Bad Art Practice as an Act Of Resistance
7-Class Series to Refill and Settle Our Nervous Systems
Facilitated by Rythea Lee
Assisted by Rose Oceania
How do we refill and settle our nervous systems during these terrifying times? If you are fighting the corrupt system we live in and you don’t EXPRESS and UNPACK what is inside you, you will burn out. Maybe you already have.
Come to our BAD ART class!
Scribbling, creative writing, drawing, making tiny melodies, monologues, photographs, creating bad art videos. That is the medicine we know about. We do it almost every day. We make something to reflect back that we are human; we have feelings, opinions, passions, and insights. We get lost and find ourselves through the wild and uncharted play of MAKING. Sometimes we share it with others, sometimes it’s just for ourselves.
Come be in community space and find a way forward.Wepromise that making art does not mean you are doing nothing about the insanity of this moment.
In fact, we often find our feet and voice as we are being creative. Things become clear to us and our path is revealed.
Bad art is a lens. It is a permission to NOT TRY TO BE GOOD but to focus instead on the FEEL OF IT. The healing and release of expressing yourself. And, if even that is too much pressure, we will invite you to purposely make something terrible, ugly, boring, annoying, flat, disgusting, or all around dumb.
Sometimes making bad art is the way into your DEEP DOWN BRAIN — your BODY BRAIN — that moves and unfolds without even knowing what it’s doing.
Let’s not know together, as a group.
In our Bad Art Practice as an Act Of Resistance 7-class series, we will be facilitating structures and assignments and inviting you into a life-giving practice. We will welcome your inner kid parts. Your irreverent clown. Your icy, thawing emotions. Your sensations. Your blocks.Your weirdness. Your deep inner conflict. Your untapped knowing.
Trust us, you need this.
When: Sundays 6:00 - 8:00pm EST on Zoom
Sunday, March 29th to Sunday, May 10th (7 classes)
(we ask that you commit to the whole series)
Cost: $175 if you register by March 20th
$200 after March 20th
Deposit to complete your registration is $75 and is non-refundable.
We have 3 BIPOC Scholarships for this course so please email Rythea if you are interested (these spots go quickly) Rythea@crocker.com
Refunds: Deposit to hold your spot is $75 and is non-refundable. Balance is due by March 20th. Balance (excluding deposit) is refundable up to 2 weeks before class, after that, there are no refunds. There are no refunds for missed classes, but assignments will be sent out by email every week in case you miss one.
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Peer Counseling Online Course
If you are craving an emotional support practice that can sustain you through the longterm, this class is for you. This practice empowers ongoing care that is peer to peer, and becomes a ground for the ongoing unpacking of stuck patterns. Peer Counseling is a transformative practice of deep listening and mutual support that breaks isolation, offers skills in listening, emotional release, and community trust building. In this course, you will learn the basics of holding space for each other, being heard, seen, and held with empathy.
You will learn to create sustainable and enlivened peer counseling relationships that become a regular practice in your life.
When: Sunday evenings from 6pm to 8pm EST
January 11th to March 1st
Where: Online via Zoom
Who: Facilitated by Rythea Lee, Assisted by Rose Oceania
Cost: $300 for 8 weeks ($37.50 a class) if paid by December 28th. After that, the cost is $325.
Payment plans accepted, email rythea@crocker.com if you need one. We have 3 BIPOC spots at a reduced rate, email rythea@crocker.com to inquire.
About Your Facilitators:
Rythea Lee has been teaching peer counseling for 10 years locally and online. She has been a trauma therapist for 30 years and has worked to make this practice accessible and trauma-informed. She is an artist, activist, and mother who is devoted to helping people heal from long term effects of harm, wounding, and trauma.
Rose Oceania has been practicing peer counseling for over 25 years. She is a long time creative collaborator with Rythea, a somatic therapist, and facilitator of many healing groups. Visit her website at https://www.roseoceaniaarts.com
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Parts Work for Tender Times
Have you been wanting to dive into parts work? Do you feel like you are unconsciously run by inner parts and you need to get a handle on it? Join me for an afternoon of exploring and understanding our inner parts! In this workshop, I will guide you to engage with your Loving Adult, Inner Child, and Wounded Children.
During times of hardship, we often get activated into child parts and lose our adult perspective. When this happens, it becomes very difficult to regulate, organize, make decisions, or take action. I will share embodied tools to help you navigate triggers and find adult clarity during times when you need grounding and healing.
Even if you have done IFS or other kinds of parts work, this way of exploring will be a version that is restful, creative, and physical.
When: Sunday, December 7th from 1-4:30
Where: Studio Re-evolution #422 in Florence, MA
Who: Rythea has been a trauma therapist for 20 years who specializes in parts work based in the work of Innerbonding®.
Cost: $140 BIPOC discounts available (please include in your registration)
Refund Policy: $70 is non-refundable. The balance can be refunded up until November 30th.
Peer Counseling 8-Week Series: Level 1, Learning a Peer Support Practice
Facilitated by Rythea Lee and Divinah Erving
Location: In person (Northampton area)
When: Sunday Evenings, September 7 to October 26, 2025
8-Week Series from 6-8pm EST
Payment plans accepted, email us about it if needed.
This course is for people who are committed to healing and ready to cultivate authentic connection, emotional liberation, and radical transformation.
Divinah and Rythea have been teaching peer counseling together since 2020 and have found online and in person groups to be powerful and effective. They are long-time peer counselors and find this practice to be life-changing. It would be our great honor to share this practice with you.
We have 3 BIPOC Scholarships, these go quickly, please put that on application and we will be in touch.
If you have been in any kind of mental health crisis in the last 6 months, please email Rythea before registering at rythea@crocker.com
We are only allowing a limited amount of participants so register early if you want to get into this class.
Intro to Peer Counseling, Level 1 Series
With by Rythea Lee and Divinah Erving
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
When: Sunday Evenings, 6-8pm EST
(may run over 15 minutes) June 22nd to July 20th
Cost: $250 for 5 weeks ($50 a class). Payment plans accepted, email us about it if needed.
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.
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!
We have 3 BIPOC Scholarships, these go quickly, please put that on application and we will be in touch.
If you have been in any kind of mental health crisis in the last 6 months, please email Rythea before registering at rythea@crocker.com
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
We are only allowing a limited amount of participants so register early if you want to get into this class.
Bad Art for a Good Life
With by Rythea Lee and Johanna Walker
Location: In person
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
Address and further details provided after registration.