Workshops, Classes, Intensives,
Workshops, Classes, Intensives,
Bad Art Drop-In
on Zoom with Rythea Lee, assisted by Rose Oceania
After a very successful 7-week Bad Art series, we are offering Summer drop-in classes! We cannot wait to be bad with you!
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Bad Art is for anyone and everyone. It’s truly a simple practice that can be incredibly healing. Each class, we get people making marks on the page, writing with a wild mind, moving their bodies with a focus on breathing, opening the body, and getting present. We direct you to participate in exercises that trick the mind into fluidity.
Each class has a main assignment. We support participants to purposely do a bad job at our assignments, allowing ourselves to make something terrible, boring, stupid, ugly, weird, offensive, repulsive, and unappealing. This is the portal to permission that allows the left brain—analytic, controlling, and comparing—to relax. When we allow ourselves to create from an internal experience of sensations/impulses/awareness/desires, the right brain takes over and there is access to embodied expression. It can be pleasurable, relieving, and freeing.
Bad Art classes are a chance to feel our inner child, our internalized critic, the blocked aspects of ourselves, and get to know these parts of ourselves without judgement or pressure. This helps restore the flow of expression.
Authentic expression heals layers of shame and hiding; it brings us into a place of play and grace that we long for. It is especially healing when we do this process in community with others who are taking risks alongside us.
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Sundays, 7:00pm to 8:00pm EST
June 7
June 14
July 5
July 19
July 26
August 2
August 9 -
Single Drop-In $15-25 USD sliding scale
7-Class Package $90 USD (save $15) -
You can register for each drop-in class until 6:45pm EST day-of. Attendees will not be let into the drop-in class after 7:10pm EST.
Once you have submitted your registration below, you will be redirected to pay and sent a welcome email with the Zoom link.
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Because class sizes are limited and we prepare materials and space ahead of time, all single class purchases and package purchases are non-refundable and cannot be transferred to another class if missed.
That said, we know life happens and humans are wonderfully imperfect. If something comes up and you’re concerned about this policy, please reach out to us at rythea@crocker.com and we’ll do our best to help.
We also reserve the right to cancel or decline a registration if needed, in which case a refund will be provided for any unused classes.
By registering, you acknowledge and agree to this policy.
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Registration closes at 6:45pm EST on the day of class, and we begin promptly at 7:00pm EST. To make the most of our hour together, we’re unable to admit attendees after 7:10pm EST.
If you have concerns, feedback, or an issue with the facilitation, we ask that you speak with us after class rather than during teaching time, since our classes are only one hour long. We genuinely want to hear from you and will always find time to connect — just email rythea@crocker.com.
By registering, you acknowledge and agree to these terms.
Registration Form
I’m the Problem, It’s Me
A 7-Week Support Group for Parents Moving Towards Collaboration and Non-Coercion
This group is an essential tool for parents to receive support in a community environment, to explore without being judged, and to hear from others who are dealing with similar issues, blocks, fears, and even victories.
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This group is for parents who are testing, trying, and implementing non-coercive, collaborative practices with their kids and family. It’s for those who are struggling yet devoted to treating their kids as whole human beings, while working on their triggers. You can be at the beginning of this process or deep into letting go of punishments, consequences, and power-over parenting. Wherever you are, this group will assist you to move to the next level of love between you and your child(ren).
Each Sunday, I will bring in a topic—such as screen time, bed time, food, boundaries, play, family conflict, or chronic triggers—and invite you to write for 10 minutes about your feelings and challenges around the topic. We will then open the space for sharing, getting input, and receiving empathy from both me and group members. As your facilitator, I will educate and give suggestions within the non-coercive, collaborative philosophy developed and taught to me by my mentor, Vivek Patel.
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Sundays, 6:00pm to 7:15pm EST
September 13
September 20
September 27
October 4
October 11
October 18
October 25 -
Early-Bird Registration $440 USD ($62.50 per group) offered until October 5th
After October 5th $500 USD
BIPOC reduced-rate scholarships are offered. Email rythea@crocker.com if this is you. -
You must register for the entire 7-week support group series. Fill out the below registration form.
Once you have submitted your registration below, you will be redirected to pay and sent a welcome email with the Zoom link.
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Because class sizes are limited and we prepare materials and space ahead of time, all single class purchases and package purchases are non-refundable and cannot be transferred to another class if missed.
That said, we know life happens and humans are wonderfully imperfect. If something comes up and you’re concerned about this policy, please reach out to us at rythea@crocker.com and we’ll do our best to help.
We also reserve the right to cancel or decline a registration if needed, in which case a refund will be provided for any unused classes.
By registering, you acknowledge and agree to this policy.
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Registration closes at 4:45pm EST on Sunday, September 13. We begin each group promptly at 6:00pm EST. To make the most of our hour together, we’re unable to admit attendees after 6:10pm EST.
