Description of Workshop– Loving Kindness Cards: A Mindful Creative Practice for Collective Wellbeing

In this workshop, we’ll explore how the simple act of creating and sharing Loving Kindness Cards can cultivate compassion, presence, and relational attunement—core elements of both healing and Focusing practices. Using upcycled materials such as cardboard from tissue or tea boxes, decorative papers, images, and inspiring sayings, participants will create mini collaged cards with messages of care and encouragement. These 3-inch sized pieces of art can be shared with clients, colleagues, loved ones, or even left in public spaces as a gesture of kindness. This enjoyable workshop will invite mindfulness, playfulness, and creative flow. As we craft and reflect together, we’ll discover how creating in community can become a doorway to loving presence—restoring connection with ourselves and others, one small act of kindness at a time.

Location: Online via Zoom. Zoom links are sent out 1 week prior to the workshop date.

Date and Time: Monday, January 12, 2026 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time).

Cost (USD):

• Workshop: $25
• 2 CE Hours: $10

Presenter: Viviane Ephraimson-Abt, M.S.Ed., M.Ed., LPC
This workshop is hosted by the Focusing and Expressive Art Institute (Laury Rappaport, Ph.D., LMFT, ATR-BC, REAT).

Content Level: Open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT!

Learning Objectives:

1. Utilize accessible, upcycled materials and creative processes to foster resilience, positive affect, and wellbeing for themselves, clients, and community.
2. Describe how mindfulness practices, such as creating Loving Kindness Cards, can enhance self-regulation and present-moment awareness in everyday life and therapeutic work.
3. Apply artmaking as a tool to strengthen counselor wellbeing, relational attunement, and promote community wellbeing.

Satisfactory Completion for CEs: This offering is approved for 2 CE hours. Participants must have registered for both the workshop course AND this CE course, attended and participated throughout the entirety of the Live Zoom program (with camera on to verify presence), and completed the CE Evaluation. Full attendance is required– there are no partial CE Hours. 

Cancellation/Refund Policy: All refund requests are subject to review by the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute Training Director. Please see our Policy Page for details (see "Courses approved for NBCC credit through the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute ACEP" for CE refunds).

Grievance Policy: For questions, concerns, or comments, contact us at [email protected].

Disability Accommodations: To request accommodations, contact us at [email protected].

Disclosure Statement: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.