Expressive

Honouring the stories your body holds

This playful art therapy workshop offers a session of insightful, reflective exploration of your life experiences, images, voices, and messages as you bring them to life through visuals and narratives, uniquely yours.

Through the workshop’s wide-ranging somatic encounters and creative processes, you will be able to give space to the stories that no-one else can tell, all along moving from loss and stuckness into the confident you who can entertain the question, what’s next for me?

Each monthly gathering will produce a different piece of your own creative expression, working with a variety of media including writing, paints, fabric, pebbles, clay and more. Limited places, bookings required. Download the Brochure

WHERE Macleay Island Arts Complex
93b-97 Coast Road, Macleay Island*

*Free shuttle bus service available to and from Macleay Island Ferry Terminal – text 0422 230 966 to book.

WHEN Sunday 1 February 2026 
and then the first Sunday of every month

TIME From 10.30am-1.00pm

COST $35. All materials provided

*If you are experiencing financial hardship, email us for a free-of-charge spot while they last.

BOOKINGS

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See https://www.trybooking.com/DHYAV

 


Heal & Thrive

Trauma Recovery Through Creative Expression

Who is Heal and Thrive for?

I have designed this small group session to reach anyone who wants to stop being stuck in traumatic responses, and move on to explore living more joyfully.

Heal and Thrive provides the safety of a trauma-informed  session which mindfully steers you away from re-traumatisation, whilst nourishing your ability to move beyond anger, anxiety and other habitual trauma responses. Explore who you are behind the layer of trauma.

Join a safe environment where you can experience how you have changed after trauma– what you have lost and how you have grown; what you have discovered about yourself and who you have become after your traumatic experiences.

This session is of value if you ...

  • have experienced childhood trauma
  • feel diminished or undervalued in your personal or work relationships
  • would like to have the confidence to move towards the life you want.

For the human in you

Heal & Thrive provides you with a day of enrichment and emotional integration, by compassionately and creatively exploring: 

  • negative and overwhelming self-talk resulting from your traumatic experiences
  • embracing your wholeness post trauma
  • being affirmed for how you have managed to survive post trauma, and entertaining the question, what next?


Next session

Four sessions meeting every second Monday from
5 to 7pm.

Fee $50 per session; $180 if paying for the four sessions at once.

Where West End & Capalaba, QLD. 

Email us for Details and to Book your Place

Emotional Awareness Program

Are you the one who...

I can see the fear in my children when I come home.

I lashed out at my partner again.

I got into a fight with a stranger.

My anger goes from 0 to 100 in a split second.

Join a supportive group focused on understanding and developing safe ways to express yourself.

Letter of completion provided for court matters.

Experiential personal and group work

From understanding to positive change. Personal and group work on anger issues and expression.

The program focuses on positive relationships, both personal and professional - in the family, at work, in society in general. It is conflict and violenceinformed and some of the areas included are:

  • Beliefs and values - Your thoughts on social and family values that make it hard for you to respond constructively.
  • Explosion: From cool to explosion. The physiological and biological changes taking place and the moment-to-moment experience supporting them
  • Implosion: From hurt to illness. The link between suppressed anger and illness such as depression and addictions. The ‘silent treatment’ as an expression of anger
  • Triggers: Identify the situations that trigger you and communicate yourself clearly and non-aggressively. The feelings and experiences that trigger your anger, and work with their origins.
  • Solutions: The red flags towards a violent action as they appear in your bodily sensations, emotions and thoughts, and how to de-escalate, reframe and grow into a constructive response.


Details

Registrations now open for the 12-session group clinic.

Only 10 places available.
Contact us for immediate registration

“This program is really helping me a lot to be the person I want to be.”

Macleay Island

Date: TBA
Time: Mondays and Tuesdays from 5.30pm to 7.30pm.
Location: TBA

Sydney

Date: TBA
Time: Mondays and Tuesdays from 5.30pm to 7.30pm.
Location: TBA

Cost- 12-week program

$1190

More Information and Registration

Call Esperanza Egan
0422 230 966
Email: esperanza.egan@gmail.com

“Today I understood a totally different meaning to anger.
Applying my new tools
will assist me in my everyday
life and maintenance of action.”