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This is special invitation
There is a universal rising awareness
that there might be better ways of being.
Do you feel it?
Replenish Your Soul
What is a Waiata Home?
A Compass
Your unique waiata/song carries the wisdom, memories, ancestors, love, and resilience you already hold within.
Your waiata is an expression of the archetypal energies that thrum within all of us. This waiata is always with you, yet the world has been designed to silence it.
And still, it is embedded in your very cells, and resonates in the rhythms and sensations of your body.
And as you tune in -
you build trust in your cellular wisdom, and
your waiata shows you how to read your own inner compass.
Reconnecting with your rhythms & sensations, invites you into being your own north star.
And, to do so in community is to navigate in right-relationship with integrity.
A Painting Journey
Each painting journey, online and in person, offers a powerful 8-step guided painting experience that invites a gentle, fun & sustainable way to:
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repair, re-member, restore, & re-center
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experience & express your emotions and body
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create something lasting that is both beautiful and meaningful to you.
This experience is truly a journey - a tuning process that can re-set your nervous system and relationships within your body+field.
Creating in such intentional ways reveals the healing power of art and the ancient community practice of people coming together - to celebrate and support each other.
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How we do it - methods & philosophies
Intentional Painting
We use an Intentional Creativity® approach that seems like magic - but is in fact a structured & proven process that pairs inquiry & visualizations with the act of guided painting.
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Somatic Science
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We use The Resilience Toolkit®, which is a somatic system for reducing stress, rewiring, and growing resilience with liberation at its core, so that you can envision, create, and implement positive change.
LoveWays
Love Ways is a framework
to create a nourishing love foundation to soothe love wounds, build love skills, and to trust & live love wholeheartedly.
"I am obsessed with becoming comfortable in my own skin."
-- Sandra Cisneros, (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.182
"Being invisible may prolong my survival, but
My truths are more powerful than their fictions."
-- Irene Villaseñor, In 'Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color , p.55
Journey
YOUR GUIDED PAINTING
Let's start by saying: You do not need any prior painting experience, and all bodies bring their own wisdom and ways of moving with the archetypal energies of the feminine & masculine.
Painting is a beautiful and powerful form of self-expression that can also be intimidating especially when we are caught up in our heads with judgements.
In the Waiata Home painting journey you will quickly learn that you have arrived in a container of celebration and welcome where it is known that every body has a waiata that sings of home, everybody is on their own journey, everybody is invested in the experience, and everybody has the capacity to connect with their inner artist & inner being.
The offered guidance and prompts are intended to invite and empower you to unlock your inner wisdom and creativity. How each of our bodies do this is part of our unique song.
This journey is one of bravely daring to put brush to canvas and practice listening to the rhythms of your body, feeling its emotions, movement, and sensations.
treat yourself to a little self-care and see where your brushstrokes take you
What to expect in the workshop
(re)-connect
These workshops are an amazing opportunity to be in your power & song in relationship with self & others
The workshop is .....
facilitated by a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and experienced practitioner & facilitator.
The journey is .....
personal and private, pragmatic and profound.
The collective is .....
held within a shared container and invites energy that nourishes each of us, supports us if we falter, and celebrates when we shine. The container is held responsibly with the intention for a brave space.
this is your time to invite ...
BOLDNESS: Invite your creative self to play and venture into your inner landscapes.
INSIGHT: Gently unravel old limiting beliefs to reveal & re-member your true essence.
CREATIVITY: A guided journey with brushes and color and play.
STORY-WRITING: Private journaling with inquiries - watch as new stories emerge that reflect who you are and who you are becoming.
TRANSFORMATION: Access a fuller version of yourself free of external 'shoulds'.
CONNECTION: Come and practice being in community - with ample time to breathe, converse & laugh, and a great playlist to inspire.
YOUR INNER COMPASS: The painting that emerges is both a celebration and an artifact of your journey - serving as a map and reminder of your song and how you read your inner compass. The artifact-painting might just blow your mind.
dare to nourish your soul
"An energizing, fun & transformational experience using color, image and symbols freeing you to express your passionate, vibrant, and sensual self"
Waiata Home?
Who teaches
Your Guide
Dr. Emma J Coddington Brown is an ocean nomad, raised in Bulls, Aotearoa, she has spent the last 30 years living and training, healing and learning from wise folks in the Islands & Pacific Ocean (VASA), Nth and Sth America, Africa (sp. Kenya, Morrocco, and South Africa), and a wee bit in Europe (Italy & Ireland).
The question that has called her through this life: How do the forces of stress AND love organize our bodies, relationships and communities?
