Stay tuned for up and coming art-based workshops...

Past art-based workshops: 

Creative conference coming up soon: 
The Creative Therapies in the Helping Relationship: Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care

Please join me, Michelle April, at this special Saint Paul University conference as I facilitate a creativity-based workshop(s) intended for helping professionals.
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Intimacy with Nature: Art, nature and the sacred dialogue  Participants will experience an art-based dialogue with natural objects providing a means to self-care and higher-level attunement both with their own natures and with the essence of “other” in healing relationships.

The conference will be held March 8-10, 2018. 

Check the Saint Paul University website for updates about other conference presenters, activities and scheduling. 

> SPU Conference

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ART WORKSHOPS

Thank you Windsor participants for another open-minded, and open-hearted, experiential-filled workshop. 
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Workshop availability:
            DATE: OCTOBER 27, 2017
            LOCATION: 600 Tecumseh Road East, Suite 350

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 Thank you to all the wonderful participants of the summer 2017 art workshops held in Ottawa! What a great summer it was! There was so much variety and interest reaffirming that no two perspectives are alike. What a gift it is to be a human being with creative capacity.
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Coming up in Ottawa, Ontario:
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Summer EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS for Social Workers and Counsellors

"Walk the (creative) talk" with Michelle April, Counsellor and Art Therapist
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This summer workshop series is hands-on expressive art workshop for social workers, counsellors and counsellors-in-training to uncover your personal creative process so that you may inspire creativity in others. No art making experience is required.

Expand your:
Personal artistic vocabulary
Creative capacity in talk therapy
Experiential learning
​Use of metaphors
Understanding of art based research
 
Workshop availability:
Fridays 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (one hour lunch), three participants maximum per workshop
            The summer workshops are finished. 

Register via email at michelle_april@hotmail.com or using the contact page on this website

Cost: $150        
Includes: 6 hour workshop, art supplies, bottomless cup of tea,  signed certificate of completion
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You may send a e-transfer to michelle_april@hotmail.com in advance of the workshop (preferred), or bring cash or cheque on the day of the workshop

What to bring: Bring yourself. Bring a journalling notebook and pen. Bring yourself wearing old clothes because we are making art. Also, and only if inclined, bring something personal to the workshop that 'stands out to you'. Have you saved an old letter, is there a special photo that you gravitate toward? Is there a recurring thought or idea that you are attached to? Bring it! No worries if nothing jumps out at you. Your presence is all that is actually needed.

Location: 1827 Woodward Drive, Unit 101, Ottawa, ON