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Using creative processes to encourage mindfulness in daily life, ensures we are able to balance the demands of living in this chaotic world, with our needs for ongoing self care, creative growth and wellbeing. My workshops in this area are designed to help people build practices and skills to centre themselves, while also enabling them to creatively realign with their values and sense of purpose. They are opportunities to learn, experiment, play, connect and grow, and leave people refreshed and renewed.
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While working creatively and therapeutically with others as a counsellor and facilitator, I focus on providing more specific therapeutic environments to support people moving through difficult personal experiences and/or those who work in the healthcare and wellbeing areas. I hold a Master of Counselling and Human Services along with many years of experience in the health/arts and wellbeing fields. These skills enable me create and hold safe person-centered and trauma-informed spaces for individuals and groups. I am able to offer practices in coping with day to day life struggles, mindfulness, self care, healing from 'burn-out', and therapeutic practices and processes to build into your professional practice.
You can find more about my workshops via the wellbeing -workshops tabs. You may like to take a look through the pages of my website to view my current work, along with a few of the projects, workshops and residencies that I have been involved with in the past.
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If you have any queries or are interested in enquiring about commissioning art or workshop facilitation, please don’t hesitate to go to the contact page and send me an email or a message.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my site,
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Go gently,
Petra Meer
Hello my name is Petra Meer and welcome to my website.
Art and creativity have been a major part of my life for as long as I can remember. Being creative everyday, enriches my life and continually sustains my wellbeing for the work that I do in the world.
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My creative practice is made up of three broad areas:
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Working creatively (often with nature in mind)
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Using creativity to encourage mindfulness in daily life
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and Working creatively and therapeutically with others as a counsellor and facilitator.
These areas of interest also often provide the foundations for workshops I facilitate out in the community. The media and modalities I enjoy using include: creative journaling and writing, nature journaling, drawing, illustration, painting, mindfulness practices, and counselling and therapeutic work practices.
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Working creatively (often with nature in mind). Nature offers ongoing reminders to ground and slow down, while also encouraging a greater awareness of our overall interconnectedness. Nature is ever changing and an endless source of inspiration for creativity and for living fully. Often the focus of my creative work explores and encourages the importance of nature in our lives. I value time to immerse myself in the creative approaches I enjoy and also in teaching these skills to others.
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To see more of my work here, visit my illustration page. This page includes works commissioned by both the Tasmanian and New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Services used to illustrate endangered species and bring awareness to fragile ecosystems.
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