Join ARTunement
Your monthly, creative, neuro-affirming, personal/professional cup-filler 🎨
Created for Highly Passionate, Empathetic Wellbeing Professionals 💫
As empathetic, sensitive and attuned practitioners, we’re deeply passionate about our soul-work and hyperfocussed on giving 100% to help our clients feel nourished and understood.
AND, personally, we often live with unique sensory and processing needs, alongside co-existing health conditions that can zap our energy capacity.
With such big output, we require a great deal of meaningful support, self understanding and compassionate input, to help mitigate the constant cycle of teetering overwhelm and burn out. (I get it – it can be SO hard!)
Our needs matter, as much as our Clients’
Introducing: your Nourishing, Empathetic, Amazing Community 💫
Welcome to ARTunement, the nourishing, creative offering I’ve always wanted to experience and share with you!
This online program beautifully combines inspiring therapeutic arts processes, with the latest neurodivergent research and lived experience, delivered through hands-on experiential learning.
Each month together, we’ll explore neuro-affirming practices to identify and nourish our unique needs and capacity, empowering us to feel more bolstered and supported in our therapeutic work with others.
Who is it for?
Personal & Professional Development for Highly Empathetic Practitioners.
ARTunement is specifically for health and wellbeing practitioners, who are sensitive, empathetic, neurodivergent, or supporting neurodivergent people.
You may be a highly-attuned art therapist, counsellor, psychologist, psychotherapist, coach, social worker, nurse, somatic specialist, yoga teacher, keen to engage in regular, supported practices that refuels your soul and self-expression, making you more attuned to your own needs, alongside all you give out to others.
The monthly content will be delivered through a neuro-affirming lens, and will include a unique and engaging fusion of therapeutic arts self-inquiry, the latest research in Autism & ADHD, and mindful nourishment for helping professionals.
To join our members group and access our monthly sessions, you must identify as a neurodivergent ally, open to learning, valuing and advocating for neurodivergent rights and lived experience, while learning practical ways to assist your own wellbeing and processing.
Together, our group will include both neurodivergent and non-neurodivergent wellbeing professionals, all gathering as part of a community, committed to personal thriving, for ourselves and our clients.
#win-win!
Your Facilitator
Hi, I’m Chrissy. I’m a late-diagnosed, highly sensitive, perimenopausal, cat-loving Autistic-ADHD artist, arts therapist, and educator, with a Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice, Specialising in Arts-based Research.
I’m cis-gendered, 🏳️🌈pansexual, 🏳️⚧️inclusive, and my special interests include creative expression, self-discovery, houseplants, nature, beauty and animism.
I love to share nourishing, educational, neuro-affirming therapeutic arts experiences alongside fresh research, with sensitive and neurodivergent practitioners who, like me, have struggled to navigate their own wellbeing, while supporting others.
Welcome, to ARTunement.
Program Overview
Sessions will include a balance of hands-on experiential, creative and multi-modal information formats, to keep our attention inspired and body feeling more regulated, while we learn.
Together, we will bolster our lived experience from a strengths-based approach, informed by an emergent, autoethnographic-style arts inquiry process. I will also incorporate neuro-friendly mindfulness techniques, as we discover the natural rhythm of our unique profiles, and belonging within an aligned group of passionate neuro-kin.
By the end of each session, you’ll have a better understanding of your unique processing in particular areas of your lived experience, feel creatively nourished, and meaningfully shed another layer of ‘shoulds’, by authentically discovering who you truly are, within your sparkly skin.
As a bonus, you’ll also experience a variety of neuro-affirming approaches that can be easily adapted to your work with own clients. Nourishment in, nourishment out!
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
ARTunement is a transformative monthly online workshop series, designed to creatively support your sensitivity needs in a safe and inclusive community, while learning experiential tools to better assist your neuro-sparkly clients. #win-win!
Each month, we will gather together via zoom to explore educational therapeutic arts experiences, brimming with the latest neuro-affirming research and practices tailored to our multiverse-brain and unique processing styles.
Your monthly, creative, neuro-affirming, personal/professional cup-filler 🎨
🌻 Prefer to join us for individual workshops?
Book ARTunement Casually $89 HERE
👁️ Upcoming 2025 Live & Recorded Workshops 🎨
👁️ Upcoming 2025 Live & Recorded Workshops 🎨
2025 Workshop Dates:
WINTER
25th June - Breath Drawing:connect with your breath, boundaries and mindful awareness
23rd July - Mini Glimmer Card Decks: identify needs, interests & glimmers to bolster your personal and professional thriving
20th Aug - Watercolour Scapes: lean into nature and seasonal connection for yournervous system nourishment
SPRING
17th Sept - Spring Blooms:Connect with natural materials and create an abstract, process-inspired therapeutic artwork
15th Oct - Circle of Capacity: Use colour & shape to explore your capacity and sensory needs in various life areas
19th Nov - Quote Booklets: Hand-craft meaningful, poetic booklet keepsakes, brimming with quotes, colour and imagery
SUMMER
17th Dec - Circle of Connection: Using collage, we will explore our capacity and needs for connection of the festive season
✨ Monthly Members receive VIP access to all upcoming workshops, plus the latest recording, for the duration of your membership!
🌻 Prefer to join us for individual workshops?
Book ARTunement Casually $89 HERE
Key Features
Online via Zoom
👉 Format: LIVE & Recorded
Monthly Wednesday each month
LIVE 10am – 11:30 aM, Brisbane time (AEST)
Recording provided if you can’t make it in-person
🎨 Supplies: Bring your own art materials, a device for zoom and a comfy environment to learn
When you sign up, you’ll gain access to a membership page with all the info you’ll need, including the latest recording link, a downloadable art supplies PDF, book recommendations & special discounts/freebies and more!
