Paint It Out

This virtual, single-session workshop invites you to explore a meaningful part of your life through abstract painting. Guided exercises help you use color, shape, and movement to give visual form to your experience, with no need to plan, explain, or find the right words first. In a supportive, trauma-informed environment designed for people living with dissociative identity disorder (DID) and other forms of trauma-based dissociation, thoughtfully sequenced activities help you follow what emerges, discover personal meaning, and see what you carry in a new way.  All experience levels welcome.

Check-In
We’ll begin with introductions, sharing where we’re joining from.

Warm-Up
A short warm-up exercise will help us settle in together.

Create and Explore
Expressive arts prompts will guide us through two more intuitive painting activities.

Journal and Reflect
We’ll pause to notice what emerged.

Sharing
There will be a chance to share art, insights, discoveries, or reflections.

Departure
Before we sign off, everyone unmutes for a communal goodbye.

Building a safe, supportive space is something we do together. By registering, you’re agreeing to hold the privacy and confidentiality of everyone in this group, including their identities and anything shared during our time together.

You’re also agreeing not to record, photograph, or screenshot any part of a meeting. If there’s ever a specific need to do so, it requires written permission from canDID Expressions and every participant involved.

canDID Expressions believes that creative expression can transform lives, and that our offerings should be accessible to everyone. To support this commitment while sustaining our operational costs, we use a sliding scale. This approach reflects our values of community, collective care, and shared responsibility, inviting those with greater financial capacity to help offset costs for those with more limited access to income.

We trust you to thoughtfully consider your relationship to wealth and resources, both within our community and in the broader global context, when selecting your rate. Your generosity and good faith help keep this work accessible to all.

Our current sliding scale rates are:
$39.00  Sustaining rate:  reflects our costs and helps support future programming
$30.00  Reflects the actual cost of this offering
$18.00  Subsidized rate
$10.00  Accessible rate:  please choose this rate only if you couldn’t otherwise participate

If our lowest sliding scale rate still creates a barrier to participation, you are welcome to apply for a scholarship.

Cancellations made at least one week before the offering receive a full refund, minus a 20% transaction fee.
Cancellations made at least three days before the offering receive credit toward a future offering.