Meeting in the Space Between: An Art-Based Supervision Series
Mondays, September 21, 28, October 5, 2026
4:00-6:00 PM EST
The series invites practitioners to explore a renewed position of self-sincerity and empathic care within a world marked by polarization, uncertainty, oppression, scarcity, and recurring experiences of unsafety. Through art-making, reflective dialogue, and collaborative supervision, participants will be encouraged to examine their own worldview, values, barriers, and habitual responses to complexity.
At the heart of the series is an invitation to *play in the space between*: between our values and those of others, between helplessness and capacity, and between scarcity and abundance. Rather than rushing toward one side or the other, we will explore what becomes possible when we remain curious, grounded, and creative within tension and contradiction.
Session 1: Grounded in OurSelves
This session explores what it means to feel grounded in our personal and professional identities, and how to return to that grounded place when situations become difficult or when clients and the wider world express values and perspectives that challenge or contradict our own.
Through gentle art-based inquiry, we will explore what it means to remain true to ourselves while staying caring, rooted, and open. How do we enter the therapeutic space and respond to difference, while exploring the space between self-sincerity and openness to the other?
Session 2: Opening Spaces of Capacity
This session invites participants to examine how systemic barriers, expectations, and values enter clinical work that is never neutral. We will explore how distress and hopelessness may emerge when people feel silenced, constrained, or overwhelmed by rigid and seemingly unchangeable systems.
Through discussion and creative exploration, participants will consider what limits voice, choice, and participation, while exploring the space between helplessness and capacity.
Session 3: Playing in the Space Between
This session invites participants to explore the shifts that become possible when we loosen our focus on scarcity and begin to notice movement, possibility, and what is already available to us. Rather than positioning scarcity and abundance as opposites, we will play in the space between them, exploring how perspective can shift and how new responses can emerge.
Through art-making and collaborative reflection, participants will notice moments of change, unexpected resources, emerging choices, and possibilities that may not have been visible before. We will explore how creativity can help us move between limitation and possibility, uncertainty and confidence, what is missing and what can still be created.
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The series invites a playful and strengths-based approach to staying grounded in own values and resourcefulness, encouraging participants to trust their capacity to adapt, imagine, experiment, and find new ways forward while remaining connected to the realities of their work and lives.
At the heart of the series is an invitation to *play in the space between*: between our values and those of others, between helplessness and capacity, and between scarcity and abundance. Rather than rushing toward one side or the other, we will explore what becomes possible when we remain curious, grounded, and creative within tension and contradiction.
Session 1: Grounded in OurSelves
This session explores what it means to feel grounded in our personal and professional identities, and how to return to that grounded place when situations become difficult or when clients and the wider world express values and perspectives that challenge or contradict our own.
Through gentle art-based inquiry, we will explore what it means to remain true to ourselves while staying caring, rooted, and open. How do we enter the therapeutic space and respond to difference, while exploring the space between self-sincerity and openness to the other?
Session 2: Opening Spaces of Capacity
This session invites participants to examine how systemic barriers, expectations, and values enter clinical work that is never neutral. We will explore how distress and hopelessness may emerge when people feel silenced, constrained, or overwhelmed by rigid and seemingly unchangeable systems.
Through discussion and creative exploration, participants will consider what limits voice, choice, and participation, while exploring the space between helplessness and capacity.
Session 3: Playing in the Space Between
This session invites participants to explore the shifts that become possible when we loosen our focus on scarcity and begin to notice movement, possibility, and what is already available to us. Rather than positioning scarcity and abundance as opposites, we will play in the space between them, exploring how perspective can shift and how new responses can emerge.
Through art-making and collaborative reflection, participants will notice moments of change, unexpected resources, emerging choices, and possibilities that may not have been visible before. We will explore how creativity can help us move between limitation and possibility, uncertainty and confidence, what is missing and what can still be created.
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The series invites a playful and strengths-based approach to staying grounded in own values and resourcefulness, encouraging participants to trust their capacity to adapt, imagine, experiment, and find new ways forward while remaining connected to the realities of their work and lives.
About the Workshop Facilitators
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Lindsay Clarke, MA, RCAT, ATR, CCC
Art Therapist
Lindsay believes in the importance of nurturing community and creativity. For the past 10 years she has provided art therapy at a women’s shelter, schools, and art hives. She has enjoyed developing and facilitating community art exhibitions to support the voices of those who have survived violence, the impacts of suicide, and living through homelessness and mental illness.
She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.
Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.
Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
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Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, RCAT, ATR-BC, ATPQ
Art Therapist
Carmen is a registered art therapist with post-graduate training in sandplay therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Holding master's degrees in art therapy and fine arts, she is currently a doctoral candidate in psychology.
Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art. She deeply resonates with Indigenous wisdom and strives to provide culturally sensitive art therapy to Inuit and First Nations adolescents.
Carmen is co-investigator in a research projects related to art therapy and depression at Concordia University and the co-founder of Creative Arts Therapies Events platform.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online, using a strength- and arts-based approach..
Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art. She deeply resonates with Indigenous wisdom and strives to provide culturally sensitive art therapy to Inuit and First Nations adolescents.
Carmen is co-investigator in a research projects related to art therapy and depression at Concordia University and the co-founder of Creative Arts Therapies Events platform.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online, using a strength- and arts-based approach..
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