Free Workshop - The Art of Wellbeing

The Art of Wellbeing
(90 minutes)

A participatory workshop inviting the use of creative expression to support our mental health, as well as the wellbeing of our loved ones, our communities, and our kin.

We will experiment with writing and making as methods of knowing and dreaming -- no art experience or skill required.

This community workshop draws on the therapeutic properties of art, it is not an art therapy session.

Karen Fraser-Gitlitz will lead this workshop, following up from her
Sunday service "Making, Knowing and Dreaming". You are invited to come to the 10:30 service, join the potluck lunch that follows and then stay for the workshop. Or just come for one or two of those things.... all are welcome, no registration required.

Karen (she/her) is a cis-gendered middle-class woman of English, French, and Scottish ancestry. Karen and her partner, musician and composer Paul Gitlitz, are grateful to make their home on southern Vancouver Island, the territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. As an artist, professional art therapist and Unitarian Universalist Community Minister, Karen works at the confluence of meaning, belonging and justice. Find out more about Karen’s private practice at creativeupwelling.com.
Formerly a parish minister serving Canadian UU congregations, Karen keeps her toes in our Canadian UU movement as the Coordinator of the Meaning Making Project. She is also excited to volunteer on the planning circles for “Activating the Canadian UU Ecosystem.”