We host our workshops, retreats and
events at our beautiful, secluded Follow Your
Heart-Magnificent Me Creativity Center location, or our
staff can also bring customized programs to your site.
Each of our workshops or retreats and creative projects
are designed to help the participants with:
Self
Direction
Envisioning and Reflecting
Inventing
and Discovering
Inspiration to Create
Relate
and Connect to Self
One Heart, One Mind, One
Spirit...Join the ONE and Be a Gift Giver to help a child
explore and develop their creativity.
Be compassionate and
understanding of others and grow to be confident in trust of
self, and self responsibility in using their unique
creativity to benefit themselves and their communities.
Below are a few of our Creative Art Programs with
specific guidance to create to discoverself and gain a sense
of community oneness.
Within this creative program the
participants are encouraged to see the value of their
existence through a more beautiful perspective, while
developing a greater appreciation for nature,
themselves; as well as learn how they play a significant
role in the bigger picture of their families and
communities.
The participants are guided to
imagine themselves as one of the many things that make
up the garden; a frog, a flower, bird, butterfly, or
water features, etc. What would they see? What would it
feel like? What sounds would they hear? What would they
smell? How do they relate to the other things in the
garden? How does their role in the garden benefit the
garden as a whole.
As not to limit their
individual expressive nature; we encourage them to try
the different tools and painting techniques explaining
they will be creating thier paintings in the style of
their choice using different materials.
When the
paintings are complete we mount the finished paintings
next to each other so that the workshop walls are
transformed into a large community garden scene.
Then they are encouraged to share how their
individual role in the colorful garden not only benefits
their garden but the larger community garden as a whole.
How is this garden enhanced because of the role you play
in it, as a ____________?
How does your role in the
garden assist the other members of the garden, the
plants, flowers, animals etc,?
Representing an Individual Life
and feelings integrated into the community where each
participant learns about themselvs and gains a better
understanding of the others.
Art can tell a
personal story?
Images can tell us a great deal about
people, places, and events. In this program the
participants create their own symbol and then combine it
with those of their group to tell a collective story.
The participants choose a symbol from multiple
suggestions to represent their feelings about who they
are in the present and what is important to them. They
can also choose a symbol that represents who they were
five years ago, or as they might be five years from now.
Then they apply their symbol to a fabric panel
using markers, paint, or other art materials with a
border around it, as it will become part of the group's
quilt.
They exchange panels with a group mate and
write in their journal about what they think or feel his
or her symbol means. They are prompted to write with
questions. What does it tell you about your group mate?
How does your previous knowledge of the person help you
analyze it? They are also encouraged to ask questions of
each other in order to gain insight and help your
writing.
All the panels are combined to create a
quilt.
The participants share their discovery and
understanding of one another and this can be combined
into a story book about all the wonderful individuals
that make up the group, community etc.
This programis also used for a
specific person in need, especially a child that may be
suffering from an illness. That individuals panel would
be created by him or her (if possible) and located at
the center of the quilt, surrounded by the others
symbols representing how they as an individual will
support the child in need.
This instills within
the participant a greater understanding of and
compassion for someone who may be suffering while
empowering them with the knowingness, despite their age
or place in life; they have a way to help.
The
panels are combined into a quilt that is gifted to the
child in need.
Email if You wish for your community facility to participate in our project.
Email if you are an artist, photographer, fashion, home, architectural designer or talented individual who wishes to volunteer at one of our creativity workshops in your area.
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