my collage

Dear Soheila,

I started my first collage and here the outcome.I observe something from this exersise and it is, sometimes you should put ome moment of your life aside for doing something that you dont have any prussure about.

I think sometimes it is so critical for our life to let our midnd take a rest or let our mind to do something like this collage.It gave a a kind of realxation moment to do it.

Lucia's birthday greeting card.

Ameneh Eslami the new trainee with Dr Marsha Nelson

Dr Lucia Capachione &Ameneh(the tiny trainee fromIran)

Thank you Amene for starting this blog and inviting me to contribute! The photo above was taken 2 weeks ago at the 2009 CJEA Fall Intensive at El Rocio. It was an intense and magical week and I am thrilled to be a part of this exciting community.

Amene posted the flyer in the previous post below which announces a CJEA Creative Journal workshop that Michelle Bronson and I are facilitating for 6 weeks in Sherman Oaks, CA. This will be my first workshop and I am excited to hit the ground running on my CJEA training year!

I am also looking forward to writing blog posts on this site as I am currently blogging at http://the21stcenturyman.com and for the recovery community at http://addictionsolutionsnow.com and I am in the process of setting up 2 other blogs on blogger.com .

Explore Discover Heal

Michelle Bronson* and John Wildermuth** will be leading a
Creative Journal Workshop
based upon the book
The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself
by Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D. , A.T.R. , R.E.A.T.

· Express feelings and thoughts
· Make more conscious choices and decisions
· Define and implement changes
· Get a clearer picture of your creative potential and how to use it
· Deal with creative blocks and negative patterns
· Learn new methods of expression
· Enrich your relationship with yourself and others
· Find deeper meaning in your life

Tuesday Nights 7:00-8:30pm
6 Sessions
Dec. 8th, 15th, 22nd, 2009 (just in time to help you through the holidays)
& Jan. 5th, 12th, 19th, 2010 (a perfect way to start the New Year)
Cost: $150.00
Give yourself a gift for the Holidays that proves you are committed to your own personal growth
Please Call Michelle or John at 818-508-1950 to Register

Please bring your own journal (9-3/4 X 12 unlined sketch pads available at Staples work great!). All other materials as well as coffee, tea and light snacks will be provided.

*Michelle Bronson is a certified Creative Journal Expressive Arts Practitioner and Visioning ® Coach**John Wildermuth is a candidate for certification in Creative Journal Expressive Art

Soheila:

I would like to thank Ameneh for creating this blog. Knowing that English is not her mother tong, and understanding that stepping forward on doing such a great job for a trainee is not an easy task, I would like to acknowledge her efforts and inteligence. We had a great meeting yesterday at Karen's office. Like any first time meetings, we began to look into how to structure our work and how to be even more creative on inviting others to join us and how to be even more productive and informative in our future meetings. We decided to meet four times a year and in each meeting at least have one person to share/present some interesting material of her/his choice. I am sure this is going to be the beginning of a exciting meetings/net working get together. I would like to thank Karan for her initial invitation of all of us and hope other will join us in our future meetings.

Ameneh:thank you dear mentor ,I'm really impressed by your compliment.

Soheila Norbakhsh:My lovely,wel dressed mentor.

I met her yesterday in a meeting with other CJEA graduate.she is full of information and I tried to observe more and more.It is not easy to be CJEA trainee while your mother tong is not english but I'm tring to over come .Just impossible is impossible.

from left to right:Karen,Soheila,Beverly,Semora

And Ameneh...

What is CJEA

Creative Journal Experessive Art is a visioning method of art therapy created by Dr Lucia Capachione.

the art of finding yourself.

A kind of using art for healing your inside disasters.

Try this way It's really great !!!