Creative mental health group immersions & mentorships
Not your typical mentorship, my 6 week creative mental health immersions are for creatives and artists looking to kick start their healing journey, better understand their mind/body system and catalyze a transformative creative process.
Immersion overview
Immersions include:
5 live group mentoring sessions via Zoom with recordings made available the same day.
6 week Creative Healing Calendar designed to help you build a consistent self-care and creative practice that supports and enhances your emotional and mental well-being. Calendar will include journal prompts, creative ideas, affirmations and therapeutic techniques to keep you accountable and on track during our immersion.
3 assigned therapeutic expressive art projects with themes that fit the healing work we will be doing during our immersion, with “show and tell” feedback sessions during each live session.
Weekly pre-recorded psycho-educational and creative classes and talks supporting the theme topics for each week.
Recorded guided meditations and visualizations for the morning, mid-day and night that help ease stress, anxiety, distractibility, sadness and inability to sleep.
Weekly 1:1 email check-ins with Jessica during the 6 week immersion.
3 months access to The Healing Artist Collaborative which will include 3 additional live group mentoring sessions. (If you’re a founder you get 12 months free HAC access with the reservation of your immersion seat).
All immersions limited to 10 spots to keep our work personalized and intimate.
Week 1:
Where We’ve Been vs Where We Are now
Introducing trauma informed perspectives on creativity
Going from “what’s wrong with me” to “what happened to me”
How your nervous system shows up to the creative process
Week 2:
Finding & Cultivating Self-Compassion
Looking at our hardest truths about ourselves
Finding and intentionally cultivating self compassion
Practicing acceptance and self love through art and creativity
Week 3:
Preparing for Creative Action & Showing Up to the Process
Getting into the mindset for showing up creatively
Harnessing creative flow even on the hardest days
Letting creativity and art making become a safe space
Week 4:
Finding Meaning Through Creativity
Discovering our authentic self through creativity
Creating art for the healing process
Building a personal relationship with your creative process
Week 5:
Working with Fear and Imposter Syndrome
Understanding how imposter syndrome shows up for you and how to work with it and through it
Moving beyond fear and doubt
Exploring creative blocks and how mental and emotional health play a role
Week 6:
Trusting your process & staying consistent
Opening up to the creative process
Showing up fully in the creative moment
Reflection as a practice to enhance creativity
What to expect:
I call my group mentorship’s “immersions” because they are more than just a mentoring opportunity. These immersions are deeply trauma informed and are designed to create a safe therapeutic space for artists who otherwise may feel cast out or shamed for how they show up in the world.
Having worked with the extremes of the mental health spectrum for over 10 years, I have seen first hand how suffering from a mental health diagnosis or carrying trauma can cause someone to isolate and walk away from pursuing a creatively fulfilling life. These immersions support and nurture humans from all experiences and walks of life and together we co-create a healing space without the burden of exclusion, shame or embarrassment. Immersions are LGBTQI friendly and gender affirming.
Creative mental health immersions are a full mind, body, spirit reflection on where you are holding yourself back on your creative healing journey. In 6 weeks we will explore, unpack and uncover a newfound understanding of how your body and mind are working together (or not) to create your currently quality of life.
*Reminder that therapeutic mentoring in any capacity is never meant to replace psychotherapy for the treatment and assessment of mental illness. While I am a licensed psychotherapist, this work is strictly therapeutic, NOT psychotherapy. It is recommended that you be working with a therapist during the immersion and I am happy to help you find a therapist if you are looking to connect with one before, during or after the immersion.
