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 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 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

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 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

Wondering what art therapy is? Come and join Katie Kajdan Bell of Art Therapy AK LLC for a brief presentation with some art making! We will cover the differences between art therapy and therapeutic art making, and have a great time in the process. Best of it, it is FREE!

Reggi Parks is joining the Making Space community for a single event so don’t miss it! Reggi has been building community and healing others as a special education teacher for over 25 years. She has shared her creativity with others to make sure that children who need it most get the education and support they deserve . During the pandemic, she found self-support and healing by exercising her creativity in a different way: making arts and crafts! Please join Reggi at Making Space to help support her in continuing on her creative path. Cash or Venmo accepted.