The Tree That Owns Itself (c) Jessica Marie Thompson
6 week group shamanic healing process through the arts
6 Tuesdays, November 25, December 2, 9 & 16, 2025 & January 6 & 13, 2026
7-9 PM CT
Attend in person or via zoom
$240/$180 early registration by November 18
Are you the Sovereign of your own life? Are you autonomous, making your own decisions? Do you have an understanding of the gifts you bring to help your community, and the mission you come to this lifetime to fulfill?
Who is the Sovereign (Ruler) of the land and the people you belong to? Who has the responsibility and the authority to bring peace and prosperity to the community? And how are YOU that Sovereign?
The human Sovereign King Arthur comes to us and says, “”To be Sovereign, you have to know who you are.” The Goddess Maeve says, “The real Sovereign is the Land, the cycles of nature.” Please join us as we learn from them the spiritual lessons of Sovereignty that can transform our lives.
Guardians of a Hidden Realm Bless Primordial Earth: a Forest Scene by Barbara Ezell
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 “Maeve & Arthur” led by Joan Forest Mage & Lisa Nomikos
All dates are Tuesdays from 7 – 9 PM. Attend in person or via Zoom
- November 25– Orientation – 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.
- December 2 – Art as Your Oracle – 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.
- December 9 – 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.
- December 16 – LFAE Shamanic Theater 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.
- January 6 – Shamanic Artmaking, Writing & Meditation with Lisa Nomikos – Lisa will lead you on a shamanic healing journey using guided meditation based on artwork in the exhibit. You will explore your own writing and artmaking as tools for self-discovery and healing.
- January 13 – 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 “Goddess Maeve & King Arthur”. $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.