Broken Drum Renewed (c) Lisa Nomikos
6 week group shamanic healing process through the arts
6 Tuesdays, October 14, 21, 28 November 4, 11 & 18, 2025
7-9 PM CT
Attend in person or via zoom
$240/$180 early registration by September 30
Healing Arts Intensive is
- A 6 week group shamanic healing process through observing and creating visual art, writing, music and dance
- A life-changing experience of transformation and healing in small group, like-minded community
- Learning and/or practicing Shamanic Journey meditation
- Find the spirit guides who can help you achieve your personal intentions
“This Healing Arts Intensive awakened me into clarity. I could not have imagined the shift I underwent from the first session until the end. I shed the old identity to see what was below the surface. My focus shifted, my understanding of my gifts was clarified.”
“The Healing Arts Intensive provides many opportunities for healing, growth, introspection and self-expression.”
Schedule for Healing Arts Intensive “Artemis”
All dates are Tuesdays from 7 – 9 PM. Attend in person or via Zoom
- October 14 – Orientation with Joan Forest Mage – Introduction to the ways we will be working with observing and creating visual art, writing, music, dance and theater to catalyze our personal transformation. Creation of each participant’s Intention (Transformational Goal). Shamanic journey to meet the spirit guides of this Intensive.
- October 21 – Art as Your Oracle with Joan Forest Mage – This class will show you how to communicate with the spirit realm through receiving messages from viewing images (visual art). You will be able to receive the advice and healing you need, now and in the future, through writing down messages you are receiving from artwork you view.
- October 28 – Shamanic Artmaking, Writing & Meditation with Lisa Nomikos – Lisa will lead you on a shamanic healing journey using guided meditation based on her artwork in the exhibit, Broken Drum Renewed. This will help you find your way to redefine the meaning of “broken” in the situation you are focusing on. You will explore your own writing and artmaking as tools for self-discovery and healing. This drum sings out its message of hope and healing for us all…just because the drum is torn and can no longer function as a drum, doesn’t mean it has no value. The animals and message on the drum remind us of our own sovereignty. We are valuable. There is hope. Anything can be remade and have new life. It’s our choice.
- November 4 – Preparation for next week’s Shamanic Healing Performance. Deepening understanding of the performance’s dramaturgy. Collaborating on Art Meditation text; shamanic journey to receive healing for your Transformational Goal.
- November 11 – LFAE Shamanic Healing Performance – Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) the professional performing company of Life Force, presents a Shamanic Healing Performance specially created for this Intensive in collaboration with the HAI participants. Channeling dance, poetry and vocal and instrumental Sound Healing music from the spirit realm.
- November 18 – Closure – Creating your own visual art and divination techniques help you complete your Transformational Goal and bring Closure to the Group. Reflect on and share the outcome of your experience and Transformation.
Intensive participants DO NOT perform in the LFAE performance, but they DO
- find helping spirit guides who the LFAE performers invoke to guide the performance
- create writing and poetry based on their Transformational Goals, which the LFAE performers may recite or sing during the performance
- suggest songs to to be sung during the Shamanic Healing Performance
- receive spiritual messages from the Featured Artwork from the Life Force art exhibit
NOTE: This is a 6 session process, so please check your calendar to make sure you can come to all six sessions. You can attend the Intensive in-person or via zoom.
Register for Event
Healing Arts Intensive “Artemis“. $240
Pay by credit card:
To pay by Zelle – our Zelle address is joan@lifeforcearts.org
Please contact Joan to specify if you are coming in person or via zoom
Questions? contact Joan at joan@lifeforcearts.org or 773-327-7224
We have FREE PARKING in Central Savings parking lot. Click here for directions.
Life Force Arts Center, 1609 W. Belmont, Chicago, IL 60657.
Tuition Credit Policy for Healing Arts Intensives
There are no refunds for Healing Arts Intensives, but tuition credit for future Intensives may be issued as follows:
If you have paid for a Healing Arts Intensive, but you do not attend ANY of the sessions, you are given a tuition credit for the full amount of the Intensive which can be applied to a future Intensive. This tuition credit must be used within one year from the date of the initial Intensive Orientation.
If you attend ONLY THE ORIENTATION session of the Intensive but none of the other sessions, you are given a tuition credit of half of the admission price you paid for the Intensive. This tuition credit can be applied to a future Intensive. This tuition credit must be used within one year from the date of the initial Intensive Orientation.
If you attend two or more sessions of the Intensive, you do not receive a tuition credit, but the classes are recorded on zoom, and you receive access to the recordings.