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Part 2 // Glorious weekend of back to basics, resting, surrounded by irregular lines, meandering shadows, grounding layers of earth and replenishment. I have been coming to this campsite outside of Berlin for the past 3 years with my daughter, and a ritual I have is to early morning sit on the jetty and journal, meditate, as well as us both together painting sticks, and floating in the lake. I love this muddy, hand-crafted and splashy end of a challenging school year re-connection. Feeling into the shapes, patterns around me, tune into the trees swaying, the bird song in abundance to calm my nervous system. Time out to just sit and breathe, soaking in the space around me, following my curiosity and letting things flow onto the page, intuitively selecting colours, letting the brush or pen lead the way. Or feeling into moving, stretching myself around changing view points and getting back out of my head into my heart. Spaces I occupy have always either felt constricting or expanding, being away from regular daily mechanics, sharp angles re-energises me, helps me shift perspectives to what’s important. Berliners, are you journaling over the summer on your travels? Want to learn some easy, re-energising ways to re-set, release and rebalance through art journaling? In ways that can be at home with a candle, comfy spot, or on the go out and about? Couple of spots left for Saturday on my half day retreat in my bright airy Berlin studio - see profile or DM and let’s start that conversation ❤️🌞 (at Warnitz, Brandenburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQyGyjqs2C-/?utm_medium=tumblr

Glorious weekend of back to basics, resting, surrounded by irregular lines, meandering shadows, grounding layers of earth, sunsets and spacious replenishment. I have been coming to this campsite outside of Berlin for the past 3 years with my daughter, and a ritual I have is to early morning sit on the jetty and journal, meditate, as well as us both together painting sticks, and floating in the lake. I love this muddy, hand-crafted and splashy end of a challenging school year re-connection. Feeling into the shapes, patterns around me, tune into the trees swaying, the bird song in abundance to calm my nervous system. Time out to just sit and breathe, soaking in the space around me, following my curiosity and letting things flow onto the page, intuitively selecting colours, letting the brush or pen lead the way. Or feeling into moving, stretching myself around changing view points and getting back out of my head into my heart. Spaces I occupy have always either felt constricting or expanding, being away from regular daily mechanics, sharp angles re-energises me, helps me shift perspectives to what’s important. So much 🌞and ❤️ am hoping to be back again soon 🌱 Berliners, are you journaling over the summer on your travels? Want to learn some easy, re-energising ways to re-set, release and rebalance through art journaling? In ways that can be at home with a candle, comfy spot, or on the go out and about? Couple of spots left for Saturday on my half day retreat in my bright airy Berlin studio - see profile or DM and let’s start that conversation 🤗❤️🌱 (at Oberuckersee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQyCrOysdUu/?utm_medium=tumblr

Snippets from my journals // My daughter had suspected appendicitis / gastroenteritis and involved a hospital stay of nail-biting moments, hating watching the one you love in pain and being unable to take it away, (thankful to say, she's recovered now). I spent pockets of time most days scribbling, doodling, writing, playing with droppers of colour, rolling layer of inks, tearing into, drawing over, just embracing the power of letting go of stress, through the freeing acts of creative mindfulness. Free writing painful words intuitively tumbling ono the page and painting out ones I wanted to release, layering colours on top which help me feel balanced again. Writing about trusting the processes, the doctors, the joy at seeing her pain start to lessen. How I felt this sense of relief, a therapeutic hug with a paint brush. I also rescheduled the Nourishing Art Journaling workshop to 3rd July and just took the pressure off myself so I can be fully present for you in my calm oasis, I'd love it if you choose to join me for one of the *LAST* 3 spots. We'll learn ways to anchor ourselves again, sometimes just letting marks wildly move across the page, at other times, feeling satisfied through the joy of the beauty of gel plate printing. How we can just follow a line and tap dots to feel grounded. And how we can learn specific techniques to layer layer layer through collage, lettering, and an array of journaling prompts. Make a go-to toolkit to feel better, and keep creative sparks alive in YOU. Grow your toolkit for a positive habit you can do in 5 or 50 minutes. Join me Berliners with a small group of mindful explorers to re-set and re-energise.  Saturday 3rd July 10-2pm // Link in Bio - let’s chat in DM how the power of journaling could help you reconnect 🤗❤️ (at Berlin Mitte) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQY79z1HMZ0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Blown away by the Yayoi Kusama show @gropiusbau. Put on my @kemitelford circus patterned skirt for the occasion ( scroll to see my ‘pose’ 😂 - inspired by @schoeninberlin ) Such a colour pop delight to be able to be in the presence of such mesmerising installations and hypnotic paintings, in real life. Loved seeing the black and white paintings, note books, drawings and painstaking repetition sharing her ongoing expressive therapeutic journey with her mental health. Didn’t quite get to linger as much as I’d hoped with a hangry 9 year old in tow ( we could only get v early morning tickets, and didn’t factor in it was across ‘snack time’ 🙃😅) but I will be back for soaking in more delights. #yayoikusama #yayoikusamaexhibition (at Gropius Bau) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP88Zv-nS2N/?utm_medium=tumblr