Once a neuroscience-physiology researcher and teacher in traditional (elite) universities, she is now called to work with people through movement, therapeutic practices and creative imagination and form. In private 1:1 sessions and group journeys, Emma listens to the field and people's needs - and flexibly combines inquirys with color, culture, geeky neuroscience stuff, somatic movements, paint & canvas.
This approach is akin to weaving - assisting each of you to find the foundations and patterns of your own unique ways
of being. Develop practices that invite you to listen and discern your inner wisdom & compass, and therefore how
to dance and shuffle in right relationship - with honor, clarity and integrity.
Emma brings home her skills, knowledge, and practices as an atypical Neuroscientist, Psychosomatic Practitioner (The Resilience Toolkit® ), Shamanic practices, Guided Drawing®, and Intentional Creativity® Practitioner & Teacher (iMusea University).
Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou,
tēnā koutou katoa.
Soooo looking forward to being with you as we gather to boost our heart fields and paint into reconnecting our bodies, spirits, relations and minds.
In a time of necessary social restructuring towards equity with cultural diversity, global climate changes, and subsequent rapid and unpredictable challenges to living & relating ........
let's gather to re-member and
re-imagine how we might also
live into & from our innate
waiata mana - our cellular &
relational rhythms of home.
Here's to finding the AND.
ooooo juicey!
Much Aroha
Emma J
learn more here
Its about radical love & community
How we do community at all scales from family to whanau, cities to nations, is being revealed for the oppressive social structures that dominate and harm too many people...... AND...... Now is the time to re-imagine better ways to be in relationship. Ways that are deeply value-driven, community-centered and celebrating diversity, adopting frameworks and methods that serve one and all such as Te Wheke Kamaatu - The Octapus of Great Wisdom (Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, CBE). We, at SENSE8, consider our group workshops and journeys as opportunities to bring re-imagined ways to form. It's our turn to practice together.
Emma commits to hold each of your diverse sense of agency and sovereignty as paramount and attends to co-created agreements by which we gather in a group and enjoy. The intention is to hold a safe space in which we can bravely show up. This does not promise that we will be comfy all the time - but it does commit to each of your intentions and growth at the same time as attending to community coherence. As such each of you will be having a very private experience, that (if you choose to share) can be witnessed by those in the room with you - amplifying the 'ahah' realizations that emerge when painting in layers (as we do). Practicing noticing and listening to each other, and being fully noticed ourselves - we are practicing ways of being in relationship and community. This approach has changed her/their own life and that of countless beings around the world.
Emma has more than 30 years of experience curating shared and brave spaces for learning & personal work in groups. She began as a non-traditional scientist working to decolonize neuroscience, physiology and biology classrooms. The most recent iteration of these brave spaces has been in offerings to 1:1 private sessions, group journeys like this one (Waiata Home), and cultural coaching (mostly to science institutions and schools).
Typically, Emma prefers to collaborate with other facilitators when offering group journeys - this time home she will be on her own. She/they offers a powerful combination of approach + system + framework, offering tangible creative practices that reignite your spirit and energies. While acknowledging and honoring the diverse lived experiences and ways our bodies are influenced by the world around us.
Reviews
"This workshop came at a time when I had lost an inner connection with myself and was feeling emotionally and physically exhausted, working on the front lines of the current pandemic over the past years. Painting allowed me to hear my own wisdom and the creative process was very healing for me. I highly recommend Emma as an Intentional Creativity guide and teacher. I look forward to taking another class."
Dr. Shari Thompson -, NY, usa
See what others have created
When how much?
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Febuary 2024
Greytown, NZ
Emma J
Sunday 25th Feb
10am - 5pm
No prior painting experience necessary.
All materials provided.
Small Group of 10
Wear comfy clothes.
equity pricing offered:
early bird 95 / fair 135
for those challenged financially at
this time: hardship 65
for those blessed with financial security
consider contributing to scholarship fund:
Pay-it-forward 195
March 2024
Greytown, NZ
Emma J
Sunday 17th March
10am - 5pm
All materials provided.
Small Group of 10
Wear comfy clothes.
equity pricing offered:
early bird 95 / fair 135
for those challenged financially at
this time: hardship 65
for those blessed with financial security
consider contributing to scholarship fund:
Pay-it-forward 195
Bring your beautiful self and those you wish to paint with ........
No prior painting experience necessary.
