Beauty and Body Image:  A workshop for girls!

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What would it feel like to appreciate the body that you have?  What does it mean to be beautiful?  What is beauty?  What beliefs do you hold about being beautiful?  Not being beautiful? And much, much more.  This day long workshop will explore these questions and many others using art, writing, movement, and music.  At the end of the day, it is our deepest wish that each participant leave with a healthier and happier relationship with their  body and their sense of beauty.


When:  Date TBD (sometime in August!)

Time:  9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Cost:  $50.00

Altered Text:  Using art to transform and process your life!

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Come explore this powerful tool in a daylong workshop at Expressive H'arts Studios.  During this day you will learn techniques for creating altered text and for using it as a tool for processing your life.  You will live with a tool kit for continuing this work at home.

When:  Wednesday, August 4, 2010 from 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:  $40.00 (includes a kit for your use at home!)

Entering the Dream:  A day of Sand Trays and Reflection

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Join us for a mini retreat exploring the world of Sand Trays.  In this 5 hour experience, you will work with all the gifts of entering the dream through sand tray play!  We will explore questions that you have, wishes you are holding and much more.  You will learn how to use dialogue as a tool for processing your day and how to interpret symbolic language.

When:  Saturday, September 11    9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cost: $40.00




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Creative Expression Camp:  Raising Your Voice


Join teachers Ellen Berg and Caralyn Henry for this intensive experiential camp designed for adolescent girls to explore their voices and create authentic expression of their discoveries.  We will use all forms of the expressive arts during this 2 week adventure including, but not limited to:  writing, storytelling, poetry, sand tray, clay explorations, painting, music, dramatization, chalks and pastels, movement and more!

Week 1:  The wisdom of wondering...
What do I have to say about the world?  How do I discover what I think about the world?  What do I care about?  Who is the unique ME?

Week 2:  Raising my Voice....
When do I feel most confident and powerful?  How do I use my strengths to become stronger in other areas?  What do I want to learn?  How do I want to share who I am, what I care about, what I learn?

Dates/Times:
June 28-July 9
10:00 - 2:00 daily

Fees:
$300.00 for 40 hour, two week camp

To register:  Click on "Contact Studio".  I'll send you all information.


Expressive Arts Group 2010

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Join me for an exciting exploration of life!  Using writing, the arts, music, movement, storytelling and more... we will give expression to our lives.  This is NOT an art class...it is a class for anyone interested in connecting with self, others and life.   You can look forward to work with clay, altered text, collage, sculpture, journals, sand tray creation, meditation, conversation, laughter and any other thing that may arise in the moment.  We learn from each other through creating together and  sharing together. 

We meet for 6 sessions broken down into 2 cycles.  There is a small break between Cycle 1 and 2 (I'll be in Guatemala!!!)

Cycle 1:  Wonder...exploring my questions, my wonderings
week 1:  connecting with self:  storytelling, journal work and clay sculpture
week 2:  my wonderings...journal work, entering the dream (sand tray and dream work)


Cycle 2:  Journeying in Relationship
week 1:  connecting with life... storytelling, movement, collage/art journals
week 2:  more connecting with life... journal, altered text, guided meditation
week 3:  connecting with others...storytelling, journal, sand tray, dramatization
week 4:  speaking my truth...music, movement, collaborative art, journal


Facilitator:  Caralyn Henry, Expressive Arts Therapist and Teacher
Guest Presenters:  Ellen Berg, Writing Specialist and Annabeth Hinderling, Music and Movement Specialist

Dates:  Sundays, 5-8 PM  July 11 & 18, August 8, 15, 22, & 29     5:00-8:00 pm

Fees:  $25.00 per  3 hour workshop or $125.00 when paid in full

To Register:  Click on "Contact Studio"  Fill in the form with your contact information.

Creative Expression DAYTIMERS!

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This is a special group that has just formed.  It meets once a month for four hours in an intensive creative expression art workshop.  There is a need for a group that meets during the day and this is it!  We will use music, movement, storytelling, painting, sculpting, writing, sand tray creation and so much more to explore our lives, connect with each other and have fun! 

First Meeting:  Tuesday, July 13  10:00 am - 2:00 pm (During this gathering we will set the monthly schedule)
Cost:  $40.00 per workshop 
Bring something to share at lunch time. 

To register:  contact Caralyn at cbk4us@cox.net


Summer Workshops 2009

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Writing for Real:  A summer writing experience
Facilitated by:  Caralyn Henry and Ellen Berg

When:  June 22-June 26  intensive writing camp 10:00-2:00 daily
Follow up weekly sessions:  Tuesdays 10-12 June 30-July 28
Where:  Expressive H'arts Studios
8424 El Paso St.   La Mesa, CA     619-504-7804
Ages:  Entering 6th graders through entering 9th graders
Class Limited to first Twelve Applicants
Cost:  Week long intensive Writing Camp $150.00
Follow up weekly session:  $15.00 each (5 sessions total)


To Register:  click on Contact Studio and fill in the contact form.  Registrations due by June 15.


Write.  Dream.  Make art. Explore.  Write.  Share.  Read.  Make art.  Write some more.  Find your own voice.  Explore.  Share.  Have Fun!   Live the writer's life.  Play.  Think for yourself.  Say Something.  Be Real.  Learn about yourself.  Write a lot!