We had an enriching time during Deborah Armstrong’s presentation, Focusing and Sandtray Practices in the Expressive Arts Therapy Tradition! We began with a grounding Focusing invitation, sensing inward to find items to place in our sandtray representing: 1. A resource 2. How we wanted to feel by the end of the presentation 3. A “cookie crumb” for how to get there After, Deborah shared a wealth of interesting didactic material to nourish our “left brain”, along with inte

April 20, 2026 We had a heartwarming and illuminating time with Kathleen Horne and Tamara Knapp presenting, The Creative Wisdom Approach: Embodying a 5-step Intermodal Expressive Arts Process. Thank you to all of you who were able to attend the Live program… and we are delighted that we can share the video recording with those of you who weren’t able to make that date and time. Our time was rich with an overview of Kathleen and Tamara’s Creative Wisdom approach– along with am

March 16, 2026 We had an inspiring and illuminating time with Dr. Leslie Ellis presenting, Introduction to Focusing and Dreams: Finding, Embodying and Anchoring ‘the Help’. Leslie shared about her roots of learning Focusing through Shirley Tutcotte (pioneer of Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and trauma model), along with her training in dream work. She presented an informative PowerPoint, emphasizing three key experiential methods for working with dreams through Focusi