Weekly In Class Reflection

Day 1 - 5 Feb 2022

What did I carry to class?

• Stress from having a sick child

• Looking to talk about motherhood

What am I taking home?

• Thinking about mixing different art mediums to express emotions and thoughts

What did I bring?

• tiredness

• hope for connection and expression

• confident and supported

What am I carrying?

• look for other ways to connect with other moms this week

• create and express my feelings

Carrying

• Big hopes -> anxiety

• New people -> anxiety

• Confidence - I can figure it out. We can figure it out

• What am I not seeing

• Working through childhood…

Day 2 - 12 Feb 2022

What are you carrying?

• Emotions from self love class, working through trauma to better love myself

• I need a creative outlet to visualize my pain and how it is healing

What are you taking with you?

• I need to get some watercolor supplies

What did I learn?

• Once I have a project in mind it is easier to create it.

What am I feeling

• tired but also good and excited to be here even though I was late

• excited/hopeful for discussions that will happen

Leaving with….

• hopeful for future classes, creation & connection

• * I would like to do projects with a theme or prompt - open-ended but not too open-ended

Coming In:

• Break from kids

• Relax -> art work

• A lot going on - overwhelmed

• Homework, move, kids

Coming in

• sleepy…

• hoping to make some art

Leaving

• glad we have a plan

• glad we made art

• glad ______ came

Day 3 - 19 Feb 2022

See Group Brainstorming (GLA for this date below)

Feeling tired (always) and like I have a long to-do list.

Hoping to focus on art and not stress.

I want to create something that expresses some of my feelings/experiences with motherhood.

Day 4 - 26 Feb 2022

What did I bring?

• Brain full of ideas on how to create clay model, scattered

What am I taking

• More definite idea of how to make the sculpture. I feel like I need to put all of my emotions into the clay.

Coming In

• a big sense of inadequacy, in my personality, esp. as a teacher

• uncertainty as to when this baby will come

Leaving

• calmer, more certain

• more confident in myself

I brought myself + curiosity.

I’m leaving with an experience + time I would otherwise not have had.

<snack on cheese dip for da tortilla chips>

Coming in:

• Hopeful about project

Leaving:

• excited to have Jas with us

Note: 5 min Body house meditation w/ house project.

Lesson learned: Always ask how to make a safe space with new people.

Day 5 - 5 Mar 2022

I am bringing anxiety from a long week of taking care of a sick child. Frustration of not being able to help heal her.

I am leaving as I came. I enjoyed our conversation, but today I feel that my body and mind need something different.

Bringing In

• Exhaustion

• trying not to get my hopes up that baby will come early

Hoping for

• expressing feelings through art

• being heard

Leaving With

Coming in I hope we can figure out our safe space and healthy group dynamic.

Leaving

• Unsure what moms need

• Feeling like this isn’t it

Day 6 - 12 Mar 2022

• I’m bringing in tired from doing too much today

• I want to find some inner peace

• What is my creative ambition today ?

  Learn and create from yesterday’s meditation session

Bringing to class

• happy with motherhood

• lots going on

• busy time of year

Wanting:

• ways to better convey motherhood

• create

• insight

I’m bringing myself.

Suggestions: starting promptly/on time

or having more timed moments

10-10:15 talk a bit

10:15- 10:30 opening reflection just so ppl know whats going on more accurately at the time

I wanted to explore/have fun making art/creating

Coming in

• nervous about group dynamics and new medium

• Excited/hopeful about healing connection

• learn