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Creating a Safe Space - A Family Art Therapy Experience

Thu, Jul 23

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Leduc Arts Foundry

Explore what safety feels like through simple art-making. Using drawing, paint, and clay, each participant creates a personal figure and a shared symbolic space filled with comfort, support, and meaning.

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Creating a Safe Space - A Family Art Therapy Experience
Creating a Safe Space - A Family Art Therapy Experience

Time & Location

Jul 23, 2026, 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Leduc Arts Foundry, 4330 Black Gold Dr #103, Leduc, AB T9E 3C3, Canada

About the event

What does safety feel like for you, and how might you create it?

In this art therapy experience, you and your family are invited to build your own symbolic safe space using drawing, painting, or 3D materials. Whether you are creating on your own or alongside one another, you will explore what helps you feel protected, calm, supported, and connected.

Before creating your safe space, you will be invited to make a small version of yourself using clay or other materials. This figure can become part of your space, helping you explore where you feel held, supported, and safe.

You might create a place filled with meaningful symbols, protective figures, comforting rituals, or tools that help when emotions feel big. Each person is encouraged to bring their own strengths and ideas into the process, contributing to something that feels supportive and unique.

Together, you will explore how safety can be…


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© 2026 by Nicole Bodnaresk

We invite you to take a moment to place your feet on the ground beneath you and notice your connection to the land.

As you arrive here, consider your relationship with the land and how it supports you, how it holds you, grounds you, and allows you to move through your life.

We offer my gratitude to the land we live on, which makes it possible for us to walk, ground, and express ourselves.

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We are located on Treaty 6 Territory, a traditional meeting ground and home to many Indigenous Peoples, including the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Nakoda Nations, Nakota Sioux, and the Métis Nation. We also acknowledge the broader lands of Turtle Island, recognizing that many who engage in this work may come from different territories.

We are committed, through our daily actions and practice, to honouring this land and the Indigenous Peoples who have cared for it since time immemorial and who continue to be its stewards.

We are grateful for the teachings and practices we have been welcomed into, many of which have supported our own healing. We hold deep respect for their origins, recognizing that these practices are sacred.

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We also acknowledge the history and ongoing impacts of colonization, where many of these teachings were suppressed and taken from Indigenous Peoples. With this awareness, we approach this work with humility, respect, and gratitude.

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