Everyone has a creative side to them, some just need a little confidence to explore and try new things. You do not have to have a paint brush in one hand and a guitar in the other to take workshops at the School of Creative Expression. The only prerequisite is a desire to try something new and connect with some really interesting and talented people. Ignite your joy by tapping into your creativity — your heart will thank you!
Find a workshop that accommodates your schedule in the School of Creative Expression. Please contact your team@finduniquelyu.com
These past workshops are not currently on the upcoming schedule. If you are interested in taking one of these courses, fill out this form with the workshop title you are interested in taking. We’ll respond within 48 hours with the status of future workshops.
U-Instructor: Miss Marie
5 hours over 5 weeks
Dreaming for the Soul will not only teach the fundamentals of ASL (American Sign Language), but it will teach it to you in an interactive way. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to vote from 2-3 songs, learn one, and perform it upon completion of the 5-weeks.
This workshop will educate you enough to independently sign terms, hold conversations, and sign a song in American Sign Language. This workshop will be taught through instruction, demonstration, slides, and real time in class practice sessions, and we will conclude with a class presentation of the song that we learned in class!
Also, by being able to communicate by signing throughout a normal conversation in addition to one of your favorite music hits, you will experience the joy of learning a new language and feeling the connection as you are sharing this lovely gift with those that you love as well as other like-minded souls.
U-Instructor: Elizabeth Tuckwell
4 hours over 4 weeks
This workshop will be an opportunity for us to advance our emotional vocabulary and take back ownership of our feelings.
We are going to use the power of evocative poetry to summon complex emotions within us and intentionally direct them. We will summon our emotions, learn to understand them and express them through the power of creativity utilizing watercolors and writing.
Emotions have a way of transporting us to new experiences.
Emotions are such powerful vehicles; yet, without intentional steering, they have the potential to take over our personal journeys, leaving us feeling uprooted and ungrounded in our lives.
Examples of this are the emotional journeys set in motion by recent events, news stories, our relationships, traumatic events.
But — what if we were on the driver's side of our emotional journey and harnessed the power of our emotions with intention? What if we allowed ourselves to take the power of our deep emotions and use them for a purpose (releasing, reconnecting with our inner wisdom, and creating something new in our lives).
The purpose of this class is to do just that. We are going to use the power of evocative poetry to summon complex emotions within us and intentionally direct them. We will summon our emotions, learn to understand them and express them through the power of creativity utilizing watercolors and writing.
This 4-hr workshop will be an opportunity for us to advance our emotional vocabulary and take back ownership of our feelings.
We will recognize when we have been moved off our emotional center by establishing an emotional set point. From there, we will create our emotional scale and understand when it is time to pause and release the overwhelm of emotional overload. We will then use the power of our emotions and direct them into creative containers (painting and writing) to release overwhelm and enhance our creativity.
U-Instructor: Elizabeth Tuckwell
3 hours over 1 session
Through the use of meditation and the art-making process, we will work to identify markers on personal identity and expression that were externally placed/reinforced.
Together, we will utilize meditation and creativity (writing, drawing and collage) to release these outdated models of self-identity and call in a sense of self that is in more alignment with who we believe we are vs how we were told to be.
The ownership of identity and self-expression are underutilized in a world where labels and stereotypes are the norms. Together, we will seek to rebuild our identity and ask questions like:
Who are you without your labels?
Who are you without a body, a name, and a location to define you?
What is the essence of you?
Upon completion of this workshop you will begin to connect to core values and feelings unique to you and begin to rebuild your identity on elements you place with intention.
