Because we had such a great time at the open house celebration, we thought we would join the Last Thursday events each month until the weather gets chilly. Each month we will be on the porch offering chair massage for $1/minute, art experientials, and more! If you missed the open house, you will have more opportunities to come by, meet us, and enjoy a sample of some of our services.
Showing posts with label Amy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amy. Show all posts
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Last Thursdays
Because we had such a great time at the open house celebration, we thought we would join the Last Thursday events each month until the weather gets chilly. Each month we will be on the porch offering chair massage for $1/minute, art experientials, and more! If you missed the open house, you will have more opportunities to come by, meet us, and enjoy a sample of some of our services.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
An Open House Thank You
Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us at the open house. It was a wonderful evening full of wonderful people, art, massage, infant massage, nest-making, and delicious food. Thank you Johanna for sharing your paintings with us to add some sweetness to our night.
Thank you Lacy at Form & Flora for the beautiful & very creative flower arrangement. The bird and nest fit at Nurture so perfectly! Thank you Art on Alberta for 
organizing Last Thursday and for your support of our celebration. Thank you Amy, Sarah, and Tiffany for making the evening a success.
organizing Last Thursday and for your support of our celebration. Thank you Amy, Sarah, and Tiffany for making the evening a success.It was exciting to meet new people, share our joy with friends, and celebrate Nurture. 
Warmly,Monday, April 28, 2008
Prenatal & Postpartum Workshop Series
Prenatal Series
6/7 1p-3p Birth Sculpture
6/14 1p-3p Nurturing Your Relationship
6/21 1p-3p Belly Cast Decorating
Postpartum Series
6/7 10a-12p Honoring Your Birth Experience
6/14 10a-12p Mother Sculpture
6/21 10a-12p Baby Art
Each class is $35 or $90 for all three in a series if you register before June 1, 2008. As always at Nurture, sliding scale spots are available.
To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Prenatal Series
Birth Sculpture:
The creation of birth sculptures not only provides you with a tangible memory of your pregnant form as well as certain feelings and beliefs during pregnancy, but also can serve as a symbol of power and strength during the birthing process. In this workshop, you and other expectant mothers will explore and challenge your ideas about pregnancy and birth through the process of sculpting with clay. As you work the clay, the birth sculpture emerges, becoming a meaningful symbol of beliefs about birth and motherhood, and a tangible reminder of your innermost strengths. All materials will be provided by the workshop. Arrangements will be made for those wanting to kiln-fire their finished birth sculptures. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/7/08 1p-3p
Cost: $35
Nurturing Your Relationship to Prepare for Your Baby's Arrival:
Preparing for the changes your new baby will bring to the relationship between you and your partner is just as important as buying a crib or a sling or decorating the baby's room. You and your partner are invited to begin to explore postpartum expectations as a couple. Discuss hopes, fears, and beliefs regarding roles and responsibilities. During this workshop, you will create, as a couple, a symbol, using art materials, that celebrates the strengths and supports within your relationship now and that can be reflected upon tenderly postpartum. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/14/08 1p-3p
Cost: $35/couple
Belly Cast Decoration:
Creating a belly cast is a wonderful way to honor your body's amazing transformation during pregnancy. After pregnancy, as your infant becomes your toddler, and your toddler becomes your child, your beautiful belly cast will be a lovely memory of the earliest connecting moments between you and your baby. In this workshop, expectant mothers in the last weeks of their pregnancies are invited to bring their belly casts into a creative space to embellish/decorate them in ways that honor/commemorate their pregnant bellies and their pregnancy. We will provide all supplies for decorating the belly casts. You are also welcomed to bring any found or other significant objects for their casts. Partners, friends or other support persons are warmly welcomed! If you need belly casting materials and instructions, please ask when you call to register for this workshop. Contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/21/08 1p-3p
Cost: $35/belly cast
Postpartum Series
Honoring Your Birth Experience:
The story of the childbirth may be one of the most incredible journeys that you can share with your child. The process of giving birth, whether it is natural or medical, in the hospital or at home, is one of the most extraordinary experiences in a woman's life. Birthing a child can often feel wonderful, be filled with loving memories, and have a textbook effortlessness. Often, however, moments of the birthing experience that lingers most strongly after giving birth are those that were unplanned, unexpected, painful and disappointing. Processing these events in a safe and nurturing space can promote a new understanding and healing. In this workshop, you and other new mothers will be supported to share and process both positive and negative birth experiences. You are invited to honor your birth story by creating a special memory book. All materials will be furnished by the workshop. You are welcome to bring any special objects from home to include in their memory books. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Time: 6/7/08 10a-12p
