Picturing Motherhood

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Picturing Motherhood Creative One Day Workshops

A range of workshops for all mums (with children of any age.)

Under the gentle guidance of a trained art therapist and fellow mum, Picturing Motherhood is a space for you to find clarity and share stories. Use art to creatively explore the joys, challenges and complex feelings associated with motherhood.

You’ll paint and draw, use collage and clay to gently, and at your own pace, get back in touch with you.  You don’t have to be good at art as the focus is on the exploration of the artwork rather than the end result!

Picturing Motherhood provides a safe place to reconnect with the woman behind the mother. Meet other mums with similar interests, experiences and concerns.

Laugh, share stories and create. Enjoy some much needed time for yourself.

Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘centre.’ Representing the journey towards wholeness, completion and self-realisaton, Mandalas are ancient and sacred symbols spanning across time, race, culture & religion. Explore the mandala’s rich history and symbolism.  Through a range of art materials reflect on this, express yourself and develop your own personal symbols to incorporate into a series of ‘Me Here Now’ Mandalas. Also learn to create an ongoing mandala art journal for personal growth and further self-reflection. 
Thursdays,  7.00 – 10.00pm
Six evenings across six consecutive weeks , includes all art materials. Date tbc

Life Paint. Dip into you. Create new life pictures.
Through selecting from paint charts and colour swatches we are used to designing our homes and wardrobes, developing a palette that says something about us and the way we wish to live.

If your life - as it is right now - could be painted into a picture, what would that look like? What colours would you use? Would they be harmonious hues and tones or something bolder, perhaps comprising colour clashes?  How might you use the paintbrush to apply the paint? Would you dab with small, delicate movements or perhaps splash the paint on, moving the brush in large sweeps?

Life Paint offers you the opportunity to ‘dip into you’ to reconnect with the images, colours, symbols and textures you hold within. These aspects, unique to each of us, create our ‘life paint.’ Across this weekend workshop you’ll begin to gently discover and develop your unique life palette and from this palette, to create your Life Pictures.  These pictures can inform you, conveying who you are, how you are and even what you can do to strengthen and enrich your life experience.
Investment: $210
Saturday & Sunday,  date tbc: 10.00 – 4.30pm
Includes all art materials, lunch and afternoon tea.

The Goddess Archetype Within You. 

 We all know about the domestic goddess who is great at looking after the home. What about the other goddess, the one who exists within us and who loves to dance, laugh, create and play?  Spend a day getting to know her.  Through a beautiful guided visualisation you’ll journey inwards to visit the sacred place in which this goddess dwells. Explore this special place, meet her and receive a gift of wisdom. Then celebrate and honour this through creative expression – draw, paint or sculpt the goddess as she appears within you.

Investment: $120
Date tbc
10am – 4.30 pm
Includes all art materials, lunch and afternoon tea.