Location 100 Mile Arts Network Gallery and Boutique (721 Chemin Riverside, upstairs unit #205)

The entrance is at the back of the building (Wakefield Expeditions & formerly Nikosi), through the blue door marked ” Bureaux de Wakefield”. 

Ages 18 and up

Registration is limited to 20 participants.  

Discover your innate self-expression and learn techniques to cultivate a calm mind, body and soul. 

In this workshop, we learn to settle into the foundations of Mindfulness practice, learning to embrace certain tenets such as: acceptance, non-judgemental witnessing, trust and patience. Whether you think you’re “not creative” or you’re an artist seeking deeper inspiration, this workshop will guide you into a more mindful, intuitive approach to creativity. Through simple yet powerful mindfulness techniques, we’ll quiet the inner critic, unlock new ideas, and reconnect with creative flow. Expect guided meditations, playful exercises, and reflective prompts designed to awaken you intuition and release creative and mental blocks. Supporting your ability to centre, ground, align yourself, and feel alive in any given moment. You’ll learn how mindfulness can help you create and move through anything from a place of presence, rather than pressure. Come as you are, no experience needed—just curiosity and a willingness to explore.

Agenda

●(20 min) Opening Circle and Welcome

●(20 min) What is Mindfulness?

●(15 min) Mindful Sensing: An Active & Guided Meditation

●(15 min) Mindful Relating

●(1 hour) Guided Creativity Practices

●(10 min) Daily Mindfulness and Meditation Techniques – takeaways

●(10 min) Closing practice and reflection

About Your Instructor

Tara is a visual artist, energy healer and yin yoga instructor living in the Outaouais region, of Scottish, Irish and Slavic descent. Tara has over 6 years of experience in practicing and teaching energy healing. She is a certified Reiki Master, a Group Chakra Practitioner, Certified Tuina (Acupressure) Massage Practitioner, Yin Yoga Instructor and Mindfulness Coach. Her mission is to teach people how to activate Energy Healing, our dormant and forgotten healing potential to better support personal and community healthcare. She is dedicated to helping people, regardless of background, feel empowered in their health journey and balance their active/restful energies and cycles, release tension, regulate the nervous system and return to optimal mind-body function for self-growth and recovery. As a visual artist, her graphite drawings explore the natural world and its hidden dimensions. Her sweeping movements of graphite powder and eraser, paired with shapes and edges created through custom stencils, reveal subtle, immersive and dreamlike landscapes.

With a background in arts management and curation, Tara has over a decade of experience working with artists and institutions. She began her career as a staff curator and contemporary art collector for Humber College, where she managed exhibitions and launched the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre. She also worked as an advocacy and government relations consultant for the arts, advocating for policies that support creators and community initiatives. She also teaches at Centennial College in the post-graduate Arts Management program, and teaches Arts Advocacy in continuing studies at OCAD U. After over 12 years working full-time in arts management and pursuing her visual arts practice on-the-side, she adjusted her career path in 2023 to further develop her multi-dimensional career as a visual artist, teacher and energy healer. Tara holds a BA (Hons) Specialist degree in Arts Management with a Minor in Studio Art from the University of Toronto, where she directed and exhibited in multiple shows and festivals. Her practice continues to evolve through the exploration of movement, landscape, material and perception.

Registration is free to participants, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada, the Municipality of La Pêche, and the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais.

We acknowledge that our workspace is located on traditional, unsurrendered and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation; and that the work of reconciliation is a responsibility of our organization, and of all Canadians.