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***Earth Soul-Friend Arts Gatherings***

A Seasonal Creative Arts Vigil-Keeping Space

Please join this virtual community of creative people who gather at the start of each new season to share creative-arts offerings that express love and concern for Earth and humanity. All participants are invited to bring a poem, song, dance, image, or hand-made artifact that they have created, or are deeply nourished by. We take turns briefly sharing what we have brought within a community ritual to help us keep vigil for the Earth in this challenging era of collective grief and possibility. Gatherings occur on the last Sunday in March, June, September, and December from 3-5 ET, virtually. RSVP to receive a Zoom link by contacting Liza at lizahyatt@gmail.com.

2024-2025 dates:

June 30th, September 29, December 29, March 30 – 3-5pm ET

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***Expressive Arts Eco-Spiritual Practice CEU Course***

Healing the Wounds to Creativity:

Poiesis and the Expressive Therapies Continuum as Contemplative Practice

September 29, 2024 9am-3pm ET

In this ongoing virtual CEU series, we explore how imagination, creativity, and contemplative creative arts practice help people living today participate compassionately in the collective societal changes needed as humanity confronts the damage and injustice our current systems cause to the Earth and each other.

Each of the courses in this series will take place on  a Saturday 9am-3pm Each retreat will include teaching, discussion, contemplative practice, personal reflection, experiential creativity, and sharing.

Facilitated by Liza Hyatt, LMHC, ATR-BC. Liza is a Natural Dreamwork practitioner, spiritual director, art therapist, and mental health counselor with over 35 years experience working with complex trauma. She is author of five poetry books, and the eco-art therapy guidebook: Art of the Earth: Ancient Art for a Green Future. 

CEU hours for LMHC and LMFT clinicians are available: 6 CEU hours per course. (Approved provider, in Indiana by the state Professional Licensing Agency)

Fees: Per retreat: $150. Some economic-need scholarships are available.

To register, email Liza at lizahyatt@gmail.com.

Course Outline:

Morning Session:  Acknowledging the Wounds to Creativity and Imagination

In this session, we highlight the need for authentic creativity, and a respectful curiosity for the wisdom within primary imagination, as humanity navigates the challenges that lie ahead in our current era.  We discuss the ways in which our society has trivialized and commodified imagination. We identify contemplative perspectives that offer healing to the four core wounds  (shame, objectification, conformity, and productivity) impairing our creative lives. We begin to develop skills for companioning spiritual seekers as they identify these core wounds and reclaim their authentic creativity. We also acknowledge how repairing our creative lives is essential to the health of the natural world. The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) and the concept of poiesis will be introduced as helpful frameworks to guide art-based spiritual companionship and direction.

Afternoon Session: Practicing Poiesis, Crossing Thresholds to Contemplative Creativity

In this session, we learn ways to help spiritual seekers shift their creative process from ego-driven efforts to produce “good art” toward contemplative creativity which focuses on process and flow, cultivating receptivity, authentic experience, healing, and compassion. We take time to more deeply engage in experiential practices informed by poiesis and the Expressive Therapies Continuum, which were introduced in the morning session.

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Previous events that will be offered in the future (and can be requested)

Introduction to Natural Dreamwork:

July 13, 2022

7-9pm ET by Zoom

Learn how exploring your dreams with commitment and companionship can help you find healing, increased vitality and self-compassion.  Through this introduction to Natural Dreamwork, participants will explore how to approach dreamwork as spiritual practice. Examples of Natural Dreamwork approaches to specific dreams will be provided to illustrate the basic concepts within Natural Dreamwork. Participants are also invited to share a recent dream and engage with it through the Natural Dreamwork process.

2 CEUs are available for art therapists, mental health counselors, and social workers.

Fee: $60, or $90 if you sign up for both this workshop and the Expressive Arts workshop below

To register, contact Liza at lizahyatt@gmail.com

Natural Dreamwork and Expressive Arts:

July 20, 2022

7-9pm ET by Zoom

For those already engaged in Natural Dreamwork, or who complete the Introduction to Natural Dreamwork course above and want to dive deeper by learning how to connect expressive arts practices to enhance the dreamwork experience. This workshop will explore how to use the Expressive Therapy Continuum model to more deeply engage with the healing medicine in the images of dreams.

2 CEus are available for art therapists, mental health counselors, and social workers.

Fee: $60, or $90 (for both Intro to ND and this workshop)

to register, contact Liza at lizahyatt@gmail.com

Natural Dreamwork Dream Sharing Group:

6 months on the 2nd Wednesday every month for 6 months

August 10, September 14, October 12, November 9, December 14, January 11

7-9 pm ET by Zoom

Explore your dreams with other dreamers in this monthly gathering facilitated by Natural Dreamwork practitioner Liza Hyatt. For those new to Natural Dreamwork, completing the Introduction to Natural Dreamwork workshop on July 13 is recommended.

Fee: $25 per session, or pay in full for all 6 for $120

to register, contact Liza at lizahyatt@gmail.com

Yoga Nidra with Celtic Harp:

Flourish Yoga + Wellbeing

3pm

Liza will play therapeutic harp accompaniment to this hour long yoga nidra meditation. Back by popular demand!

Future sessions to be determined.

Zoom Book Launch and Writing Workshop

As My Old Maps Are Erased: Midlife’s Poetry

November 12, 2023 at 3-4:30pm ET

Liza Hyatt’s new book of poetry, As My Old Maps Are Erased honors the spiritual pilgrimage that a woman’s midlife journey offers. These poems show a woman letting go while becoming more fully human, feeling her way blindly over shifting terrain, surrendering during unexpected descents, and swimming into deeper and deeper seas. Written as both a chronological account of the poet’s life with her teen-aged daughter, and as a voyager’s log of passage through liminal, mythic terrain, the poet describes the specific details of her life to reveal profound breakthroughs as soul works to disassemble the too-small-self of the first half of life. Falling stars, rain-swollen creeks, hand-me-down skirts, gray hair, piles of leaves, and emptied closets become the source of spiritual revelation. Midlife is seen as a midwife assisting a difficult birth, teaching lessons of surrender. These poems inspire courage to leave behind familiar shores and our old, habitual, fading maps.

Following Hyatt’s reading, she will guide participants into writing their own poetry or creative non-fiction exploring the spiritual dimensions of their own personal midlife experiences.

Zoom Book Launch Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop

Fee- no charge, but I would love it if you purchase my book from Amazon!
Date: November 12, 3pm – 4:30pm Eastern Time
For further information and registration, please email Liza Hyatt at lizahyatt@gmail.com