Thinkific / Arts & Healing Initiative
Color & Conflict: A Creative Exploration for Divided Times – 5/21/26
Color & Conflict: A Creative Exploration for Divided Times – 5/21/26
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date:
Thursday, May 21, 2026
time:
Noon to 1:30 pm Pacific Time (PT)
instructor:
Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR
description:
Conflicting opinions, beliefs, and feelings are ubiquitous in today’s rapidly changing and turbulent social and political landscape. How do we process this division internally, with our loved ones, and in our community? In this hands-on, exploratory online session, we’ll be guided through a series of creative arts activities centered on the use of color as a vehicle to explore these contrasts.
Based on the Open Studio Process (OSP), a practice using art, writing, and somatic awareness to explore the prevalent issues in our lives, this creative, trauma-informed session is open to all.
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Instructor Bio
Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR, is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher. Her two books, Art is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005), explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action. Pat is a grandmother of two and works closely with her daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen, at Jewish Studio Project in Berkeley, CA. To learn more about Pat and her work, visit jewishstudioproject.org.
Materials - What to Bring
- Any art materials of choice (e.g. watercolors, acrylic paints, markers, colored pencils, etc.) in a variety of colors
- Paper, canvas, digital screen, or any additional surface of choice to work on
- A journal (or a few sheets of paper) and something to write with is also recommended
Online Login Details
This is a online program through Zoom. A welcome email, which includes the link to join the program, will be sent to you after you register. Please check your inbox and spam folders.
Digital Media Release Policy
By registering, you give Arts & Healing Initiative approval to record this event, still and/or moving images from which may appear in printed materials or digital channels for archival, educational, or promotional purposes.
Note that Zoom breakout rooms are not recorded.