Art and Healing Series
Past Events
In this web series we explore the intersections of art and healing.
No. 7- "Words & Rituals - Tending the Wild of Our Creativity"
A presentation by Emilie Lygren
May 19, 2025
Emilie Lygren is a poet and educator whose writing enlivens commonplace moments with the meaning and depth they deserve. Her teaching focuses on curiosity and reflection as practices to deepen relationships. She believes poems bring us closer… to ourselves, to one another, and to the world we inhabit. She believes we are all poets. In this Art + Healing program, Emilie shares about the evolution of her practice, how her poetry supports her well-being and how her teaching in the natural world has influenced her creative expression. She shares readings of her writing and guide you through rituals and reflective prompts focused on your relationship to creativity. Participants observe and call on parts of the natural world to inform intentions. Participants also write and share poems. This program welcomes ALL levels of creative practitioners, from beginners to those more practiced. Educators will also find inspiration for ways to bring creative practice and natural elements into their teaching. Participants should bring a journal or paper and a writing instrument, such as a pen, pencil or marker.
No. 6- "Healing the Earth: A pilgrimage of how I got to where I am "
A presentation by Fern Shaffer
February 18, 2024
Fern Shaffer is an American painter, performance artist, lecturer and environmental advocate. Her work arose in conjunction with an emerging Ecofeminism movement that brought together environmentalism, feminist values and spirituality to address shared concern for the Earth and all forms of life. She first gained widespread recognition for a four-part, shamanistic performance cycle, created in collaboration with photographer Othello Anderson in 1985. Writer and critic Suzi Gablik praised their work for its rejection of the technocratic, rationalizing mindset of modernity, in favor of communion with magic, the mysterious and primordial, and the soul. Gablik featured Shaffer's Winter Solstice (1985) as the cover art for her influential book, The Reenchantment of Art, and wrote that the ritual opened "a lost sense of oneness with nature and an acute awareness of ecosystem" that offered "a possible basis for reharmonizing our out-of-balance relationship with nature. Shaffer is also known for feminist and ecology-themed paintings that critics have described as romantic, dizzying and panoramic, spiritual, and capable of combining the scientific, personal and universal.
No. 5- "The New Paradigm Shift: Heart-healing Quantum Journey "
A presentation by Dezi Soley and Ev Marquee
February 11, 2021
No. 4- "Full Moon, Full Body Shine "
A presentation by Dezi Soley and Ev Marquee
November 30, 2020