Maranatha Healing Arts Sanctuary

20/11/2025

Weekly creative expression and live music on the Plateau. November/December modalities are a fusion of drawing, painting and clay with beats by DJ Hinterland. Tickets are linked from the event page and I’ve put a link in comments. Looking forward to seeing you there.

20/11/2025

The Art of Camp
Off grid artist residency camp
Northern NSW
$150 per week max 1 month stay

DM to apply.

07/10/2025

Parents and Carers Arts Core:

Journalling and Individuation Workshop

Give yourself and your child, dependent or client the tools fo you both to grow together during the caring and individuation stages in the lifecycle.

Discover strategies to healthily express emotions using creativity and strengthen the bond between you both through guided journaling.

Leverage intentional positive expansion through the experiential artisitc exploration of individuation stages. Explore your own stage, the stage of your child, client or dependent and creative journalling skills and processes to support you both as you grow together.

Parenting and caring can be rich, beautiful, challenging…

and in ways,overwhelming.

You hold space for everyone else’s needs while quietly losing sight of your own inner world.

I see this in the families and carers I work with: parents and carers running on empty, children struggling to find their voice, the elderly struggling to deal with illness and loss of independence. It’s not for a lack of love or care, it’s a lack of time, experience and effective tools to reconnect.

When I began journaling with my own child, something shifted. We started to see each other differently — not just as parent and child, but as two growing souls learning to understand ourselves, each other and our separate journeys in expansion, together.

That shift along with the increasing numbers of parebts and clients looking for ways to reconnect inspired this workshop:

It is a space where parents and carers learn the same simple but profound creative tools that can support both their own growth and their children’s and client’s.

In this 4-hour workshop, you’ll explore the psychology of individuation, experience expressive journaling firsthand and leave with creative exercises you can use at home with your child or client.

It’s not just a workshop — it’s a ripple effect of healing, communication and emotional literacy.

Next Workshops:

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Parents & Carers ARTS CORE - Journalling and Individuation Workshop – Pleasure Garden -, Multiple dates and times - P&C Arts Core — Journaling & Individuation (4-hour workshop) Rediscover your own individual voice as a parent, carer, frontline or trauma worker — and learn gentle arts.....

06/10/2025

Link below to our full summer and autumn program for adults and teens creative and therepeutic arts and self expression workshops and retreats.

🪴NDIS claimable programs

🌻Self-care/trauma informed workshops for parents and carers

🎨Homeschool/youth arts workshops

🍁Seasonal multimodal creative
therapeutic arts retreats for everyone

🦩Creative/therepeutic social arts evening for adults

If you can find exactly what what you are looking for, DM or email me to discuss you groups needs.

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01/10/2025

The main arts evwnts aoace at Maranatha is Pleasure Garden ..

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01/10/2025

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23/09/2025

🌿 Creative & Healing Experiences at Maranatha Healing Arts Sanctuary

Discover a world of creativity, connection, and wellbeing — there’s something for everyone at Maranatha.

✨ The Arts Path (NDIS Claimable)
Healing-focused day and half-day retreats for adults and their carers. Explore painting, drawing, clay, mixed media, sound, movement and nature therapy in a gentle, trauma-informed environment. Perfect for NDIS participants seeking therapeutic, guided creative expression.

✨ The Arts Path Youth (13–17)
A bi-monthly creative club for home-schoolers and disengaged teens, designed to build coping skills, confidence, life skills and social connection through multi-modal arts and nature-based creative experiences.

✨ P&C Arts Core
A reflective journaling and individuation workshop for adults. Deepen self-awareness and reconnect with your creative voice while learning practical skills to bring creative expression and therapeutic arts techniques to your clients or children.

✨ Heart Medicine – Pleasure Garden Arts Social
Bimonthly Friday evenings for adults to unwind, explore multimodal creative arts, and connect with a supportive social community.

✨ Art & Alchemy Retreats
Immersive seasonal creative self expression day retreats blending expressive arts, self-reflection and nature-based experiences to help you heal, grow, expand and reconnect with your creative self.

✨ Friends of Maranatha Volunteer 3-Course Chef’s Table
Monthly volunteer gathering combining hands-on participation, culinary creativity, and community building. Connect, cook, and contribute to the Maranatha community.

🌱 Whether you want to create, heal, connect, or just spend time in nature, there’s a Maranatha experience waiting for you.

Find links to book all retreats and workshops here:

buytickets.at/pleasuregardeneventsrr

or,

DM or email us to arrange or book a group retreat or workshop at a time and date that suits your group. Offerings can be tailored to suit your specific needs. Limited availability for individual sessions. Reach out for more info, it's a pleasure to serve you.

Best wishes, Mel of Maranatha. xx

PLEASURE GARDEN at MARANATHA – Why “Pleasure Garden”? In Victorian times, a pleasure garden was a cultivated retreat — a place of music, art, beauty, and refl...