CREATIVE EXPRESSION PROJECT

Collaboration with Envisage Creative Arts Therapies

Our Creative Expression Project is part of our Community Arts & Culture program at Heart Place. We value our partnership with Envisage Creative Arts Therapies & Sharon Cody. Over the year Creative Expression offers weekly classes , monthly drop in sessions, specialised term classes & outreach services. Sharon is available by email for questions around our class sessions or outreach.

See below for current offerings.

EMAIL SHARON

NEW TERMS BOOKING NOW. OCTOBER TERMS FULLY FUNDED!

Living with Chronic Pain, Creative Expression Group

Morning Creatives: Connection & Wellbeing through Creativity

TERM DATES: Oct 24th to 28th Nov. (6 weeks)

TIMES: 2pm to 3.30pm

Facilitated by Sharon Cody

Fully Funded Term

(no cost to participants)

For those living with Chronic Pain

"Art that is inspired from the experience of living with chronic pain can be cathartic, allowing for the release of associated emotions. Drawing, painting, and other visual art mediums are alternative ways to express emotions that may be difficult to describe in words".

https://www.painscale.com/.../using-creative-outlets-to...

A highly supportive space for participants to potentially develop a more integrated sense of self-awareness and self-acceptance by:
expressing feelings, thoughts, concerns and desires through a therapeutic/mindfulness approach to art making.

To Book & for more info

Email Sharon of Envisage Creative Arts envisagecats@gmail.com

This program is offered in collaboration with the Heart Place & Envisage Creative Arts

& in partnership with Act-Belong -Commit.

Morning Creatives: Connection & Wellbeing through Creativity

TERM DATES: Oct. 24th to Nov. 28th (6 weeks)

TIMES:11.30am to 1.00pm

Facilitated by Sharon Cody

Envisage Creative Arts welcomes all to our new morning Fully Funded (no cost to participants) open community Creative Expression group. Group Size limited to 10.

Be Part of a Process that:

Provides an opportunity to express your experiences, perspectives & story within an art-based therapeutic approach.
Provides a nurturing environment for all participants to feel comfortable to engage in the process of art making.
Gives a supportive space to create, share or just be.
Is an integrative approach merging an array of art making mediums such as: Drawing,Painting, Collage, Clay work, Music & Expressive Writing.
The main focus of creative expression is on your own process in artmaking, not the end result.
No judgement attached, no art experience needed.
Just a sense of openness to connect with your own creativity
NOTE: this program is not based on art classes

To Book & for further details:
Email Sharon: envisagecats@gmail.com

This program is offered in collaboration with the Heart Place & Envisage Creative Arts

& in partnership with Act-Belong -Commit.

Our Collaborator Sharon: Envisage Creative Arts Therapies

ABOUT SHARON CODY

"I am a registered Counsellor (ACA) and a process-orientated Creative Arts Therapist (B. Couns, UNDA, GradDipArtTherapy, MU) working in the evidence-based psychotherapeutic field of Creative Expression. My approach firstly is to provide a welcoming, safe, open, non-judgmental, creative space for participants to explore and view conscious and unconscious thoughts, feelings and beliefs. My belief is that image making within a therapeutic framework has tremendous potential for communication beyond words and for enhancing a sense of wellbeing.

My work is also based on an integrative approach combining the practice of Creative Arts/Expression and Mindfulness. I introduce art making in the present by using a multimodal approach of art mediums including drawing, painting, collage, clay work, expressive writing and music to develop a more cohesive sense of self, bringing together an increase of self-awareness and acceptance. It gives us permission to become a non-judgmental observer of ourselves and our own environments...I look forward to sharing love of art with you and exploring creative expression in the heart place space."