#yayoikusama #yayoikusamaexhibition

Enjoy having FUN connecting again, in real life // Hurray…finally!!! Berliners….Let’s meet and play IN PERSON!! Join me to NOURISH and NURTURE. My Art Journaling : Half-day mini-retreat, is taking place in my bright airy Berlin studio of calm. “It was very therapeutic and relaxing. My favorite part was the focus on not over thinking, connecting to our senses, and the mindfulness exercises.” - Eva Lose yourself relaxing on a Saturday morning feeling the calming power of colour and oozy paint to get back in flow. Let go of daily stresses, unwinding with the freedom of creative, playful self-care… Mindfully learn to let go of perfection and explore how creatively journaling can be a wonderfully therapeutic experience. I will introduce art journaling to help us stay rooted, recording everyday magic & celebrating imperfections and curiosities. Grow your toolkit for a positive habit you can do in 5 or 50 minutes, at home or on the go in a cafe, or on a bench in the park for some nurturing time-out. No recent art or creative writing experiences necessary 🙂 Feel free to DM if you have any questions - Saturday 19th June 10-2pm // link in comments for full info 🥰 First photo sharing a moment playfully unwinding in our workshop with @sketchbookcircle (at Senefelderplatz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP0m81GnsPh/?utm_medium=tumblr

What if regular 5 minute breaks could change how you feel about your entire day? The difference between wondering at bedtime what happened today that was different, and actually remembering moments where you felt present, calmer and able to focus more mindfully on what really matters. In Rest and Replenish with Ease I will be sharing with you my toolkit of creative mindfulness practice you can do anywhere anytime. To help you re-set and re-energise, with a playful curiosity, and with a greater awareness of your senses. Processes to bring a sense of the gentle and the delicate, the whispers and the wild dancing. I’d love you join me and experience these 5 minute exercises with me, let’s face it, we tell ourselves we just haven’t got time, but who really hasn’t got five minutes to help them lighten the load?! Starts Wednesday - 4 sessions of 75 minutes. Link in Bio - love you to join me - DM me and lets start the conversation on your path to live more restfully, so you can begin to tackle your challenges with calm and curiosity, not stress and contempt ☀️❤️🌱 https://www.instagram.com/p/CO8oGeRnK99/?igshid=1ly0d7awjr4qp

Rest is as essential to our health as the water we drink and the air that we breathe 🌱🌞Yet the ability to be able to REST has unfortunately become a learned skill - our lives too often feeling stuck in a hamster wheel of constant doing. But to move out of this never ending paralysis, it is absolutely essential to have a relaxed mind that can tackle daily challenges, especially in these uncertain times. Through the ability to respond calmly rather than ‘fire fighting’ reactions. If you don’t see it as ok to take a break, you are caught in the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and if it goes on for long enough, in burnout. This habit of busy-ness has become our dis-eased natural state. But it absolutely doesn’t have to be this way.Your natural state can be a calmer mind if you take, or learn how to take restful, meditative breaks across your day, and practice it regularly. Five minute time-outs of, my much loved, creative mindfulness activities help you feel relaxed and re-energised in your own way. You are then more able to tackle that challenge you have been avoiding, and find that fresh, creative ideas might just come more freely in this relaxed state. Or feel ready, more through curiosity rather than contempt, to work on that problem that’s just suddenly appeared. In my ‘Rest and Replenish with Ease’ course starting 19th May, we discuss what rest means to you and how we can re-frame and prioritise it. We work together to create a go-to toolkit you can use to live more restfully. To feel more restful IN your everyday tasks as well as between them. This can become your essential living toolkit for wellness. Not another thing for the to-do list but your way to lighten the mental load. See link in Bio - love to have a conversations in DM too if this resonates 🌞❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/COtC34dHrnX/?igshid=1b1mzu65il98n

