Life Study Groups

NEW VISUAL-JOURNALING SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN
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Testimonial - "I have spent most of my adult life trying to build a house for my soul. Through counseling and relationships I had collected the boards, the pipes, the wire, and the nails. But no matter how many times I stacked these materials together the best I could do was build some kind of lean-to. It was a good enough place to weather a storm but nothing like the house I wanted. The Intuitive Painting class I took with Carolyn gave me the stone I needed to build a strong foundation. And the Journaling class gave me the saw and hammer I needed to not only build a house for my soul but a home I am proud to share with the other's." -- Tammy Gaylord

A Visual-Journaling Support Group is a small group of women coming together for 6 weeks to access and explore their emotions and find the messages, wisdom and guidance they carry within. They learn to recognize, shift and transform emotions by first receiving an image and then using developing questions to understanding the meaning the image it is trying to give. Images express what words cannot. By setting a clear intention, centering in body awareness, using guided visualization and then drawing the images that come, you are able to understand and make changes on all three levels needed for transformation, body, mind and cellular.

Our feelings communicate what our life needs and every emotion we have has an image attached. By accessing these images, our inner wisdom is brought to light and we are able to reduce stress, release anger, resolve conflicts, get in touch with our emotions and give voice to our soul. The body always knows and guides you to the place you need to go. Each week you will learn something new.

Week 1- Access and Express Your Emotions.
Week 2- Access, Release and transform your Stress-producing emotions.
Week 3- Let your images speak and tell you a story.
Week 4- Overcoming your fears.
Week 5-Resolving your inner conflicts.
Week 6-Visual Journaling as a lifelong practice.

Anyone can do this. You don’t need to know anything about using art materials or how to draw. You just need the desire and courage to explore, and open up the dialogue between your inner and outer worlds. Unlike regular journaling that uses language and the left brain, this is a direct right brain connection to your inner world.

Group meets weekly for 6 weeks, Tuesday evenings form 7 to 9, limited size 5 women. Please check my blog for the current schedules of new groups forming. Cost is $35 each weekly session for a total of $210. You will need a few inexpensive art supplies.

To register for a group or workshop or ask questions please email me at info@spiritmaskjourneys.com Or Call 503 734-6516

DISCOVERING THE GIFTS OF YOUR SHADOW AND TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE - SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN
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This is a support group for women that helps you take the whatever person or situation that is bothering or disgusting you the most and turn it into the gift you need. Once you understand what that is, and how you can benefit from it, it transforms and you are no longer bothered or disturbed and can now use it in your life. Based on the work of Ken Wilber’s Integral 3-2-1 process and Debbie Ford’s book "The Dark Side of The Light Chasers," we will study how our Shadow helps us become who we are and holds the gifts to empower our lives.

Each week this small group meets and explores the disturbances in a safe, open, non-judgmental space. The Shadow is a term coined by the psychologist Carl Jung to explain the parts of us that we keep hidden even from ourselves. These parts we determined were not acceptable and so we buried them deep in our subconscious so we could become the opposite, the person we think is acceptable and good, the one others would love.

Discovering your shadows and its gifts is probably the most freeing experience you can have. As Debbie Ford describes it, "Imagine trying to hold a beach ball under water, how much energy that takes and when it gets loose it pops up and hits you in the face." This is how your Shadow works, it is always there trying to give you the balance your life needs and pops up to hit you until you finely get the message your life needs.

Group meets weekly, Wednesday evenings 7 to 9 pm or afternoons 1 to 3, for 6 weeks. Cost is $35 dollars per week, can be paid weekly or at beginning of group. Group meets at my studio in North Portland.

Please check my blog for current schedule. http://artalina.wordpress.com/