Wild Heart Expressive Arts
Teacher Training Program Online 2026

About The Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Training Program

This Program Could Be Exactly What You Have Been Looking For If…

… you are a coach, counselor, artist or healer who feels unclear and frustrated about how to make a living providing soulful, healing, creativity work that is a source of satisfaction and inspiration for you, where you feel you are of service to your community AND are still be able to make a good income.

……. hungering to be financially successful doing the work that you know you are meant to do, the work that is aligned with your true purpose but that feels so out of reach because your fear gets in the way.

…….. a psychotherapist who has been in private practice for a long time and is burnt out from dealing with insurance companies that force you to focus on what is wrong with people and who is ready to have the joyful experience of nurturing other women to grow and change through the positive power of creative self expression.

…… a woman in midlife, children grown or close to it, someone who has been devoted to your family and now wants to do something for yourself, who is ready to offer your gifts and hard won wisdom to the world AND get paid for it.

……. a younger woman, just starting out on a career path, who is excited about the power of the expressive arts and creativity but who needs a compassionate, supportive and savvy mentor, someone who will enthusiastically guide you along the path towards becoming who you are meant to be.

……. an artist who has been devoted to your own creative process and wants to share what you have learned about the power of creativity with other women in a healing context.

…..a woman who comes from a difficult or abusive background, who has made a serious commitment to healing herself and becoming more whole and who is longing to bring her knowledge and expertise to other women on the journey of transformation.

…. going through a career change and ready to do something that you find exciting and fulfilling, that feeds you on a soul level and that also pays the bills.

And we would love to share all of what we know with you so that you can become part of a growing circle of women artists, healers and entrepreneurs who are touching and transforming women’s lives using this expressive arts process.

We can say with great conviction that participating in this process will transform you in ways that you can’t even begin to imagine. One of our students talks about how at the end of her training every woman in the circle appeared to have grown at least six inches taller and was a beaming light of joy and confidence.

We can also say that we are 100% committed to you if you join us for this adventure into becoming a group facilitator for creative awakening. We are over the moon enthusiastic about supporting you to gain the belief in yourself and the skills you will need as a teacher and a leader to run your own expressive arts groups and intuitive painting workshops. And we will also work with you around your marketing efforts so that you can actually begin making some money doing this work.

That is one of the reasons we are keeping the group small. We will be devoting ourselves to your success and personal unfolding over the next 6 months, because our deepest heart’s desire is to see these expressive arts groups and intuitive painting classes available in communities everywhere.

And to lovingly nurture you into the powerful feminine teacher and leader that you long to become.

This program is designed to teach you what we know, which is how to use the process of the Expressive Arts, Intuitive Painting, Group Process and  Sacred Sharing Circles, Body Sensing, Sound, Meditation and Movement to create a healing environment via classes, workshops, and retreats, to encourage people to manifest the best of who they are through the power of creative self expression.

This is a professional training and the purpose of this program is to produce teachers. Our intention is that you come out of these six months feeling confident to teach intuitive painting and expressive arts classes and to run your own workshops. This is not a survey class. It is very hands on and experiential. However, part of your training includes your willingness to do your own personal work through the group process and intuitive painting, because you can only lead people to places that you yourself are willing to go!

About the online format…

We will be meeting in our own private online conference setting. You will need a computer or device and a good internet connection to attend the sessions of the training. The structure of the training is quite intensive, because we want to give you a lot of information as well as opportunities for deepening your own personal expressive arts practice and developing various facilitation skills by stepping into the leadership role within the training itself.

The training consists of over 120 hours of instruction and practice spanning 6 months. Within this time there will be

• 4 weekend (Saturday and Sunday) online intensives where we meet from 10am – 2pm (Pacific Time)  each day.
• 22 weekly session on Tuesdays from 10am – 2pm (Pacific Time) between April 27 – October 22, 2024.
• Session breaks in July and September.

The weekend intensives will be a balance of teaching material, group sharing, Q&A, various creative processes including artmaking, writing and movement, and hot seat coaching sessions. We have designed these intensives to be not only a rich learning environment but also a place where you can connect with your classmates forming strong community bonds.

The weekly sessions will be a combination of teachings and experiential activities. They will include plenty of intuitive painting time where you get to engage in your own personal creative practice, observe how we work with students, ask questions, and also get the opportunity to take on the role of facilitator, leader and guide while being observed and coached by us.

By the end of the training you will have completed:

1. 120 hours of instruction and practice
2. 2 opportunities to facilitate your classmates in the intuitive painting process
3. 2 opportunities to lead a meditation
4. 2 opportunities to lead a movement experience
5. 4 short writings on a variety of topics that you can use to build your business
6. 2 videos about the creative process

In addition, you should plan on spending an extra 2 hours a week reading articles from the Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Training manual, journaling about your experience, and doing your own creative practice.

