Sunday Service – Making, Knowing and Dreaming

How can tapping into our own creativity help us care for one another and work towards justice?

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Karen will draw from the perspectives of science, therapy and the arts to consider how creativity might help us be present in our own lives and respond to the challenges of our world.

Karen will conduct a workshop, “The Art of Healing for Justice” following a potluck lunch, which will be moved for this month only, to the third Sunday of the month.

There is a potluck after the service, following which Rev. Karen will lead a workshop, “The Art of Wellbeing”: A participatory workshop inviting the use of creative expression to support our mental health, as well as the wellbeing of our loved ones, our communities, and our kin.

We will experiment with writing and making as methods of knowing and dreaming — no art experience or skill required.

This community workshop draws on the therapeutic properties of art, it is not an art therapy session.

Karen Fraser Gitlitz (she/her) is a cis-gendered middle-class woman of English, French, and Scottish ancestry. Karen and her partner, musician and composer Paul Gitlitz, are grateful to make their home on southern Vancouver Island, the territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. As an artist, professional art therapist and Unitarian Universalist Community Minister, Karen works at the confluence of meaning, belonging and justice. Find out more about Karen’s private practice at creativeupwelling.com.

Formerly a parish minister serving Canadian UU congregations, Karen keeps her toes in our Canadian UU movement as the Coordinator of the Meaning Making Project. She is also excited to volunteer on the planning circles for “Activating the Canadian UU Ecosystem.”

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Westwood runs weekly services, September through June, bringing a variety of speakers on a wide range of topics.  Please check back for updates on this Sunday’s service.

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There is an opportunity for ‘social time’ in person (with coffee) or online following the service – a time to connect with friends old and new.