Cost: $35
Mother Sculpture:
During pregnancy, a mother's body is beloved. Other people often focus on how a pregnant woman's body is growing and changing. Some even want to touch the blossoming belly just to feel the energy emitted by the wonder of life that is growing and changing within. After childbirth, however, for many women, their bodies may feel foreign, not their own because mothers give so much physically, but also because their bodies are different, and in many ways, may never be the same again. In this workshop, mother sculptures will be created by you to explore how you feel about your changing body and self as a mother. Through the creation of the sculpture, you will begin the process of integration and acceptance of your new identity in a safe and supportive environment. All art materials will be furnished by the workshop. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Time: 6/14/08 10a-12p
Cost: $35
Baby Art:
In this workshop, you will be supported in making art to commemorate your new baby. Through the use of drawing, painting, collage, clay, or whatever materials may evoke creativity, you can be inspired and guided through the artistic process by watching, exploring and seeing your little baby in this moment of quiet and calm. The timeless memories captured through this process will be meaningful not only to you but also to your ever-growing child. Please bring your baby to this class. You are also welcomed to bring any photos or other special memorabilia to be used in your artwork. Partners, friends or other support persons are warmly welcomed! Contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/21/08 10a-12p
Cost: $35
6/7 1p-3p Birth Sculpture
6/14 1p-3p Nurturing Your Relationship
6/21 1p-3p Belly Cast Decorating
Postpartum Series
6/7 10a-12p Honoring Your Birth Experience
6/14 10a-12p Mother Sculpture
6/21 10a-12p Baby Art
Each class is $35 or $90 for all three in a series if you register before June 1, 2008. As always at Nurture, sliding scale spots are available.
To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Prenatal Series
Birth Sculpture:
The creation of birth sculptures not only provides you with a tangible memory of your pregnant form as well as certain feelings and beliefs during pregnancy, but also can serve as a symbol of power and strength during the birthing process. In this workshop, you and other expectant mothers will explore and challenge your ideas about pregnancy and birth through the process of sculpting with clay. As you work the clay, the birth sculpture emerges, becoming a meaningful symbol of beliefs about birth and motherhood, and a tangible reminder of your innermost strengths. All materials will be provided by the workshop. Arrangements will be made for those wanting to kiln-fire their finished birth sculptures. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/7/08 1p-3p
Cost: $35
Nurturing Your Relationship to Prepare for Your Baby's Arrival:
Preparing for the changes your new baby will bring to the relationship between you and your partner is just as important as buying a crib or a sling or decorating the baby's room. You and your partner are invited to begin to explore postpartum expectations as a couple. Discuss hopes, fears, and beliefs regarding roles and responsibilities. During this workshop, you will create, as a couple, a symbol, using art materials, that celebrates the strengths and supports within your relationship now and that can be reflected upon tenderly postpartum. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/14/08 1p-3p
Cost: $35/couple
Belly Cast Decoration:
Creating a belly cast is a wonderful way to honor your body's amazing transformation during pregnancy. After pregnancy, as your infant becomes your toddler, and your toddler becomes your child, your beautiful belly cast will be a lovely memory of the earliest connecting moments between you and your baby. In this workshop, expectant mothers in the last weeks of their pregnancies are invited to bring their belly casts into a creative space to embellish/decorate them in ways that honor/commemorate their pregnant bellies and their pregnancy. We will provide all supplies for decorating the belly casts. You are also welcomed to bring any found or other significant objects for their casts. Partners, friends or other support persons are warmly welcomed! If you need belly casting materials and instructions, please ask when you call to register for this workshop. Contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/21/08 1p-3p
Cost: $35/belly cast
Postpartum Series
Honoring Your Birth Experience:
The story of the childbirth may be one of the most incredible journeys that you can share with your child. The process of giving birth, whether it is natural or medical, in the hospital or at home, is one of the most extraordinary experiences in a woman's life. Birthing a child can often feel wonderful, be filled with loving memories, and have a textbook effortlessness. Often, however, moments of the birthing experience that lingers most strongly after giving birth are those that were unplanned, unexpected, painful and disappointing. Processing these events in a safe and nurturing space can promote a new understanding and healing. In this workshop, you and other new mothers will be supported to share and process both positive and negative birth experiences. You are invited to honor your birth story by creating a special memory book. All materials will be furnished by the workshop. You are welcome to bring any special objects from home to include in their memory books. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Time: 6/7/08 10a-12p
