Upcoming Events

In-Person Events

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Creative Healing Retreat: A Day of Creativity, Connection, and Renewal for Women

Led by trauma-healing poet Kate Burns

Date: October 3 | 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM PDT

Location: 5700 Rudnick Ave, Woodland Hills, CA 91367

This intimate retreat offers an opportunity to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and heal in the company of other survivors. Through creative, body-centered, and reflective practices, you’ll explore new ways to reconnect with your body, honor your emotions with compassion, and rediscover the restorative power of play.…LEARN MORE

Virtual Events

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Reclaiming Your Body: A Somatic Movement Workshop for Women

Led by Erica Hornthal, board-certified dance/movement therapist

Date: September 19 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

Location: Zoom

This gentle, trauma-informed online workshop is designed to help women reconnect with their bodies through movement, not words alone. Using principles of dance/movement therapy and somatic healing, participants will explore safety, boundaries, resilience, and self-trust in a supportive and welcoming space..…LEARN MORE

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Bridges in Our Lives

Led by Judy Nemer Sklar, Expressive Arts Facilitator and interdisciplinary artist

Date: October 10 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

Location: Zoom

A bridge is never just a bridge. It is a story about connections. This workshop will include a grounding exercise and we will create artwork that opens a conversation and invites shared experiences. Where are you on the bridge? How far are you in your journey?..…LEARN MORE

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The Journey: Exploring Change Through Art

Led by Jessica Bianchi, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Board Certified Art Therapist

Date: November 14 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Location: Zoom

This gentle expressive arts workshop invites participants to reflect on a personal journey through guided visualization and creative art making. Using watercolor or pastels, participants will create an abstract representation of a journey, challenge, or transition, exploring its beginning, middle, and end through lines, shapes, colors, and textures…LEARN MORE

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Elements of Healing: Dance, Movement & Renewal

Led by Vicki Alvarez, a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist with an M.S. in Dance/Movement Therapy, and Clory Rossi-Shewan, a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Date: December 5 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

Location: Zoom

Let’s reconnect with our inner strength. In this virtual dance/movement session, women are invited to reclaim a sense of safety and wholeness in the body. Guided by the four elements — Earth for grounding, Fire for energy, Water for balance, and Air for flexibility — we’ll release tension, process emotion, and rediscover the body as a source of hope…LEARN MORE

Successful Workshop

“This was a successful workshop that helped me work through (and with) my inner child.”

Beautifully Curated

“What HaGomel offers is so beautifully curated, special, and needed in the world. Thank you!”

Calming and Inspiring

“I found the workshop to be calming and inspiring.”

Rare Sense of Belonging

“I felt safe, welcomed, respected, and a rare sense of belonging.”

What I Needed...

“I really enjoyed this experience. I found the poetry empowering and helped me reflect compassionately and not engage with my inner critic. This was such a lovely exercise. What I needed without knowing it!”

...Like Being a Child Again

“This was like being a child again. I could just try new things. It’s very special to be able to fall into that childlike state.”

I Always Feel Safe and Inspired...

“The workshops at HaGomel help me access a different part of myself, exploring my psyche through creativity and artistic expression. I always feel safe and inspired in these workshops.”

2026 In-Person Events

Denim Day 2026 – HaGomel Community

Grief + Art Healing Retreat March 2026

2026 Virtual Workshop Themes

Embracing Joy Through Therapeutic Drawing

Welcoming Our Heart’s Companion with SoulCollageⓇ

Art for Healing, Grounding and Self-Connection

Creating Connection Through Poetry, an 8-workshop series

Scribbled Stories

Finding Strength in Community with SoulCollageⓇ

Creating Beauty with our Broken Pieces

Exploring the Many Faces of Joy with SoulCollage®

2025 In-Person Events

2025 Virtual Workshop Themes

Notes for the Season: Expressing Affection and Gratitude with Card Making

Embracing Gratefulness with SoulCollage®

Healing Through Creative Writing:
An 8-Workshop Series

Lessons from our Fungi Friends: An Expressive Arts Workshop

Creating Beauty from Brokenness

Stepping Into Your Personal Power with SoulCollage®

Can you hear the birds? Expanding Awareness Through Blind Contour Drawing

Healing Through Creative Practices: Workshops for LA Wildfire Survivors

Click Here to View the Healing Through Creative Practices Series

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”

John Lubbock