Take a Gentle Pause with A Creative Reset Session
Life can feel overwhelming at times. It’s essential to find moments to breathe, create, and restore your energy. When things feel heavy or hurried, slowing down and reconnecting with yourself can bring calm and clarity.
A Creative Reset Session offers a peaceful, nurturing space to unwind and rediscover your inner balance through gentle creative exploration.
Using the expressive arts—movement, art-making, writing, and sound—you’ll release tension, quiet your mind, and awaken a sense of ease and possibility. No art experience is needed; just bring yourself. All materials are provided.
If you’ve been feeling drained, stuck, or in need of renewal, a Creative Reset can help you return to yourself—grounded, refreshed, and open once again to life’s natural flow.
Details
When: Monday, January 12, from 1:30 PM to 3 PM
Where: Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at UBC, Room 3402 (third floor)
Cost: $10 (paid in cash at workshop)
About the Instructor: Dr. Bonnie Nish
Dr. Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Word Vancouver and Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society. She is an award-winning poet and author; her first book, Love and Bones (Karma Press, 2013), was followed by Concussion and Mild TBI: Not Just Another Headline (Lash and Associates, 2016), and most recently Cantata in Two Voices, co-written with Jude Neal (Ekstasis Editions, 2018).
Bonnie holds a Master’s in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from the University of British Columbia. She is a certified Expressive Arts Therapist, a faculty member at the Vancouver Expressive Arts Therapy School, and conducts research on how trauma recovery is shaped by the care people receive.
Bonnie has worked with individuals and groups from diverse and marginalized backgrounds, providing opportunities for voices to be seen and heard. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Website: Creativehealingvancouver.com