My 2026: Online Mindful Collage (Via zoom)

A creative pause before the year ends.
As the year begins to wind down, there can be pressure to make sense of it all: celebrate what went well, let go of what didn't, set new goals, and somehow arrive in January ready to begin again.
But our lives rarely follow the calendar so neatly. Some things have changed. Some are still with us. Some remain unfinished. And some may not need an ending at all.
My 2026 is a two-hour mindful art workshop offering a different kind of year-end reflection, one without resolutions, forced positivity, or pressure to find closure.
Using magazines, images, words, colors, textures, and mixed-media materials, you'll create a personal collage exploring the year as you actually experienced it.
Through gentle guided prompts, we'll move around three ideas:

• What has taken shape.
  What became important, visible, different, or meaningful this year?
• What am I carrying.
  What remains present as the year comes to a close, without needing to label it as something to keep or let go?
• What is still open.
  What remains uncertain, unfinished, curious, or simply not yet known?

Your collage doesn't need to answer these questions neatly. Images can overlap. Things can contradict each other. Something can be covered, torn apart, rearranged, or left blank. That's part of the process.
A different kind of holiday-season pause
This time of year can hold many experiences at once: connection and distance, celebration and tiredness, belonging and loneliness, anticipation and uncertainty. Rather than asking how this season should feel, this workshop creates space to notice what is actually here.
We'll begin with a short grounding practice, move into guided collage-making, and end with an optional moment of reflection and a gentle closing.

• You are welcome to share as much or as little as feels right.
• You don't need to be artistic
  There is no correct composition and nothing you need to make beautiful.
• This is not an art class and not group therapy. It is an art-therapy-informed mindful creative experience where the emphasis is on the process of making, noticing, and reflecting rather than artistic skill or interpretation.

Come alone or with someone you know. The group is intentionally small, creating space for individual reflection alongside the experience of creating with others.

What to expect
• Short grounding and arrival practice
• Guided year-end reflection
• Intuitive collage and mixed-media creation
• Time to slow down and create at your own pace
• Optional group sharing
• Gentle closing and integration

Materials to prepare:
Big cardboard of any color, magazines and imagery, papers, words, textures, drawing materials, scissors, glue, and everything you need to create your collage.
Practical details
Duration: 2 hours
Date: Tuesday 8th of December from 5 till 7 pm Online Via Zoom.
Language: English | Adults 18+ | No artistic experience required
Price:
First 3 places: €10
Standard price: €15
Only 8 places are available. Payment confirms your place.

You don't need to finish the year with everything figured out.
Come as you are, make space for what has been lived, and allow some things to remain still unfolding.

About the facilitator
Aida is a psychologist, mindful art facilitator, and art-therapy-informed practitioner with postgraduate training in Art Therapy and Community Art. She founded Fluid Art & Wellness to create psychologically informed experiences centred on creativity, reflection, and meaningful connection.
Come as you are. Paint the mask. Notice the mirror.

This is a non-clinical, art-therapy-informed community workshop. It is not group therapy or a substitute for psychological or medical care.
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