This was just going to go on Stories but HELL, NO, I decided it needs to be placed here for me, and I hope us, to ponder on a bit longer that 15 seconds. When we look at this we might imagine a toddler holding a pencil shakily for the first time. Or noticing a pencil line of varied pressures that dances jaggedly and doodles flamboyantly across the page. The scenario makes me chuckle with curiosity as to WTF?! actually happened, and plays like a film in my head… because the knowledge I do have I’m just a bit awe stuck by that this image was an accidental collaboration between my 9 year old artist who left her journal out drying, and one of these creative suspects, (scroll to see the artists.) So now I’m pondering a heroic slaughter of the poised pencil who tried to fight back valliantly perhaps caught for a moment or two in a playful paw. The stories, the experiences of the process of creation - the moment of it, really it’s all there. THIS somehow seems to sum up what I’m all about. Curiosity, play, the not knowing, the journey. Curiosity did not kill the cat. I see that it joyfully showed us that they really feel quite at home experimenting in our studio! 😻😂#curiouscats #playfulcuriosity #catartwork #catartist #creativecat #enjoythenotknowing #curiositydidntkillthecat https://www.instagram.com/p/COn9HfnnJ0H/?igshid=1f1ef5iubsxep

#curiouscats #playfulcuriosity #catartwork #catartist #creativecat #enjoythenotknowing #curiositydidntkillthecat

“A precious time where you can just relax, play and let go. Forget your adulting obligations and just enjoy the moment; walk away refreshed, happier, calmer. “- Lisa Join me for Rest and Replenish Everyday, with greater Ease. Let’s gather together as a group each week, and nurture creative mindfulness, to cultivate REST in your everyday. This 4 week nourishing group course introducing Life & Mindfulness Coach Harriet’s unique and creative coaching toolkit, to help women let go of stress more easily, and find joy daily in exploring calming, mindful and playful ways to exhale and feel more grounded. Link in Bio - starts Wednesday! #maketimetorestyourmind https://www.instagram.com/p/COlZ1hlHM1L/?igshid=1csom9zsm3jqm

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“Take a moment to breathe and be proud of what you have achieved “ At their leaving party, a teaching colleague in the school I worked handed me a postcard with this written on. I paused briefly, curious as it made me feel something quite raw, but filed it away mentally, emotionally for years in fact, always onto the next new thing. It took me a few always ‘on’ and crazy fun at times, but busy busy busy years, and moving out of jam packed, noisy London to spacious, quieter Berlin, to actually really even notice that I needed to do this. When I found it as a book mark a few years ago, I realised I was now ready to take the moment and start to take purposeful action to find out what it really meant to me now in Berlin. To give myself permission to slow down, learn to deeply inhale again my inner creative self away from my employed job, and let my vivid imagination dream up a different, more mindful self, grow into a less time pressured, and uniquely me way to be and work. To share the joy of creativity with others, and find in it ways to mindfully rest and playfully replenish that more gently lights me up, helps me breathe and be present in the beauty of the moment. What’s your go-to ways to take a moment to breathe? Love to hear from you in the comments or DM me. I’m really excited that I have created a NEW offering around this with limited places I’d love to share with you - let’s chat if you are interested to find out more! 😍🤩 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMurL-YnsYj/?igshid=piaobk3sveoh