What You Can Hope To Receive From The Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Training Program:

You will experience the transformative power of intuitive painting and the expressive arts through deep immersion in your own creative process, which leads to powerful creative and spiritual breakthroughs on a personal growth level.

You will gain greater confidence in taking on the role of teacher and leader by being encouraged to think like a teacher and to act like a leader.

You will learn how to create a strong and safe healing container that supports people to open fully to their own creative process by discovering your own strengths and competencies as a facilitator.

You will be empowered by being part of the magic that can only happen in a bonded, dynamic, creative community of women who are devoted to each others growth and success, as well as laying the groundwork for an ongoing sisterhood of support that will sustain you in your continued expansion long past the training.

You will walk away with increased confidence and experience in designing your own expressive arts processes through offering workshops that YOU create to the other women in the training.

You will be given practical nuts and bolts information about how to set up an expressive arts workshop or studio.

You will develop a strong grounding in the conceptual underpinnings of this work which includes learning how to talk and write about this process in your role as teacher.

You will grow through the hands-on experience of facilitating a class with feedback from your peers.

You will flourish as you receive the unconditional support you need in order to go out into the world and actually teach.

You will be inspired to devote yourself to your creative practice as your soul feeding spiritual practice.

You will prosper by learning some basic marketing tools, identifying your unique marketing style and even learning how to make marketing fun so that you can make your classes and workshops a success.

You will be part of a growing community of Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teachers.

Some general topics in the curriculum will include:

A deep dive into the core principles and practices of Wild Heart Intuitive Painting including trusting the process, following the energy,  listening to your intuition and  working with the inner critic.

• Developing powerful creative facilitation skills.
• Working effectively with the shadow, trauma, shame and difficult emotions as they emerge in the painting process.
• Patterns of creative resistance and how to challenge, intervene and transform those patterns.
• Understanding and reclaiming emotional and intuitive wholeness.
• The healing power of embodiment and how it is essential to the creative process.
• Developing the capacity for holding space and the healing magic of being a grounded, witnessing presence.
• Delving into the question of what is healing and what are we healing from that includes exploring dominant cultural systems of internalized oppression and how creativity can be a potent force of liberation.
• True attention,  sacred recognition and releasing the need for approval
• Heart centered leadership, claiming your power, group dynamics and creating a solid container for authentic transformation.
• How to build a safe, brave and supportive creative community
• The power of unconditional positive regard, deep listening skills and compassionate, empathic attunement.
• Honoring and embracing full emotional expression as a doorway to creative flow.
• Releasing the need for problem solving, giving solutions or advice and fixing your students
• Creativity as a spiritual practice.
• Pleasure, play and creative expansion.
• Facing fear, creative risk taking and creative courage.
• Meditation as a tool and pathway to the inner world of feeling and imagination.
• Facilitating diversity and honoring each persons unique being and expression.
• Trusting in your own wisdom as a teacher, leader and guide.
• Leadership, boundaries and self care.
• Values, vision and creating the world you want to live in.
• Facilitation and teaching as a personal healing journey.
• Learning how to teach both online and in-person.
• Releasing the need to perform and breaking the good girl rules as a portal to true creative freedom.
• And so much more….

Program Participants

This training is strictly limited to twenty very lucky women in order to allow everyone to get the full attention, mentoring and nurturing needed that will guarantee your success! When we offered this training the first time it filled very quickly and unfortunately we had to turn some people away. If you are interested in attending please contact us soon to guarantee your spot so that you, too, will soon be running your own expressive arts classes and groups!

Of course, the final question is this: Are you ready to take this step towards creating your future as a teacher and leader using the power of art for healing and transformation? Are you finally ready to make this commitment to yourself? Are you ready to open the door to manifesting your dream?

If the answer is YES… if this program feels right for you please sign up for a half hour long interview with us by phone or Zoom to make sure that this program can truly work for you in the best possible way.  And if you are not quite sure, if you still have some questions or concerns, we would also love to hear from you and see if we can help you gain some clarity about your needs at this time. AND… if you know of anyone who might benefit from or be interested in this program, please pass the word along. We look forward to hearing from you.

From Our Wild Heart To Yours,

Chris & Tim

A Few Words About Commitment…..

The Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Training Program is a full sixth month commitment which includes all three week long intensives and the 18 weekly practice sessions. If, for any reason, you choose not to continue, you will still  be liable for the full fees for the program. This is due to the nature of this training. A FULL commitment is needed up front. This is not a program you ‘feel out’ and then drop out of or come in and out of at will. That undermines your success, my ability to support you and affects the spirit of the group.

Because of the intimate nature of the work that we will be doing together over the six months your full commitment is essential. Since this is not a ‘join anytime’ program, your space cannot be filled once we begin.

If you are not 100% sure about your passion to be doing this type of work we highly recommend that you participate in one of our other workshops or retreats before signing up for the teacher training program so that you can get a better sense of the nature of this expressive arts process.

What previous Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Trainees have to say about the program…