Melissa Ayotte, ATR-BC
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"Setting Intentions for Rootwire 2018 With Visual Body Mapping" When we are journeying, how do we know where we are going without a map? Venture inward with art therapist Melissa Ayotte, MA, ATR-BC to retrieve information from your wise mind and body to create a visual map of intention to support a transformative festival experience. No art experience necessary. All art materials provided.
"Partner Painting to enhance collaboration, cooperation, and intimacy in community" The place inside where our art flows forth is our sacred center. Join art therapist Melissa Ayotte, MA, ATR-BC as she guides us in creative partner work that opens up our sacred centers where we will explore limitlessness, boundaries, connection, deeply seeing, and being deeply seen through a simple yet profound painting technique. No art experience necessary. All art materials provided.
"Lose Your Mind!" Our vigilant, thinking mind gets to ride in the backseat while the intuitive heART steps into the driver’s seat for this workshop. Art therapist Melissa Ayotte, MA, ATR-BC will offer simple art exercises to gently disrupt left-brain dominance and support our intuitive, emotional, creative, right brain to promote integration and balance of the heART and mind. No art experience necessary. All art materials provided.
Melissa is again facilitating this year's OASIS Art Studio where you can come and move the energy of your process through ART for FREE!
Melissa Ayotte’s heART work for the past 25 years has been combining her passions for making art and helping others. She has had the pleasure of working in homeless outreach, education programs, and in prisons bearing witness to others' openings and to the healing powers of art. She believes all humans are creative and that this is the language of our higher selves and the essence of our divinity.
Her formal training includes Columbus College of Art & Design, a B.A. in Psychology from Ohio University and an M.A. in Art Therapy from Saint Mary of the Woods College. Her work has won awards and been shown in art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Ohio. She is an original member and co-founder of Mother Artists at Work, a support group for mothers working in the arts. She developed KidzArtz, an experience designed to expose kids to the handmade movement and reinforce the value of their creativity. She assisted in establishing a women’s artisan cooperative for women in Marquina, Bolivia where women earn income selling their artisan wares to Fair Trade distributors.
Melissa owns and operates Painted Path Art Therapy, LLC, in Columbus, Ohio. Using psychoanalytic and mindfulness based theories, Melissa helps her clients recognize their strengths and how to use those strengths to find meaning in their experiences and overcome challenges. Areas of focus include anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, spirituality, Autism, and learning disabilities. She lives with her husband, two sons, and two gorgeous labs on a 10-acre farm in Ohio, which they are developing into Painted Path Farms, an expansion project that will strive to connect people with a variety of healing modalities through workshops, retreats, and individual sessions.
"Partner Painting to enhance collaboration, cooperation, and intimacy in community" The place inside where our art flows forth is our sacred center. Join art therapist Melissa Ayotte, MA, ATR-BC as she guides us in creative partner work that opens up our sacred centers where we will explore limitlessness, boundaries, connection, deeply seeing, and being deeply seen through a simple yet profound painting technique. No art experience necessary. All art materials provided.
"Lose Your Mind!" Our vigilant, thinking mind gets to ride in the backseat while the intuitive heART steps into the driver’s seat for this workshop. Art therapist Melissa Ayotte, MA, ATR-BC will offer simple art exercises to gently disrupt left-brain dominance and support our intuitive, emotional, creative, right brain to promote integration and balance of the heART and mind. No art experience necessary. All art materials provided.
Melissa is again facilitating this year's OASIS Art Studio where you can come and move the energy of your process through ART for FREE!
Melissa Ayotte’s heART work for the past 25 years has been combining her passions for making art and helping others. She has had the pleasure of working in homeless outreach, education programs, and in prisons bearing witness to others' openings and to the healing powers of art. She believes all humans are creative and that this is the language of our higher selves and the essence of our divinity.
Her formal training includes Columbus College of Art & Design, a B.A. in Psychology from Ohio University and an M.A. in Art Therapy from Saint Mary of the Woods College. Her work has won awards and been shown in art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Ohio. She is an original member and co-founder of Mother Artists at Work, a support group for mothers working in the arts. She developed KidzArtz, an experience designed to expose kids to the handmade movement and reinforce the value of their creativity. She assisted in establishing a women’s artisan cooperative for women in Marquina, Bolivia where women earn income selling their artisan wares to Fair Trade distributors.
Melissa owns and operates Painted Path Art Therapy, LLC, in Columbus, Ohio. Using psychoanalytic and mindfulness based theories, Melissa helps her clients recognize their strengths and how to use those strengths to find meaning in their experiences and overcome challenges. Areas of focus include anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, spirituality, Autism, and learning disabilities. She lives with her husband, two sons, and two gorgeous labs on a 10-acre farm in Ohio, which they are developing into Painted Path Farms, an expansion project that will strive to connect people with a variety of healing modalities through workshops, retreats, and individual sessions.
