“Everything we do begins with our wise body: our brain signals the hand to make the movement of the brush to paint. Listening to our body’s needs and wisdom, by nurturing our “artist child”, is the first step to more energy”

• During the first module you will learn the basic creative tools that will guide your painting journey. The main objective of these tools is to facilitate self-awareness, allow your body express itself and prepare the ground to explore and tap into your creative energy.
• To help you “prepare the ground”, you will learn about the “artist creative brain” (your artist child) and how to nurture it.
• On your painting canvas, you will use the basic tools to ease yourself in your painting experience. Feel the different brushes, what shapes and lines appeal to you, while getting used to letting go of your logical brain and allowing your artist brain to play!
• At home after the workshop, I will kindly ask you to continue using some of the tools covered and to keep a creative journal (as part of the basic tools) to note your feelings, thoughts, etc. This creative journal will help your tremendously, I’ll tell you how and why!

“If someone tries to block negative emotions all the time, more and more mental energy will go into jamming more and more emotions “backstage” ” – Gregg Heriques Ph.D. , Understanding emotions and how to process them.

• Based on the experience and insights you gained from the previous module by using the basic creative tools, you will start identifying your main energy drainers & fuelers, using the tools we will cover in this session.
• Negative emotions are a frequent cause of energy loss, I will provide you with creative tools to acknowledge and process your feelings to find release.
• During this module, you will paint on a large canvas, using the colours that most appeal to you. Let your artist brain be your guide and the tools covered be your inspiration to give you the insights you need about your “energy-sucking” emotions.

“The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention” – Julia Cameron, The Artist Way

• This module’s creative tools will help you be more aware of how much energy you invest in different areas of your life, thoughts & activities. How disperse this energy can be and how much attention you are giving to what is important to you.
• You will paint on a small canvas to focus your mind and zoom-in on your thoughts to get the benefits of the tools covered in this session. You will experience in your painting that you “lose” some elements so that it opens up to other ones that will make it better, “a gain disguised as loss”. As it happens in life when we say “no” to certain things, we say “yes” and give more time to the things that really matters to us.

“Every person has a quiet place in his soul, where everything is self-evident and easily explainable, a place to which he likes to retire from the confessing possibilities of life, because there everything is simple and clear, with a manifest and limited purpose” Carl Jung, The Red 

• In this last module, the creative tools serve as a guide for clarity to create change. Your painting points to reality: this is who you are and how you feel, and helps you see the honest changes that need to happen in your life for you to be the woman you want to be and live the life you want.
• Each layer in your painting “peels” a layer within yourself. From a dark color of your choice, you will paint in layers to then bring light and action into your painting, following the guidelines of this module.
• We conclude the workshop with a summary, so you can continue your creative energy boost journey at home, with love and confidence!