Mindfulness and Creativity: a Half Day Workshop with Mary Beth Druery

Mindfulness Hamilton Presents

A half day mindfulness workshop held on Zoom

April 23 2021

Mindfulness and Creativity:

Falling awake to life through creative expression

Description:

Explore your creative self and experience creativity as a mindfulness practice. Grow your ability to bring creativity and mindfulness into your daily activities. This interactive and experiential workshop offers creative practices to cultivate curiosity, an attitude of open inquiry, and a willingness to stay with the process without expectation. You will be guided to:

• Tap into your inner creativity

• Engage your playful self with simple creative activities

• Experience meditation using art

• Create your own mandala as a focus for meditation

• Practice bringing mindfulness into each part of the creative process

• Explore mindful attitudes through expressing your creative self

• Gain an experiential understanding of the connections between creative practice and mindfulness practice

We’ll use a variety of media including music, visual, movement, and writing in a non-judging, respectful environment where no artistic experience or perceived skill is needed. Bring any of the following with you: paper, pen or pencil, and any markers, pencil crayons, crayons, paints, or pastels that you have available.

Bio

Marybeth Leis Druery is an Expressive Arts facilitator, visual artist, and Spiritual Director, offering individual or group spiritual companioning for individuals of diverse faith or non-religious backgrounds to practice mindfulness and explore meaning. She co-founded the local charity Student Open Circles in 2001, where she facilitates weekly reflection, mindfulness, and creativity circles, personal development courses, retreats, leadership development, and engages McMaster University students to volunteer in groups with Hamilton’s underserved communities.

Marybeth received her B.Ed. at the University of Western Ontario, is a trained Spiritual Director through the Ontario Jubilee program, and holds an Expressive Arts Practitioner Graduate Certificate through Haliburton School of Art and Design. She is committed to working towards a world in which we value and care for each other, while living lightly on the earth. She deepens her journey through practices from diverse spiritual traditions, art, dreamwork, body awareness, and meditation. She loves people, painting, reading, and Hamilton’s downtown and green spaces.

www.StudentOpenCircles.com www.MarybethLeisDruery.ca

Questions? mindfulnessmamilton@gmail.com

Website: mindfulnesshamilton.ca