A new group:
Young Creatives
Supporting aspiring professional artists
The intent to make art is courageous and idealistic, shaping one's life more than most callings. Developing one's artistic voice often requires a space for expressive freedom – A Room of One's Own – whether real, like a studio, or virtual, through digital media. Self-exploration is both the basis and natural consequence of art production. One cannot help but include oneself in creative activity and as a result an internal manifesto of what art is evolves within us. The commitment to share what the inner eye sees is almost heroic in our driven and fickle culture.
The form and content of an artist's life is full of many challenges:
What to do if our desire for creation collapses and art-making looses its attraction?
How to maintain our energy blunted by the banality of a job disconnected from ones creative activity?
How to continue creating with little acknowledgement?
Join us to engage these and other concerns, strengthen inner support for the creative processes through shared experiential exploration, and develop new self-awareness to see how your creative activity connects back to your life in a more satisfying way. The group will be facilitated by two Gestalt therapists with current art practices.
Facilitators:
Inese Gravlejs, Sarah Sheard
Schedule:
Monday Sept 10th 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Sept 24th 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Oct 1st 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Oct 22nd 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Nov 5th 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Nov 19th 2012. 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Enquiries:
For more information about the workshop, contact Inese directly at 647-774-4611 or by e-mail at momentum.psychotherapy@gmail.com, or Sarah at at 416-778-1224 or by email at jumpstarting@gmail.com.
Spaces:
14
Location:
Cabbagetown (Toronto)
Cost:
$210
Click here to register
Inese Gravlejs
Inese Gravlejs' sculptural work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad. Her psychotherapy practice has been informed by her role, for over 20 years, as a teacher of art and critical thinking in colleges and universities across the country. Her next exhibition is in 2013.
As a Gestalt therapist, Inese believes in the impetus of self-awareness to create movement toward the life that clients desire. She is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, holds a MFA degree, and has been a student of shamanism for 17 years.
Sarah Sheard
Sarah Sheard is a published novelist and has been a psychotherapist for 17 years. She understands first hand the splits an artist must bridge, for example, between livelihood and art, obligations to others and self, and between private process and the public market.
Sarah has an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, is a certified Gestalt therapist, mediator and is trained in Applied Mindfulness Meditation.
Sarah mentors writers at The Humber School for Writers and at Ryerson University and has run countless workshops. Her fourth novel appears this fall.
The intent to make art is courageous and idealistic, shaping one's life more than most callings. Developing one's artistic voice often requires a space for expressive freedom – A Room of One's Own – whether real, like a studio, or virtual, through digital media. Self-exploration is both the basis and natural consequence of art production. One cannot help but include oneself in creative activity and as a result an internal manifesto of what art is evolves within us. The commitment to share what the inner eye sees is almost heroic in our driven and fickle culture.
The form and content of an artist's life is full of many challenges:
What to do if our desire for creation collapses and art-making looses its attraction?
How to maintain our energy blunted by the banality of a job disconnected from ones creative activity?
How to continue creating with little acknowledgement?
Join us to engage these and other concerns, strengthen inner support for the creative processes through shared experiential exploration, and develop new self-awareness to see how your creative activity connects back to your life in a more satisfying way. The group will be facilitated by two Gestalt therapists with current art practices.
Facilitators:
Inese Gravlejs, Sarah Sheard
Schedule:
Monday Sept 10th 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Sept 24th 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Oct 1st 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Oct 22nd 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Nov 5th 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Monday Nov 19th 2012. 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Enquiries:
For more information about the workshop, contact Inese directly at 647-774-4611 or by e-mail at momentum.psychotherapy@gmail.com, or Sarah at at 416-778-1224 or by email at jumpstarting@gmail.com.
Spaces:
14
Location:
Cabbagetown (Toronto)
Cost:
$210
Click here to register
Inese Gravlejs
Inese Gravlejs' sculptural work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad. Her psychotherapy practice has been informed by her role, for over 20 years, as a teacher of art and critical thinking in colleges and universities across the country. Her next exhibition is in 2013.
As a Gestalt therapist, Inese believes in the impetus of self-awareness to create movement toward the life that clients desire. She is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, holds a MFA degree, and has been a student of shamanism for 17 years.
Sarah Sheard
Sarah Sheard is a published novelist and has been a psychotherapist for 17 years. She understands first hand the splits an artist must bridge, for example, between livelihood and art, obligations to others and self, and between private process and the public market.
Sarah has an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, is a certified Gestalt therapist, mediator and is trained in Applied Mindfulness Meditation.
Sarah mentors writers at The Humber School for Writers and at Ryerson University and has run countless workshops. Her fourth novel appears this fall.