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Sustainable Change: A Year of Living Deeply
Set aside your New Year’s resolutions and say hello to a deep and sustainable vision for your future!
Mental Health Care Professionals Sustainable Change
A special 4 hour workshop for mental health professionals only! Join in a confidential and supportive workshop to create a deep and sustainable vision for your professional life in 2025.
Adult Open Studio Art Therapy: Solstice Edition
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Teen Open Studio: Balancing Light
Teen Open Studio offers a unique blend of art exploration and self-discovery in a relaxed, supportive environment for teens 13-17 years. Led by a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist, these sessions provide therapeutic benefits to participants as they express themselves through creativity, build skills of objective observation, mindfulness, and self-regulation.
This week’s theme, Balancing Light, uses contrast in art making to explore all-or-nothing thinking and how to find balance in our minds and our lives.
Adult Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Adult Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Teen Open Studio: Big Feelings, Small Art
Teen Open Studio offers a unique blend of art exploration and self-discovery in a relaxed, supportive environment for teens 13-17 years. Led by a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist, these sessions provide therapeutic benefits to participants as they express themselves through creativity, build skills of objective observation, mindfulness, and self-regulation. This week’s theme is Big Feelings, Small Art, where we use the art form of playing card collage to create a series of emotions cards, understanding the essential features of the emotions that impact us the most.
Adult Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Teen Open Studio Art Therapy Session 2
Teen Open Studio: Creativity and Self-Discovery
Teen Open Studio offers a unique blend of art exploration and self-discovery in a relaxed, supportive environment for teens 13-17 years. Led by a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist, these sessions provide therapeutic benefits to participants as they express themselves through creativity, build skills of objective observation, mindfulness, and self-regulation.
What to Expect:
· Weekly Themes: Each session revolves around a specific theme while allowing participants to explore their individual needs within a group setting.
· Guided Process: The facilitator provides verbal instructions, modeling, and material guidance, helping participants tap into their intuition and creativity.
· Outcomes:
o Identify important thoughts, feelings, and patterns, bringing the unconscious to conscious awareness.
o Process life experiences and emotions.
o Discover joy in the creative process.
o Develop self-trust and the ability to take safe risks.
Important Note:
· While highly therapeutic, Teen Open Studio is not formal therapy. It caters to the general developmental needs of teens and will not involve group verbal processing.
· No prior art or therapy knowledge is required.
· All necessary tools and basic art materials are provided during sessions.
· Participants are welcome to bring their own materials if they have specific preferences or projects in mind.
· Participants must be able to conduct themselves safely and independently in a group setting.
Join us at Teen Open Studio and embark on a journey of self-expression, growth, and creativity! 🎨✨
Dates: 4:30pm-6:00pm October 1, 15, 29; November 12, 26, and December 10th. $55 per individual class.
Registration Opens September 1st, limited to 10 participants.
Adult Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Teen Open Studio Art Therapy
Teen Open Studio: Creativity and Self-Discovery
Teen Open Studio offers a unique blend of art exploration and self-discovery in a relaxed, supportive environment for teens 13-17 years. Led by a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist, these sessions provide therapeutic benefits to participants as they express themselves through creativity, build skills of objective observation, mindfulness, and self-regulation.
What to Expect:
· Weekly Themes: Each session revolves around a specific theme while allowing participants to explore their individual needs within a group setting.
· Guided Process: The facilitator provides verbal instructions, modeling, and material guidance, helping participants tap into their intuition and creativity.
· Outcomes:
o Identify important thoughts, feelings, and patterns, bringing the unconscious to conscious awareness.
o Process life experiences and emotions.
o Discover joy in the creative process.
o Develop self-trust and the ability to take safe risks.
Important Note:
· While highly therapeutic, Teen Open Studio is not formal therapy. It caters to the general developmental needs of teens and will not involve group verbal processing.
· No prior art or therapy knowledge is required.
· All necessary tools and basic art materials are provided during sessions.
· Participants are welcome to bring their own materials if they have specific preferences or projects in mind.
· Participants must be able to conduct themselves safely and independently in a group setting.
Join us at Teen Open Studio and embark on a journey of self-expression, growth, and creativity! 🎨✨
Dates: 4:30pm-6:00pm October 1, 15, 29; November 12, 26, and December 10th. $55 per individual class.
Registration Opens September 1st, limited to 10 participants.
Anchorage Young Cancer Coalition
Monthly Young Cancer Coalition support group for connection and creativity, “Cancer sucks, but at least I met you.”
In This Body
In This Body: Where I have been and Where I Am Going, is a 6 hour therapeutic art workshop. This workshop uses the powerful tool of body mapping to reconnect with your body and your identity through visual processing and story telling. Our bodies are the vessels that hold the experiences of our lives. Body mapping allows us to document, witness, and rewrite that story, transforming our relationship with self.
Join Katie Kajdan Bell, LPC, ATR, for a day of re-connection, reflection, and forging new paths. This workshop will be limited to 12 people.
Anchorage Young Cancer Coalition
Monthly Young Cancer Coalition support group for connection and creativity, “Cancer sucks, but at least I met you.”
Embodied Movement 8 Week Series
Join others in this powerful class of connection and change. Deconstruct harmful beliefs, learn to listen to your body, and move in a way that feels good to you.
Anchorage Young Cancer Coalition
Monthly Young Cancer Coalition support group for connection and creativity, “Cancer sucks, but at least I met you.”
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Anchorage Young Cancer Coalition
Monthly Young Cancer Coalition support group for connection and creativity, “Cancer sucks, but at least I met you.”
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Anchorage Young Cancer Coalition
Monthly Young Cancer Coalition support group for connection and creativity.
