Unfolding Solutions is a team of professionals, who have joined forces to provide you with the most creative, engaging, and experiential learning experience.
ARTshops
- Creative, interactive workshops, involving ‘Cringe Free’ activities
- Experiential learning for teams to explore and discover realistic approaches
- ARTshops are designed for 5-105 year olds and for intimate groups of 12 people to a room bursting with 500 people!
Keynotes
- Empowering, thought-provoking presentations, set in a foundation of useful tools for professionals
- Validates current situations, promotes self-care and team-care, and explores future possibilities
- Encourages both self-reflection and dialogue
Training
- Integrating creative tools to engage clients more meaningfully
- Clinical supervision for marriage and family therapists, art therapists and expressive arts therapists
- Graphic recording, facilitation and visual communications training
Graphic Recording
- Powerful, dynamic murals created on–site, live, during your conference, meeting, or retreat
- Design and communicate strategy
- Generate big picture thinking for groups
- Illustrations in Motion! From the boardroom or studio, take your message to the screen
Illustrations in Motion!
ARTshops
All sessions are designed specifically for your event and the needs of the audience and agenda – be it a few hours or a few days!
What are ARTshops?
- Creative, interactive workshops, involving ‘Cringe Free’ activities
- Experiential learning for teams to explore and discover realistic approaches and assess the processing styles of each its members.
- Rather than fitting the tools to the individual, the individual discovers and brings their personal strengths to be used as tools for the team. Team members can then shift within teams to assist in more creative problem solving and produce creation.
- ARTshops are designed for 5-105 year old’s and for intimate groups of 12 people to a room bursting with 500 people!
Sample ARTshops include:
Be the Art or the Artist
We are all influenced and shaped by our experiences and encounters. Our lives come to resemble a beautiful painting, with many layers, textures and colours. Great stories emerge. But in the creation of the painting, who held the brush? Who sketched the design? Are you the artwork or are you the artist?
This ARTshop positively explores who and what has influenced us and who’s expectations we strive to reach. No matter who held the brush in your painting you will see how to take control and add new layers, colours and textures to the painting. Discover the 6 key factors for taking control of your life, and living it by your design.
Understand the 'T' in change
Logically we know change is a natural and essential process in our everyday life, yet we may find the process to be uncomfortable, confusing and stressful. Sometimes, we seek out change and are filled with excitement at the new possibilities.
Understanding the ‘T’ in Change explores how the process of invited and uninvited change affects you, your team and your community. Appreciate the power of transformation and learn
how to manage transformative steps in a healthy and productive manner!
Mosaic Masterpiece
Explore the dynamics of your team by discovering and appreciating the unique and varied personality styles.
Creatively connect the best fitting pieces together while valuing the glue that holds them in place.
Uncover potential, celebrate passion and skill while guiding your team to observe both the big picture as well as the details, the short- term goals and the long – term rewards.
Paint by Numbers
When each team member seems to be heading in a different direction but believes they are working together to achieve the same goal, the Paint by Numbers ARTshop will help.
Bring the whole team together for this ARTshop to show them your vision, through words, imagery and discussion.
As the team sees your vision as clearly as you do, they will be able to create the action steps and time line so that the steps to success will be as simple as painting by numbers.
Self-portrait
This ARTshop is designed specifically for women’s wellness groups. Self-portrait is an opportunity to explore the authentic you in a highly personal and creative manner.
Be it a face cast or body cast, you will be able to discover more of your authentic self and introduce her to the many roles you already fulfill in life.
Being more authentically you lowers stress and inner conflict, allows for more self- acceptance, and encourages you to be your own best advocate and promoter.
Keynotes
Cheryl-Ann found her speaking career at a safari park with a python around her neck! After entertaining and informing a diverse audience 5 times a day, 7 days a week, she became adept at tailoring her delivery to lift the spirits of the audience on a rainy day and spark the interest of even the most disgruntled guests dragged along on a family outing as well as reacting and responding in a heartbeat if the animals on stage refused to stay on script. Needless to say, her time as a snake handler cemented her speaking career!
Since her time at the safari park, Cheryl-Ann has developed her presentations to help people of all ages better understand their self-worth, shift their perspective and acceptance of those they share their lives with, and empower her audience to take steps each day to create their best personal and professional life.
Cheryl-Ann has spoken at more than 350 events since gaining her professional status with the Canadian Association of Profession Speakers in 2008.
