About TinaO - TinaOLife

Expressive Arts Therapist (in training), Storyteller, Author and Story Coach, Multidisciplinary Artist

Tina Overbury is an Expressive Arts Therapist in training, currently studying at WHEAT (Winnipeg’s Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute). She is a storyteller who has written evocative pieces for both the stage and as digital storytelling pieces. Her recent work: OMYGOD is a storytelling for reconciliation experience about the women we burned, the babies we buried and the Gods we worship. Tina works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Previous pieces include: Only Nine and I Think You’d Better Sit Down and collaborating with Dramaturg Nicolle Nattrass on a micro-interview series: Death By Small Talk, and a debut afternoon of song: It’s Just You and Me Here.

Tina is a listener and artist who offers visceral storytelling for reconciliation experiences rooted in the principles of restorative justice. She asks her audiences to leave their plush velvet seats behind and instead, grab a seat at her fire and enter the circle of deep listening.

Tina is also one of three creatives behind The Writer’s Adventure, a writing process and community where writers are nurtured, supported and coached to get lost on purpose in a life-time adventure of story crafting. New writers are developed, and experienced writers become authors. Everyone on the adventure develops a life-time relationship with who they are as a writer.

Tina is a professional host and circle facilitator. You can find her bi-weekly hosting the R-Evolution Circle, a community of practice for leaders committed to bringing more humanity to their workplaces and modelling restorative ways of working. She hosted three seasons of Gather For HER, a relational leadership circle bringing together leaders from cross-sector social impact communities to learn from each other and lean in during these divisive times.

Tina is also a communications professional creating story pieces for clients such as: Sea to Sky Community Resource Society, WHEAT (Winnipeg’s Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute), Foundry Surrey (PCRS), and more. She is also a proud supporter of Peace of the Circle and their hosting of the Restorative City project for the City of Vancouver.

Currently, her latest hosting playground and indulgence is Harleys and Hairspray which she co-hosts with Alex Tsisserev of Mad Love Music. The two of them get up into each other’s business about what life is like as an artist and what it means to surrender your heart to art.

Tina lives on the West Coast of Turtle Island on Nexwlélexm (Bowen Island), located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations just outside of Vancouver in BC, Canada. She is of Irish and French Canadian, and British descent with her ancestry from the Isle of Éire, and her family heritage from Chambly, Quebec, land of the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory.

Always off-the-cuff and spoken from her core, Tina has created pieces for film, the stage, as digital storytelling, and in her writing. Her work is rooted in myth, mysticism, and always with a spirit of PLAY.

She is a proud, inspired and grateful mom to three tall trees of emerging young men: Connolly, Angus and Cedar, and a life-partner to her other half: Actor/Writer, Musician and Comedian Trevor John Campbell.

TINAO ARTIST STATEMENT & PORTFOLIO

Some things never change

I love the colour Red.
I feel better in a great fitting pair of jeans, in a sarong, a white cotton night gown, or dressed to the nines (bring on the gowns), or in my own skin than in anything else.
I write.
I run.
I do everything to the point of feeling ‘satisfied’, or I don’t want to do it at all.
Laughter is sexy.
Surrender is sexy.
Depth matters.
When I don’t ‘get it’ it’s because I can’t hear it yet.
The ocean is where I breathe.
I like it when my legs burn from exertion.
I am a gypsy and I love to dance.
I speak Artist.
I walk business.
Communication is a spiritual practice.
God is personal.
Butter chicken and Carbonara. You already understand.
Weather me with Storms. Rain. Wind and Silent Snow.
I sing for me. I write for you. I perform for the thrill.
I seek.
I am blinded by the beauty in you.
I create community where I step.
I get into things.
Truth has a sound.
Food is to be experienced.
Life is to be devoured and celebrated.
Yes. All. We.
I am a stag who runs with wolves.
Story is what happens between us.
That moment when the lights go out…