Creative Homecoming

I am beyond excited to be teaming up with the extraordinary Ha.Lé Integrative Health center to bring you this in-person workshop offering in Nashville ~

Creative Homecoming

A 6-week Workshop Series 

Returning home to our bodies, our voices, ourselves — by retrieving our intuitive creative expression

When:

Saturdays from 1:30-3:30pm 

October 14th through November 18th

Where:

At Ha.Lé Integrative Health

2200 21st Ave S, Suite 105, Nashville

Who:

For women, trans and non-binary folks of all backgrounds

No previous art-making experience required!

A map of the journey ~

Session One: Creative Expression is our Birthright 

We will invoke the Celtic/Norse myth of the Selkie ~ a being who is half-seal half-woman, who must find the sealskin coat that was taken from her in order to return Home to the ocean. We will explore creativity as something innate within us, that many of us have been tricked into forsaking or giving away. 

Session Two: Undoing People-Pleasing

With compassion and care, we will begin to look at: what has stopped us from making art that is “imperfect,” “ugly,” “untrained,” or “too much” in any way? What happens when we relinquish likability for truth? How can we support the parts of us who are understandably scared to do so?

Session Three: Coming Home to the Earth-body

We are animals, and our bodies are made of earth and stars. Shame is a colonial project. In our creative practice we will turn to plant allies for lessons in BEING — being our fierce, soft, weird, wild, unfurling, curling, closing, opening, radiant selves. 

Session Four: Echolocation — Unleashing the Voice

Our relationship to our voice, both the sound of it and the process of using it, can be complicated for many reasons. Through supportive vocalization experiments, we will practice unlocking worlds of creative noise within us. ET, Phone Home!  

Session Five: Dream House

Many of us grew up in unsafe homes, which makes the journey of finding+building an internal home all the more potent. We will create in honor of inner children who wait patiently for us to come home to them. We will create in honor of protective ancestors who tend the hearth and guide us back to ourselves.  

Session Six: Carrying Home With Us 

Closing ritual. We will craft an element of our sealskin coats, representing that which we want to reclaim and keep close... wherever we travel.

Materials ~

Art/craft supplies of all stripes and shapes and sizes will be provided by Turnip Green Creative Reuse. You are more than welcome to bring your own materials! All modes of creative expression welcome.

Covid Care ~

Rapid covid tests will be provided before session begins, and we will mask until all results come through. Thank you for protecting each other and our communities!

Suggested sliding scale tiers ~

$240 — Supported Membership

$360 — Standard Membership (this amount represents the actual cost of the workshop series)

$480 — Pay it Forward Membership (this helps us offer our sliding scale / creates greater access) 

Deeper sliding scale options and payment plans available upon request ~ email Chelsea: health@haleintegrative.com

Thank you to Alexis J. Cunningfolk for this sliding scale model