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Mindful Creativity | Term 1

$320.00 $320.00
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Description

This course will run on Thursday Evenings from 12th February to 26th March from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

With Tutor: Jordan Harcourt-Hughes

Creativity isn’t just about making art - it can also be a pathway back to ourselves. This 7-week evening course is designed for people who want to reconnect with their inner world through gentle, intuitive creative practice in a relaxed, supportive environment.

This course offers a gentle and supportive space to use creativity as a pathway toward inner clarity and reconnection. Over seven weeks, we’ll explore how artmaking can become a form of self-discovery. You’ll begin with mindful mandalas as a grounding practice, then move into soft storytelling exercises and personal reflection.

These experiences build toward the creation of a soul portrait - a visual expression of your inner landscape and who you are becoming. Along the way, you’ll also develop a personal creative manifesto, a quiet compass you can return to whenever you need direction or clarity.

The course is suitable for anyone seeking renewal, transition, grounding, or a deeper reconnection with their inner voice. No art experience is required - each step is guided and spacious, allowing you to move at a pace that feels safe, supported, and nourishing. If you’re looking for an uplifting, mindful, and restorative space to explore creativity as a form of wellbeing and self-expression, this course offers a meaningful place to begin.

What You'll Learn:

By participating in this course, learners will:

  • Explore creativity as a pathway for inner connection and self-awareness
  • Develop a gentle grounding practice using mindful mandalas
  • Build confidence in using art as a personal reflective tool
  • Begin noticing and understanding the inner stories that shape self-perception
  • Develop a personal creative manifesto as an inner compass for growth
  • Engage in creative expression that supports clarity, renewal, and self-trust

What You’ll Create:

Each participant will leave the course with:

  • A personal creative manifesto
  • A completed soul portrait
  • A grounding mandala practice you can continue at home
  • Enhanced confidence, self-trust, and clarity through reflective creative practice

Course Structure:

Weeks 1 – 2: Grounding and Openness

  • Reconnecting with colour, intuition, and play
  • Mandalas as a calming, centering practice


Weeks 3 – 4: Inner Story and Creative Compass

  • Introduction to your personal creative manifesto
  • Exploring and gently reframing inner narratives


Weeks 5 – 7: Soul Expression and Integration

  • Preparing symbolic elements for your soul portrait
  • Creating and completing the portrait across two sessions
  • Closing the journey with reflection and gentle integration

Meet Your Tutor:

Jordan is an author, artist, coach, and educator. Her studio, set in a peaceful location across from the Otaihanga Domain on the Kapiti Coast, is filled with vibrant, colourful artworks - abstract paintings inspired by flowers, nature, storytelling, and her imagination.

Originally from Australia, Jordan teaches mindful creativity as a way to relax, have fun, and explore self-discovery. She runs creativity courses online, in Wellington, and from her studio and beautiful grounds, offering workshops and coaching that provide a nourishing space for artists and non-artists alike to explore wellness, storytelling, personal evolution, and artistic expression.

Jordan is also the host of the podcast ‘Sacred Stories of the Spirit’.

@jordaninthestudio
jordanharcourthughes.com

“Perfect balance of art and mindfulness. The time disappeared. Felt relaxed and eager to incorporate mindfulness in my art practice”. - Lou


What Do I Need to Bring?
  • Old clothes or painting overalls
  • Your favourite brushes (optional)
  • Permanent markers, such as black and white Posca pens (0.7 mm)
  • An old towel or yoga mat

What Will Be Provided?
  • A3 art card for creative experiments
  • Canvas for your final artwork
  • Acrylic paints
  • Paint brushes and mark-making tools
  • Creative Manifesto workbook

If you wish to cancel, email us at least 14 clear days before your class begins. You'll receive a full refund less an admin fee of $20 via the same payment method (e.g., credit card or Afterpay) if you cancel within this timeframe.

Unfortunately, refunds aren't available for cancellations with less than 14 days' notice, nor for missed classes within a series.

If you are required to bring specific supplies to this class you will be sent full details via email. Please make sure you keep the receive emails ticked at checkout to ensure you do not miss out on this information.

This class will be held on campus at The Learning Connexion located at 182 Eastern Hutt Road, Lower Hutt. Specific details of where on campus your class will be held will be sent to you the week prior to the commencement of your class

All our tutors are qualified and practicing artists who are skilled in specific art forms and regularly teach to support others in their own art practices.