WORKSHOPS

NEAR responds to local, regional, national and global events. We listen, design and create platforms and workshops for expression via visual arts, music, writing, theater, dance, ceremony, and the symbolic. 

We provide trauma-informed expressive arts focused workshops to individuals, families, communities, and schools. We offer clients a variety of integrated expressive arts modalities to discover, tell their stories, and create healthy living narratives.

VISUAL ARTS

collage, sculpting, clay, painting, building

DRAMATIC ARTS

playback theater, storytelling, writing and acting in plays

MOVEMENT AND SOUND

body awareness, music, dance, movement, breath and sound therapies

SYMBOLIC

sandtray, play therapy, metaphor

LANGUAGE ARTS

poetry, writing, journaling, stories

CEREMONY/RITUAL

seasonal, personal, cultural, familial, transitional

 Expressive arts in therapy support healing in the areas of anxiety, depression, trauma, fear, anger, stress, relationship issues, family and cultural challenges, and help celebrate healthy change and achievement.