Our education curriculum include the healing arts and modalities with subjects as diverse as holistic wellness, ancient wisdom practices, arts and culture, sustainable & organic lifestyles for personal & spiritual development that stimulates the imagination and invention in people.
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Eight artists from diverse cultural backgrounds living in Auckland are working together to teach a wide range of original practices in an open art space that offer opportunities of self-development in one’s individual art practice. As a collective that teaches various modalities of art, we help participants to use different materials to produce artwork that is relevant to them. Even if students don’t think of themselves as creative, we want to create an environment that encourages them to have fun and be playful in their art.
The ART Collective Project offers you the opportunity to uncover and develop your artistic creative talents for beginners and emerging artists. With assistance from our collective creative artists, you will be inspired and gently guided into using the mediums of palette knife painting, watercolour, acrylic, life drawing, print making, collage, creative ink art, and sewn textile fibre art. As with all creative processes it offers a therapeutic environment to be nourished by. No experience is necessary, just a desire to create!
Our students/participants are always encouraged to explore and express the wonderment of ART through wide range of mediums. Through discovery and play one uncovers personal jewels that lay beneath the surface.
More information about the ART Collective:
https://www.facebook.com/ArtCollectiveProject
https://shilohcentre.org.nz/art-collective/
Currently Shiloh is seeking financial support in assisting us with our collaborative 2025 art project with the ART Collective being, “Outside the Box FREE Flow “, offering 98 art classes throughout Auckland.
Outside the Box – FREE FLOW offers outside the box creative play-flowing experiences for individuals to find the artist within, capturing the moments in time, in safe art spaces that allow our creative genius to unwind, to let go, engage with a subject in nature, sit by the sea shore to capture the sunrise, paint garden flowers, and forest trees and reconnect with the authentic ME. Watch this space Auckland!
Back 2 Basics is a 6-week program that is a face to face, interactive, educational experience with Naturopath Shirley Tuffery who teaches youth, women and men to understand the basics of our physiology and how the body systems all work together as a functioning whole (nothing exists in isolation). This foundational theory will be balanced out with the practical hands-on cooking experience with and Empowerment Life Coach & Cook Dee Petit , using seasonal fruits, vegetables and nutrient rich ingredients which will focus on experiencing how easy it can be to sustain healthy families by providing simple, nutritious, cost-effective meals.
The core aim of Back to Basics, is to demonstrate how we feel and function when in a state of wellbeing and how we can learn to take self-responsibility by being equipped with the tools to make better lifestyle choices. Thus, not only preventing illness, but achieving vibrant health, strength, and vitality.
Our goal is to provide educational and practical knowledge that is easy to implement, enabling participants to make healthy lifestyle choices to balance body and mind. Promoting a healthy lifestyle in the home and raising healthy children ensures positive happy attitudes that encourage all to actively contribute to our communities.
At the end of the course, the participants will understand the basics of the human body and its functions and the connection between physical and mental health. The meal preparations, using a variety of simple, tasty and cost-effective recipes, will encourage the participants to integrate and apply the learned knowledge and cooking skills into their daily lives using the practical skills and techniques taught during the six-week program.
The focus is on education, self-responsibility, empowerment, wellness, and prevention. We aim to provide basic knowledge that will form a solid foundation for future generations.
Date: 5 March thru 9 April 2025
Time: Wednesdays 10:00am – 2:30 pm
Location: Onehunga Community Hub – 83 Church Street, Onehunga Auckland
FREE Community Programme – 12 spaces available
To contact us about this programme please fill in enquiry form below.
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Women’s Support Circle provide a safe space for healing and growth. This circle utilizes a strengths-based, supportive approach interwoven with culturally responsive frameworks such as Te Whare Tapa Wha to emphasize interconnected wellbeing across mental, physical, spiritual, and familial domains and the Tree of Life model, that encourages reflection on personal strengths, resources, and support systems.
Exploring holistic wellbeing through expressive arts, participants can explore their experiences nonverbally, as well as verbally, this can foster safety, while creating transformation. Integrating these frameworks, the circle aims to empower women to reclaim their narratives, cultivate resilience and creativity, and foster a sense of agency in their healing journeys.
This established 12-week programme has been offered through the Shiloh Creative Life Centre Charitable Trust since 2021. Shiloh’s team are in collaboration with Maclaurin Chapel @ Auckland University to offer this circle for women seeking support in a therapeutic, safe community circle of women.
Our weekly contact consists of nine on-line two-hour zoom calls on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm and 3 in-person Wednesday evening gatherings @ Maclaurin Chapel at Auckland University to support womens’ in connecting together, and encouraging friendships to be formed. Throughout the programme women will be supported to explore life issues creatively to enhance overall well-being. Coming together in a safe space, women can experience a sense of belonging, release stress and creative restoration within a community that enhances their lives.
For more details: https://shilohcentre.org.nz/2025-womens-support-circle/
Date: 26 MARCH THRU 11 JUNE 2025
Time: Wednesdays 6:30pm -8:30pm
FREE participation for 8 women this term
To contact us about this programme please fill in registration form below.