Story / Expressive Arts / Therapy
I have designed a three day Expressive Arts Therapy Experience that can travel with me where I go. Here’s what it looks like…
A three day exploration of the Expressive Arts. Come for one, two or all three experiences. The three day format looks like this:
Day 1 – A Storytelling Night
A magical evening of words and images as we journey together to the land and realm of ‘What is Unsaid’ within us. This is an evening of story that will be offered in circle. Come as you are. Bring a story if you have one. Listen, lean in, and be nourished by the stories that live within us and around us. Sliding Scale up to $25
Day 2 – An Expressive Arts Workshop or Art Hive
The Art Hive 10am – 1pm
A morning (or afternoon) of freeform art making exploring What Is Unsaid within you. This lively art making exploration is lightly facilitated with a short warm-into the room and a closing circle. Expect: individual space to create, plus the option to co-create a group piece together. We will be using: paint, paper, words, bobbles and feathers, driftwood and glue guns, many things to create, to discover, and to express. Sliding Scale up to $40
OR An Expressive Arts Workshops 10am – 4pm
A day long therapeutic Expressive Arts Workshop using: paint, the written word, movement and stillness as we explore the stories that live in our body, whisper to us from places we are from, and remind us of the wisdom we already have.Expect play. Count on eruptions of joy and practicing permission to be with what is. This is what ‘Living Story’ looks like. Sliding Scale up to $150
Day 3 – 90 Minute One on One Sessions with Me
75-90 minute sessions
Expressive Arts Therapy is way for us to journey through the landscapes of your story together, allowing you to rest in your innate language of communication. Not everyone uses words to share what is on their heart. Some of us are poets, dancers, painters, singers, emcees, clowns, dolphins, maestros, magicians, witches, waves of the ocean, star children and more… Your innate language of connection to self and others is here to be explored, remembered and reclaimed. What pains us can be liberated, loved and healed. Sliding Scale up to $75 (practicum pricing)
Dates and Locations
Courtenay, Vancouver Island, BC Canada
April 25 – 27 – Story Night, Art Hive on the 26th, One on One Sessions
May 24 – 26 – Story Night, Art Hive on the 25th, One on One Sessions
June 21 – 23 – Story Night, Full Day Workshop on the 22nd, One on One Sessions
Bowen Island, BC Canada
May 31 – June 2 – Performance on the 31st, Full Day Workshop on the 1st, One on One Sessions
Golden, BC
July 12 – 14 – Story Night, Full Day Workshop on the 13th, One on One Sessions
Calgary, AB
July 19 – 20 – Story Night, Full Day Workshop on the 20th (no one on one sessions available)
Vancouver, BC
Oct 18 – 20 – Story Night, Full Day Workshop on the 19th, One on One Sessions
Regina, SK
Nov 1 – 3 – Story Night, Full Day Workshop on the 2nd, One on One Sessions
Salt Spring Island
Nov 13, 17 – 18 – Story night on the 13th, Full Day workshop on the 17th, One on Ones on the 18th
“Tina is a story sleuth who helps you get to the core story of who you are”
“Tina gave me my own giant yes to trust that what I have to say matters”
“To have someone finally understand ME? Indescribable.”
“Tina is ‘big’ enough to hold what can’t be placed in a box. She creates a space space to hear what is on your heart.”
Who is Tina Overbury?
Tina Overbury is an Expressive Arts Therapist (in training), Workshop Facilitator, Storyteller, Story Coach and Communications Specialist works with expression, and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. She is currently studying at WHEAT – Winnipeg’s Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute under the supervision of Expressive Arts Therapists: Markus Scott Alexander, Stephen and Ellen Levine, Lindsay Ashmore, Conly Basham and more.
As an Expressive Artist, she offers visceral and restorative storytelling experiences rooted in land-based understanding, myth, mysticism, and always with a spirit of PLAY. Her recent work: OMYGOD a storytelling for reconciliation piece about ‘the women burned, the babies we buried and the Gods we have worshipped’ is a 90 minute one woman show that brings the harmscapes of two countries: Canada and scars of the Indian Residential School system, and Ireland and the atrocities of the Mother and Baby Homes together in a feminist unravelling of the harm done to women under the eye, word and rule of church and government. Her art is a way to put words to the unspeakable so that we can reclaim the life-force that lives beneath the scars.
Tina brings thirty years of emergent storytelling in theatre, film, and ‘living story’ workshop facilitation. She is the founder and co-creator of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat now celebrating ten years of being, held in various places on the West Coast of Canada.
Tina is also a therapeutic author coach as one of three creatives behind The Writer’s Adventure, a writing process and community where writers are nurtured, supported and encouraged to get lost on purpose in a life-time adventure of story crafting. New writers are developed, and experienced writers become authors.
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.
Tina is of Irish and French Canadian, British descent with her ancestry from the Isle of Éire, and her family heritage from Chambly, Quebec, land of the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory.
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.
Watch for more details about upcoming What is Unsaid – Story Tour Dates for 2024.