Welcome Journeyers!
From the very beginning, AWBW has been a circle of innovation with each participant and facilitator creating this journey. This toolkit invites you to join this circle of innovation and practice of art transforming trauma, with Durational Art as a way to connect deeply to ourselves and each other.
Guided Relaxation for the Journey
You are invited to revisit this guided relaxation video as often as you like to support your journey.
Learning Labs
The following workshops were derived from co-journeyers that have been using durational art within their communities. By exploring them, we hope that you will be inspired to use durational art in your own way, joining in this co-created journey. We invite you to watch the “Pop-Up Window of Time” videos shown here, use the worksheets, and even delve deep, viewing the “Learning Labs” where these practices were incubated.
Grounding Practices
with Cathy Salser, Founder of AWBW
We invite you to anchor your journey by noticing and expressing any transformations you are navigating or wishing for right now. By taking a window of time to honor your seeds of change with this Touchstone Journey worksheet, you can create a resource, like a resilience toolkit, to consciously ground your path forward.
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Minimum Daily Stones
with Teresa Smith, Founder of Being the Best Me
In this workshop, Teresa shares about her experience with depression and how she created what she calls her “Minimum Daily Function Stones” to assist her in getting back on track. This workshop invites you to create your own daily practices to ground your well-being, especially in times of stress.
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Relationship Reset Stones
with Dr. Susan Lee, Windows Facilitator at United American Indian Involvement
Relationships affect every aspect of our lives and can be critical to our personal growth and development. Art created in this workshop can be used to invite a shift where there are challenges, individually for self-care and personal growth or with another person.
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Relational Resilience from the Inside Out
with La Shonda Coleman, LCSW, Founder of Trauma and Healing in Colour
This workshop offers a window of time for you to explore your relationships and notice points of activation that can make it difficult to engage with those that you do life with: loved ones, friends, co-workers or someone else. It also offers an opportunity to move through these points and build your relational resilience from the inside out.
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Defeating My Giant
with Karen Gonzalez, Founder of Helping Hands Resource Center
In this workshop, Karen shares the story of David and Goliath. This story represents David having faith and trust in God. Regardless of how big the giant looked, he leaned on God and used a single stone to defeat the giant. We invite you to adapt this to any faith-based setting or spiritual practices you wish.
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Loving Kindness Stones
with Starla Faye, Windows Facilitator
Through the practice of Metta (most often translated as “loving kindness”), we can come to respond with less reactivity and more gentleness toward our own thoughts, emotions, and experiences. In this workshop, Starla invites you to explore what works for you and search online for mindfulness resources.
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Mission Statement Mementos
with Aaron Mason, Windows Facilitator at REACH LA
Inspired by a young father in an intimate partner violence class who carried his daughter’s sock in his pocket to remind him to complete his classes and be a better version of himself, this workshop invites you to create your own touchstone to set intentions for your healing journey and ground yourself in your personal mission.
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Justice Journey Jars
with Jamie Escoto, Touchstone Journeyer
In 2020, Jamie struggled with how to respond to her five-year-old son Lorenzo’s questions on the murder of George Floyd, race and racism. They created Justice Journey Jars to guide their discussions and reflect on readings. In this workshop, you are invited to create your own tangible pieces that hold and support your journey.
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Power of Ten
with Natalia Muñoz, Artist and Touchstone Journeyer & Cathy Salser, Founder of AWBW
Born during the 2020 US Presidential Election cycle and focused on voter mobilization, this workshop is an invitation to challenge oppressive systems and dominant narratives. Through durational art, we can center self-care while collectively setting intentions for transformative action.
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Vision Seeds
with Cathy Salser, Founder of AWBW
In this workshop, you are invited to create Vision Seeds as a way to reflect on this moment, notice seeds of change you hold, and carry them forward to support your continued journey. We invite you to honor any layer(s) of change you hold, from body and heart, to relationships, community and world.
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Inspiration
To spark your ideas, we welcome you to listen to these journeyers share how their durational art grounds them.
La Shonda Coleman / Prioritizing Rest
Daniel Domaguin / This Seed I Plant
Tutorials
The below videos share brief tutorials on various materials and techniques to inspire your journey. There is no right or wrong way to journey. We encourage you to explore, innovate and add your own discoveries and insights to this collective resource.
Using Different Materials
Glass Stones
Paper and Packing Tape
Shrinky Dinks
Ruff-N-Ready Shrinky Dink
Frosted White Shrinky Dinks
Durational Murals
Ordinary Paper as a Durational Mural
Breath as an Art Supply
Co-Innovating Three Breaths
