Name: How To Play In The Dark with Art
Start: 2025-03-18T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-18T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Private Residence

Discover how to navigate life's obstacles and challenges by tapping into your creativity and artistic expression for support and guidance
About this Event

Come explore the power of art making to move through the challenges, blocks, and wounds that we can't really run away from (even if we try to). When we have the tools to move through our struggles, it opens you up to a whole new path forward.
You will be invited into a therapeutic art experience utilizing presence, curiosity, compassion, play, imagination, and creative expression.

Come on, you know you are curious…I love to say that art is an experiment and you never know what you will learn along the way. Maybe you will discover something about yourself that you have been looking for. And creating in community makes it even more powerful and rich.

If your inner-critic is holding you back, know that NO ART EXPERIENCE IS NEEDED!!! AND ALL ART MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED!!! Just bring your curious mind and playful spirit. Resistance and fear is also welcome.

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Random Facts that will change the way you operate:

Did you know that you are 43% more effective in solving complex problems when encouraged to play and engage in creative activities? (University of California, 2013). Did you know that engaging in challenges

You can be up to 60% more efficient at adapting to new situations when using play and creativity (National Institute for Play)

Play helps you to experience lower levels of cortisol (a stress hormone) and higher levels of serotonin (a mood-boosting chemical) (National Institute for Play)

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About the Facilitator:

Danielle Rifkin, LPC, ATR is the owner of How To Play In The Dark. She is a Somatic, Art & Play Therapist, and Grief Ritualist. She has been running grief circles, art groups, and other experiential offerings for over a decade. She got her Master's degree from Naropa University in Transpersonal Psychology and has worked in a variety of therapeutic settings in her career. She has facilitated hundreds of groups where she emphasizes creating spaces that allow for authenticity and feeling safe enough to show all parts of themselves.