Visioning Motherhood

Create Multimedia Collages for Mamas of any Age and Stage: Pregnant, Postpartum & Beyond
With Kristen Sawyer, M.Ed
Sunday, January 26th, 2:00-4:00pm
$45, * Sol member discount applicable

In the big and small chaos of daily living, it can feel impossible to take a moment for yourself as a parent. And yet, embracing the creative pause in a caring community is one of the most soul-sustaining practices we can practice as mothers, both for ourselves and to model for our young ones. Join us for two hours of intentional creativity focused on you. We’ll set the intention for who we are and want to be as mothers, and explore our unique gifts and strengths we offer our children and our communities. Using photographs, magazines, and natural objects, we’ll create vision boards to take home with us as a reminder. Whether you’re creating a vision board for birth, postpartum or beyond, you’ll leave this workshop with both artwork and heartwork that comes from creating in a community of mothers supporting one another.

General materials will be provided, feel free to print out and bring photos of yourself and/or people/places you love.

Kristen Sawyer, M.Ed (she/her) is an experiential educator who weaves the natural world, creative expression, and communication into workshops for kids, teens, and adults. Through her organization, Inner Compass Learning, her team and her guide individuals and groups in the ongoing life practice of reconnecting to self, others and earth. In 2019 she led a study abroad program in India, South Africa and Brazil focusing on maternal healthcare systems, and became obsessed with reproductive rights and systems in the US. She completed her birth doula training in 2020. In 2022, she became a mama to her first child, a wild spirit, and is currently pregnant with her second. One of her greatest passions is leading community workshops for women and mothers focusing on self-compassion, acceptance, identity, and protecting the sacred, creative self. She brings her nearly 15 years of experience as a classroom teacher, NVC facilitator, nature guide, traveler and writer to the spaces she’s grateful to help create and hold. You can find her letting out big belly yells into the Catalina Mountains, leading 8th grade girls through weekly healthy relationship workshops in schools around town, or writing her weekly musings on her blog: Noticements Newsletter.