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Curious about how I work with the powerful, liberating joy that is journaling? Love to share the life-changing mindful magic with you. FREE Introductory workshop to this soulful self-care practice : Let’s Play & Unwind together! "Harriet showed me big magic can happen in 5 minutes" Join us for an hour of complete and utter nourishment. Let’s discover a few simple ways in how to calm a busy mind through mindful mark making, and exploratory writing. Learn how to let go of daily stresses, re-fill your cup, and tackle life’s challenges, re-energised 🥰 - Share with your international friends to enjoy with you 🤩 Tuesday 2nd March 20:00 CET ☀️ Link in Bio to the Playful, Creative Journaling event or DM me and let’s chat about the possibilities 💫🌱🔥 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLm-TDiHryN/?igshid=yer2z5wde3qd

Do you know I offer Coaching through unlocking / accessing your Creativity? // Are you ready for fresh new, actionable steps to a tired old problem, going on a journey of curiosity to Play Your Way Forward with the possibilities, getting you out of your head and into your ❤️ and hands? 🌟💥 In a small group tomorrow we will go on a playful discovery full of insights and let coloured marks flow onto the page, speak through metaphors and shapes to bring out your breakthroughs. There are NO recent art experiences required, or good art / bad art judgements that might be a vulnerability hangover from school. We collaborate to uncover new perspectives to use to solve challenges together, reconnecting you with your creative and more intuitive mindset. Coaching with me can look like these drawings, quickly accessing your creativity in super powerful ways to open up, if you’d like it to, deeper, braver conversations. ✨Let’s use our inner wisdom to help us navigate those choppy seas of the work/life challenge you are facing and bring you back into calmer waters with locating your inner compass and path ahead. Last couple of spots left for Create Your Path workshop - Tomorrow, Thursday 18th Feb, 19:30-21:30 CET ( link in Bio or DM to ask a question 🤗 ) 💫💥❤️🌱 with @harrietpoole.mindfulrebel https://www.instagram.com/p/CLaGGptHAw-/?igshid=1067300v7bdud

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Are you hitting Lockdown Low, feeling disconnected from your kids? Is everybody feeling totally distracted, consumed by everything going on, doing their own ‘thing,’ or are you tired of hearing ‘I’m bored?’ Now is the time to grow new positive family habits, for greater joy, connection and harmony at home, through easy to access activities everyone can enjoy and let loose with. Gather your family together consciously, on the same page, enjoying the small radical acts of playing, creating and writing together, around the kitchen table. Let’s begin by learning new ways to bring greater ease to having quality family time, relaxing into the here and now, in rhythm with one another. Join me on this Sunday, on a dark wintery afternoon, warming up though creative playful journaling together. Sunday 7th Feb, 16:00-17:30 CET, this session is about using sounds and music as sensory inspiration for our session to rewild and liberate you, and bring out your curious inner toddler. Details in Bio or DM with any questions - hooray for the power of ART PLAY! 🌱✨🤗 https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7DDD-qKuw/?igshid=q3l7lqwl4jpb

Let’s PLAY & UNWIND together through the transformative power of mindful creativity! Lockdown family time offers us a forging of connections in new ways, making memories together at home, back with our messy making hands. Deepen bonds through exploring fun ways to communicate visually, in a journal you can carry around with you >>…..Join our Family Art Journaling Workshop Session THIS SUNDAY and get playful tips and ideas to takeaway and fill your life with more COLOUR this GREY wintertime 🌈 🥰 Family Art Journaling is a great way to build trust and intimacy with your child, noticing their way of looking at the world, all whilst having an inspiring time in the comfort of your own home. This workshop is ideal for you if you are interested in gentle, mindful parenting and relationship styles, looking for new ways to discover and experiment both independently and collaboratively. We use art processes to express thoughts, dreams, experiences, memories and worries in a creative constructive way. A Journaling habit is a lovely way to help focus special family time away from screens as entertainment. Everyone uses their own journal ( or bring thick A3 or A2 paper and you can make a map fold book!) as their individual personal space to make marks and unwind. Intrigued to discover more? Link in Bio to find out more and to book 🥰🌱💡 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKPMLKZpPSu/?igshid=4beufnnlvsj3

