Trauma-Informed Creative Writing on Canvas: Rewriting Career Visions

Join us for a class that engages our creativity for reimagining our relationship with work / success & finances that supports our mental health & holistic well-being.

Through a combination of creative writing on canvas using paint pens, mental health education, and holistic wellness practices (breathwork, gentle movement, guided visualization) we will explore the stories we carry about work, money and success —identifying which ones serve us and which ones we’re ready to rewrite.

Using reflective writing prompts, participants will create a vision on canvas of career & financial wellness that aligns with their true desires and values. (Small, medium or large canvases available). You are welcome to further decorate the canvas with writing, flowers, and other items available - and take the vision canvas home with you.

Our career and financial journeys are often shaped by our inner beliefs, traumas, cultural values, and systemic inequities. This trauma-informed creative writing workshop offers a supportive space for participants to engage their creative energy for reimagining career and financial wellness on their own terms.

This process allows us to connect with our body's inner guidance to shape our career & financial visions and practices.

No prior writing or artistic experience is required—just an openness to self-reflection and creative exploration.

• Deepen awareness of how personal and cultural narratives influence career and financial decisions.
• Use creative writing on canvas and visual expression as tools for shaping a vision of career and financial wellness that aligns with your values and body's guidance.
• Identify and reframe limiting beliefs to align with a career and financial vision that supports mental health and wellness.
• Learn strategies for navigating work and money in ways that prioritize sustainability, mental health & wellness, and authentic self-expression.
• Connect with a supportive community of other people invested in reimagining their relationship with work and finances to support holistic well-being.

• Insights from the fields of somatic psychology & neurobiology into how trauma impacts the brain-body, and career and financial decision-making.
• Mind-body resources for supporting emotional regulation to make career and financial decisions from a place of clarity, grounding and inner wisdom.
• Artistic practices and perspectives for reshaping your relationship with work, money and success to align with your true desires and values.
• Take home your small or large canvas with your vision of career & financial wellness written / painted on it.

I specialize in offering counselling focused on career & financial wellness with women of color in my private practice (www.sisaacswellness.com). My work integrates trauma-informed, culturally-affirming frameworks with mind-body practices to support people with making career & financial choices from a place of alignment with their values and holistic wellness.

I am also a Certified Trauma of Money Facilitator and hold a Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto. I have been facilitating mental health and trauma education workshops and yogic practices every year for academic, corporate and non-profit organizations since 2016.

I am a trained Yoga Teacher and Mindfulness Meditation facilitator and I carry ancestral teachings from Theravada Buddhism, Yoga & Ayurveda.

My approach is based in an understanding of how trauma is held within the body. Some of my trauma-informed practices include: Facilitating writing prompts focused on empowerment rather than trauma, Honoring your autonomy and pacing, checking-in regularly, and allowing you to choose the practices and pacing we engage with.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ottawa School of Art, 35 George Street, Ottawa, Canada