Upcoming Events

In this three session workshop beginning on May 9 and continuing on May 23 & June 13, we’ll explore how to find peace, calm, and balance, especially in changing and chaotic times. Under the wise guidance of Jane Austin, we’ll learn some simple tools and practices that can help. When the nervous system gets activated, it can become over-stimulated. Learn about how trauma and stress affect your body, as well as tools to use when stressed and ways to restore calm and balance.

You might ask yourself how making a collage can be intuitive and organized at the same time. Artist Jeannette Brossart uses collage as a creative jumpstart for making other art and is always surprised and inspired by the results. Since she doesn’t like to draw and paint, she keeps a collage journal. Her “anything goes” intuitive process provides her with an abundance of questions and possibilities: where to start, what to use first, what does she feel like doing.  Using a 3-step framework makes it easy to adapt to your own artistic and creative strengths.

Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism,

All of us experience healthy relationships in our lives. How are we engaging and what, exactly, are we doing to support relationships working well? In other relationships, we find ourselves repeating patterns that limit our full relational potential. The emotional maturity necessary for our primary relationships is cultivated by our willingness to be aware, honest, and intimate with ourselves. Healthy relationships emerge when we can be present with what is in ourselves and in the other.

During our time together we’ll explore each type’s relational gifts that support healthy relating and patterns that derail relationships. 

This workshop explores mindful writing as a practice of deep listening and writing for transformation. The afternoon will consist of writing activities to inspire you and support you in accessing inner wisdom and shifting your perspective. Writing about our experience can help us to make order from what feels like inner chaos and shape our stories into a cohesive and healing narrative. When we make time for deep listening to the stories inside that want to be told, we open the door to restoring a sense of inner wholeness.