the here-and-now. It promotes a sense of calm and pleasure, increasing a person’s sense of well-being through feelings of self-mastery, accomplishment, and control. Making art is one way to access flow, and within that state, involving both left- and right-brain processes can aid us in experiencing wonderful insights into ourselves and how to achieve our goals. In this workshop you will engage in guided and spontaneous art processes that promote flow and can unleash the creativity within you that will spill out into all aspects of your life
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Grief and Loss
A group designed to support and hold feelings that arise after loss. Our societal perception of grief and loss focuses on loss that is tangible such as the loss of a loved one. This type of loss can be devastating, but it is not the only loss we struggle with as human beings. This group is for any and all types of grief and loss. It provides a safe container in which emotions from grief and loss can be expressed and transformed through artwork and connection.
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Pandemic Processing
A creative group designed to promote resiliency and to explore how the pandemic has impacted you emotionally, socially, mentally, and physically. This time has presented many challenges that we’ve adapted into new opportunities. It has asked many of us to change how we do our jobs, and in what ways we communicate and interact with our colleges, friends and family. It has changed the way therapists meet with their clients and how they approach healing through art therapy. Many have moved online for the first time to continue their work. It is important that while we are all quickly shifting into new ways of doing, that we check in with ourselves and take time to acknowledge how we feel - mentally, physically, and beyond - as we process the impact from the pandemic.
This group can help to increase self-awareness and offer techniques for self-soothing, while providing a sense of community during a time of isolation.
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Healing the Healers
A group for people in the healing professions to explore what is arising for them in relation to their own healing or issues around their clients. As people in healing professions, we must do for ourselves what we do for our clients. It is important for healers to regularly engage in self-care practices to attend to one’s own experiences and to prevent professional burnout. By being conscious of and reflecting on our own feelings we become more empathetic to and better able to understand and mirror our clients. This group will provide those in healing professions with tools to assist them in accessing their resources and find renewed inspiration for the work within a community of peers, through art-making, discussion and reflection.
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Eco Art Therapy
A group for anyone who is seeking a therapeutic exploration of self in connection with the land. In the field of ecopsychology, it is believed that the health of humanity is intimately linked to the health of our planet. Spending time in nature has numerous benefits to both our physical and mental well-being, such as increasing self-esteem, decreasing depression and stress. This combines art and nature. You can expect to reconnect to the land and increase your awareness of the interconnectedness we all share as being a part of the web of life. In addition, you will find increased creativity through exploration and art making using the many gifts from nature as art materials.
Investment: This depends on the length of the group and number of participants. Complete the form below to learn more.
Booking Information
Please take a moment to complete the below form to request more information, including the fees, about your preferred group. Fees are determined by the facilitating therapist so please make sure to complete all the fields below so we can provide the most accurate and detailed information.
Once we have gathered enough interest in a particular group, we will schedule the next one of that type.