Expressive Arts Workshop

The Expressive Arts Gatherings provide a safe and nurturing environment for friends to journal and create simple art activities surrounded by the theme of connecting to self and Spirit. Each month a theme such as love, peace, anger, divorce, bereavement, new beginnings, etc. is introduced and followed by visual art, writing, movement, music, and meditation for a multi-modal approach to knowing ourselves and Spirit more intimately. Through the use of expressive arts we begin to remind ourselves that we are already whole and loved beyond our imaginings. No art or writing experience is needed. We focus on the process rather than the product.

“I LOVED IT!! It was very inspiring, and I loved creating & tapping into inner emotions using the arts!!  Instructor, Lisa Cooper, was very good at being nonjudgmental & it was nice to have a space to open up & share!! ” – Previous Attendee

Lisa Cooper

Lisa was a long time student of The Muse before receiving her MFA in Creative Writing and Adult Education with a concentration in memoir from Seton Hill University. Trained and certified as a grief and recovery facilitator in the state of Virginia, she developed The Muse’s first Writing through Grief and Trauma. Before teaching at The Muse she worked as an adjunct at The College of William and Mary and at Paul D. Camp Community College in the English departments. Her personal writing currently centers on slice-of-life memoir pieces and poetry about her experiences as an EMT and life as a mother of three boys. She is currently pursuing a PHd in Expressive Arts Therapy.