The Art Of Becoming
A 6-week Journey Through Clay
This course is for anyone who wants to make space for themselves, whether you're navigating something new, letting go of something old, or just ready to explore what’s beneath the surface.
The Art of Becoming is a six-week art therapy experience that combines clay hand-building with reflection and personal growth. Through the tactile, transformative medium of clay, each week explores a different theme, like values, boundaries, letting go, compassion, and resilience.
We’ll shape, break, mend, and create. You’ll move with your hands, connect with your body, and access insights that don’t always surface through thinking alone.
What You’ll Take With You
• A small collection of ceramic pieces, each one symbolizing part of your process.
• A journal filled with reflections, prompts, and personal insights.
• Tools for navigating emotions, transitions, and connection.
• A stronger sense of self-trust and emotional clarity.
• A way back to your body when the thinking mind takes over.
The Journey
Over six weeks, we move through a series of emotional themes that mirror the natural arc of inner work; from grounding into yourself, releasing what’s no longer needed, and stepping into what’s next. The experience isn’t about fixing or solving. It’s about tuning in, through your hands, through your body, and noticing what shows up.
Week 1
Nervous System Awareness & Grounding (Safety)
Feeling safe and regulating through sensory awareness.
Clay Focus: Tactile forms that support nervous system regulation.
Core Inquiry: What helps me feel calm and connected in my body?
Week 2
Core Values & Inner Compass (Clarity)
Creating forms that reflect what matters most: your inner compass for becoming.
Clay Focus: Sculpting symbolic representations of personal values.
Core Inquiry: What values shape the way I show up in the world?
Week 3
Boundaries & Containment (Protection)
Exploring personal space, emotional limits, and energetic structure.
Clay Focus: Vessel forms that express openness, containment, or protection.
Core Inquiry: Where in my life do I need stronger or softer boundaries?
Week 4
Processing & Letting Go (Transformation)
Breaking, mending, and reshaping as a metaphor for release and change.
Clay Focus: Exploratory work with broken and reassembled pieces (kintsugi).
Core Inquiry: What am I ready to release and how do I want to reshape it?
Week 5
Compassion & Resilience (Grace)
Honouring both softness and power in your process of becoming.
Clay Focus: Creating small self-care or ritual objects.
Core Inquiry: What does it mean to care for myself with tenderness and strength?
Week 6
The Threshold of Becoming (Integration)
Marking your growth and stepping into what’s next with presence.
Clay Focus: Symbolic forms that represent personal transition and becoming.
Core Inquiry: Who am I becoming and how do I want to carry that forward?
What a Session Looks Like
Each 2.5-hour session follows an intentional rhythm. We begin by introducing the theme and journaling prompts, then move into a full clay session. After cleanup, we close with reflection and integration. Participants are encouraged to follow their rhythm. Sharing in a group setting is always optional, and journaling can continue throughout the session.
Session Flow (2.5 hours*):
• 20 minutes – Theme introduction + guided journaling
• 1.5 hours – Clay work (hand-building and sculpting)
• 20 minutes – Cleanup + break
• 20 minutes – Reflection and optional group discussion
*When choosing the individual journey, the session duration is 2 hours.
Ways to Join
You can take this journey one-on-one in my private studio or as part of a small group at different private pottery studios. The course outline stays the same, but the container is different, and this shapes how you’ll experience the process.
Intimate Group Course
If you’re drawn to shared experience and being in connection with others, the group version offers a steady rhythm in a supportive, small-group space.
You’ll move through the journey with up to five other participants. Each person works at their own pace, creating their own pieces, with optional time for reflection at the end.
There’s no pressure to share, just the option to be witnessed and held if it feels right. It’s a beautiful way to be in process together, without needing to perform or explain.
6 x 2.5-hour sessions
Location: to be announced
Dates: June-July, to be announced
Private 1:1 Journey
If you’re craving quiet, personal space, the 1:1 version might be the right fit.
We’ll meet in my East Vancouver studio for six weekly sessions. There’s more room to follow your rhythm, go deeper into what’s coming up, and shape the experience around what you need most that day.
This format is especially supportive if you’re in a more tender chapter, prefer not to share in a group, or simply want more flexibility and focus.
6 x 2-hour sessions
Location: Kat Pino Ceramics, East Vancouver.
Dates: limited spots available in June
What’s Included
• Clay and Kintsugi materials.
• A personal journal for continued reflection.
• Hands-on guidance and emotional exploration.
• Weekly coaching themes and guided journaling prompts.
• A safe, supportive space to move at your own pace.
• Take-home prompts after each session.
• All firings.*
*For the group course, an additional glazing session can be booked through the studio after the course. For the 1:1 course in East Van, pieces are left raw or glazed white, with the option to book a private 1-hour glazing session for an additional fee.
This Might Be for You If...
You’re in a moment where you want to check in with yourself in a light way, whether something is shifting, or you’re simply curious to explore what’s beneath the surface.
You don’t need experience with clay or a clear reason to begin. Just a little curiosity, and a willingness to show up.
You’ll leave with:
• A deeper relationship with yourself, through body, creativity, and reflection.
• A collection of ceramic pieces that hold meaning (even if they’re messy).
• A journal full of insight, and a clearer sense of where you are and what matters most right now.
Prefer to go at your own pace?
If you’re looking for something more flexible or want to explore a specific theme in a way that’s tailored to you, I also offer 1:1 art coaching sessions without fixed session themes.