If you have concerns, feedback, or an issue with the facilitation, we ask that you speak with us after class rather than during teaching time, since our classes are only one hour long. We genuinely want to hear from you and will always find time to connect — just email rythea@crocker.com.
By registering, you acknowledge and agree to these terms.
Registration Coming July 15, 2026
Bad Art Drop In (Autumn)
on Zoom with Rythea Lee
After a very successful summer of Bad Art drop-ins, we are offering Autumn drop-in classes!
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Bad Art is for anyone and everyone. It’s truly a simple practice that can be incredibly healing. Each class, we get people making marks on the page, writing with a wild mind, moving their bodies with a focus on breathing, opening the body, and getting present. We direct you to participate in exercises that trick the mind into fluidity.
Each class has a main assignment. We support participants to purposely do a bad job at our assignments, allowing ourselves to make something terrible, boring, stupid, ugly, weird, offensive, repulsive, and unappealing. This is the portal to permission that allows the left brain—analytic, controlling, and comparing—to relax. When we allow ourselves to create from an internal experience of sensations/impulses/awareness/desires, the right brain takes over and there is access to embodied expression. It can be pleasurable, relieving, and freeing.
Bad Art classes are a chance to feel our inner child, our internalized critic, the blocked aspects of ourselves, and get to know these parts of ourselves without judgement or pressure. This helps restore the flow of expression.
Authentic expression heals layers of shame and hiding; it brings us into a place of play and grace that we long for. It is especially healing when we do this process in community with others who are taking risks alongside us.
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You can register for each drop-in class day-of.
Once you have submitted your registration below, you will be redirected to pay and sent a welcome email with the Zoom link.
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Because class sizes are limited and we prepare materials and space ahead of time, all single class purchases and package purchases are non-refundable and cannot be transferred to another class if missed.
That said, we know life happens and humans are wonderfully imperfect. If something comes up and you’re concerned about this policy, please reach out to us at rythea@crocker.com and we’ll do our best to help.
We also reserve the right to cancel or decline a registration if needed, in which case a refund will be provided for any unused classes.
By registering, you acknowledge and agree to this policy.
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If you have concerns, feedback, or an issue with the facilitation, we ask that you speak with us after class rather than during teaching time, since our classes are only one hour long. We genuinely want to hear from you and will always find time to connect — just email rythea@crocker.com.
By registering, you acknowledge and agree to these terms.
Registration Coming July 15, 2026
My Offerings
I have led Expressive Arts workshops, Performance Art intensives, therapeutic support groups, movement-based practices, writing workshops, peer-to-peer counseling courses, and parent support groups.
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This workshop is for people who have done peer counseling or co-counseling before. Level 2 focuses on “frozen needs,” which refers to early unmet needs that tend to unconsciously fuel our deepest relational patterns. During the 5-session workshop, we explore what frozen needs are, and create a space to have feelings and insights about them. Our focus is on discharging emotions through our body and getting the support we need to shift our blocks to closeness with other people.
This workshop is co-taught. Divinah and Rythea have been teaching peer counseling together since 2020 and have found that online groups are powerful and effective. They are long-time peer counselors and find this practice to be life-changing. They love sharing this with other people!
Requirement: Please make sure you have learned and practiced peer counseling/co-counseling basics before taking this workshop and have integrated them into your healing process. -
Peer Counseling (also known as co-counseling) is a listening/support modality that is practiced by peers to help heal, break isolation, find natural solutions to problems, and feel a sense of belonging. In this 6-session workshop, you learn the basics of holding space for each other, being heard, seen, and held with empathy. Together, we learn how to create a sustainable and enlivened space that can become a regular practice in your life.
This workshop is co-taught. Divinah and Rythea have been teaching peer counseling together since 2020 and have found that online groups are powerful and effective. They are long-time peer counselors and find this practice to be life-changing. They love sharing this with other people!
Level 1 workshop is an introduction to the peer counseling/co-counseling practice and is a prerequisite to any other peer counseling workshops.
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This 5-session creative writing group is for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. I offer this in a world where our voices are often disbelieved, suppressed, dismissed, and ignored. Here, your voice, feelings, and stories are encouraged to spill onto the page- in the company of others who are holding a sacred, creative space.
I support you to find your writing voice, and channel your pain and victories into art-making. Writing can be transformational when we are giving permission to say the ugly thing, to not hold back, to speak the unspeakable, to take credit, and to feel our unbroken spirits at the core of it all.
I have been a trauma therapist working with survivors for 28 years. I am also an artist who has found empowerment and deep healing by using creativity to heal my trauma. I am so excited to be together, to spread our wings in the presence of our collective courage. There will be guidelines and confidentiality in place, and clarity of facilitation in keeping clear time structures, sharing our work, and giving feedback.
As a teacher, I aim to balance empathetic facilitation with structure.
I create a safe container through clear and honest communication, providing step-by-step tools that are accessible and empowering.
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