CREATIVE LIFE CENTRE
Cultivating community through accessible artsand wellbeing experiences for all.
Teachers: Waveney Grace-Thode & Dee Petit
This 4-day workshop offers you an opportunity
to transform your life in ways yet only dreamed
of. We will take a journey into the
heart where you will begin to “remember who you really are” and
awaken the master within.
You are so much more than you think you are at this moment!
The Awakening the Illuminated Heart® workshops are created for
you to “Awaken your Heart”. You will receive precise
instructions on how to enter the new world – Ascension.
Senior dance and arts therapist – TBA
WHO IS THIS FOR: This workshop is aimed at parents of special needs children and professionals in this sector (including teacher aides and support staff)
WORKSHOP INCLUDES:
Facilitators: Jacqui O’Connor and Dee Petit
BeYOUtiful is an eight week program that equips young women aged 9-13 years old to discover their full potential in a fun creative space.
Our Vision: To help young women find confidence within and to teach them tools and straegies to help them to be their BeYOUtiful self inside and out.
Our Mission: We support and encourage young women to be their authentic self. To inspire and gain self-confidence, self-worth and self-care through self-love. To BE YOU and LOVE YOU.
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Artist: Brodie Reynolds
Brodie Reynolds is based in Raglan, New Zealand. She works predominantly with oil paint to create mystical landscapes, both real, and imagined. As a young student, Brodie was accepted into the British Institute of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. It was here that she cultivated a deep learning for classical painting and drawing techniques. She then went on to complete her Visual Arts Diploma at AUT in Auckland and later attended The Hampstead School of Decorative Arts in London, to learn the delicate methods of tromp l’oeil, frescoes and marbling. Brodie’s most recent works delve into the conversations of nature’s elements, and the exciting unveiling of a precious moment in time.
“It is at that point where I feel there is a world of infinite possibilities”. I love the delicate relationship between chaos and stillness. One cannot be felt without the other.”
Linda has been a watercolour painter for some years and has recently become an illustrator of children’s books, a dream job come true for her. She would love to pass on her knowledge to new artists or to those who think they may like to explore this rewarding medium. Her style is traditional and the course will cover basic skills so that you will be ready to branch out and develop your own style.
Drawing skills are not necessary.
Artist: Annie Newall
Annie is best known for her quirky wearable art creations made from crazy collections of recycled building products, discarded objects and illuminated fabrics and paint teamed with a bucket loads of wild imagination and sense of play. Annie is passionate in her exploration and expression of art through a variety of mediums as a Collage Artist. She works with photographic images, fabrics, printing and clay using interests in present and passed life events and experiences for inspiration
“Staying present to the simple joy of playful creation and sharing this creativity with others, no matter what age or experience, is truly satisfying”
Facilitator: Evelyn Davis
Oral story telling strengthens relationships, fosters oral literacy (which is the foundation of written literacy) empowering children to find their own voices as storytellers as well.
I will introduce different ways to tell stories, including table top puppets, dramatic play, theatre, play-dough, book-making and the arts. And more.
Continue reading “Playful storytelling and oral literacy”Facilitator: Evelyn Davis
A key factor in determining whether a child becomes extrinsically or intrinsically motivated is the way we, as teachers or parents, respond to their efforts and achievements.
This workshop will explore how unearned “automatic pilot” praise can interfere with significant learning opportunities and dispositions. We will investigate and refine alternative responses and gain an understanding as to how certain responses can either foster or diminish a powerful “growth” mindset in children.
There will be discussion concerning recent and relevant research, particularly by Carol Dweck, on growth and fixed mindsets. We will consider why some young children are happy to give something a go and take on a challenge without being afraid of making mistakes, compared to other children who are reluctant to attempt something new for fear of failure.
Facilitator: Evelyn Davis
Everybody knows the apocryphal story of the child at Christmas who abandons his shiny new toy in order to explore the cardboard box in which it arrived. Often, we seem to try too hard to provide the shiny, the new and the plastic and fail to appreciate the beauty and potential of ‘loose parts’.
With loose parts, children are free to create and make unexpected connections, which forms the heart of creativity. Too often toys and construction sets have a very limited range of possible assembly strategies, leaving little room for the child’s imaginative input.
Continue reading “Resourceful resources”Facilitator: Evelyn Davis
How do we foster learning dispositions and growth mindsets? Starting from our own experiences as adult learners, this workshop engages participants in a lively, practical journey, leading us to a thought-provoking appreciation of how we can support life long learning founded on meaningful experiences in early childhood. Based on neuroscientific research and the work of Carol Dweck, Alison Gopnik and Guy Claxton.