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NURTURING CREATIVITY THROUGH CONNECTION
Equine Assisted Learning Sessions
Designed for Creatives
EAL SESSIONS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR ARTISTS
Healing After a Difficult Creative Endeavor
Creation is an emotional experience. Those who are not engaged in artistic expression may not understand how taxing, dysregulating, exhausting, and triggering a creative journey may be. Some artists power through, focused only on the project, denying or suppressing the need for self-care through the endeavor. Upon completion of a project, many artists feel a sense of grief, confusion, anxiety and loss. You may need to reset your nervous system. You may need support for things that were brought to the surface. These EAL sessions and integrative coaching are excellent tools to help.
Seeking Help with Creative Blocks
Often times, artists have difficulty compartmentalizing. Especially now, people with empathy, sensitivity, and compassion are finding it hard to focus and to create. EAL sessions bring us back into body, regulate our nervous system and bring discoveries to the surface. Many clients express feeling grounded, calm, centered and peaceful after just one session.
Focusing Energy Between Projects
Whether you are managing several projects in your medium, switching between mediums, embarking upon a career shift, or having difficulty deciding which project to pursue, EAL can enlighten, inspire and clarify.
Refining Existing Work
Perspective is everything. EAL sessions coupled with integrative coaching can illuminate the path, and provide a new relationship with self-analysis learning to critique without harmful messaging. Horses are non-judgemental and through observation and connection with them, we can identify patterns and behavior that are holding us back.
Exploring New Work
Spending time in the presence of horses opens us up. To ourselves, our future, our healing, our development and our relationships. This practice is about being curious. It's about wondering. It honors the process of questioning and exploring. Time moves more slowly for horses, and this EAL practice allows us to slow down, too. This gives us space to dream, imagine, and allow our minds to wander and visit different landscapes and worlds.
Finding Your Authentic Voice
If you feel unsure of your authentic voice in your work, if you are seeking more of a connection with that authentic voice, EAL sessions and integrative coaching are a beautiful gift to give to yourself. Horses are mirrors. Spending time with them, pieces of ourselves may be revealed and reflected that we wish to get to know better and bring forward.
Elise is a dedicated Recovery and Life Skills Coach with over 15 years of extensive experience guiding individuals through addiction recovery, mental health challenges, and life transitions. She is a certified Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator and graduate of the highly lauded Shakti Ranch program in Malibu, California.
Skilled in goal setting, personalized support, and fostering sustainable growth with a strong focus on adaptability, communication, and problem-solving, Elise is committed to empowering clients to build authentic, fulfilling, resilient lives.
As a Life Skills Coach, Elise incorporates creativity and creative expression as a tool to develop and nurture critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, empathy, emotional regulation, self-soothing techniques, cognitive reappraisal, and more. Familiar with various therapeutic modalities including DBT, CBT and Harm Reduction, she has been fortunate to participate in trainings at UCLA with Dr. Timothy Fong, Dr. Georgina Smith, and other well-respected leaders in the treatment community.
A proud graduate of Pitzer College at the Claremont Colleges with a BA in Media Studies, Elise is an award-winning writer and producer. Her creative work embodies themes related to trauma, trust, truth and transformation.
Always a believer in the healing power of the arts, she encourages the creation of, and the sharing of, artistic expression as a path to recovery and continued discovery.
Her EAL facilitation practice is solely focused on artists and creatives.