Monthly Online Altered States of Consciousness Art Integration Groups
With Dr Lani Roy, Taryn Ossowski or Nicola Gracie
Journey within to explore altered states of consciousness by bringing awareness to your felt senses and experiences. Spark your imagination and creativity! Express and come to know altered states of consciousness through the lens of art and the ever-present, interconnected thread of feeling.
Workshop Outline:
We will begin with an acknowledgment of the traditional custodians of the land, grounding ourselves in respect and gratitude. We will also honor our teachers, elders, wisdom traditions, and lineages that have guided us. Participants will then engage in a centering exercise to ground themselves, followed by setting personal and collective intentions for the workshop.
Next, we will introduce the concept of the interconnected thread of feeling and consciousness, with an option for participants to share their personal insights or engage in discussions to explore and define these experiences.
A guided meditation will help participants tune into their internal landscape of felt sensations, exploring how these sensations connect and guide their experiences. Following the meditation, we will move into creative expression through art-making, staying connected to felt senses and focusing on bringing inner experiences outward. This process allows participants to express their feelings and sensations through artistic mediums.
Participants will have the option to share their artistic expressions and insights with the group, if they feel comfortable doing so. We will conclude the workshop with grounding exercises to help integrate the experience, followed by reflections and a collective acknowledgment of the journey we have shared.
Intended Audience:
This group is designed for individuals who have experienced altered states of consciousness through psychedelics, plant medicines, spiritual emergence, dark nights of the soul, rites of passage, major life transitions, and those with an ongoing fascination with the mysteries of life and their creative potential.
Bring paints, pastels, pencils, charcoal – whatever creative mediums you are working with.
Nurturing the group space:
This is a group space, and we ask participants to be mindful and nurturing of each other’s energies to help create a safe container for us all. Your respectful presence and support will contribute to a nurturing and safe environment where everyone can freely explore and express their inner experiences.
Teachers
Lani
Dr. Lani Roy is a Psychologist, Social Worker, and Psychedelic Therapist. She is passionate about the symbolic realm and supports people in integrating peak experiences such as dark nights of the soul, spiritual emergence, psychosis, trauma, near-death experiences, breakdowns, and breakthroughs, utilizing expressive and creative arts modalities.
Taryn
Taryn is a visual artist and transpersonal art therapist with a therapeutic practice centred on the relationship between imaginal perception and vital expression. Using creative modalities of meditation and contemplation, her practice welcomes forward the self-healing qualities of the psyche in support of psycho-spiritual growth and integration.
Nicola Gracie
Nicola is a Creative Therapist, Writer, TRE, Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork and Pranayama Facilitator with a passion for all things feeling! She holds a Graduate Diploma in Creative Art Therapy as well as a Masters in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
“As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation.” – Thomas Moore