Cost: $35
Mother Sculpture:
During pregnancy, a mother's body is beloved. Other people often focus on how a pregnant woman's body is growing and changing. Some even want to touch the blossoming belly just to feel the energy emitted by the wonder of life that is growing and changing within. After childbirth, however, for many women, their bodies may feel foreign, not their own because mothers give so much physically, but also because their bodies are different, and in many ways, may never be the same again. In this workshop, mother sculptures will be created by you to explore how you feel about your changing body and self as a mother. Through the creation of the sculpture, you will begin the process of integration and acceptance of your new identity in a safe and supportive environment. All art materials will be furnished by the workshop. To register, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Time: 6/14/08 10a-12p
Cost: $35
Baby Art:
In this workshop, you will be supported in making art to commemorate your new baby. Through the use of drawing, painting, collage, clay, or whatever materials may evoke creativity, you can be inspired and guided through the artistic process by watching, exploring and seeing your little baby in this moment of quiet and calm. The timeless memories captured through this process will be meaningful not only to you but also to your ever-growing child. Please bring your baby to this class. You are also welcomed to bring any photos or other special memorabilia to be used in your artwork. Partners, friends or other support persons are warmly welcomed! Contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or Mychelle@nurturepdx.com.
Date and Times: 6/21/08 10a-12p
Cost: $35
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Art Therapy
Our service options continue to grow! Amy Williams, co-founder of Nurture and Art Therapist is now available to provide services.
Amy Williams, ATR-BC
(503)-913-5934
amy@nurturepdx.com
I am a Board-Certified, Registered Art Therapist with over 5 years clinical experience offering individual, group and family treatment. I have training and experience working with adolescents and their families, predominantly with teens that have been involved with the juvenile justice system in some way. I have a growing interest in working with expectant mothers and have received training from Pam England, the author of Birthing From Within. I look forward to offering a number of birth art workshops and birthing preparation courses using Birthing From Within concepts. I am available to provide art therapy and counseling services for children, adolescents, adults and families.
Services and Specialties
Life Transitions
Anxiety/Depression
Self-esteem
Grief and Loss
Abuse
Family work
Body image
Prenatal/Postpartum issues
My approach is to create a safe and supportive environment and a nurturing, therapeutic relationship where one can explore challenging and often painful life experiences in ways that deepen understanding and meaning. I counsel by following, supporting, and respecting the needs of my client, and providing gentle guidance and relevant insights for activating change. I believe we all grow up with certain feelings, thoughts, and ways of being that define who we are, and that often, we come to a place in our lives where we must challenge old patterns for growth and change to occur. In session, I utilize a variety of creative techniques to bring about the process of healing and growth through genuine self-expression.
I am available evenings and weekends.
My rate is $55 per hour and I am also willing to negotiate fee based on income.
Amy Williams, ATR-BC
(503)-913-5934
amy@nurturepdx.com
I am a Board-Certified, Registered Art Therapist with over 5 years clinical experience offering individual, group and family treatment. I have training and experience working with adolescents and their families, predominantly with teens that have been involved with the juvenile justice system in some way. I have a growing interest in working with expectant mothers and have received training from Pam England, the author of Birthing From Within. I look forward to offering a number of birth art workshops and birthing preparation courses using Birthing From Within concepts. I am available to provide art therapy and counseling services for children, adolescents, adults and families.
Services and Specialties
Life Transitions
Anxiety/Depression
Self-esteem
Grief and Loss
Abuse
Family work
Body image
Prenatal/Postpartum issues
My approach is to create a safe and supportive environment and a nurturing, therapeutic relationship where one can explore challenging and often painful life experiences in ways that deepen understanding and meaning. I counsel by following, supporting, and respecting the needs of my client, and providing gentle guidance and relevant insights for activating change. I believe we all grow up with certain feelings, thoughts, and ways of being that define who we are, and that often, we come to a place in our lives where we must challenge old patterns for growth and change to occur. In session, I utilize a variety of creative techniques to bring about the process of healing and growth through genuine self-expression.
