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My Medicine Art presentation, explaining how it all started and how I combine Expressive Art Therapy, counselling and Ci.
Comfort zone, Medicine Art by iveno
I am passionate about working with people experiencing questions of meaning, identity, grief and loss because they can be opportunities and breakthroughs when approached with the right mind set. I learned the most valuable lessons from working with dying people, playing with children, talking to homeless people, resolving conflict in relationships, traveling and using the arts to work through my pain and loss.
Hey my name is Iven, Counsellor, Expressive Art Therapist. I am working with alternative forms of therapy such as music, play, and art making to foster positive mental health and self care - TherARTy.
I study the positive effects of play, music and art making on people, what experience do we have physically, emotionally, and how are those experiences related to our personal healing. Playing music in bereavement and palliative setting since approx. two decades taught me that I am able to create a healing space for people transforming emotional pain using art and music.
I am a visual artist, teacher and multi instrumentalist. I am passionate about teaching art, music and going outdoors.
Credentials & Work Experience
Credentials & Work Experience
2008 - Present Volunteer outreach work with at risk youth in Toronto/Vancouver
2008 - 2015 Provided Music Therapy at O'Neil Center in Toronto
2012 Scholarship at Transformational Arts College - The Healing Power of Sound by Ann-Marie Boudreau in Toronto
2014 - Present Psychedelic Integration Counselling
2015 Internship at Ayahuasca retreat, Anaconda-Cosmica from the Shipibo Conibo people in Peru.
2016 - North Shore Family Services volunteer training for Bereavement & Palliative Care
2017 Expressive Art Therapy and Counselling diploma at EGS
2017 Grief and Bereavement Support Workshop - LMGRS
2017 - Present Onsite detox recreational music therapy
2018 Compassionate Inquiry Workshop with Dr. Gabor Mate
2020 Micro dosing Essentials Guide from Third Wave by Paul F. Austin
2021 The Essence of Buddhist Psychology with Jack Kornfield PhD
2022 Buddhist Psychology, Essentials skills for transforming the Heart & Mind Jack Kornfield PhD
2023 Addiction Counselling - Indigenous Holistic Wellness & Addiction Program at NVIT
2023 - Present Coast Resource Center Gratitude Sound Bath & Guided Meditation in Vancouver
2024 Scholarship Mindfulness Certificate Course at Mindful Leader, online course
2023 - Present Coast Resource Center Gratitude Sound Bath & Guided Meditation in Vancouver
2024 - Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery with Valerie Mason-John online course
2024 - The Power of Awareness by Devin Berry , Jack Kornfield MA, Konda Mason, Tara Brach
PhD online Certificate2025 - Present Two year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate online course with Jack
Kornfield MA & Tara Brach PhD
Connecting to people, street kids and selling Medicine Art learning about my work through people. Photo by www.neonair.de
What is Medicine Art - TherARTy?
What is Medicine Art - TherARTy?
Medicine Art isn't just what I produce in music or sell as postcards; it's also what my clients create in my sessions. I coined my own term, TherARTy, because "Expressive Art Therapy" sounded too long to say. I am a TherARTist who uses play, music, visual art, and outdoor activities.
How it all started
How it all started
My exploration through vision quest, fasting and plant medicines in my twenties led me to a plant medicine retreat in Peru. After those three weeks I felt lost, my world wasn't the same anymore. My goal to get a BFA in Animation didn't mean anything anymore after that trip.
I started to read anything I could about plant medicines, addiction, healing with psychedelics and started to volunteer for MAPS. I focused on my passion to offer music therapy for bereavement support and end of life care and combined what I have learned in Peru in my Gratitude Sound Bath.
I also started to approach street youth in Toronto and Vancouver whenever I was selling my Medicine Art on the street. I gave them free recycling paper sketchbook to give them a chance to express themselves.
Learning new facts about plants and their forgotten healing power is only a hobby, but I can connect you with professional herbalists.
Ritual Making - Plant Medicines
Ritual Making - Plant Medicines
In my practice as an Expressive Art Therapist I also use herbs, teas, incense, sap from trees, frankincense, candles, pale santo and essentials oil to put people in their senses. This will help you to distance your self from the literal world which we so often need a break from. Whenever I go to the forest I am looking out for things I can use to burn serving as smudge, sap will create a nice forest smell, sage and thief's oil will clean your apartment from air born and energetic residue.
Thanks to my grandmother who was a teacher in biology and herbalist. She knew most of the plants wherever we walked by knowing their Latin and indigenous name. She inspired me to study medicine plants and their medicinal use.
I enjoy learning about other cultures and their use of ritualistic plant medicine, smudges, tobaccos and special teas for ceremonial use to consult the spirit world.
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