Creative Relief

The Creative Relief workshop is designed to help participants shift their relationship with pain by using art as a tool for self-awareness, emotional release, and neuro-reprogramming. Through guided art therapy exercises, we will explore ways to interrupt the pain loop and foster new, healthier connections between the mind and body.

How Art Therapy Supports Pain Transformation

• Breaking the Pain Loop: Chronic pain often gets stuck in a cycle where the brain continuously signals pain, even when there’s no immediate physical cause. Through creative expression, we can disrupt this cycle by engaging different neural pathways and reducing the brain’s fixation on pain.

• Reframing the Pain Experience: Rather than resisting pain, this workshop will help participants explore it through color, shape, and movement—externalizing it in a way that fosters acceptance and change.

• Building Emotional Resilience: Art provides a safe way to express emotions that may be fuelling the pain loop, such as fear, frustration, or grief. Releasing these emotions can help lessen their impact on the body.

• Engaging the Relaxation Response: Creative activities lower stress hormones and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to ease muscle tension and promote a sense of calm.

When: Tuesday March 25th

Time: 1-3pm

Where: Seal Bay, Courtenay (1935 Bates Rd)

Cost: $65 per person (6 spots available) 

Included: all art material, information print outs, and beverages