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🎨 Affirmational Drawing for Anyone with a Thumb, Pen and Page
This event happened on Wed, May 15, 2024
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Overview
246 Lovely Attendees
246 Lovely Attendees
Your Host
Chetna Mehta
Facilitator and Artist at Mosaiceye Collective.
San Jose, CA, USA
About this FieldTrip
In a space designed for imperfection, play and free expression, we’ll use the medium of drawing (adding lines and shapes to the page) in order to uncover what we’re needing and longing to hear. Through specific prompts and permission to do it all “badly”, we’ll uncover self-affirmations that resonate.
This FieldTrip is inclusive and open to all “levels”; so long as you have a thumb, pen and page, you’re well equipped.
My hope is that you’ll leave feeling seen and understood by yourself, and be more free to express yourself through drawing.
✨WHAT TO EXPECT
✔️ We’ll set the space with permission-giving agreements to draw “badly” and to prioritize movement (like the pen gliding on page) over analysis-paralysis or perfection✔️ We’ll do a brief go-around of sharing about your relationship to drawing and affirmation practices
✔️ We’ll review some recommended ways to create effective affirmations
✔️ We’ll self-reflect to name for ourselves 3 dominant feelings that are present in us across a spectrum
✔️ We’ll do a series of drawings based on 3 prompts inspired by 3 feelings, with enough time to get something meaningful on the page but not too much time for paralysis
✔️ We’ll go into small groups to share about what that was like, what came out and what resonated
✔️ We’ll harvest as a large group before you leave feeling affirmed and inspired!
🎒WHAT TO KNOW OR BRING
✔️ Have accessible your journal or some blank pages, a pen and colors if you’d like!❤️ This FieldTrip Includes Optional Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms on FieldTrips are an opportunity to create meaningful connections with participants from around the world. If you do not feel like joining one for any reason, no worries! We’ll always make sure you have something to do introspectively in the main room.ABOUT YOUR HOST
Chetna (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, alchemist, facilitator and founder of Mosaiceye Collective. She wrote and illustrated the I Am Devoted Playbook and the Cultivating Abundance Mentality Coloring Book. She offers progressive organizations and changemakers resources and spaces for creative reflection, play, connection and alchemy. Learn more at chetnamehta.co
HEADS UP!
🎉 Join the 15-Minute After Party!
FieldTrip After Parties are an experiment in creating opt-in spaces for more connection among FieldTrip Goers via Breakout Rooms.🌎 Meet participants from around the globe. Your next collaborator, friend, or spark of inspiration could be just one breakout room away. Bring your insights, questions, and ideas to the table. This is a space for mutual inspiration and shared growth!
👋 Your FieldTrip Support Person will give you instructions on how to join at the end of the FieldTrip!
⏰ The 15 minutes is in ADDITION to the event time on the page, so add a buffer to your calendar!
EVENT TYPE
🎨 Make Something
RECORDING STATUS
🎥 ✅ This FieldTrip Will Be Recorded and Shared in the 24-hour Follow Up Email for a 7-day window thanks to our friends at Wistia. Make Sure to Register for Access!
What to expect
Lecture format!
This is a more traditional format where participants absorb information through presentations and talks.
Real-time only!
This FieldTrip will not be recorded.
Your Host
Chetna Mehta
Facilitator and Artist at Mosaiceye Collective.
San Jose, CA, USA
About Chetna Mehta
Attendees
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Lori Johnson
Index Lead at LexisNexis.
Volta Voloshin-Smith
Watercolor Illustrator, Author and Animation Artist at Color Snack.
Marine Thibaut
Shahar Goldenberg
Vicki Hale
Vera Cat
Tami Miller
Events Lead.
Steph Feser
Hermeet Gill
Simona Martini
Jo Scobie
Antoinette Jenkins
Robyn Somerville
Margo Hammond
Writer/Editor at Creative Late Bloomers.
Claire Bailey
Natalie Tindall
Stefanie Thomas
Arantxa Quinones
Uma Sharma
How to make the most of FieldTrips
The FieldTrips experience is defined not only by what the host has to share, but also by how we show up individually and collectively. The way we show up impacts our capacity to be moved, inspired, and activated.
Show up fully
Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.
Stay curious
Wear your beginner’s hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going!
Celebrate your host
Our hosts are members of the CreativeMornings community—just like you! Everyone comes to this with different backgrounds—a lot of our hosts have never done anything like this before! And we love that! Cheer them on when something goes awry and when it goes perfectly.
Support each other
We’re all figuring things out in real time. Celebrate, rather than critique emerging ideas. Cheer each other on as you try new things. Try “Yes! And…” in conversation.
Not vibing?
It’s 100% okay when a FieldTrip does not resonate with you. Pop out quietly and try another experience later. Fill out the survey with your feedback (no dms to host or chat commentary, please.)
FieldTrip support person
We’ll be there during the event to answer all your questions and make you feel at home
Exa Kutler
FieldTrip Support