Monthly Art Integration Gathering
An open therapeutic art integration group for folks who want to use art as a practice for self exploration
Join us on the second Monday of every month
6:30pm - 8pm
Register for MayNo experience with art or art therapy is required. The intention of this gathering is to explore process rather than product.
Art as Integration
Join us one Monday each month at 6:30pm at Give Rise Studio in Frederick to gather and create.
This monthly practice is a space where you can engage in the process of art, rather than the creation of a product.
The images you create are messages from within, usually from internal spaces where words don’t reach. Join us for this therapeutic art gathering where you can explore your inner world and make sense of what words may not be able to express.
Opening the Door
Each month's gathering is inspired by a theme. In May, Spring is fully upon us. One day it's winter, and the next, you open the door and are suddenly awakened by the lushness of foliage that arrived seemingly overnight. Although the natural world has been quietly at work through the colder months, you may be startled by the return of all the early yellow green, the fullness of the trees, and the stunning colors of the bushes and flowers. Winter was time for resting, and now it's time to enjoy the beauty and harmony that has emerged seemingly out of nowhere.
The invitation for this month's gathering is to feel the nourishment and energy of Spring. Take the opportunity to remember that now is a good time to start, to engage in meaningful work, plant seeds, and know that you will be nourishing them as they heal you. Your relationship with nature can be a reciprocal relationship of love and life.
Using art materials, you can begin to explore what this theme brings up in you. Honoring the turning of the seasons means following the patterns of and being inspired by nature, and when we slow down, our inner voice has a chance to soften into the cycles of the seasons. This gathering offers a calm, supportive environment to gently explore the uncertainty before the leap, and as you do, you create space for your inner voice to come through.
This gathering is designed to help you integrate, navigate transitions, and gather community support through periods of challenge. Join us to get curious about your internal world and explore art as a means of self expression.
Register for MayArt as Integration
Art therapy can be beneficial when traditional verbal therapy leaves you feeling disconnected from your process of healing. It can provide a unique therapeutic experience for expressing your thoughts and emotions when words alone are vague and hard to access. Using art to process a psychedelic experience, or any transition, can take the pressure off of having to make logical sense of it, and can allow you a space to process nonverbally. Missy has completed the level 1 & level 2 Certificate in Psychedelics and Art Therapy from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, and can offer a safe space for you to process and integrate your insights in a way that is supportive and makes sense to you.
Meet Missy
At Mind Body Wellness, Missy provides Art Therapy to help you understand yourself and to reopen spaces within you in a gentle manner.
At different times in our lives we find ourselves feeling lost, isolated, disconnected, and fragmented. During art therapy experiences, Missy works with you to untangle those stuck and at times inaccurate thoughts and feelings. The thread that carries throughout all of Missy’s experiences as an Art Therapist is compassion for the thoughts and feelings initially created to keep you safe, and an unwinding of what no longer serves you.
