KINTSUGI – art therapy workshop

Product detailed description

This experiential art therapy workshop offers a safe space for slowing down, inner reflection, and symbolic work with the themes of injury, acceptance, and transformation.

Creating here is not about performance, but about experience—about the possibility of grasping pain, accepting it, and integrating it into your own story.

What the workshop can offer you:

• a space to calm down and pause
• the opportunity to symbolically work with what was or is difficult
• a deeper understanding of your own inner processes
• the experience that even cracks can carry value and strength

The workshop is not a substitute for psychotherapy, but it can be a healing and supportive complement.

Workshop schedule
The workshop takes place in a calm, respectful atmosphere and includes the following approximate phases:

Introductory circle

• introduction of participants and the program
• tuning in to a safe space
• voluntary sharing: why I am here, what I expect from the workshop

Introduction to the philosophy of kintsugi

• Symbolism of "repair"
• Therapeutic and personal transcendence

Internal reflection

• Short guided imagination or moment of silence
• Questions about internal wounds, situations, or periods
• Opportunity to write down thoughts and feelings

Breaking the cup

• Symbolic representation of wounds
• Short reflection on experiences

The gluing process – in two stages

• gluing with epoxy glue (time for rest, sharing, emotions)
• joining with gold – beautifying cracks as a symbol of transformation
• opportunity to record feelings during the process

Closing circle

• sharing experiences
• closing the workshop

Profile of lecturer Veronika

I studied Art Therapy at the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. I mainly draw on projective intervention therapy, which has its roots in the psychodynamic approach. During the creative process, we focus on deeper layers of experience, often those that people are not yet fully aware of themselves.