Wintering Hearts
For anyone who has encountered grief or loss around the winter holidays, or for anyone that arrives to the darkest time of the year still processing the death of a loved one, the coming months of frenzied, holiday-themed cheer and blissed-out chaos can prove an altogether different and jarring experience than the holiday stories we're sold or advertised.
Wintering Hearts
For anyone who has encountered grief or loss around the winter holidays, or for anyone that arrives to the darkest time of the year still processing the death of a loved one, the coming months of frenzied, holiday-themed cheer and blissed-out chaos can prove an altogether different and jarring experience than the holiday stories we're sold or advertised.
Wintering Hearts
For anyone who has encountered grief or loss around the winter holidays, or for anyone that arrives to the darkest time of the year still processing the death of a loved one, the coming months of frenzied, holiday-themed cheer and blissed-out chaos can prove an altogether different and jarring experience than the holiday stories we're sold or advertised.
Wintering Hearts
For anyone who has encountered grief or loss around the winter holidays, or for anyone that arrives to the darkest time of the year still processing the death of a loved one, the coming months of frenzied, holiday-themed cheer and blissed-out chaos can prove an altogether different and jarring experience than the holiday stories we're sold or advertised.
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Wintering Hearts
For anyone who has encountered grief or loss around the winter holidays, or for anyone that arrives to the darkest time of the year still processing the death of a loved one, the coming months of frenzied, holiday-themed cheer and blissed-out chaos can prove an altogether different and jarring experience than the holiday stories we're sold or advertised.
Whimsical Felted Ornaments
Ready to take a load off and have some fun? Register for the Whimsical Felted Ornaments class with Reggi Parks and craftTable49.com. Enjoy an afternoon of back-to-the-basics sewing and create your one-of-a-kind tree decorations. Have fun and get in the holiday spirit with all the materials and refreshments provided. Register at www.crafttable49.com
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Open Studio will work with weekly themes that allow each participant to explore their individual needs in a group setting through the creative process. The facilitator will guide participants through verbal instructions, modeling, and materials guidance. Participants will learn to trust their own intuition to get the most from each session. Outcomes you might experience from session include:
Learn to identify important thoughts, feelings, and patterns by bringing the unconscious experience to the conscious image
Enjoy new set of skills to enhance your life
Process life experiences
Unlock creative potential and push past blocks
Learn to trust yourself and take safe risks
While highly therapeutic, these sessions are not therapy. Open Studio is designed to cater to the community in general; you don’t have to know anything about art or therapy to be a great fit! Participants do not need to bring anything as all the necessary tools and basic art materials are provided for each session. Participants are welcome to bring their own materials for personal preference or specific projects if they wish.
Register Here
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Open Studio will work with weekly themes that allow each participant to explore their individual needs in a group setting through the creative process. The facilitator will guide participants through verbal instructions, modeling, and materials guidance. Participants will learn to trust their own intuition to get the most from each session. Outcomes you might experience from session include:
Learn to identify important thoughts, feelings, and patterns by bringing the unconscious experience to the conscious image
Enjoy new set of skills to enhance your life
Process life experiences
Unlock creative potential and push past blocks
Learn to trust yourself and take safe risks
While highly therapeutic, these sessions are not therapy. Open Studio is designed to cater to the community in general; you don’t have to know anything about art or therapy to be a great fit! Participants do not need to bring anything as all the necessary tools and basic art materials are provided for each session. Participants are welcome to bring their own materials for personal preference or specific projects if they wish.
Register Here
Wintering Hearts
For anyone who has encountered grief or loss around the winter holidays, or for anyone that arrives to the darkest time of the year still processing the death of a loved one, the coming months of frenzied, holiday-themed cheer and blissed-out chaos can prove an altogether different and jarring experience than the holiday stories we're sold or advertised.
If this echoes your experience, or mirrors your apprehension about the weeks ahead, Wintering Hearts is designed with you in mind. Through a blend of group dialogue, readings, writing prompts, and other creative exercises, Wintering Hearts aims to give participants a safe place to explore the impacts of their individual experiences of grief over the course of the holiday season in a supportive, structured, and creative environment.
There is no requirement or expectation that participants must engage in all 8 sessions. There are individual drop-in fees per session, or one can pay to attend all 8 sessions at a lower rate. However, since space and materials will be limited, it will be helpful to get a rough idea of numbers starting out ahead of November 8. I encourage folks to reach out, bombard me with questions, and to sign up early.
The group will meet November 8, 15, & 29, December 6, 13, 20, & 27, and January 3, 2024.
I am happy to entertain questions and unpack details and specifics with providers or potential participants as needed. Please contact me at either jonathanbowertherapy@gmail.com, or at jonathan@jonathanbowertherapy.com. You’re also welcome to call my office line at 907-891-0217 if phone is easier.
Open Studio Art Therapy
Open Studio introduces you to the therapeutic benefits of art making with a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist in a relaxed community setting. This community group is ideal for adults looking to improve self-support skills, engage more deeply in their life, and build connection with others.
Open Studio will work with weekly themes that allow each participant to explore their individual needs in a group setting through the creative process. The facilitator will guide participants through verbal instructions, modeling, and materials guidance. Participants will learn to trust their own intuition to get the most from each session. Outcomes you might experience from session include:
Learn to identify important thoughts, feelings, and patterns by bringing the unconscious experience to the conscious image
Enjoy new set of skills to enhance your life
Process life experiences
Unlock creative potential and push past blocks
Learn to trust yourself and take safe risks
While highly therapeutic, these sessions are not therapy. Open Studio is designed to cater to the community in general; you don’t have to know anything about art or therapy to be a great fit! Participants do not need to bring anything as all the necessary tools and basic art materials are provided for each session. Participants are welcome to bring their own materials for personal preference or specific projects if they wish.