Broken Beauty: Healing the Cracks in Our Lives ~ A Kintsugi Workshop
There are cracks in all our lives: trauma, suffering, illness, addiction, failure, loss. . . Pain breaks us open. Our wounds invite healing.
During this workshop we will use the 15th century Japanese art form, Kintsugi, to transform what was into what can be. In Kintsugi, broken pottery, when repaired with gold-laced epoxy, becomes exquisite – its cracks, the source of beauty. Drawing from this ancient art form we will honor our imperfections and fill our wounds with gold – transforming dark into light, pain into possibility, broken into beauty.
Kintsugi addresses the right brain recovery process: Appreciating the beauty in accepting and celebrating the cracks in a created product and ourselves. This can guide forward progress in recovery by eliminating shame and creating hope.
Workshop is two hours and materials are provided.
Contact Kristine at kp@kristinepappone.com for further information & booking.
Client’s responses to: This Workshop was …
“a very calming exercise for me. Your introduction and background story was very powerful. I appreciated your honesty. It was very helpful in my recovery and made me think about all the grief and trauma that I have encountered in my life. Thank you for this experience.”
“First of all, you have an amazing energy that I appreciated. I really enjoyed hearing you speak about your experiences and how you overcame your own addiction. The activity is very fun and made me put thought into parts of myself that feel fragmented. Thank you very much!
“very important to me. I often have a hard time expressing my emotions without a mask. This helped me think outside “the box” and release an artistic side that I always told myself I didn’t have. I’m proud of myself after finishing this workshop.”
“I didn’t realize designing a plate would bring so much out and allowed me to share in front of a group. It was amazing and enlightening to work with Kristine who is peaceful and relatable.”
“such a fun and relaxing experience. I really thought deep about something I felt was unexplored inside.”
“something I really felt helped me! i realized with Hard work, dedication and hope, that healing is possible.”
“ want to thank you, and offer my profound appreciation and gratitude for the gift of your Kintsugi workshop ( fun shop) I attended with my daughter. The sharing you offered up, was the first crack in my plate. I I have held the secret of an opioid addiction from my children for 20 years. (I am now physically free) What I didn’t understand was that I was medicating guilt, self-loathing, grief and anger. I used the excuse that it was physical pain. You’re sharing , split open my “seam” over my wound. The process of “breaking and creating” was a feeling of such profoundness, I had no vocabulary for it, no adequate words. I placed the plate of art on my table in my kitchen, the room I use or pass through the most frequently. What I have discovered is that each time I pass it, glance at it, it causes pause in my breath. I still have no adequate word to relate the sensation it produces. It is so profound. It is a gift that doesn’t stop giving. So please know, how your time and gifts continue to bless generations.”
