Peer Support Session with Vikki Parker - Can Intuitive Doodling help us reflect on the impact the work we do has on us?

COME ALONG TO A CREATIVE & REFLECTIVE PEER SUPPORT SPACE

WHO? For artists, creative professionals, mental health practitioners, teachers, therapists and anyone interested in using creativity and the arts to support wellbeing. It's an opportunity to meet and chat while art making. (no need to be good at art.) Whether you've been to an Orange Collective workshop or are thinking of coming - all are welcome!! Join us for a relaxed, creative session.

WHY? Since launching the Orange Collective community and workshops in January 2022, we've had a hugely positive response with many of you asking for the creation of a regular peer support space and continued support in developing your practice in community. These Peer workshops are experimental and help to support community members to develop their ideas. So this is also a chance to give feedback to Vikki and support her arts and wellbeing work!

HOW? The Orange Collective Peer Support groups provide a space for community members to test out new ideas, share skills and knowledge and give and receive feedback.

This month Vikki Parker will be asking the question  'Can Intuitive Doodling help us reflect on the impact the work we do has on us?' 

In the first part of this workshop, we will use the Doodle Café signature process to create space for gentle exploration into personal wellbeing and what we need in each moment. The practising of presence, stillness, silence, intuitive creativity, sharing and connection, embodied in this guided, held process, can help us listen to our own core wisdom and strengthen our capacity to speak from a space of empowerment. Simple ways of checking in with the self that are much needed to cut through the noise and re-ground us. You are invited to embrace this space of respite and nourishment for your own self-care.

In the second part of the workshop the intuitive doodling will blend with focussed discussion and sharing of ideas that explore the wider impact of doing the work we do, what drives us and how we can identify and ask for the support we need to maintain our capacity to show up and keep giving.

Vikki Parker is the founder of Doodle Café & the Art Yourself Alive podcast. She is a visual artist using intuitive drawing as a portal to capture energy & divine healing and an abstract acrylic painter. Her background in theatre, jazz singing & dance laid the foundations for her training in therapeutic application of the arts (IATE) which began a 2-decade journey into her own healing through creativity. She is the Southeast champion for the Lived Experience Network and a strong advocate for mental health, self-care and filling your own well first.

www.artyourselfalive.com

www.vikkiparker.com

This taster workshop will allow Vikki to explore ideas and receive feedback to support the growth of Doodle Café for practitioner support and reflective practice, and contribute to a wider research discussion that begins with the question –

‘Who am I when I hold space for others, and who am I if I don’t?’