Self-Expression Workshop
Allowing Your Spontaneous, Creative Self
Come connect with your creative impulses and imbibe from a well of co-creation in this “playshop” designed to soften you into spontaneity, connect you with your core, and jiggle you into beginner’s mind. Grace and Nayeli will provide a potpourri of fun and meaningful movement, improv, writing, expression and drawing prompts so you can muck around and explore being your “youiest” you (or a whole new you!) in a safe container. No experience required, and you can arrive exactly as you find yourself in the moment: giddy, heavy-hearted, grumpy or delighted, we welcome all.
CO-FACILITATORS:
Nayeli Garci-Crespo is an artist, writer, somatic coach, meditation teacher, and creative consultant with over 15 years of experience teaching independent workshops and undergraduate classes in creative processes, self discovery, film & video, animation, rhetoric, and languages. Their interests include flow and liminal states, the subconscious, laughter, lucid dreaming, the body-mind, neuroscience, neurodiversity, meditation, and play as a form of self exploration and healing. They hold a Ph.D. in literature, film and digital media from Duke University, an M.A. in Latin American literature from the University of Columbia and B.A. in creative writing and philosophy from the University of Southern California. Check out Nayeli’s organization, the Feral Flow Lab.
Grace E. Hazeltine is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and artist who has been a part of the organizing body of Mirrors of the Mind since 2015. Grace’s interests in multimedia performance art, including classical voice, immersive theater, and modern clown, have been vitalizing presences of her adult creative practice. Grace values creativity and play in her work as a psychotherapist and in her work as an artist. Information about Grace’s work as a psychotherapist in the Los Angeles/California areas is available on her website at drgracehazeltine.com.
DATE AND TIME: May 19th, 2024 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST
LOCATION: Zoom; link to be shared upon registration
MATERIALS & PREP: Please prepare something to write on, something to write with, and dress comfortably for the workshop.
FEE: To defray event costs and compensate instructors, there is a sliding scale fee for the workshop.