-- we offer early-bird pricing till 10th Jan, 2024 --
A deeper Why
Its about radical love & community
How we do community at all scales from family to whanau, cities to nations, is being revealed for the oppressive social structures that dominate and harm too many people...... AND...... Now is the time to re-imagine better ways to be in relationship, better ways to be in community. Ways that invite creativity, en-spirited and earth-connected, principled, and responsible to community and collective field. We, at SENSE8, invite adopting frameworks and methods that serve one and all such as Te Wheke Kamaatu - The Octapus of Great Wisdom (Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, CBE). And, we consider our group workshops and journeys as opportunities to bring re-imagined ways to form. It's our turn to practice together. We, your guides, commit to hold each of your diverse sense of agency and sovereignty as paramount and attends to co-created agreements by which we gather in a group and enjoy. The intention is to hold a safe space in which we can bravely show up. This does not promise that we will be comfy all the time - but it does commit to each of your intentions and growth at the same time as attending to community coherence.
How this informs the design of workshops
In workshops and painting journey's, each of you will have a very private experience, that (if you choose to share) can be witnessed by those in the room with you - amplifying the 'ahah' realizations that emerge when painting in layers (as we do). In group, you are invited to deepen your capacity to witness - learning how to better notice and listen to each other, and being fully witnessed ourselves - we are practicing ways of being in relationship and community. This approach has changed her/their own life and that of countless beings around the world. Emma has more than 30 years of experience curating shared and brave spaces for learning & personal work in groups. She began as a non-traditional scientist working to decolonize neuroscience, physiology and biology classrooms. The most recent iteration of these brave spaces has been in offerings to 1:1 private sessions, group journeys like this one (Waiata Home), and cultural coaching (mostly to science institutions and schools). Typically, Emma prefers to collaborate with other facilitators when offering group journeys - this time home she will be on her own. She/they offers a powerful combination of approach + system + framework, offering tangible creative practices that reignite your spirit and energies. While acknowledging and honoring the diverse lived experiences and ways our bodies are influenced by the world around us.
Now is the time to re-imagine better ways to be in relationship, better ways to be in community. SENSE8 designs and offers programs for those who are looking for better ways to be, in relationship, community and within themselves. How we do community is currently being revealed for the oppressive social structures that dominate and harm too many. Together, we can explore better ways of being in family & whanau, cities & nations.
We, at SENSE8, believe that there are four core elements to a persons ability and capacity to live a fulfilling life and to participate in community with integrity & alignment. These elements call for skills, knowledge and practice:
1) Know thyself - your emotions, sensations, stories & lineages, gifts & shadows.
2) Adopt and live by chosen frameworks that center self AND all people
3) Develop the skills and knowledge to notice and interfere with oppressive social norms and structures.
4) Develop and practice in the imaginarium - the space in which we co-create better ways of being
We invite you to join us and the many folks around the world who are orienting in this way.
We, at SENSE8, invite adopting frameworks and methods that serve one and all such as Te Wheke Kamaatu - The Octapus of Great Wisdom (Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, CBE). And, we consider our group workshops and journeys as opportunities to bring re-imagined ways to form. It's our turn to practice together.
to invite your creativity, en-spirited and earth-connected, principled, and responsible to community and collective field.
We, your guides, commit to hold each of your diverse sense of agency and sovereignty as paramount and attends to co-created agreements by which we gather in a group and enjoy. The intention is to hold a safe space in which we can bravely show up. This does not promise that we will be comfy all the time - but it does commit to each of your intentions and growth at the same time as attending to community coherence.
In workshops and painting journey's, each of you will have a very private experience, that (if you choose to share) can be witnessed by those in the room with you - amplifying the 'ahah' realizations that emerge when painting in layers (as we do). In group, you are invited to deepen your capacity to witness - learning how to better notice and listen to each other, and being fully witnessed ourselves - we are practicing ways of being in relationship and community. This approach has changed her/their own life and that of countless beings around the world.
Emma has more than 30 years of experience curating shared and brave spaces for learning & personal work in groups. She began as a non-traditional scientist working to decolonize neuroscience, physiology and biology classrooms. The most recent iteration of these brave spaces has been in offerings to 1:1 private sessions, group journeys like this one (Waiata Home), and cultural coaching (mostly to science institutions and schools).
Typically, Emma prefers to collaborate with other facilitators when offering group journeys - this time home she will be on her own. She/they offers a powerful combination of approach + system + framework, offering tangible creative practices that reignite your spirit and energies. While acknowledging and honoring the diverse lived experiences and ways our bodies are influenced by the world around us.
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or have questions
We are in the early stages of beginning to build this hub - a place of collaboration for liberation. More to come. If you would like to know more as this space evolves .......
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she unabashedly and boldly occupies her ultimate sovereignty
When she finally feels ready to claim her space in the world
And when she redefines compassion as unequivocal self-love
~ excerpt from The Awakened Woman Poem by Dr. Shefali Tsabary