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• Seven Great Reasons to Engage in a GTI Art Workshop!
• Project Goals
• Project Results
• Workshop Process
• Registration Information
• Fees
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"Duggan Facilitating Brain Storming Process" Annual Brain Injury Conference Bozeman, MT October 2003 photograph |
Seven Great Reasons
to Engage in a GTI Art Workshop!
• 1. The GTI collaborative art workshop is a unique experience for group members.
• 2. The project focuses on the process of creation, which parallels the process of healing and growth.
• 3. Members engage in an artistic process that enables them to create a visual expression addressing a common theme.
• 4. Members take 100% ownership for directing the creation of a visual and verbal expression of their life experience.
• 5. The process invites participants to be co-creators of an expressive artistic community.
• 6. The interactive workshop offers people a creative means to express their relationship with their life truth.
• 7. Workshops are open to family members, friends and other organized groups.
Project Goals
• 1. Provide a safe space for people to express themselves personally and within a group.
• 2. Focus on the process of creation, which parallels the process of living.
• 3. Foster untapped self-expression and promote personal accomplishment.
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"Workshop members writing their "personal truths" " in relation to group theme - "Living after sustaining a TBI" bozeman, MT October 2003 photograph |
Project Results
• 1. For most participants the internal outcome is immeasurably positive.
• 2. The shared experience leaves all members with feelings of growth and discovery.
• 3. Engaging in the GTI program enables people to begin expressing themselves in ways they previously did not imagine possible.
• 4. The physical outcome from each completed project is a professional art piece with an accompanying book.
• 5. Each participant receives a Certificate of Artistry with photo and a copy of the story of the art piece creation.
• 6. It is common for members to realize that completing this project means they can take on and complete other projects they've been wanting to do.
Workshop Process
• 1. The first step involves group members brain-storming ideas, qualities, feelings, images and words that represent their lives regarding the common theme.
• 2. Movement helps participants to embody emotions and thoughts as images are generated to represent these words.
• 3. Collective decisions are made to create a composition which represents a combination of these images.
• 4. The group then builds the composition into three-dimensional forms.
• 5. Members discuss their lives in context of common themes and write about their personal experiences.
• 6. Writings are photocopied, and each person pastes his or her writing to the art piece.
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"Member painting final touches for" "Growing Throguh It in Montana" bozeman, MT October 2003 photograph |
• 7. Group members paint the final images with acrylic paints, adding both color and form to the piece.
• 8. Together the group writes a new story reflecting the breadth of their collaborative expression, allowing them to create a positive perspective
• 9. Individuals then read what they have written to the group.
• 10. Documentation of the workshop process, original writings and photographs create a book that is displayed beside the final artwork.
• 11. Video documentation is recorded and left with the sponsoring facility to be used for future healing reference.
• 12. Public presentation of the final art piece celebrates group members' accomplishments and honors their life in ways not possible before.
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"Member painting final touches for" "Together We Stand For Peace, Rights, Respect, & Diversity" Quanita High School, Kirkland, WA December 1999 photograph |
Registration Information
• The workshop itself requires 16 to 22 hours, which can be spread over two to seven days depending on participant needs and desires.
• One local volunteer for every 7 members is requested to assist the GTI Workshop Facilitator during workshop process.
• GTI workshops are always designed to meet your groups specific needs.
For example:
• GTI Art Workshops are designed to work with one person (Reaching My Dreams and Persistence) and up to sixty individuals together (Leaves of TBI: Breakout Empowerment and We Believe).
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"Member painting final touches for" "Together We Stand For Peace, Rights, Respect, & Diversity" Quanita High School, Kirkland, WA September 2004 photograph |
• Facilitation: $777
(scholarships available for participants)
• Materials: $320
(art frame, painting supplies, Process Book and reproductions for graduates)
• Travel: Round-trip airplane ticket
(for workshops away from the Coos Bay )
• Daily Per Diem: $155
(for workshops away from the Coos Bay )
• No participant will be denied due to lack of funds.
Please contact us with questions, comments, specific needs and special considerations.
