Weaving together conversation, psychoeducation & artmaking
About this Event
Spring | Mind as Muse
The Mycelium is a space to create in circle with folks feeling into collective transformation. Each week we will gather, share, artmake and collaborate in fresh visions of regenerative futures.
This Spring we will be focusing on the concept of the Mind as a Muse.
We often forget that our thoughts travel through physical neural pathways in our brains. Tracks carved by our ancestry and embodied experiences. In a society where personal traumas are compounded by structural oppression, in a city experiencing an epidemic of loneliness we have become armoured by this dysregulation. Many of us live in survival mode and our perception of our relationships warps itself through this circuitry. As we tip towards intensifying global conflict and climate catastrophe, it is lifesaving work to cultivate communities where we learn the skills of communication, vulnerability, conflict resolution, and generative dream weaving.
We have all been trained in critique, suspicion and cynicism, but do we know how to celebrate, soften and delight? In this drop in, arts-based course we will investigate the intricacies of our neural pathways and explore the rewriting of our internal scripts, so that rather than barring us from pain, they seek connection. Like the Mycelium beneath the ground, let us remember how to reach into the dark with all the nourishment we have to give, receptive to what others have to share with us. Let us reorient towards the light and breathe life into the human spirit this Spring.
Week One (March 2nd) We Must Risk New Shapes: On Unmasking and Collaboration
Art Directive: Mask Making
Week Two (March 16) Ecosystems of Being: Mapping your Environment and Resources
Art Directive: Map Shaping
Week Three (March 30) Your Body is an Altar: Memory in the Molecules
Art Directive: Body Mapping
Week Four (April 13) Circuits we can Break : Exploring Neural Pathways in your Brain
Art Directive: Authentic Patterning & Painting
Week Five (April 27) Activations all the Rage: IFS work with Protector Parts
Art Directive: Character Puppet Making
Week Six (May 11) Seeing Spectrums: Root Fear and Wise Mind
Art Directive: Accordion Flip Books
Week Seven (May 25) Shamelings: Transforming Shame, Fear and Grief
Art Directive: Clay sculpture
Week Eight (June 8) North Star Sighting: On orienting towards Joy
Art DIrective: Altar making with cardboard
Summer Solstice June 21
Drop in | $15 PWYC | 7 - 9 pm every other Monday
Email [email protected] or @celinas.blade for more information
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Alternity, 333 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada
CAD 17.55
