Art Exploration For Emotional Healing - by Shannon Moyer

COURSE

Art Exploration For Emotional Healing

With Shannon Moyer

This course brings together the beautiful elements of healing elements of guided visualization and art exploration for emotional healing and awareness. We will use principles and elements of art and design for emotional healing - really looking with open curiosity into who we are and why we feel the way we do. You will learn how to use concepts like line, form, color, and shadow to better understand yourself and your emotions. We will pair lessons with guided visualization.

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Meet your Teacher

Shannon Moyer
London, ON, Canada

Shannon Moyer-Szemenyei is a holistic counselor, author, and meditation instructor in London, Ontario, Canada. In her practice, she teaches meditation, therapeutic writing, and art therapy and has used these modalities as effective tools for healing, trauma, mental health, labour and birth, as well as postpartum recovery. Her desire is to help others find life on the other side of fear and hope on the other side of darkness through writing, art, therapy, and meditation.

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15 Days

2.4k students

4.6 stars

13 min / day

Performance

English

Lesson 1

How Art & Visualization Lead To Emotional Freedom

In our first lesson, we will discuss the elements and principles of art and design, looking at them through the lens of emotional awareness. We discuss what to expect through the following days of the course, and what supplies you will need to have on hand to maximize your emotional exploration with art and visualization. Finally, we end with a breath awareness technique to help you tap into the right side of your brain, your centre of creativity.

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Lesson 2

Calm Place Visualization

In this lesson, we will learn about the "calm place" - a safe, grounded, and neutral place that exists within us that we can use for de-escalation during times of emotional discord. We will also discuss why transforming this calm place through artwork is an important foundational step toward emotional healing, using the elements of shape, colour, form, and space.

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Lesson 3

Introduction To Colour Theory

Colour psychology and the emotional connection to colour is a fascinating topic. In today's lesson, we will unpack classical association to certain colour, discuss what it means to be pulled to or resistant against colour, and end with a challenge of gaining authority over our emotions by assigning colours to them.

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Lesson 4

Using Box Imagery To Release

Box imagery can be very telling of our emotional state. Not only does it give a place where we can put discomfort, we can also examine details of the box which can give us more information about the complexities of our emotions. In this lesson, we look at texture, shape, and form and students are encouraged to construct their box from found materials that resemble what they saw during meditation.

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Lesson 5

Using Line, Shape & Form For Emotional Exploration

In this lesson, we will use abstract line, shape, and form to explore our emotions. Line can give such great insight into how even or disrupted an emotion is, while shape and form can place importance, weight, and dimension on our emotions. This lesson is best paired with your sketch book and simple drawing pencils.

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Lesson 6

Future Outlook

Goal setting isn't something that is often approached from an emotional lens. In today's lesson, we take a look at our future outlook - what it means to have authority over our path, decisions, and steps forward. We seek to undo narratives that have been taught to us about productivity and performance, and we use art to create a vision for ourselves based on what we emotionally want and need.

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Lesson 7

Colour Association For De-Escalation

Expanding from our lesson on Day 3, today's lesson is about leaning into the opposite colour of our discomfort, so as to bring about emotional ease. We also introduce the element of breath, using it with visualization to diffuse uncomfortable emotions.

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Lesson 8

Dual Self Portrait

In this lesson, we take a look at the pieces of ourselves that we keep hidden from the world and the reasons why. Similarly, we look at the version of ourselves that we allow others to see. Then, we seek to understand why the two images may not match up perfectly, and how life could be different if we showed who you truly are inside.

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Lesson 9

Exploring Shadows

Today, we explore shadow and value - both physical and metaphorical. As we step into the emotional shadows that we lean into during times of unraveling, we explore those shadows with open curiosity and embrace them as parts of ourselves. Then, we dig out our art supplies and bring them forward in a physical way, so as to normalize that we all have shadows.

