Meditation & Art Group for Adults - The Heart Way Holistic Coaching and Counseling

For Adults

Meditation & Art Group

If you are looking for a meditation and art group for adults, this it! This group meets for 2 ½ hours on one Saturday each month and offers a unique blend of meditation and art. It is designed for anyone seeking a creative way to connect with their inner parts—whether it’s the smaller, more vulnerable aspects of ourselves, the challenging parts, or those in need of attention. This group also serves as a supportive outlet for managing stress from daily family or work life. Meditation and art can be especially helpful for those navigating anxiety or depression. It’s important to note that past experiences needing support and healing may naturally surface in our artwork, offering an opportunity to see, process, and transform them over time. As we work with meditation, journaling, and expressive arts, we are taking care of our brain and body connection by listening, attending, and providing space for what Bonnie Badenoch, Ph.D. calls, “our inner community” in a nurturing, compassionate, and safe space.

This group is a welcoming space for everyone, fostering a community of individuals who are exploring, curious, and committed to cultivating greater compassion, empathy, and self-understanding. Healing thrives in connection, and together we create a space where vulnerability and open-heartedness are embraced.

We will begin each session with a guided meditation, gently connecting with our bodies through a compassionate awareness practice. Following the meditation, we will spend time journaling to deepen our awareness and connection with our whole selves—engaging with memories, thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that may arise.

Each session provides opportunities to share and connect in pairs or as a group, with no pressure to participate beyond your comfort level. From there, we will transition into art-making, using tools such as collage, painting, or mixed media to explore what wants to emerge—whether it’s something needing expression, support, nurturing, soothing, attention, or simply to be seen.

This creative process may help us connect with parts of ourselves that have been hidden in the shadows, pushed aside, or tucked into small spaces within. Since intense emotions may surface during this work, developing supportive resources through collage and art will be a key part of the process. These tools can not only assist you during the sessions but can also be practiced at home to nurture and sustain your ongoing journey.If you’ve explored my bio, you’ll know that I am certified as a psychedelic-assisted therapist and currently provide ketamine-assisted therapy. When working with psychedelic medicines, integration is a crucial part of processing the healing experience. Integration involves intentionally exploring, understanding, and incorporating the insights, lessons, and experiences from psychedelic work into your daily life.

There are many strategies and practices to support integration, and this group’s focus on meditation and art offers a meaningful and creative approach. Through meditation, you can connect more deeply with what has arisen during your psychedelic work, including challenging parts, insights, and lessons. Art—through collage, painting, or mixed media—can further allow you to explore and express these experiences, helping you stay connected to, understand, and digest what has surfaced.

This integration process is deeply personal and unfolds uniquely for each individual over time. Meditation and art provide powerful tools to support awareness, healing, and authentic connection with yourself. However, if you feel you need more structured or individualized support, working with an experienced psychedelic-assisted therapist can offer additional guidance and care to further your integration journey.

The mission for this group is:

To create a space where meditation and art serve as pathways to connect with the whole self or the aspects that emerge to express what lies within—allowing them to be welcomed, witnessed, accepted, healed, and integrated.
To support a group process where people can develop a connection to their bodies and awaken an inner awareness and relationship with one’s self through meditation, journaling, collaging, or art!
To provide a space where people feel SAFE to share, explore and play in community of others. Healing unfolds and expands in relational experience of safety and connection as we meditate, pair up to share experiences, and paint side by side.
To include the experiences of psychedelic medicines that need understanding, digesting, and integrating over time to incorporate into new perspectives and new ways of being in daily life.

$100 per session (2.5 hours each month)
$35 supply fee (one time only)

Holiday Registration Special

$330 for 4 sessions
$35 supply fee (one time only)

2025 DATES

Saturdays, 10am – 12.30pm

January 18
February 15th
March 15th
April 19th
May 17th

2025 Meditation & Art Group for Adults

Objectives

To build a meditation practice, developing a deep connection with the whole self while integrating crystal bowls sounds and drumming to support this process.
Meditation and art will bring us together to feel connected, safe in community, and allowing space for whatever wants to show up. All parts of us are welcomed! Meditation will also support grounding that is essential in such a fast-paced world of family life, school, children, homework, and work life and help us to slow down, ground, and connect.
Learn about our inner community and parts through the lens of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and creating art to express these relationships.
Learning to perceive our emotions as teachers that can lead or guide us into a deeper understanding of ourselves.
To support and provide safety to move into uncomfortable experiences, memories, feelings, sensations to heal our inner community through meditation, journaling and art.
Developing and strengthening our inner and outer resources through collaging, drawing, or painting that you keep with you to reinforce support, nurture, protection, safety, and guidance.
We will also develop a spiritual biography, journaling, and art to support our resources beyond ourselves.

For Adults