Creative Journaling for Self-Care and Personal Growth

Schedule

Thu Jul 23 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Redwood City Center for Creativity | Redwood City, CA

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Unleash your creativity and boost your well-being using simple art exercises combined with a variety of journaling techniques.
About this Event

Come enjoy this workshop for personal development, growth, self-care, and accessing your innate creative expression. Using simple art exercises, accessible to everyone, and a variety of journaling techniques, this method brings about positive changes. Experience this process in a supportive and non-judgmental space. No art experience is needed and all art supplies are provided. The Creative Journal Expressive Arts method was developed by Dr. Lucia Capacchione, PhD, author of 23 books on this topic, including The Creative Journal, Visioning™, The Power of Your Other Hand, The Art for Emotional Healing, and more. Note: The photo is from a workshop we taught at a professional conference. We will be sitting in a more circular style to foster connection.

Please join us for this fun, relaxing afternoon with other like-minded folks interested in creativity and expressive arts for personal development and healing.

What to expect:

  1. Brief overview of Creative Journaling, a healing expressive arts process developed by Lucia Capacchione, PhD, acclaimed art therapist and author.
  2. Guidance on getting started
  3. Creative Journaling time
  4. Optional sharing with the group

Your Facilitators: Beth Mattsson and Katie Breedlove

Beth and Katie are sisters who are passionate about the healing power of art! They believe that everyone is creative, everyone is an artist and that art heals! They love to encourage people to discover and recover their creativity.


More about Beth -In 2013 as she was trying to recover from debilitating chronic fatigue, she discovered expressive arts and within three months was completely well! She loves to share the transformative power of expressive arts, women’s circles, and breathwork. Beth is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Certified Creative Journal Expressive Arts Instructor, a Facilitator of Intuitive Painting, and Touch Drawing, as well as a Certified Breathwork Practitioner. Beth has led circles and workshops for women, leadership teams at nonprofit organizations, at conferences for school employees. She lives in Menlo Park with her husband and their rescue boxer dog, Bella, and recently retired from her 21-year career in public education.

More about Katie - Katie is a life-long spiritual seeker and a healing arts practitioner; a certified SoulCollage® and Breathwork Facilitator, and soon to be certified in Sound Healing through the Sage Academy of Sound in New York. She is interested in archetypal energies, Hellenistic astrology, Ayurveda, and the healing of ancestral lineages. She lives in San Antonio, TX and loves to garden, do yoga, attend breathwork circles, spend time walking and biking on the myriad trails throughout the city, and travel.



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Where is it happening?

The Redwood City Center for Creativity, 800 Main Street, Redwood City, United States

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USD 44.52

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