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What if less could lead to more? 🍂Over the past year, Jennifer Levine explored what it means to create using recycled ma...
10/13/2026

What if less could lead to more? 🍂
Over the past year, Jennifer Levine explored what it means to create using recycled materials.
What began as a year-long commitment became something more.

In Jennifer’s words:
“The limitation has inspired creativity - with new forms including clothing and quilts.”

It reminds us that possibilities aren’t always found in something new.
Sometimes they’re waiting in what we already have.
In the materials we overlook.
In the ideas we revisit.
In the unexpected directions we allow ourselves to explore.

Jennifer’s experience invites us to consider a simple question:
What might become possible if we approached our limitations with curiosity?
Swipe to explore some of Jennifer’s creations. 🎨
Thank you, Jennifer, for sharing your work and reflections with our community!

What lies beneath the surface? 🍂 Every person carries stories we cannot immediately see.Some live in the images, symbols...
10/08/2026

What lies beneath the surface? 🍂 Every person carries stories we cannot immediately see.
Some live in the images, symbols, and memories that shape our inner world.
Others emerge through our identities, relationships, and the ways we experience difference.
As we move through this season of reflection, we’re exploring two ways to look a little deeper.

🌿 Well-being Across Significant Social Difference
October 23 | Online | 3 Health Equity CEs
With Dr. Leticia Nieto, explore how identity, social location, and difference shape connection, well-being, and therapeutic relationships.

🎨 Expressive Arts Therapy & Tarot Integration
October 24 | Online | 6 CEs
With Courtney Mohr Taylor, discover how tarot imagery, symbolism, and expressive arts can support creative exploration and therapeutic practice.

Two workshops. Two ways of seeing.
One invitation to approach ourselves and others with greater curiosity.
What might we discover when we look beyond what is immediately visible?

Explore both workshops through the link in our bio.

10/06/2026

Fall has a way of reminding us that beginnings don’t always arrive looking new.
Sometimes they arrive through letting go. Through paying attention. Through realizing that something didn’t work—and allowing that information to guide what comes next.
This year has asked many of us to hold a lot. In a world where information, uncertainty, and noise are constantly competing for our attention, simply being present can feel like a practice of its own.
So perhaps we don’t need to rush toward the end of the year.
Maybe we can notice what has sustained us.
The people we’ve connected with.
The things we’ve created.
The lessons hidden inside mistakes.
The moments that brought us back to ourselves.
We don’t need to erase what came before in order to begin again.
We can create from what is already here.
As we enter this new season, what do you want to carry forward? 🍂
— NWCEAI

What would make your practice stronger this fall?Maybe it’s a new creative tool.Maybe it’s a different way of seeing wha...
09/29/2026

What would make your practice stronger this fall?
Maybe it’s a new creative tool.
Maybe it’s a different way of seeing what’s already happening in the room.
This October, we’re exploring both. 🍂

🎨 Expressive Arts Toolbox: Using Visual & Writing Modalities
Oct. 10 | In person, Seattle | 6 CEs
Explore drawing, collage, writing, poetry, and visual journaling as practical tools for therapeutic work.

🌿 Well-being Across Significant Social Difference
Oct. 23 | Online | 3 Health Equity CEs
Explore how identity, social location, and difference shape connection, well-being, and therapeutic relationships.

Two different workshops. Two different ways to deepen the work you already do.
Which does your practice need right now?

Learn more + register through the link in our bio.

09/25/2026

Art helps us understand the world — and one another.

It can reflect, question, connect, and give form to what words sometimes cannot.

As Kennedy reminds us, art has a meaningful place in our collective life — as an instrument of understanding, reflection, and connection.

What role does art play in how you understand the world?

This Sunday, join us in Seattle for The Ethics of Self-Care: An Art-Based Approach, an in-person day of creative explora...
09/22/2026

This Sunday, join us in Seattle for The Ethics of Self-Care: An Art-Based Approach, an in-person day of creative exploration, reflection, and practical learning around burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, work/life balance, and sustainable practice.

✨ 6 Ethics CEs
🎨 All art materials provided
📍 In person | Seattle, WA
📅 Sunday, September 27 | 9:00 AM–3:30 PM PT
👤 Facilitated by Jacqueline Smith, MA, LMHC

FLASH SALE: Save 25% with code ETHICS25 through September 25.

A chance to step away from the screen, make space for yourself, and explore what ethical self-care can look like in practice.

Limited spots remain. Register through the link in our bio.

MentalHealthProfessionals SeattleTherapists

09/17/2026

Curious about how to bring the arts into your work with clients in a way that feels meaningful and intentional? 🎨✍️

Join Sibel in Seattle for Expressive Arts Toolbox: Visual Arts & Writing, an experiential, in-person workshop exploring creative approaches you can bring into your clinical practice.

Come ready to create, explore, and experience the tools for yourself—not just learn about them.

đź“… October 10
📍 In person in Seattle
✨ 6 CEs available

Learn more & register through the link in our bio.

09/14/2026

Creativity can open doors to connection, reflection, and new ways of supporting others. 🎨✨
At NWCEAI, our Professional Certificate Training Program in Expressive Arts brings together experiential learning, personal exploration, professional growth, and community.
With both Clinical Online and Facilitator pathways, the program is designed for people who want to bring expressive arts more intentionally into the work they already do — whether in mental health, education, healthcare, the arts, coaching, or community spaces.
You don’t need to be an artist. Just bring your curiosity and willingness to explore. 💛

Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open through October 31.
Learn more at the link in our bio.

Curious about where Expressive Arts could take your work? 🎨If you’ve been exploring our Professional Certificate Trainin...
09/09/2026

Curious about where Expressive Arts could take your work? 🎨

If you’ve been exploring our Professional Certificate Training Program in Expressive Arts but aren’t quite sure which pathway is right for you—or simply want to know what the experience is really like—we’d love to meet you.

Join us for one of our upcoming FREE Training Program Information Sessions to learn more about our Clinical: Online and Facilitator pathways, explore the program, and bring your questions.

Two of our sessions will also include a mini expressive arts workshop, so you can experience a little of the creative process for yourself.

✨ Upcoming Free Info Sessions

🎨 September 26 | 8:00–9:30 AM
Info Session + Mini Workshop

💬 October 8 | 5:00–6:00 PM
Info Session

💬 October 22 | 3:00–4:00 PM
Info Session

🎨 November 7 | 9:30–11:00 AM
Info Session + Mini Workshop

Our next cohort begins January 2027, and applications are now open.

Come curious. Bring your questions. See if this community and training feel like the right next step for you.

đź”— Free registration through the link in our bio.

What stories are we carrying without realizing it?Our hands remember things.The work they’ve done.The people they’ve hel...
09/04/2026

What stories are we carrying without realizing it?
Our hands remember things.
The work they’ve done.
The people they’ve held.
The things they’ve made.
The ways they’ve learned to protect, comfort, create, and begin again.

Our bodies carry stories, too. So do the different versions of ourselves we’ve been along the way.

Sometimes those stories don’t arrive as words. They show up through color, movement, an image, a gesture—or the unexpected thing we make when we’re given enough space to create.

This September, we’re holding space for both kinds of exploration through The Story of Our Hands on September 14 and Your One Wild & Precious Life on September 19.
Two different workshops. One shared invitation:
Notice what you’re carrying. Get curious about what it has to say.

🎨 Learn more through the link in our bio.

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