Twin Rocks, Oregon 2025
April 13 – 18, 2025
Facilitated by Stewart Cubley and Aziza Balle
A Residential Weekend on the Coast of Oregon
Join us for a five day intensive at the beautiful Twin Rocks Conference Center, on the Oregon coast, less than two hours from Portland.
We look forward to providing you with a fulfilling retreat with other like-minded explorers. No prior experience in painting is required.
Your tuition includes five days of facilitated painting sessions with Stewart Cubley and Aziza Balle, accommodations and meals, all art materials, daily group discussion circles in a small, supportive community, and video presentations that support the painting practice.
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Workshop Information (Click for more information)
Workshop Schedule
You will arrive anytime Sunday afternoon and be ready for dinner, followed by our first session Sunday evening. We’ll have two sessions each day on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and a video presentations and discussions most evenings. The workshop will be completed by noon on Friday.
Tuition
Tuition, accommodations and all meals included
- Single Accommodations Five Nights: $1,700.00 per person. Addional night on Saturday, 4/12: Night $100
- Shared Accommodations Five Nights: $1450.00 per person (two people per room). Addional night on Saturday, 4/12: $100
- Bunk Accommodations Five Nights: $1,350 per person (up to six people per room). Addional night on Saturday, 4/12: $100.
- Note: Requests for single accommodations based on availability.
Continuing Education Credits
24 CE Credits are provided by the Institute for Art and Living for:
MFT, LCSW, LPCC and LEP by CAMFT (California Board of Marriage and Family Therapists)
RN by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Fee: $25.00
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Ride Share
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Cancellation Policy
If you pay in full when you register you will receive a full refund minus a 15% handling fee if you cancel before March 1st, 2025. After that date, your payment is nonrefundable and nontransferable.
Why Paint for Process? (Click for more information)
The exhilaration of creating without the pressure to perform, produce or succeed.
The goal is free-expression. Process painting emphasizes the creative process rather than technique or expertise. No prior art experience is necessary. We all start from beginner’s mind.
The personal power that grows from being present in the moment.
Process painting offers an exceptional opportunity to inhabit the present moment. It’s an engaged spirituality — a practice of equanimity, presence, and learning to stay present in the face of whatever arises.
The beauty of letting yourself be led rather than grasping for control or attempting to plan.
Through listening to your intuition — the color that calls to you; the placement of the brush on the paper; the shape, the form, the image that wants to be born — process painting invites you to unleash your inner wildness.
The rewards that come from experiencing doubt and carrying on anyway.
One of the myths of art is that you have to feel inspired, have endless ideas or feel confident in order to create. But not-knowing allows innocence. Accepting imperfection yields compassion. Risking vulnerability opens the door to breakthrough and awe.
The healing that comes from true completion.
Completion is one of the greatest mysteries in process painting. It can be a moment of astonishing surprise and release. Completion is an inner state of freedom that you experience when you carry a painting through to its natural end.
The development of an awakened stance towards life that is centered yet expansive.
The meeting with yourself that occurs in the painting process is meditation in action — where the circumstances of your life are seen as potentials rather than problems.
