Bloom: An Art-Based Supervision Series
Mondays, May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2024
2:30-4:30 PM EST
Bloom is an
innovative art-based supervision series that cultivates professional growth and
nurtures creative practice within a supportive
community.
We invite you to a unique gathering space for therapists to enhance their therapeutic skills, foster self-awareness, and cultivate a more holistic approach to their role.
This series is centered around igniting the inner creator and embracing the fiery energy of creativity within us.
Through immersive arts-based explorations and community connection, participants are encouraged to tap into their innate creative potential, fueling inspiration and innovation in their professional practice.
The series unfolds in four parts:
1. Setting an Intention: Here, we immerse ourselves in the nurturing soil of our intuition, germinating projects and ideas while allowing us time to slowly distill the details. It's a time for introspection, dreaming, imagining, and setting the stage for new creative steps in our professional and personal life.
2. Feeding the Energy Source: In this session, we are tempting together to connect with the vibrant energy of life, embracing the unknown while defining our framework. We connect with our enthusiasm and creative power, fueling/re-fueling our work with passion, purpose, and trust.
3. Birth and Growth: As our ideas take root and flourish, we learn to trust the process and honour our intuition. What once felt daunting becomes surmountable as we follow the natural rhythm of growth guided by the warm motivating energy of the sun.
4. Laughter and Celebration: In the final section, we revel in the joy of creation, releasing tensions and embracing moments of spontaneity and fun. Together, we laugh, celebrate, and share in the collective magic of creativity, fostering a sense of community and connection.
We invite you to a unique gathering space for therapists to enhance their therapeutic skills, foster self-awareness, and cultivate a more holistic approach to their role.
This series is centered around igniting the inner creator and embracing the fiery energy of creativity within us.
Through immersive arts-based explorations and community connection, participants are encouraged to tap into their innate creative potential, fueling inspiration and innovation in their professional practice.
The series unfolds in four parts:
1. Setting an Intention: Here, we immerse ourselves in the nurturing soil of our intuition, germinating projects and ideas while allowing us time to slowly distill the details. It's a time for introspection, dreaming, imagining, and setting the stage for new creative steps in our professional and personal life.
2. Feeding the Energy Source: In this session, we are tempting together to connect with the vibrant energy of life, embracing the unknown while defining our framework. We connect with our enthusiasm and creative power, fueling/re-fueling our work with passion, purpose, and trust.
3. Birth and Growth: As our ideas take root and flourish, we learn to trust the process and honour our intuition. What once felt daunting becomes surmountable as we follow the natural rhythm of growth guided by the warm motivating energy of the sun.
4. Laughter and Celebration: In the final section, we revel in the joy of creation, releasing tensions and embracing moments of spontaneity and fun. Together, we laugh, celebrate, and share in the collective magic of creativity, fostering a sense of community and connection.
About the Workshop Facilitators
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Lindsay Clarke, MA, RCAT, ATR
Art Therapist
Lindsay believes in the importance of nurturing community and creativity. For the past 10 years she has provided art therapy at a women’s shelter, schools, and art hives. She has enjoyed developing and facilitating community art exhibitions to support the voices of those who have survived violence, the impacts of suicide, and living through homelessness and mental illness.
She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.
Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.
Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
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Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, RCAT, ATR-BC, ATPQ
Art Therapist
Carmen is a registered art therapist with post-graduate training in sandplay therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Holding master's degrees in art therapy and fine arts, she is currently a doctoral candidate in psychology.
Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art. She deeply resonates with Indigenous wisdom and strives to provide culturally sensitive art therapy to Inuit and First Nations adolescents.
Carmen is fortunate to be part of a dedicated team at Concordia University, engAGE Living Lab project and she is co-investigator in a research projects related to art therapy and depression at the same university.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online.
Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art. She deeply resonates with Indigenous wisdom and strives to provide culturally sensitive art therapy to Inuit and First Nations adolescents.
Carmen is fortunate to be part of a dedicated team at Concordia University, engAGE Living Lab project and she is co-investigator in a research projects related to art therapy and depression at the same university.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online.
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