I am available evenings and weekends.
My rate is $55 per hour and I am also willing to negotiate fee based on income.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Welcome to Nurture...
A few years ago, my friend and colleague Mychelle and I, Amy, got to talking about birthing classes. I had already had one child and Mychelle was just pregnant with her first. We both loved the Birthing From Within (BFW) birth preparation program, and as art therapists, our minds started churning together about how wonderful it would be to facilitate our own birth preparation classes using the BFW tenents with our own experience as art therapists.
A year later, after I had just had my second child and Mychelle was pregnant with her second, we prepared our curriculum, and had the amazing opportunity to review our ideas with Pam England herself! Today, maybe a year since we developed our curriuclum, and after several years in the making, we are very proud to begin this journey with mothers and mothers-to-be by offering our first series of childbirth preparation classes. Here's the information for the class:
Nurturing Birth
Birthing From Within/Art Therapy Birth Preparation Class
Saturday mornings, April 5, 12, 19 & 26, 9:30-1:00PM
Giving birth is a profound emotional and physical experience that can be empowering and can strengthen your relationship with your partner. We believe mothers prepare for childbirth guided by an intrinsic inner wisdom that, when discovered and listened to, can guide them to give birth in whatever way they must, and to parent in fulfilling ways regardless of the unexpected turns in the road.
Utilizing these beliefs and many other ideas from the book Birthing from Within (by Pam England and Rob Horowitz, www.birthingfromwithin.com), and guided by our own knowledge and experiences as mothers and Board Certified Art Therapists, we invite you to join us, in a safe and nurturing environment, down a creative path to birth preparation. This rich group experience emphasizes the use of artistic expression to explore relationships, while also providing information and guidance through birth education and pain-coping practices based on ideas from the book Birthing from Within. Develop lifelong friendships with other mothers and their partners as you explore the emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of birthing and parenting. Come and explore your expectations, fears, and inherent wisdom of the process of childbirth and parenting.
Additionally, cost of this group includes all the following:
Cost: $250 per couple.
Openings will be available for those needing tuition assistance.
To register or for more information,
please contact
Mychelle 971.344.7527 or Amy 503.913.5934
A year later, after I had just had my second child and Mychelle was pregnant with her second, we prepared our curriculum, and had the amazing opportunity to review our ideas with Pam England herself! Today, maybe a year since we developed our curriuclum, and after several years in the making, we are very proud to begin this journey with mothers and mothers-to-be by offering our first series of childbirth preparation classes. Here's the information for the class:
Nurturing Birth
Birthing From Within/Art Therapy Birth Preparation Class
Saturday mornings, April 5, 12, 19 & 26, 9:30-1:00PM
Giving birth is a profound emotional and physical experience that can be empowering and can strengthen your relationship with your partner. We believe mothers prepare for childbirth guided by an intrinsic inner wisdom that, when discovered and listened to, can guide them to give birth in whatever way they must, and to parent in fulfilling ways regardless of the unexpected turns in the road.
Utilizing these beliefs and many other ideas from the book Birthing from Within (by Pam England and Rob Horowitz, www.birthingfromwithin.com), and guided by our own knowledge and experiences as mothers and Board Certified Art Therapists, we invite you to join us, in a safe and nurturing environment, down a creative path to birth preparation. This rich group experience emphasizes the use of artistic expression to explore relationships, while also providing information and guidance through birth education and pain-coping practices based on ideas from the book Birthing from Within. Develop lifelong friendships with other mothers and their partners as you explore the emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of birthing and parenting. Come and explore your expectations, fears, and inherent wisdom of the process of childbirth and parenting.
Additionally, cost of this group includes all the following:
- refreshments and wholesome snacks,
- birthing wisdom remembrance journal,
- birth sculptures,
- belly-casting,
- a group blessing ceremony to honor the rite of passage. ,
Cost: $250 per couple.
Openings will be available for those needing tuition assistance.
To register or for more information,
please contact
Mychelle 971.344.7527 or Amy 503.913.5934
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