This eight-week virtual program is designed to promote healing in four areas: mind, body, spirit and connection, with the overall goal of increasing your sense of personal wholeness. Enter your information below to register for this event.
About ImagineWHOLENESS
Arts & Healing Virtual Program
We are creative beings. Every day we paint the picture of who we are and who we want to be with colors, textures and lines. The creative side of us is especially important when we look for ways to express ourselves. We scribble our feelings onto paper, press them into clay or use paint to brush a canvas with just the right color.
People have been engaged in the arts since the beginning of time. One of the most exciting phrases ever spoken comes from the Old Testament story of creation when God said, “Let there be” and, as a result, “there was.” This is the spark of God placed within us – the ability to create. We sing songs to celebrate birthdays. We listen to music when we want to relax or feel certain emotions. Sometimes when we can’t find the right words, we draw, even when we don’t consider ourselves to be artists. When we take photos we never forget where we were and what we were feeling when we took that photo. And who has never told a story? When we want to share the facts of our lives we start with, “You won’t believe…” or “Yesterday, I…” and a story emerges.
What are the arts? They include everything from listening to music and drawing a picture to
storytelling and molding clay. We expect you to have fun, but we also expect you to grow. We are all artists in some way. Every time we listen to a story, experience an event or imagine the future, we are “drawing” pictures in our heads. Sometimes we keep the pictures and sometimes we adapt them over time. Likewise, there is sound everywhere. There is the sound of nature (rain, lakes, wind), daily life (traffic, entertainment, conversations) and various types of music – some of which we like and some we don’t like. And in all of this, there is rhythm – in music, in how we live our lives and in the seasons that follow each other. We are creating stories with our lives and we express these stories with a variety of “arts.”
We have only begun to realize the effect of creative arts on healing our hearts and minds. ImagineWHOLENESS, the Arts & Healing Virtual Program, aims to improve whole-person health through a variety of activities connected to the arts. We look forward to experiencing wholeness together.
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