Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides arts-based C

This month, we’ll be exploring themes of identity, expression, belonging, creativity, and community through stories, art...
06/04/2026

This month, we’ll be exploring themes of identity, expression, belonging, creativity, and community through stories, artists, reflections, workshops, and expressive arts practices.

✨ What part of yourself would you like to make more space for?

✨ Workshop Highlight: The Ethics of Self-CareMental health clinicians spend so much of their time caring for others that...
06/03/2026

✨ Workshop Highlight: The Ethics of Self-Care
Mental health clinicians spend so much of their time caring for others that their own wellbeing can easily be pushed aside.
Join Sofiya Kostareva for an experiential workshop exploring:
🌿 Compassion fatigue
🌿 Burnout
🌿 Vicarious trauma
🌿 Resilience & vicarious resilience
🌿 Practical self-care tools through expressive arts
Through hands-on creative experiences, participants will explore how expressive arts can support reflection, regulation, resilience, and clinician wellbeing.

📍 In Studio Workshop
🗓 June 12
🌀 Registration open – link in bio

05/28/2026

Beautiful words from .desjardins.50 💚 a perfect way to end this Mental Health Awareness Month.

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Many clinicians, educators, facilitators, and caregivers are navigating exhaustion, overstimulation, emotional labor, an...
05/27/2026

Many clinicians, educators, facilitators, and caregivers are navigating exhaustion, overstimulation, emotional labor, and the ongoing pressure to continue showing up for others while often leaving little space for themselves.

✨ Beyond productivity.
✨ Beyond performance.
✨ Beyond simply “pushing through.”

Expressive Arts, reflection, movement, and creativity can help us reconnect with ourselves, our bodies, and the deeper meaning behind the work we do.

CreativePractice SustainablePractice

✨ Workshop Highlight: Kink for CliniciansMany clinicians were never formally trained in how to navigate conversations ar...
05/26/2026

✨ Workshop Highlight: Kink for Clinicians
Many clinicians were never formally trained in how to navigate conversations around kink, sexuality, and relational diversity with nuance, confidence, and affirming care.
This upcoming workshop offers space for reflection, learning, and deeper understanding around:
• reducing stigma and assumptions
• ethical and affirming care
• relational and sexual diversity
• creating safer therapeutic spaces
🌿 Thoughtful, human-centered clinical practice begins with curiosity, openness, and continued learning.
🌀 Registration closing soon — link in bio.

MentalHealthProfessionals

05/22/2026

Healing through Expressive Arts in community 🩵

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✨ Meet Christine: Educator, clinician, artist, and graduate of NWCEAI’s Professional Training Program in Expressive Arts...
05/21/2026

✨ Meet Christine: Educator, clinician, artist, and graduate of NWCEAI’s Professional Training Program in Expressive Arts Facilitation, Christine reflects beautifully on the quiet ways creativity, grief work, and expressive arts can support transformation over time.
“Flowers change when they are pressed — they become beautiful in new and unexpected ways through preservation, time, and care.”
At NWCEAI, we hope our workshops and training programs create spaces for reflection, creativity, embodiment, and deeper integration — both personally and professionally.

🌿 Learn more about our Professional Training Program and upcoming workshops through the link in bio.

MentalHealthMonth

The people who hold space for others also need spaces that support them.This season, we’re highlighting workshops center...
05/19/2026

The people who hold space for others also need spaces that support them.
This season, we’re highlighting workshops centered around: reflection, ethical care, creativity & sustainable clinical practice

Upcoming offerings include:
🌿 Kink for Clinicians
🖼️ Changing the Picture
📓 Creative Journal Writing for Clinicians & Facilitators
⚖️ Ethics in Studio

Different approaches — shared intention:
supporting deeper, more connected practice.
🌀 Link in bio
ContinuingEducation

05/14/2026

A conversation about art and love 🎨🩵

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🌀 The Clinical Hybrid Training Program is designed for clinicians, therapists, creatives, and graduate students who are ...
05/12/2026

🌀 The Clinical Hybrid Training Program is designed for clinicians, therapists, creatives, and graduate students who are ready to integrate the Expressive Arts into their work in a deeper, more meaningful way.

Through experiential learning, creative inquiry, community, and reflection, participants explore how the arts can support both professional practice and personal growth.
This isn’t only about techniques.
It’s about developing a way of working that is embodied, relational, and sustainable over time.

✨ Applications are now open.
🔗 Link in bio

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