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collage on wood panel

Class is Sat Sept 21, 2024 from 10-4pm

Wild Child Art Class

Join me for a Parent/Child art class (for kids ages 5+) *absolutely no experience needed!*
We will be working with big canvases and mostly acrylic paint (and other mediums if desired).
You’ll make a collaborative painting with your child. This is an experiment in team work, collaboration, connection, listening, flow, and most importantly imperfection and love.
We will use the activity of painting together to play with whatever dynamics are wanting some attention in your relationship with yourself and your kid. Themes around control/freedom, perfection/imperfection, getting it right/trusting the creative unfolding, leading/following are all prime for this experience!
- If you are always leading and you have an opinionated kid who is frustrated often that they aren’t able to take the reins all the time, this may be just the opportunity for you to sit back and let them guide you.
- If you always want to get it right and every time you even think of doing art you are paralyzed by your perfectionism, this could be a great option to let your kid lead you toward freedom and joy through art.
- If you feel disconnected from your kid recently and you’re not sure how to find your way back, hey try this!
- If you are jamming and in total flow with your child, hallelujah, come celebrate that and make some art together!
It’s amazing how much is revealed to oneself and about a relationship when two people come together to work on the same piece of art.
And kids are my absolute favorite people to do art with because they are so free. They are so imaginative, and so truly, unabashedly creative.
I’ll go over some quick suggested guidelines and ideas and things to think about before we dive in, and then we’ll go for it. I’ll pause us here and there and we can see and share how we’re feeling.
We’ll have around one hour of painting time and then some clean up time and some time to discuss what we discovered and experienced.
Whenever I feel stiff and frozen, preoccupied or perfectionistic, I just sit down with my kids and pick up a paintbrush and I feel instantly liberated!
- More classes coming in the summer +fall click the button below to be put on the list to stay in the loop.
- You don’t need to bring any materials - 2 canvases will be provided to each parent/child pair and brushes and paint.
- Wear clothes that can get paint on them (acrylic does NOT wash out). An apron or smock is great too.
- Only one child per parent please, think of it as special time - and come back with the other sibling next time!
- To sign up, click the button below and register on eventbrite.

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Nature Art

While routine is ubiquitous in parenthood, ritual is often elusive. It’s hard to carve out moments to be intentional, prayerful, meaningful.
This offering of creating nature art in the wild is designed to invite you to step away from the grind of everyday life and create space to mark a transition or rite of passage in your life. By ritualizing it, we honor it. By honoring it, you can arrive more deeply into where you are and harvest the gifts of that precious, fleeting, place that you’re in.
Parenthood offers an abundance of ritual-worthy rites of passage yet a lack of time to mark them, acknowledge them, behold them.
Of course we’re not going to be able to capture every big moment and have a whole song and dance about it, but when we get back- logged and don’t ever take a breath in honor of, light a candle, or walk in the woods to feel what we are in, it’s a missed opportunity of sinking into the richness of these big moments in our life, acknowledging them, receiving the gifts of them, and saying, “Thank you.”
Nature art building is ideal for marking moments like:
-conception
-birth of a child
-miscarriage
-loss of a family member
-menopause
-entering a new chapter of parenthood/ending a chapter of parenthood
-new job/going back to work after having a baby
-birthdays
-milestones in your child’s life: starting school, graduations, coming of age, daughter’s first time menstruating
-moving to a new home/place
-life celebrations of any kind: buying a house, leaving a toxic relationship, getting pregnant, a new relationship, healing an old relationship, a new dear friendship blossoming
-big losses of any kind
-significant transitions of any kind
Click the “let’s make some art!” button below and drop me a note so we can set up a time to meet and design what type of nature art experience would be best for you.
I also offer collective group nature art experiences so let me know if you’d like to be on the list for more information on this and be notified when this happens. These are held in person in West Marin, Northern California.
How it works:
-One 90 minute session to design and prepare
-One 3 hour session in the wild to create beauty and go deep.
The What, Where, and How:
-We will meet at least once for a 90 minute session to clarify intentions around your nature altar and what type of setting you feel called to be in to create your nature altar.
-We will meet in the wild of West Marin, walk together and find a spot that calls to you to build your altar. You will forage for the materials then and there, and it’s also optional to forage some natural objects before our session, if you’d like specific items.
-I will guide you through the process of setting intentions, connecting with yourself and the Earth, and building your altar as a way to mark the moment for you.
-There will be ample nonverbal time to be with yourself and the wild as well as meaning-making talking time with me to deepen, own, claim and name what’s important. We will walk that line together of the spoken and unspoken and let nature lead.

Let's make nature art

Ritual Wheel

Life with kids is hectic. Especially in our modern world. There’s so many things that we have to do and want to do in a normal week alongside school and work that when you throw in the holidays and special seasonal events and all the meals and songs and rituals that accompany them plus trips and summer camps and the planning necessary to do all of that, how do you keep track of it all?!
When I finally made it to the blackberry patches in the late summer two years ago, eager to make my annual blackberry pie, only to find them bare, with the last of the remaining berries shriveled on the vine- that was it. My family needed a system to track all of these wonderful things that my husband and I feel desperate to have accent our kids’ childhood. And so, scribbled on scratch paper in an airbnb on a last-minute-planned summer trip, The Ritual Wheel was born.
The Ritual Wheel is organized by month and season and is a catch all for the rituals, traditions, and events that decorate your year. It is a celebration of your family’s yearly flow. Each ritual wheel looks different and contains different things.
I offer Ritual Wheel Coaching sessions where we can explore the events, songs, rituals, traditions, meals, and activities that make up your family’s annual rhythms. If you don’t have those or don’t know what those are, what a great opportunity to begin to dream into what you’d like to create in this way with your family!
I will provide a template for the ritual wheel that you can use to draw and write into.
Ritual Wheel Coaching Sessions
Three 50 minute sessions which include:
- a values exploration process
- a harvest of your family’s values, traditions, and seasonal routines
- creating your own personalized family (or personal) Ritual Wheel.
I have templates that you can use to simply build one.
PS: Click the “let’s make some art!” button below if you’d like to sign up and let me know if you’d like to do this with others - sometimes I offer community Ritual Wheel Workshops.