Express Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

Engage in the processes of collage-making, mindfulness, and personal reflection. Each workshop offers a space to slow down, breathe, and explore your inner landscape with imagination as your guide. Through creative exploration, you’ll discover fresh perspectives, deepen self-awareness, and experience the calming benefits of mindful art-making.

Some workshops may incorporate SoulCollage®, an expressive arts method created by Seena Frost, MDiv, LMFT. By selecting and combining found pictures, it is possible tap into intuitive wisdom and imagination through journal prompts, guided imagery, and optional sharing in a supportive community. Be open, curious, and willing to try something new!

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Expressive Arts Monthly: Pause, Explore, Create

Each month we’ll explore a theme inspired by the time of year. Creative explorations can stand alone as moments of insight or evolve into your own Personal Wisdom Deck, growing throughout the year. It is a simple, hands-on way to explore what’s going on inside us — using collage as a starting point. All that is required is your curiosity! No art experience needed.

All sessions: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Fee: $50 registration + $5 materials fee (paid to instructor)
Location: The Burncoat Center for Arts & Wellness
78 Burncoat Street • Worcester, MA 01605
(508) 373-2927 • bcawworcester@gmail.com
Register at www.bcawworcester.com

2026 Dates & Themes

January 10 — Fresh Starts: The Concertina Vision Collage

Start the year with a creative spark.
We’ll create a folding concertina vision collage—a flowing, story-like piece that opens and expands throughout the year. Unlike a traditional vision board, this intuitive format invites spaciousness, reflection, and joy as the year unfolds.

February 14 — Love & Connection: Collage from the Heart

March 14 — Letting Go: Art for Acceptance and Ease

April 11 — Emergence: Creating Through Change

May 9 — Renewal & Growth: Nurturing What Matters

June 13 — Boundaries & Balance: Making Space for What Matters

Gather, Create, and Give Thanks

Gratitude & Thanks: A SoulCollage® & Flower Arranging Workshop
Saturday, Nov 22 | 10–12:30
Collaboration with Flower Therapy, Oxford, MA

Nature Speaks SoulCollage® workshop series:

Friday 9/12/25, 6-8pm: Ocean Insights

Thursday 10/24/25, 6-8pm: Tree Wisdom

Nature Speaks is a SoulCollage® workshop series where we use the natural world as metaphor to better understand ourselves and our experiences. Each session focuses on a different theme—such as trees, the ocean, flowers, or the turning seasons—as symbolic doorways into self-reflection and growth.

Hosted by Burncoat Center for Arts & Wellness, Worcester MA

Seasons of Change: Autumn

A Wellness Retreat with SoulCollage® and Seasonal Flower Arranging

Collaboration with Flower Therapy, Oxford, MA

 Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
The Mill @ French River Conference Room