Five Thursday Evenings
May 18 to June 15, 2023
7:00 - 9:30 PM Central Daylight Time
$350
Life has become more and more stressful with many people experiencing increasing levels of overwhelm and anxiety. In this weekly 5-session series, discover a creative and inspiring way to work with anxiety resulting from traumatic experiences or changes in relationship, work, or health. In each online session, you will express your inner filmmaker creating your own mindful videos to explore pathways to calm using footage from a media library. In each session, participants will have the opportunity to share their new videos and and connect with others as a healing process. No video making experience is required. This online class is limited to 8 participants. As part of registration, I have a free one-on-one online demonstration of the process and what you can expect in the group.
May 18 to June 15, 2023
7:00 - 9:30 PM Central Daylight Time
$350
Life has become more and more stressful with many people experiencing increasing levels of overwhelm and anxiety. In this weekly 5-session series, discover a creative and inspiring way to work with anxiety resulting from traumatic experiences or changes in relationship, work, or health. In each online session, you will express your inner filmmaker creating your own mindful videos to explore pathways to calm using footage from a media library. In each session, participants will have the opportunity to share their new videos and and connect with others as a healing process. No video making experience is required. This online class is limited to 8 participants. As part of registration, I have a free one-on-one online demonstration of the process and what you can expect in the group.
Here are examples of mindful videos made by people from past groups that I have led. None of the participants had made a video before.
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Here is the experience of a participant from a previous group:
Bevan as facilitator, capably guided our work, especially in the beginning, with thoughtful questions, suggestions and support. He kept us on track and ensured the sharing process was respected as a sacred time. The video making software provided the tools I needed to explore my own experiences, thoughts and emotions and the video. Once presented, even in the roughest state, the video would reveal components of my healing journey that I was not aware of. I still use it today to help me integrate a hard moment or stressful week. It surprised me and continues to surprise me how an art form like film or digital story telling can lead you into places you didn’t realize you needed to safely explore and express and integrate. Your video can give voice to what others around you are feeling. It offered a means of deeply connecting with others as we each presented our creative stories, affirming shared feelings and hope.
IN THESE WEEKLY SESSIONS YOU WILL:
WHO IS THIS GROUP FOR?
This group is here to support the creative expression of adults who:
FAQ:
How will making videos in a online group help me with my anxiety?
The opportunity to quickly create videos in a fun and supportive environment supports participants to find a flow and discover new perspectives with their challenges. The power of art is that the video does the sharing and forms a bridge to other participants. Affirming discussion flows out of this watching other participant's videos.
There are times I feel overwhelmed by technology, and I have never made a video before . How will I manage in these sessions?
If you feel comfortable using Internet-based applications on your computer, video making will be simple for you to pick up. I provide the basic instructions for individuals who have no experience creating videos in a relaxed and fun environment.
How is individual therapy different than group therapy in exploring personal challenges?
When we have difficult life challenges it is like a previous way of being is shattered into pieces, and we often find ourselves isolated. Group therapy provides a safe opportunity to begin to examine the fragments and connect with others' experiences. Video making provides an opportunity to integrate the pieces of the past into a new story.
How does the art therapist ensure participants feel safe sharing?
Group members need to feel safe with other participants before sharing personal challenges and their video work. Safety is nurtured in the group through an agreement which includes a commitment to privacy, equal sharing time, and a non-judgemental attitude.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Bevan as facilitator, capably guided our work, especially in the beginning, with thoughtful questions, suggestions and support. He kept us on track and ensured the sharing process was respected as a sacred time. The video making software provided the tools I needed to explore my own experiences, thoughts and emotions and the video. Once presented, even in the roughest state, the video would reveal components of my healing journey that I was not aware of. I still use it today to help me integrate a hard moment or stressful week. It surprised me and continues to surprise me how an art form like film or digital story telling can lead you into places you didn’t realize you needed to safely explore and express and integrate. Your video can give voice to what others around you are feeling. It offered a means of deeply connecting with others as we each presented our creative stories, affirming shared feelings and hope.
IN THESE WEEKLY SESSIONS YOU WILL:
- Engage your inner filmmaker to create mindful videos exploring pathways to calm. No experience is required.
- Become curious about your anxiety and explore it using themes like calm and wonder, change and uncertainty, courage and fear, wisdom and failure, and return and reorder.
- Understand your body’s autonomic nervous system and how to become aware and safely work with trapped anxious energy.
WHO IS THIS GROUP FOR?
This group is here to support the creative expression of adults who:
- Find the idea of making short films or videos inspiring and are curious how video making can help them work through their anxiety.
- Can manage their feelings in a group and are open to listening to others' experiences. Individual art therapy is suggested for people who need extra time sharing their needs.
- Have anxiety that has no known source or is related to traumatic experiences from childhood or changes in relationship, work, or health.
- Are of any race, ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, or disability.
FAQ:
How will making videos in a online group help me with my anxiety?
The opportunity to quickly create videos in a fun and supportive environment supports participants to find a flow and discover new perspectives with their challenges. The power of art is that the video does the sharing and forms a bridge to other participants. Affirming discussion flows out of this watching other participant's videos.
There are times I feel overwhelmed by technology, and I have never made a video before . How will I manage in these sessions?
If you feel comfortable using Internet-based applications on your computer, video making will be simple for you to pick up. I provide the basic instructions for individuals who have no experience creating videos in a relaxed and fun environment.
How is individual therapy different than group therapy in exploring personal challenges?
When we have difficult life challenges it is like a previous way of being is shattered into pieces, and we often find ourselves isolated. Group therapy provides a safe opportunity to begin to examine the fragments and connect with others' experiences. Video making provides an opportunity to integrate the pieces of the past into a new story.
How does the art therapist ensure participants feel safe sharing?
Group members need to feel safe with other participants before sharing personal challenges and their video work. Safety is nurtured in the group through an agreement which includes a commitment to privacy, equal sharing time, and a non-judgemental attitude.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
- Basic computer application knowledge is required, but no video making experience.
- These are online sessions and require a stable Internet connection for the video work.
- Access to a computer is required. Tablets cannot be used.
- The classes will be not be recorded.
- Zoom link will be provided the several days prior to the workshop.
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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: Bevan Klassen is an art therapist (DWHEAT) and works with individuals and groups to make videos as therapy. He has brought video making as therapy to groups and individuals at a Winnipeg temporary youth shelter, CancerCare Manitoba, an art therapy clinic, and his own private practice. Bevan came to Art Therapy through the joy and healing he found as a filmmaker and his desire to support others on their journey using this unique therapeutic approach. For questions contact [email protected] OR |
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