Eco-Art Therapy Retreat for Helpers

Are you a therapist, coach, medical provider, or other helping professional?  Do you give so much of your heart and soul, but struggle to make time for you?  Do you take time to enjoy the many healing benefits of our natural world? To connect to your own innate creativity and expression?​Do you recognize what drains and what fuels you? Make an intentional practice of connecting with yourself and your truest longings in order to be of the greatest service to others?

Creativity + nature combined offer a unique opportunity to experience yourself as part of the greater whole…to dig into your senses.  Using the natural beauty of the earth with creative self-expression, you’ll be invited into the healing power of the elements by meeting your own beauty, balance, and wonder mirrored through the landscape, your art, and peers. ​

​Our inner nature can be seen in the outer world when we slow down and observe the earth’s innate intelligence and vice versa. Staying in touch with the rhythm of nature and connecting with our own sensory capacities through the sound of the wind, touch of water, smell of dirt, etc. allows us to merge with and hear the wise voice of nature.Seeing yourself in this way allows you to connect deeply to the collective wisdom of nature in order to connect to yourself, your loved ones, the greater community, and the natural world.  It invites healing and growth. 

This day long retreat will gift you with the time and space to explore your natural strengths, your heart’s desires, and the inherent wisdom of the body as a natural guide.

You’ll leave with an understanding of what burnout and compassion fatigue look like as well as how creativity and connection to self, others, and nature can act as prevention tools.

Let the power of art and nature nourish and nurture you while planting a seed that allows you to curiously explore how you can be enough personally, professionally; for yourself, your friends + family , and clients or patients.  Learn the resiliency skills necessary to stay grounded and centered in the face of nature’s ever changing cycles.

I invite you to join in soaking up the healing benefits of Mother Nature along with the power of art, movement, writing, and more. 

Saturday, March 11, 2017 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Integrative Art Therapy next to Dreamy Draw Mountains
$195- payment options available upon request.  To apply please email call 480-382 0377 or
​laniesmith@integrativearttherapy.net.  Due to the small and intimate nature of this event all registration fees are non-refundable to ensure commitment to the group experience.

What therapists are saying about Eco-Art Therapy: Connecting to the Changing Cycles of Self & Nature
(daylong pilot retreat in Brooklyn, NY)…

“Excellent workshop! I learned so much. Lanie is so insightful and knowledgeable, positive and compassionate. I am grateful for her wise and encouraging words which have been very helpful to me.”
-Doris Strugatz, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist

“I came feeling sad and frustrated with our country, but the event reminded me of the healing powers of nature. Thank you.”  
-Katie White, Therapist at Center for Eating Disorders 

“A deeper connection to nature will benefit anybody and everybody and is necessary for the healing of our communities locally & globally.”
– Sarina Vanzyl, Expressive Arts Therapist

“I feel more aware of how to find solutions within myself and through nature to my challenges.  A great & versatile experience!”
-Maeve Goldstein, Art Therapist

“The structure of the day was done very well…at no point did I feel rushed.   The passion and excitement Lanie had to the subject made us all connect further.”
-Keslet Zu, Photo Art Therapist