Workshops

We gather individuals for creative experiences that nourish and reconnect them back to the wildness and freedom within themselves. Grief Stitching Circles, Weaving as Meditation and Expressive Arts Journaling are our core workshops.

We emphasise the experience of creating, not the outcome. We centre:

• The process: Imagination, playfulness, experimentation, messiness, ‘ugly art,’ and joy.
• Invitational and self paced experiences. Respond with the art materials and techniques in any ways that interest you or ‘feel right.’
• We do not offer step by step instructions, there is no ‘masterpiece’ to replicate or compare your work to.
• Curiosity. We demonstrate techniques and then let curiosity lead. Create intuitively. Choose to stay totally in your comfort zone, create at your edges or go completely rogue and emergent. Engage in ways that offer yourself full autonomy.
• Diverse range of materials. We source locally, vintage and recycled, sustainable, eco friendly materials and tools and we incorporate nature as much as possible.

Purpose of our Therapeutic Workshops:

• Courageous self expression
• Re-establishing Identity
• Re-spark joy and our sense of freedom
• Emotional regulation and emotional literacy
• Grief and Loss work
• Foster innate creativity 
• Scaffold intentional, sustainable, arts based routines that nourish and support wellbeing and healing.
• Relational – gathering together fosters wellbeing, disrupts our sense of aloneness & bears witness to our self expression and humanity. Belonging matters.
• Compassionate self care. Slowing down, setting aside time for you is valuable and necessary. We use intentionally slow art making processes to foster recalibration of weary, screen fatigued minds and body’s. Incorporate slow stitching, crochet, knitting, weaving, spinning, natural dyeing, ink and pigment making into your wellbeing practices.

Our expressive arts workshops are not art classes, they are facilitated by passionate and experienced, registered expressive arts therapists. Every workshop is thoughtfully curated for a wide variety of personalised experiences. If you are a nervous, beginner creative you are so welcome here.  

Our Workshops are always changing, to stay informed pop on our workshop wait list here

We also offer Focus Groups  and Women’s Circles which are intentional gatherings for regular self exploration, self expression & living out new ways of being within a collective. They are formed around a theme and are closed, gathering for a specified time such as 8 sessions weekly or our year long program that gathers monthly. Some examples of Focus groups are - Women’s Circle, capacity building group, navigating midlife transitions, grief & loss, palliative care and dying.

The Stitching Pharmacy

The Stitching Pharmacy Community is a soft landing place for women navigating grief & loss in midlife and during life transitions. A gathering for slow stitching, textile art making, and the quiet work of tending to grief one stitch at a time. This is a paid membership Community facilitated by Rochelle.

Yes I do festivals, social groups and private / corporate functions. Contact me here.

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