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A shared space for caregivers — including everyday parents — to pause, connect, and make some stuff together.
This workshop is facilitated by Alisoun, monthly on Monday afternoons at the Living Space Studio Gallery in Newhaven.
Upcoming dates are:
Monday 17 August, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Monday 14 September, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Location: 6 Forrest Avenue, Newhaven (next to Island Healing).
A program running over three months, from July to September, with newcomers welcome any time. It is not an art class, but a facilitated, peer-based space for creativity, connection, reflection, and gentle exploration of how to support our nervous systems.
These sessions offer caregivers time out, peer connection, and space to notice your own responses while caring for others — including becoming more aware of your limits, and what helps you continue when things feel stretched.
We’ll spend time with what can help: ordinary things many people already draw on, such as objects, images, memories, or small practices that can steady us when life is demanding. These aren’t solutions or fixes to the many challenges you may be facing, but ways of expanding the supports you can return to in everyday moments.
The sessions usually include a themed creative activity focused on making a personalised visual resource — something meaningful you can keep and return to — alongside shared discussion about how and why visual resources and meaning-making can be supportive, especially under pressure.
This space is designed to be respectful, grounded, and accessible. There is no pressure to share personal details, and no expectation of prior creative experience.
For people aged 18+ years who support or care for others — in families, communities, or informal caring roles. You might be caring for a child — navigating school drop-offs, sick days, bedtime battles, or the quiet worry that comes with loving in this way — or supporting a partner, family member, or another person in your life.
• A small, supportive group
• Time and space alongside other carers
• A gentle, accessible creative activity
• Opportunities for reflection and shared conversation
• Something personal to take away and return to
$120 / $90 (with health care card) for the 3 session program, or get in touch for per session rates
Free for carers registered with Carer Gateway (see below)
Sliding scale available
Some participants may be eligible for a subsidy through Carer Gateway. This includes people caring for someone with a disability, mental illness, medical condition (including chronic conditions), or frailty due to age. Please let me know below if this might apply to you. If you are not yet registered, I can help you with the process. Supported by Carer Gateway and Uniting Vic.Tas.
Bookings for this program are by direct contact. This lets us confirm your rate and/or funding eligibility first. You can call me now on 0405 778 518 or submit your details via the button below and I will be in touch.
A shared space for caregivers — including everyday parents — to pause, connect, and make some stuff together.
This workshop is facilitated by Alisoun, monthly on Monday afternoons at the Living Space Studio Gallery in Newhaven.
Upcoming dates are:
Monday 17 August, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Monday 14 September, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Location: 6 Forrest Avenue, Newhaven (next to Island Healing).
A program running over three months, from July to September, with newcomers welcome any time. It is not an art class, but a facilitated, peer-based space for creativity, connection, reflection, and gentle exploration of how to support our nervous systems.
These sessions offer caregivers time out, peer connection, and space to notice your own responses while caring for others — including becoming more aware of your limits, and what helps you continue when things feel stretched.
We’ll spend time with what can help: ordinary things many people already draw on, such as objects, images, memories, or small practices that can steady us when life is demanding. These aren’t solutions or fixes to the many challenges you may be facing, but ways of expanding the supports you can return to in everyday moments.
The sessions usually include a themed creative activity focused on making a personalised visual resource — something meaningful you can keep and return to — alongside shared discussion about how and why visual resources and meaning-making can be supportive, especially under pressure.
This space is designed to be respectful, grounded, and accessible. There is no pressure to share personal details, and no expectation of prior creative experience.
For people aged 18+ years who support or care for others — in families, communities, or informal caring roles. You might be caring for a child — navigating school drop-offs, sick days, bedtime battles, or the quiet worry that comes with loving in this way — or supporting a partner, family member, or another person in your life.
• A small, supportive group
• Time and space alongside other carers
• A gentle, accessible creative activity
• Opportunities for reflection and shared conversation
• Something personal to take away and return to
$120 / $90 (with health care card) for the 3 session program, or get in touch for per session rates
Free for carers registered with Carer Gateway (see below)
Sliding scale available
Some participants may be eligible for a subsidy through Carer Gateway. This includes people caring for someone with a disability, mental illness, medical condition (including chronic conditions), or frailty due to age. Please let me know below if this might apply to you. If you are not yet registered, I can help you with the process. Supported by Carer Gateway and Uniting Vic.Tas.
Bookings for this program are by direct contact. This lets us confirm your rate and/or funding eligibility first. You can call me now on 0405 778 518 or submit your details via the button below and I will be in touch.