Current Presentations
by Pat Walke
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In-Service training for Charter School Teachers
in ALBQ, NM
August, 2006
WHO IS CREATIVE? •
HOW DID THEY GET IT? • HOW DO I GET IT?
Is there an elite few who are creative, unlike most of us? Talk includes slides
and examples of ten creative types, and a self-test for you to determine privately
where you fit in these characteristics. All people have one or more of these
creative potentials. Pat gives tips on ways to develop further develop creative
traits
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South Western College
3960 San Felipe
Rd, Santa Fe, 87507
(505) 471-575 25th
Transformation & Healing Conference
August 23-27th, 2006
"Healing Through
Therapeutic Arts".
August 25, 2006 2
- 5pm.
Digging It: Therapy as
Gardening
Pat Walke, LISW
See what turns up, get grounded, just planting a seed....Ever heard these
phrases used in therapy? Garden images will be used to spark discussion of
cycles of dormancy, emergence, blossoming and harvesting as metaphors for
the therapeutic process. After touching on garden as archetype, we will look
at how actual gardens are used to facilitate healing and what client populations
they serve well. We will visualize our bodies as a landscape so we can pick
out our own "garden spot" and expand our visualization with art.
We will end with writing our responses to our image.
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Mountain View Markets
in the Wednesday night speaker's series
at 1300 El
Paseo Road, Las Cruces
Open to the public.
May, 2006
Visual Journaling is a technique of unconscious
doodling or drawing or painting an image which reflects our sense of what
is going on in our body at the moment. Then using certain questions to dialogue
with the image to help us put words to this felt sense. Through this technique,
we can get in touch with our mind/body. One important reason to practice this
technique is to put words to feelings that if left unarticulated can eventually
manifest as a physical illness.
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In-Service Social Worker
Training at Gadsten School District Retreat
April 2006
Expressive arts and nature techniques:
Focus on outdoor Nature experience for group development and community building.
Collage Journaling experience to demonstrate organizing and memory techniques
as well as self expressions for brain integration and healing.
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Ecoversity
Earth-based Vocations Program
639 Agua Fria St,
Santa Fe, 87505
(505) 424-9797
March, 2005
The creative process outline
movement activity
definition of creative
myth of talent
process versus product
right brain/left brain
stages of creative process:
encounter
absorption
creative types
creativity & nature
collage activity
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COMING HOME TO
NATURE AND TO OURSELVES: THE POWER OF PLACE
Through images of nature and art works based on Pat’s response to the
book Teaching Spirits, by Joseph Epes Brown with Emily Cousins [Oxford University
PRESS, 2001] Pat discusses how our creative self/ true self is essentially
linked with nature, and how the place we live actually forms us even as we
shape it. How mountains, rivers, deserts, grasslands, gardens and even the
air we breathe feed us emotionally, psychologically and spiritually as well
as physically. How the layers of the landscapes are mirrored in ourselves.
Schedule a Presentation about any of the above or about a topic that may be
related but is not listed.
All presentations are tailored to the needs and interests of your group in
a “hands on” format. I welcome your inquiries so that we can design
the experience that will be most fruitful for you.
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GROUPS THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN INVITING
PAT TO PRESENT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Medical
organizations, church groups, retirement groups, garden clubs, environmental
groups, parents, teachers, psychological organizations.