Sample Keynotes include:
ART to Life
The ART to Life talk is specifically designed for groups that do not have the resources for a full keynote presentation.
This talk is highly visual and as such Cheryl-Ann can provide AV equipment suitable for a room hosting a maximum of 40 people.
HARTbeat - How Art Saved my Life
HARTbeat is a keynote presentation that can be adapted for 45 mins or 90 mins agenda. With a longer agenda including more audience participation in the form of self reflection and simple ‘cringe free’ activities.
HARTbeat works well as an opening Keynote with follow up break out ARTshops in which smaller groups can explore and express what creates their life.
Celebrating Beautiful YOU!
Cheryl-Ann Webster’s award-winning Beautiful Women Project has highlighted how our body image and self -esteem are intrinsically linked to how we live every aspect of our life!
Celebrating Beautiful You explores intergenerational messages, media influences and the power of self-talk to raise self awareness. In-your- seat activities will help participants recognize
their resilience to negative forces and the 120 sculptures (either shown in slides or exhibited on site), open a dialogue to transforming how we and the ones we love can celebrate our natural beauty and live healthier and happier lives.
This keynote presentation is highly adaptable to best suit the specific needs of the audience and agenda.
SHE - Shaping You, Shaping Your Life
This reflective keynote presentation has been most impactful with women experiencing a Mid-life Check-in; the stage in life where women re-evaluate many aspects of their current situation.
SHE allows for individual evaluation, discovery of inner strength and planning of transformational steps into the next phase of life. A phase that is centred on their needs and
achieving their goals.
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Training
To find out more about visual change management, click here
Sample offerings include:
Mastering Metaphor and Meaning
This is designed as a two- day hands-on workshop that provides the tools to improve the way you learn, teach and work with others.
Ideal for independent or In-house professionals who manage change processes: Facilitators, HR professionals, Project Managers, Coaches, Teachers, Project Managers, and Leaders who need to facilitate, coach and improve performance in groups.
Reflective Practice for Mental Health Practitioners
Reflective practice, reflective supervision, and reflective leadership is an emerging approach now considered best practice for organizations where stress, high staff turnover, and quality of service are significant issues. Especially in the health and social service fields, the demands of increased productivity, high caseloads and complex client dynamics can challenge your organization’s morale and quality of service.
Ideal for therapists, home visitors, art therapists, expressive arts therapists, mental health providers, nurses, case workers, social workers, teachers and coaches “We can help your staff do better, and feel better about what they do”.
Clinical Supervision
- MFT supervision, for students and interns working towards licensure with the BBSE, AAMFT
- ATR supervision, for students and interns working towards credentialing with CATA, AATA
Graphic Recording
Using visual representation and metaphors, complex or technically challenging new ideas can be easily simplified and explained in a user-friendly way on large murals. The murals can be incorporated into a post-session action plan, ensuring maximum follow-through. Participants can reflect back on their commitment to the goals set at the meeting, and continue to deepen understanding by focusing on the big picture.
Murals are usually 4 feet high by 8-10 feet in length or more, drawn with coloured markers and chalk. Partnering with you, we provide the design for the meeting, the facilitation, and the graphic recording; or alternatively, we are happy to partner with your facilitation team. We will meet with your facilitator via telephone or in person before the conference to ensure a seamless event.
We incorporate Graphic Recording into much of our work, when appropriate. The visual images are created on-site during the meetings in an unobtrusive manner. After the meeting the charts are photographed digitally and consolidated into a report to preserve the energy, momentum and vision of the original event.
This pioneering technique can also be provided as a separate, stand-alone service to energize your conferences and meetings.
The Value of Graphic Recording
- CAPTURES the group’s memory, resulting in a single, comprehensive public record of the discussions and visions of the event.
- DISTILLS the essence of the group’s thinking and organizes complex information into meaningful, beautiful, and memorable murals.
- ENGAGES group participants, encouraging them to work together in collaborative ways that promote commitment to action.
- ACKNOWLEDGES and includes the approximately 85% of people who are “visual learners”.
To find out how a California consortium used Graphic Recording to promote funding accountability, click here
DIGITAL GRAPHIC RECORDING
We also offer digital graphic recording, conducted real-time on a tablet (such as an iPad) instead of on large paper. It can then be projected onto large screens during your event, and immediately posted on social networking sites, the internet or your organizations extranet. We suggest discussing with us which method best suits your event and your specific needs.
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