Healing Through Art Graduate Studies: The Healing Journey

Healing Through Art Graduate Studies: The Healing Journey

With Tonya Stoddard, Pamela Whitman, and Ken Smith

Monday, July 20, 2026 - Thursday, July 23, 2026 | 9am-5:30pm

Cost: $450

In this four-day course, we will explore the deeply mysterious and sacred aspects of the healing journey. In our time, healing and medicine have become dominated by the use of powerful substances to deal with illness without consideration for the inner journey of the suffering person. Earlier times, in contrast, employed only a few natural remedies and placed an emphasis on guiding the soul and spirit of the person through a transformative, healing journey. The changes that were evoked in the soul and spirit could then work down into the physical body. Art and architecture were also important tools used to shape this process and provided the structure around which many other healing activities were based.

We will work together to explore this approach and deepen our understanding of how, from our perspective, the arts of light, darkness, and color and sculpture can call to the etheric body, astral body, and ego, supporting them to move and change. We will explore the architectural experience of Chartres Cathedral and the artistic journey embodied in the Isenheim Altarpiece as examples of healing processes that reveal an earlier wisdom about the human being and look at the pathways of inner experience that we can create through art for people today.

This course is only open for graduates of the first Healing Through Art cohort.

Please note that this is an in-person event only. Tea, coffee, and snack provided. Please bring your own lunch.

For more information, please contact:

tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org

A guide with accommodation recommendations and other local resources may be found here.