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COMMUNICATE with Your HEART
​A Workshop on the BEAUTY of VULNERABILITY
combining two Powerful Approaches:
Process Art & The Dalian Method
 Unity Temple on the Plaza  |  707 W. 47th St. Kansas City MO 64112
​Facilitated by Leela Haris of Kansas City and Madeleine Salmon Newkirk of Memphis
Saturday Nov 9 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday Nov 10 | 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM

  
During this workshop we will paint using the techniques of process art by tuning in and allowing a mystery to unfold on the paper. Painting this way creates opportunities for transformation by revealing inner feelings such as discouragement, frustration, fear, or sadness. Likewise creating can also be experienced as joy, delight, and peace.

Feelings emerge during the process because they exist within us and are repressed in our energy field and subconscious. Everything we’ve pushed down, because we didn’t want to say or feel it, is held within our bodies and affects our well-being.
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We will work with the repressions that we discover along the way using the Dalian Method — releasing the heavier emotions and blockages to expand the lighter ones and discover how personal transformation impacts our painting. As we clear burdensome thoughts and emotions, we come closer to our hearts.​
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In this workshop
​Use Process Art to:
• Explore the Beauty of Your Vulnerability
• Express your Unique Creativity
• Practice Trusting your Intuition
• Practice Letting Go of the Outcome
• Connect with Messages from your Heart​

​Use the Dalian Method to:
• Go Within for Answers to Your Questions
• Accept all your Emotions and Thoughts
• Learn How to Transform Negativity into Love and Compassion
• Honor Your Truth
• Release and Transform Repressed Anger, Sadness, Resentment, and Insecurity to Enhance Communication with the Heart.

No previous experience with painting or the Dalian Method is required. 
​*No artistic ability beyond stick figures necessary*

Workshop Schedule 
Saturday 9:30am-5:30pm
   Introductions & Discussion
   Dalian Method Find Answers to Your Questions
   Process Art Session
   Identify Repressed Thoughts & Emotions in your Body
Sunday 10:30am – 3:00pm
   72 Minute Dalian Method for Healing Repressed Thoughts & Emotions
   Process Art Session
   Closing Discussion
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Facilitators

Madeleine Newkirk, Owner of Art•Body•Soul in Memphis.

Leela Haris, Owner of Expanding Consciousness in Kansas City.

​INFORMATION FOR VENUE:
COST: $150 to $250 per person depending on workshop length & cost of space rental / Maximum is 18 people
WORKSHOP LENGTH OPTIONS: Fri eve & Sat full day / Sat & Sun full day / Fri even, Sat full day & Sun half-day
REGISTRATION: Leela can provide registration link and handle payments if needed.
NOISE LEVEL: Medium
EQUIPMENT NEEDS: Yoga Mats if available (if not I can provide them)
SPACE NEEDS: Enclosed private area with no outside intrusions during workshop (to provide safe space for participants). Large enough for all registrants (up to 18 people) and their painting easels/yoga mats. 
PROMOTION BY LEELA: Email list / Facebook event and sharing / Instagram / Flyers may be posted at various sites in Kansas City and promoted at Leela's speaking events.

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​About Leela
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“Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny. (S)he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally. You are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you."
OSHO