
Who We Serve
Our programs combine practical coping skills with art making to help clients understand and integrate the skills we teach. We offer expertise in mindfulness, emotional intelligence, interpersonal effectiveness, creativity and resilience. Programs are individualized to meet your specific professional and personal goals. We offer specialized programming to:
Individuals: One-on-one coaching
Schools: In-class learning and art experiences designed to address mental health standards.
Businesses: Help your employees, and business, thrive with corporate retreats and educational experiences to help staff achieve emotional and mental health, mindfulness and creativity in the workplace.
Groups: Community groups and classes are offered in varying places in Columbia. Specialized programming can be customized to meet your groups needs.
Classes and Workshops
Create a life of love and purpose. Classes combine art-making with practical life skills that will inspire you to create the life of your dreams.
Create MORE Courses
Create MORE: Art as Inner-work Course Series. These classes can be structured to meet the goals of your school, group or business.
Create MORE: The Four-step Foundation for Art as Inner-work Create MORE peace and love and joy in work and in life. Learn the 4 foundational steps of the Create MORE process. This course involves a unique combination of cognitive restructuring, mindfulness and art using altered book making to increase your access to creative thinking, innovative ideas and alignment with true passion and purpose.
Create MORE Mindfulness and Intuition: Art as Inner-work for Mindfulness and Intuition You will create mandala circle drawings as you learn to listen to and trust your own innate wisdom within. This class focuses on formal and informal mindfulness practices as well as methods for learning to listen to your own inner guidance as a powerful method for navigating life. You’ll learn a variety of ways to use mandala making as a mindfulness practice throughout the course.
Create MORE Emotional Intelligence: Art as Inner-work for Emotional Well-being Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions and those of the people around you. The focus of this class is combining art-making and coping skills to increase emotional intelligence, emotional regulation and mindfulness for personal well-being and healthy leadership.
Create MORE Resilience: Art as Inner-work for Post-traumatic Growth Reslience is a person's ability to manage actual or perceived emotional distress and involves the ability to survive emotionally challenging situations without making them worse. Learn about combining art-making and coping skills to increase mindfulness, distress tolerance and radical acceptance while creating crisis survival kits to effectively integrate these skills into daily life.
Create MORE Soul-filled Relationships Learn to combe art-making and coping skills to increase mindfulness and skills for finding balance within your relationships, getting relationship needs met and maintaining compassion and connection that helps relationships thrive. You’ll also learn your Enneagram type and how this tool can help you understand yourself and others better. Art making includes both individual and group making exercises to explore these themes.
Create MORE Dreams and Inner-work An introduction to dreams and inner-work where you will gain a deeper understanding of your inner-world for more conscious and intentional awareness. Get a deeper understanding of art as inner-work along with dream-work, signs and synchronicities.
Create MORE Miracles Want a more magical life? Explore the law of attraction, choosing love over fear and how to create MORE magic in your life. In this course you’ll create a personal oracle card deck as you increase your understanding of how to own your ability to create the life you want and further define your personal and professional goals.
Creativity Coaching
You are the creator of your reality. If you aren’t happy with your reality, let me help you awaken your creative spirit with personalized coaching.
My name is Mary How. As a board-certified art therapist, I have a 25 year career in mental health, trauma recovery and treating behavioral disorders. My creativity and emotional wellness coaching strategy is unique and effective at helping transitioning adults create a life filled with passion and purpose.
When you work with me, you will find the empowerment you need to make lasting and meaningful changes right away. Sessions are personalized to meet your individual needs and time-limited so you can quickly acheive your professional and personal goals and get on with life.
Retreats
Travel and movement enable us to gain a new perspective and long-lasting transformational experiences to carry home. Destination retreats are scheduled periodically, be sure to sign-up for our monthly newsletter so you don’t miss out on what’s coming next!
Community Based Art Experiences
