“Jill humbly offers space and experience that is invaluable in this society.
During the workshop I discovered parts of me that were so hidden but so ready to be released.
All the things I was afraid of all of a sudden felt really good, and I couldn’t get enough.”
— Frank
Workshop: Painting your relationship to your parents
Whether we live near or far from our parents, they’re dead or alive, we talk to them often or don’t speak to them at all, our relationship to them has a powerful effect on our well-being.
For 2 hours, once a week, for a month…
We will unearth and transmute our feelings in relationship to our parents through the mediums of painting and movement, so we may connect with the embodied knowing of our desires.
Ways you may benefit from this exploration:
Learn about your identity within the family and apart from the family.
Accept who your parents are and what they’ve passed onto you, and then…do better.
Get clear on how you want to relate to them and how often
Have a relationship with them that is more in line with your needs and desires
Gain artistic skill and intuition, and learn how to use art to express and connect with yourself
Become more in tune with your body’s wisdom
Important notes:
You do not need to be an artist or have any skill in painting to participate. I will teach you what is needed to begin.
This is not about it looking a certain way or being beautiful and presentable. The canvas will serve as a portal for your honest expression to arrive through. This may be something you never show to your parents or others outside of this container. And that is okay :)
Make sure you can make it to all 4 sessions. (I understand life happens) But with a class size of 3, your presence makes a big difference!
Your painting may not be “finished” by the end of the workshop, just as your relationship with your parents may never be perfectly “solved”. It’s a dynamic, ongoing discovery.
Logistics:
When: TBD (each session is two hours)
Where: Jill and Garrett’s home studio space