Weekend Workshop Ideas

[sephienie]

I have recently been invited to a "Healing Artist in Residency" program in Nova Scotia!
I'm super excited for the opportunity, however, one of the requirements is that I host a weekend workshop for guests. I've not done any teaching at all in my 7 year MT career.... Does anyone have a good ideas for a weekend workshop????
Thanks!

 

[bookseller]

Weekend Workshop Ideas

What do you thoroughly enjoy and do very well? Start with that.

 

[Nemka J]

Weekend Workshop Ideas

I would check into (if you can) who the guests would be.
If it's all women then I think you can put together something easily...women like to share and talk.

A weekend workshop is two days - you need to know how many hours per day in order for you to write up your schedule.

One idea would be to have a woman's discovery or empowerment workshop - your topics to cover/discuss could be things like...letting go (clutter, memories, etc); using intuition, self-care and nurturance; creating healthy boundaries. Having activities and/or a guided meditation/visualization would be great.

One "class" that I did that was fun was a mini class about the chakras - I had made small fabric "spirit dolls" which we decorated with cloth, beads, sequins, feathers, bells, yarn, buttons - I had all kinds of things and colors - that represented aspects of ourselves or a particular chakra we wanted to focus on.
I did one guided meditation to balance the chakras - but you could do a discovery discussion and a meditation or balancing exercise for each chakra.
(the women that had made the dolls spent more time posing and taking funny pictures of the dolls than we spent making them - it was a hoot!)

The making things impulse I have is from many years as a Mom - I always had activities at my kids birthday parties where everyone made something to take home.

 

[bettermade]

Weekend Workshop Ideas

I tried to do a little search on google of "Healing Artist in Residency program in Nova Scotia" and found the following site:

http://www.cabotshores.com/healing-artist-in-residency-1186/comment-page-1#comment-67

I don't know if this is the same place you will be going, but here are a few ideas for your week-end seminar:

- offer knowledge in some type of energy work and how you help a client relax in a more profound way
- offer a program in slow and relaxing deeper-type work (not the general swedish)
- offer a specific session called "Excellence in Swedish Massage"
- consider a "foods" course / possibly something about health related issues


I will say this sounds like something that would be right up holley's alley. That's why I posted the link.