Learning Self-Control through Family Fun Activity

Art Smarts!
There are very few activities parents and children can do together where both parent and child are equally challenged, equally experiencing something new, and equally vulnerable. Such a sharing between parent and child creates new bonds of closeness, awareness, and understanding of each for the other.

Learn easy exercises for connecting with the world and with each other.

Experiential: do the exercises, feel the results.

Useful: Learn a technique to do at home, in the car, while waiting in lines, to help change mood.

Ages 5 and up. At least one parent must accompany children.

TIME: Saturday, April 18, 9:00 to 10:30

COST: $15 per family

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title, and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Kristen Boyesen is a Life Learning and Creativity Coach, member of COSE, Cleveland Coach Federation, American Holistic Medical Association and Eldercare Professionals of Ohio. She has over twenty years’ experience as an art instructor and exhibits her art in galleries in New York and Ohio. She is pursuing graduate studies in Art Therapy at Ursuline College.

Stress Busters Workshop, Chagrin Falls

Take a break from stress, routine, and deadlines. Learn to change your perception, mood, and behavior through easy exercises based on meditative drawing (without looking at the paper).

Retrain your brain.
Let go and be free.

Materials included. No art experience needed. (Follow-up advanced classes are available on request.)

TIME: Monday, April 20, 6:30 to 9:00 PM

COST: $22

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title (Stress Relief Workshop), and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Active Imagination Interactive Event, Chagrin Falls

Experience “aha’ moments, ignite creativity and feel a sense of community through meditative practices, word games and interaction with percussive instruments. Learn an easy meditative drawing (without looking) technique for inner peace, wellness, and activating intuition. Short lectures are followed by instruction, practice, and group discussion.

Excite, feed and retrain your brain.
Let go and be free.

Materials are included. No art, writing, or musical experience necessary. (Follow-up advanced classes are available on request.)

TIME: Saturday, April 25, 9:00 AM to Noon

COST: $22

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title (Active Imagination), and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Workshop Opportunity for Cleveland Area Schools

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Spring is in the air!

Provide students with an innovative tool to:
• Focus
• Activate Imagination
• Calm Spring Fever
• Ignite Creativity

All age groups benefit, including teachers!

The Imagination Arts program uses a motivational talk & slide show, instruction, and a beginning drawing exercise to teach students to let go of circular thinking and enable concentration. Doing the exercises is calming before tests and opens the brain to contemplative thought for creative writing and problem solving.

The program can be matched to the hosting class, whether it is English, math, art, or social studies. Each teacher requesting the class may give an overview of what is being taught and how innovation and creative thinking would help excite the students to the current topic.

One room for the program should be provided for all day presentations to ease set-up time. With time between classes, the program is mobile. Tables or writing surfaces are required. Pens and clipboards are provided. The school should provide two reams of copy paper per day for supplies.

The cost for this all-day opportunity for your students is $200.


Kristen Boyesen has 20 years experience as an art instructor for workshops and private lessons, as college adjunct for drawing classes, a public speaker-demonstrator for groups and organizations, and motivational speaker at wellness facilities.