2025 Live Workshop Dates:
25th June
23rd July
20th Aug
17th Sept
15th Oct
19th Nov
17th Dec
🎨BONUS✨
Join us this Winter & get FREE ACCESS
to Monthly Art & Chai Membership!
In Art & Chai, we gather online for relaxed art-making on 2nd Wednesday night each month. Come along in your pyjamas with a cuppa, some crafty supplies and create with us!
✨ IDEA: If you can’t make the LIVE ARTunement session, you could use the Art & Chai time block together to watch the ARTunement workshop recording #bodydoubling
Learn more info about Art & Chai HERE
Join Us
Your monthly, creative, neuro-affirming, personal/professional cup-filler 🎨
🌻 Prefer to join us for individual workshops? Book ARTunement Casually $89 HERE
EXAMPLE
Art materials list
Coloured pencils (I recommend watercolour pencils)
Small set of watercolour paints & a few brushes
1 fine tip, waterproof marker
Printer paper or a sketchbook
A few used magazines (e.g. gardening or design mags - whatever you like the pics of!)
Scissors & a glue stick
Optional: Set of sparkly or pastel gel pens, patterned papers
What You Will Experience:
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Neuro-Affirming Practices:
Discover strengths-based approaches backed by current research, and privileging lived experience in ADHD and Autism.
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Hands-On Learning:
Engage in therapeutic exploration of various artistic processes, including drawing, painting, journaling, photography, poetry, collage, and more.
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Guidance:
to explore your unique social, emotional, and sensory identity in a safe and affirming group space.
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Tools:
to recognise and transform neurotypical and ableist masks that may be draining your energy, empowering you to take control of your choices.
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Personal and professional empowerment:
via proactive, uplifting neuro-affirming strategies that promote overall wellbeing.
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Therapeutic Art Regulation:
Experience the power of evidence-based therapeutic arts to support neurodivergent processing and wellbeing
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Seasonal Themes:
Each workshop aligns with the seasons, fostering a deeper connection to nature and enhancing your sense of belonging.
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Recordings:
Workshops will be live and recorded, with recordings available for download for one month.
Who is ARTunement for?
ARTunement is specifically for health and wellbeing practitioners, who identify as either highly empathetic, neurodivergent, or supporting neurodivergent people.
ARTunement welcomes:
💛 Empathetic, ADHD, Autistic, or highly sensitive persons (HSP). Self/Diagnosed or questioning
🩵 Practitioners who work with (or live with) neurodivergent people
🩷 Women, gender diverse and AFAB folk (🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️friendly)
💚 Allies supporting the neurodivergent community
Minimum requirements:
🤍 As a professional/practitioner you are therapeutically resourced to support your own needs in a group environment (individual 1:1 support is not available doing our group sessions)
❤️ You take accountability for your self-care needs during each session, taking breaks to move, regulate or process as you need to
🤎 You’re interested in utilising artistic methods for self-discovery, emotional and nervous system processing
Unsure? Email me
Important Note👇
While I recognise the significant overlap between high empathy, neurodivergence and trauma, this is not an art therapy group focused on trauma processing, or a substitute for professional therapy.
Instead, ARTunement offers proactive strategies and guided educational experiences that blend personal and professional development, in a neuro-affirming manner.
As a participant, it is essential to hold yourself with self-care and self-soothing strategies, and take time out whenever you need during the live workshop. I am unable to provide individual support during group experiences.
If you sign up for ARTunement and find that you are not within your capacity on the day, please prioritise your needs and access the workshop recording within 30 days of the live workshop.
For those needing support with acute or complex trauma, I recommend seeking a neuro-affirming trained therapist for individualised support.
FAQ’s
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No. Whether you are officially diagnosed, self-diagnosed or are a highly empathetic professional, you are welcome here!
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We welcome professional allies in our group, open to learning alongside us! However please be aware, that neuro-spicy folk have our own way of socialising and communication, which may appear different to Westernised, social norms. This is a friendly space, so feel free to ask questions as we go. I also recommend researching Milton’s theory of ‘double empathy’ for more information about autistic-to-non-autistic communication.
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As a naturally caring and empathetic wellbeing professional, you will learn SO much about neuro-affirming practice that you can bring to both your clients and your child. If you have specific questions, feel free to contact me.
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No. This is a safe and welcoming space for anyone who identifies as having lived experience as a woman, inclusive of AFAB (Assigned female at birth) and trans women / rainbow folk 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, fostering an environment where our community feels secure to share their experiences and perspectives.
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Absolutely! Just as you don’t need to be an olympian to swim, you don’t need to be an artist to engage in the arts! I have been a teacher and artist for almost 30 years, and I have a myriad of ways to share creativity in a way that is open, fun, gentle and accessible. The arts are a wonderful human experience, available to everyone.
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Yes, absolutely. You can receive membership content for as long or as little as you like.
To cancel your membership, log into your customer account, navigate to "Account" and then "Subscriptions"
Find the membership you want to cancel, and click "Cancel subscription". You can also disable auto-renew to let the membership expire at the end of the current billing cycle.
You will have access to the membership content until the end of your current billing month.
Please note, I am unable to refund membership payments, as the content is digital and available to you for the duration of each monthly billing cycle. So if you’d like to cancel your membership, do it before your next billing date :)
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Yes.
Your monthly, creative, neuro-affirming, personal/professional cup-filler 🎨
🌻 Prefer to join us for individual workshops?
Book ARTunement Casually $89 HERE