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Lesson 10

Proportion & Heightened Emotions

On Day 10, we take a look at proportion (scale) and heightened emotions. How big or small an individual emotion feels can give us incredible insight as to how we react to those things. For example, if we assign a small proportion to shame, the natural reaction to a shameful feeling would be relatively neutral. However, if shame is something of grand scale, our reaction and internalization of it carries a great deal of impact. In this lesson, we approach heightened emotions while looking at how big or small they are within us.

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Lesson 11

Symbols & Emotions

Similar to the lesson about colour, certain symbols have been taught overtime to have weight with emotions. A white dove may symbolize peace to one person, while holding grief for another. In this lesson, we dig into those traditional symbols and assign our own meaning to them, joining them with our individual emotions.

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Lesson 12

Affirmations & Doodling

Using ink (pen or marker) with paper, we seek to get creative with affirmations! We will begin with simple affirmations and "I am" statements and use our drawings to develop a positive self-talk practice rooted in affirmation and art.

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Lesson 13

Positive & Negative Space

As the title for Day 13 suggests, today we are looking at the balance between positive and negative. Within the elements of art and design, positive and negative spaces can put emphasis on certain elements in a piece of art, creating balance and unity, or heightening contrast and disharmony. When we apply this lesson to our emotional wellness, we are able to see contrast, balance and unity in a new way. This lesson will magnify areas of our emotional wellbeing that need tending to.

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Lesson 14

Thought Warrior Portraiture

This practice makes sense of both positive and negative (building off on our last lesson) thoughts by drawing them out in a left and right portraiture. We take a look at what each side means, and what emotional connections are there depending on the side we instinctively choose to write the thoughts on.

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Lesson 15

A Dedication To Self

In this final session, I teach students about expanding their practice by leaning into colours that pull them, what it means to feel resistance to an art exploration activity, and that with art there are no rules other than using the tools regularly to help achieve a higher level of emotional awareness and healing.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 82 community questions and 68 audio replies from Shannon Moyer. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Brian

March 17, 2024

This is a great course and covers a lot of ground. It helped challenge me with questions and tasks to perceive, feel and express myself. I recommend this series to anybody wanting to create and learn more about themselves.

Maky

May 23, 2023

This course was very healing for me. For the past 10 years I have not been creating art consistently. It has been very challenging for me to view myself as an artist and to reconnect with that part of myself. This course helped me so much with that And I actually created sketches that I feel good about while completing this course. It has given me so many ideas to continue to explore my creative and artistic self while also being in touch with my emotions. I would recommend this for anyone even if you don’t view yourself as an artist or a creative person.

Tonia

March 4, 2022

Inspiring and practical course. I’ll be going through a second time creating the art, which I’ve always found Therapeutic. 💕🙏

DALTON

December 6, 2021

Amazing. Whether you have a background in art and design, or you've only doodled in the margins, you'll walk away with some great new tools here. The curriculum is great, the teacher is above and beyond. Highly recommend both.

Sara

May 11, 2021

I really loved this course. I took several months to complete it, but day 15 was perfect timing as I was reexamining my priorities. I have been struggling to make time for art because it felt selfish. Art is essential work to borrow the COVID catch phrase. This course has given me new insight into my art and what it reflects.

Patti

April 18, 2021

I absolutely loved this course. Shannon is an amazing teacher! I honestly and truly recommend this course to everyone. Even, no especially to those that say, "but I don't know how to draw." You draw for no one but yourself. But you learn so much through what you draw. You will be amazed at the emotions that come to the surface and you are able to face, deal with, let go of. It's a beautiful course for so many reasons. And you won't find a better teacher than Shannon. Thank You Shannon for teaching me so much about art and my emotions. I am going to keep this going by keeping a daily art journal for myself.

Nancy

March 13, 2021

Thanks for this..it flowed smoothly and lots of good information. I like your intonation and flow making it easy to digest

p0sitivefl0w

March 11, 2021

Excellent course. Thank you Shannon!😊

Gretchen

March 1, 2021

Love how relatable the wisdom of this course is even if one is not an artist. The practices are very soothing too!

Laurie

February 27, 2021

This course has given me confidence to bring more creativity into my daily life, thank you!

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