Workshops for Women

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Week One: Attention as Care

The 8 Week Self-Care & Creative Arts Series for Women

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Who is this series perfect for?

For busy women, neurodiverse women, those interested in creative arts, introverts and any women seeking a gentler way back to themselves.

Each session is 90 minutes and includes all supplies required to participate in the creative activities and a guided meditation. Feel free to bring your own mat or borrow one of ours.

Begin Your Digital Detox

We begin by establishing the foundation of Quiet Aperture: attention as a form of care. This session introduces mindfulness as presence rather than productivity and invites participants to notice how they relate to pace, rest, and inner dialogue. Practices include:

  • Gentle body-based mindfulness - micro moments.

  • Introductory reflective gratitude journaling and writing to brain dump.

  • Setting personal intentions for the series - why mantras help ease anxiety and encourage self regulation.

  • Why digital detoxing eases attention burnout, and increases self-compassion.

Week Two: Seeing Without Judgment: Neurographic Drawing

Allowing Drawing to Guide Your Mind

This week introduces neurographic drawing as a way to quiet mental chatter and support nervous system regulation. Participants explore mark-making as a meditative process rather than an aesthetic outcome.

Practices include:

  • Guided meditation for focus and calm

  • Neurographic drawing practice in pencil and ink

  • Reflection on control, perfectionism, and releasing the sense of urgency

Week Three: Colour, Gesture, and Breath: Mindful Painting & Lettering

Expression Without Performance

Through mindful painting and hand lettering, participants explore colour, gesture, and rhythm as sensory experiences. This session emphasizes process, not product, and invites curiosity over critique.

Practices include:

  • Breath-anchored meditation
    Mindful painting or lettering
    Reflection on creativity as nourishmen t

  • Optional sharing in a supportive environment

Week Four: Walking with Awareness: Forest Practice

This session introduces forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku) as a restorative, sensory-based practice. Participants are guided to slow their pace and engage with the natural environment through all five senses.

Practices include:

  • Guided forest walk

  • Sensory awareness invitation

  • Forest-based journaling

  • Grounding and integration circle in the lavender field

  • Walking meditation techniques


Regulation Through Nature

Week Five:  The Camera as Witness: Mindful Photography

Participants explore photography as a contemplative practice rather than documentation or performance. Using either a phone or camera, this session focuses on presence, framing, and attention.

Practices include:

  • Visual meditation

  • Photography prompts focused on light, negative space, and texture

  • Reflection on Henri Cartier Bresson’s Decisive Moments and Amy Herman’s Visual Intelligence

  • Opportunities to use analog film cameras or your own

  • * Film and processing included

Seeing What Is

Week Six: Words as Containers: Journaling for Integration & Show-and-Tell for Booklovers 

This session deepens reflective journaling as a practice for integration, emotional clarity, and self-understanding. Prompts are designed to support women navigating change, fatigue, or identity shifts.

Practices include:

  • Guided mindfulness for emotional awareness

  • Structured journaling prompts

  • Reflection on self-talk and meaning-making

  • Optional small-group sharing of your top three favourite audio or hardcopy book (Remember when you were a child and loved show and tell?)

  • *Not a good fit for book snobs

Listening to Inner Language

Week Seven: Taste, Smell, Memory: Sensory Awareness

Consciousness Through the Senses

This session explores how taste and smell connect to memory, emotion, and presence.

Practices include:

  • Sensory meditation in the lavender fields

  • Mindful tasting

  • Mindful smelling practice

  • Reflection on pleasure, ritual, and care

  • This session also deepens reflective journaling as a practice for integration, emotional clarity, and self-understanding.

  • Prompts are designed to support women navigating change, fatigue, or identity shifts and using taste and smell to self-regulate and reset.

    *Please let Jen or Kelly know of any food allergies at the time of booking.


Week Eight: Sustaining Care: Mindful Nutrition & Rest

Nourishment Beyond Nutrition

The final session focuses on nourishment in a broad, non-prescriptive sense. Rather than diet rules, participants explore mindful nutrition, rest, and self-support—particularly relevant for women in perimenopause or high-demand seasons of life.

Practices include:

  • Restorative meditation

  • Reflection on energy, appetite, and rhythms

  • Personal sustainability mapping

  • Sleep and food for your mind and soul

I deserve this. Yes please.

What This Series is Not

Not therapy or diagnosis. Not performance-based or outcome-driven. Not a traditional art class or book club.Not another productivity system. Not an online learning experience. Not a journey with a set destination.