Open Studio Project Training Program
A new introduction offering personal enrichment, CEUs, and progress toward OSP facilitator certification
Open Studio Project (OSP)
Evanston, Illinois
Personal Practice Workshop July 30 to August 1 Facilitating Group Practice Workshop October 1 to 3 Open Studio Process in
Business Practice WorkshopDecember 3 to 5 Whether as a means to deepen and enhance your own art practice, as a research methodology, or as a different way to offer service to your clients,
the OSP is a remarkable, creative technique.
This series of workshops is a ground-breaking effort for OSP and a wonderful way to create an in-town creative retreat for yourself. Come if you are looking to revitalize your art self, refresh your therapist self, or just bring the two into greater alignment.
The three intensive training workshops go beyond the basics, to help you deepen skills and extend your practice as an artist, art therapist or other healing arts practitioner.
Open Studio Project’s Executive Director Dayna Block and staff are teaming up with Pat Allen to facilitate the first Personal Practice Workshops over three weekends. Personal Practice Workshops provide intensive art-making at Open Studio Project and an opportunity to study with several leading teaching artists. Workshops offer personal enrichment and the first step to OSP facilitator certification.
Register by June 30 for early bird discount!
For more information, call Erin Mooney at 847-475-0390 or download a Printable PDFwith additional details.
Falling in Love with What You See Embodiment as an Entry Point to Sustainable Practice
Prescott College Summer Expressive Arts Institute
Prescott, Arizona
July 26 – 27, 2010The experience of embodiment, being-in-a-body, provides a link between worlds.
This linkage has been lost by many of us in the modern world, engendering dissociation from the environment that allows our behavior to range from apathetic to destructive of the living systems of which we are a part. This experiential workshop will introduce the Open Studio Process (OSP) as an embodied practice of close observation in the natural world. The tools of intention and witness that are at the heart of the OSP will guide us in not only seeing, hearing, smelling, and beholding the artistry of nature but awaken our
intuitive capacity to learn from nature as well. As we co-create with what we find, we come into relationship with the natural world and our deepest self in contemplation of the interconnectedness of all life. We will practice skills of intuition and dialogue with nature and share our learning with each other. Art making will employ natural and found materials at the site. No prior art, writing, or meditation experience is required. This workshop will have relevance for artists, therapists, environmentalists, activists, and educators.
Printable PDF with additional information about this workshop.
Art, Therapy and Nature
A week-long course at the Cape Cod Institute
August 9 to 13, 2010
Participants will learn to apply the basic principles of mindfulness in nature and biomicry in the design of nature-based techniques in their personal and professional practice based on their own art based research. Art making will employ natural and found materials at the site. No prior art, writing or meditation experience is required.
This course is relevant for artists, therapists, environmentalists, activists and educators. Participantsshould bring along a sketchbook/journal and portable simple art materials.Much of the class will take place outdoors regardless of weather; plan clothing accordingly.
Printable PDF with additional information about this workshop.
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I am available to conduct workshops on the basic methods of Studio Process as well as to design specific workshops on topics of your choice. I am especially interested in issues of our relationship to nature, commerce, and creativity and to social issues of poverty, injustice and prejudice. Workshops combine experiential, didactic and service learning. To inquire, please email at: studiopardes@comcast.net
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