Expired‘Active Hope; Insight Meditation and Art Making’ – Online Morning Workshop With Nicky Roland

This is now an online event between 10 am and 12:30 pm

Still bring your art materials

These are difficult and challenging times we find ourselves in. We are in the context of climate crisis, a global pandemic and structural racism.

Through insight meditation, creative art expression and group sharing we will open to our individual and collective responses. We will share and have time to express our responses through image making and discussion.

Feelings of fear and grief, will be held with the compassion and care that is the orientation of mindfulness practice and will help us engage and potentially take actions.

We will be meeting the challenges and difficulties that are present for us, and move into including our hopes and aspirations. What positive change do we may wish to be part of? We will be connecting with our imagination, potential to be resilient and the ways that we can resource ourselves.

This workshop is inspired by the approach of ‘The Work That Reconnects’, and the book ‘Active Hope’ by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston and incorporates elements of  insight meditation and art therapy practices.

You are welcome to attend if you are a beginner, or more experienced, to either insight meditation and/or art making.

 

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  • 26th September 2020
    10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Nicky was inspired to train as an art therapist following her time volunteering in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Tsunami, where she facilitated groups which enabled people to use images and words to express and process their experiences. In 2008 she obtained her MA in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths University.

She has practised mindfulness meditation since 2004. From 2013-14 she completed a year-long mindfulness teacher training with The Mindfulness Training Institute, with Martin Aylward and Mark Coleman.

She has worked as a mindfulness teacher, and a Work That Reconnects facilitator, for several years in the N.H.S. voluntary sector and in private practice. She is also an H.C.P.C. registered Art Therapist.

She currently teaches mindfulness to individuals and groups, offers therapeutic mindfulness mentoring, and runs in-house company mindfulness training.

Nicky is currently training to be a ‘Community Dharma Leader’ with Gaia House Insight Meditation Centre.

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