Freedom & Balance x YSM8: Naturally Creative

Last week we held our second workshop 'Naturally Creative' with founder and headmaster of Freedom & Balance, André Anderson apart of our series “Express Yourself”, in partnership with the NOW Gallery.

Our workshop began with a body scan practice, helping us to recenter and ground, then André led the group into creative practices while we all tuned into the process and explored our ideas. We closed with collective sharing of our learnings and take-aways.

What did we learn?

✨Meditation and silence helps us to reduce the noise within us and around us.

✨We don’t need anything in order to create apart from ourselves.

✨Creative practices are soothing and helps us to feel grounded, calm and relaxed.
✨Done is better than perfection. We have to ‘jump in and find our way’.

✨For Black, brown, mixed heritages and POC folks, seeing ourselves reflected in creative spaces empowers us and gives us the confidence to be ourselves.

✨We need to ask the right questions, delve deep into the unknown and follow the things that light us up.

✨We are limitless and can do anything.

Our group left feeling inspired and confident to explore new creative methods, ‘optimistic about the future’ and excited to delve deeper into exploring who they are becoming.