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 JuneNo experience with art or art therapy is required. The intention of this gathering is to explore process rather than product.
July 13
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.
Change as an invitation for presence
Each month's gathering is inspired by a theme. In June, we're taking a look at changes big and small. The only constant in life is change; when we look to nature as an example, we see that things evolve, are born, live, die, decay, and do it all over again in different forms. So too, is change a constant companion for us. Each moment allows us another opportunity for embracing change. When navigating a transformation, we can practice presence. We can stay with what is here in the moment, try not to rush through, and meet each moment as it comes.
The invitation for this month's gathering is this: rather than waiting or expecting clarity or resolution, practice showing up to each day just as it is. Practice trusting that whatever change is taking shape is an integral part of your story.
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 JuneArt 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.
