Creative Connections with the Land:
Online Environmental Arts Therapy Group
with Art Therapist Sarah West
Tuesdays, Feb 16 – March 23, 2021
1:00 – 3:00 PM Online via Zoom
Come and engage creatively with the land and your fellow community members through a weekly, online environmental arts therapy group.
We will discover ways of creatively engaging with nature, indoors and outside. By working with natural materials and ecological concepts, we invite you to deepen connection within ourselves, with each other and the natural world. Creatively engaging the land can inform our lives, help us listen to the land’s stories, and interact in a spirit of reciprocity.
The group is open to anyone interested in working with the land and growing their ecological connection.
Art Therapist Bio:
Sarah West is an environmental arts therapist, trained at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. Through her therapeutic arts and consulting practice, Earthen Vision, Sarah works alongside individuals and organizations to engage with the land, creativity and story to imagine possibilities, nurture wellbeing and facilitate connections. As an avid mythology and folklore enthusiast, she also facilitates how working with story may breathe wonder, transformation, and meaning into our way of being.
With 10 years of experience leading consultations and policy on environmental issues working with governments and Indigenous communities, Sarah has always grounded her work with a lifelong practice of connecting deeply with the land. She also holds a Master’s in public administration and an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology and peace studies.
Sarah lives and practices in person and online, amongst the mist-covered mountains and turquoise waters of Nelson, British Columbia.
Many thanks to The Gallery at Qualicum Art Supply for their support of the Art Open Studio program.