The Story of our Hands

Dates:
📆 Monday March 9, 2026
📆 Monday September 14, 2026
Register Below!

Time: 8:00am–11:00am Pacific Time
Location: Online
Facilitator: Kathy Tippe RSW, Expressive Arts Practioner
Cost: $99.00

Registration Deadline: Wednesday prior to training.

This 3-hour workshop is about you! It is a gift of self-care, and remembering. We all rush through life doing and experiencing so many opportunities and experiences. When was the last time you reflected on the story your hands hold? Since you were born your hands have been touching, holding and doing. Not all of the stories our hands have endured are beautiful, some of them are hard to remember and sit very close to our heart. Nonetheless, these are our stories. Individuals seek out clinicians, coaches, and facilitators regularly to delve into their stories and uncover deeper meanings in their lives and ways to honor their life experiences. This session aims to foster a greater appreciation of one’s life journey, thereby gaining insights into supporting others as they share their feelings of sadness, pain, loss, scars, and the complex beauty of their experiences.

Learning Objectives

Participants will take away introductory knowledge of Expressive Arts Therapy, including how expressive arts therapy is defined, the general philosophy and approach.

1. Participants will learn skills to explore and express resilience through hands-on activities.
2. Participants will gain confidence in using water color, collage and writing with clients.
3. Participants will expand their toolbox using gratitude when working with others.

Required Materials

• Mixed media paper: 8″x12″ or art journal that is mixed media or water color paper
• Acrylic paints (at least a few colors)
• Old book pages or collage paper
• Water
• A couple paint brushes
• A journal to write in
• Black pen that you can write on paint (signo uniball or micron are good options)
• Magazines and images to collage with
• Scissors
• Glue stick (can use matte medium)
• Blow drier
• Optional Items: stencils, black permanent ink, a couple pattern or script stamps, texture paste

This workshop is part of our Creative Community offerings!
These are open to mental health clinicians, educators, coaches, community leaders, healthcare workers, artists and more! Creative Community offerings strive to bring information, techniques, and continued learning for your own personal enrichment and/or guidance on how to bring the expressive arts into your professional spaces.

Please note this workshop does not offer continuing education credits.

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