Art Coaching
Out of Your Head, Into Your Hands
Art coaching uses simple clay techniques to help you process emotions, explore transitions, and connect with yourself on a deeper, more physical level.
Why Clay?
There’s something grounding about working with clay. It slows you down. It gives your hands something to do while your thoughts settle and your body catches up. Clay doesn’t ask you to explain or get it right. It lets you express and release in a different way, especially when talking doesn’t quite cut it.
Clay also taps into parts of the brain that are connected to creativity, emotion, and instinct, not just thinking. That shift can calm the nervous system and open up space for insight, without needing to force it.
"This is a hands-on approach that combines art, reflection, and coaching. It’s not about making perfect pieces; it’s about making space for yourself."
The Art of Becoming:
A six-week program that combines clay hand-building with journaling and reflection. Each week explores its own theme, moving from grounding into yourself, through letting go, to stepping into what’s next.
Each session starts with a theme and guided journaling, moves into clay work, and closes with reflection. Sessions are 2.5 hours in a group, or 2 hours one-on-one. You’ll leave with a small collection of ceramic pieces, a journal full of insights, and tools for navigating change.
Ways to join
• Small group: up to six people, at a private or community studio in Vancouver.
• One-on-one: the full program at your own pace.
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 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.
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.
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?
Art Coaching 1:1
Ongoing sessions shaped around what you need, with or without the six-week program. Some sessions are quiet, others include reflection, coaching, or journaling.
Interested?
Art coaching is arranged on request. Send me an email (info@katpino.com) and we’ll find the right fit.