Rediscovering Your Inner Artist

Exploring the Magic of Mark-Making

Connect and work with your feelings and emotions by channeling your inner artist! Join artist and licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration^® Consultant and Trainer Sue Barclay B.A. for a 2.5 hour online workshop that will engage your creative imagination in fun and surprising new ways.

What You’ll Learn

• Explore new ways of working with your feelings and emotions by using simple art and mark-making practices
• Overcome any initial blocks to creative and artistic expression
• Shed light on your personal story
• Engage in dialogues with your emotions
• Use mark-making and art as a helpful way of regulating and tuning in to your emotions
• Create healing relationships with your emotions and your self
• Have some fun!

Workshop Details

Length: One 2.5 hour live Zoom session

Date: Sunday, October 8, 2023 from 10am to 12:30pm Pacific Time

Price: $35 USD

Learning and Interaction Structure: We’ll meet on the Zoom video conferencing program. (Please download Zoom here for free if you don’t have it yet.)

Materials required: Plain paper or a sketch book and any combination of the following: easy to use color pencils, pens, chalks, pastels, or paints.

This workshop is suitable for: Everyone who is interested in learning more about themselves and their emotions using art and mark-making practices. No previous art experience is required!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I haven’t made any art since pre-school, can I still do this workshop?

A: Yes, this workshop is designed for everyone, and absolutely no previous art experience is required.

Q: What does mark-making mean?

A: Mark-making is a very natural thing to do when you realize that you are free to draw and make marks in any way that comes naturally to you; there is no right or wrong way to make marks on paper. Art and mark-making practices are simple ways you can work with your feelings and emotions, and the various marks/images which arise are unique to each individual.

Q: Does everyone have an ‘inner artist’?

A: Yes, but perhaps you have not yet realized this. Making art of any kind is an innate quality in us, but often we have not grown up believing this. Each one of us has our own unique creative imagination.

Q: Do I have to show my drawings to anyone?

A: No, you are free to choose if you wish to share your drawings with others in the group or not. You are exploring new ways of channeling and working with your feelings and emotions, and the marks you make and the images that emerge are personal to you.

About the Instructor

Sue Barclay

Sue Barclay is double licensed as a Dynamic Emotional Integration^® Trainer and Consultant, and she is an artist and Alexander Technique instructor.

Sue uses simple artistic practices to help people access and work with their emotions, and to facilitate an interior dialogue. Her ingenious “mark-making” process removes the performance aspect of art, and helps people access their deepest, unspoken understandings of emotions and their own true selves. Sue is the lead instructor of the 4-week Art and Emotions course at Empathy Academy.