Workshops & Intensives & Support Groups &

Workshops & Intensives & Support Groups &

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.

Upcoming Workshops

Bad Art for a Good Life

With by Rythea Lee and Johanna Walker

In person
Sunday, June 8th | 1:00pm to 5:00pm | Florence, MA

Cost: Sliding scale $125-$200 USD

If you have a desperate perfomance-artist lurking inside you, but you don’t make art because you’re worried you will make BAD art, join Johanna and me for a 4 hour workshop where we give you 100% permission to make cheesy, cliche, boring, weird, flat, repugnant, lifeless BAD ART. Which we believe will pave the way for your truest, most authentic and brilliantly wonderful expression to find its way through. 



We will guide you through each step- using movement, writing, and theatre-based exercises to support the flow of creativity that is your birthright. It will be so bad and so fun!

A workshop that could save your sanity!

Discounts for BIPOC folks available, please email Rythea at rythea@crocker.com

Peer Counseling (Level 1)

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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.

Past Workshops

  • In person, Florence, MA
    Sunday, May 11, 2025, 1:00pm to 5:00pm

    Cost: Sliding scale $75-$125 USD

    This workshop is for people who have done co-counseling or peer counseling before. We will have the focus of “frozen needs” which refers to early unmet needs that tend to unconsciously fuel our deepest relational patterns. During the workshop, we will 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. 



    Requirement: Please make sure you have learned and practiced co-counseling/peer counseling basics before taking this workshop and have integrated them into your healing process.



  • January 5 to February 2, 2025
    5 Sunday Nights from 6-8 EST on Zoom

    This 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 will 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 confidentiaty in place, and clarity of facilitation in keeping clear time structures, sharing our work, and giving feedback. 

    Price:
    $350 for 5 evenings ($50 a class)
    Payment plans are possible, see application.


    *There are two BIPOC Reparations Scholarship spots available, please let me know you are applying for that on the application.

    My BIPOC Scholarship is a way for me to acknowledge the structures of privilege that undermine the wellness and healing of Black people, Indigenous people, and people of colour.

  • May 5 to June 9, 2024
    6 Sunday Nights from 7-8:30 EST on Zoom

    Peer 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 course, you will learn the basics of holding space for each other, being heard, seen, and held with empathy. We will learn how to create a sustainable and enlivened space that can become a regular practice in your life. 

    I have been teaching this practice for about 5 years (and doing the practice for 30!). Divinah and I are excited to create a community of people who are open to exploring feelings and connection. 

    If you have been in any kind of mental health crisis in the last 6 months, please email me before registering at rythea@crocker.com

    This workshop is an introduction to the practice (Level 1).

    Price:
    $350 for 6 evenings.
    Payment plans are possible.

    Inquire about BIPOC Scholarships and low income spots for this series, these go quickly.

  • “Parenting in America is such an isolating experience, even among friend groups it feels like you can’t say (or have to say) certain things. Just curating a space where we can share and hold each other was healing and helpful.”

  • “Parenting is one of the most isolating parts of life. Being able to go on a journey with other parents trying to love our kids better is really a bright spot in a sometimes dark and lonely world.”

  • “Rythea is amazing. This group switches gears from behavior modification to acknowledging the triggers and trauma we are projecting at our kids. In doing this it has created such connection and transparency with our kids; really allowing us to see them for who they are and what they need.”

  • “Having a group of other parents to learn and grow with as I work to improve my relationship with my child has been incredible. Rythea is warm, genuine, and a brilliant facilitator who created a safe space from the first session, with a diverse group coming from many different experiences as parents.”

I am passionate about the transformation of creativity.