It’s time to nourish yourself in your home retreat, not go back into a quarantine or lockdown… reframing is everything right now. Self-care can be misunderstood, and sold as a desperate escape from the normal lived experiences, and only entered into when we are beyond exhausted. In the noticing and enjoying the magic in everyday lived experiences, it is not simply a commodity nor just a Christmas treat. Mindfulness practice, encouraging you to not seek respite through distractions, really truly live present through opening up to your all of your senses, with a curiosity and compassion through kinder self-talk, shift perspectives and see the ordinary made extraordinary. To look after your mind everyday, find the pleasures in the small details. My journaling programme through creative play, reconnecting you with your wilder less rationale self, and sensory-awakening prompts, offers a restorative self-care practice for you, if you’d like it to be that. I invite you to come on a journey to notice more everyday beauty. Journaling enhances your innate creativity. Through the freedom of self-expression, discover how to celebrate imperfections, and nourish your curiosities. No recent art experiences necessary, this is a more gently guided and intuitive, free approach, not a highly technical skills based course. Create a meditative, intimate space in a visual journal you can carry around with you, to download and help process your thoughts and feelings in your everyday life, as well as provide an outlet for relaxation. We will approach materials and tools with a fresh beginners mind, playing and tinkering with art, writing and everyday materials and actions, enjoying both unexpected results and utilising mistakes with impact >> Learn tips to courageously nurture your creative spirit everyday, and even laugh out loud a little! This course aims to help you to: -Restore your inner calm. Giving you the tools to nourish your mind. -Reawaken your sense of freedom. Through play and wonder. -Reconnect with your inner child and live your wholesome, creative life. -Invest in your soulful self-nurture through therapeutic art and writing experiences. Closes TONIGHT! Link in Bio❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CIv5RONni4d/?igshid=1mpksncg9rfkm

Let’s talk about PLAY. That unstructured, non gamified kind that’s raw and without rules. Where you are laughing, joyful from the belly of your soul, deeply connected to the fun-ness and sillyness of another human being. My daughter is now 9 and it’s breaking my heart all the ‘rules’ she is navigating amongst peers, in the tween stage around relationships, from in the playground to computer games, the fitting in or not fitting in, the ups and downs of it all. And how we need to fight for it, to keep this fire burning for us and keep us feeling a true sense of aliveness. Moments where we dance like crazy fools in the kitchen before breakfast, or scribble wildly jumping around together, collapsing in a heap, giggling and letting out the energy. Present in all our senses. Play in its most pure early and stages of life- and not just human life - how we recently adopted two beautiful stray kittens from Poland, how I was struck immediately by the fearless, animalistic toddler-ness of them in their play. Climbing inside cardboard boxes, running to balls rolled around the floor, jumping up to string dangled in front of them. Wanting to snuggle up asleep on the warmth of your belly after a lovely playtime. It’s there. And as grown ups how we forget or get distracted from this importance, caught in the hamster wheel of life. But we need to re-fill our cup to re-set ourselves and face our challenges. Originally little art was a weekly class about the kids, them exploring freely in an art playground, but it soon became apparent that the toddlers didn’t need my classes, as much as the parents. One day a parent was having so much fun having stuck their bare hands in the palette of oozy paint and rolling their arms across the floor mural, they asked if they could do the class without the kids. And so began the idea of me offering playful, process art LABS allowing the freedom of self expression, where release and pleasure came in abundance. PLAY, JUST FOR THE GROWN UPS. Interested to explore my playful approach, re-connect with your inner toddler and give yourself one giant permission slip, to be free to be curious again? Join me Sunday for my FREE session- link in Bio https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYtuSMnNPq/?igshid=1jeb3141rk66n

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"Harriet showed me big magic can happen in 5 minutes" 💥 Hey there lovelies- well we know what a sh*tshow 2020 has been and the mental load is just full on, right?! Lockdowns....maybe a third? vaccines... when? Having no idea when we can hang out and have a laugh with friends and family again...feeling the utter disconnection, oh yeah. It's all soooo much, right? Our heads are FULL and energy is LOW. Living through your creativity is your absolute necessity right now. Finding new ways to re-connect to your feelings, inspiring opportunities to have fun and spark the joy again with dear and loved ones, together apart, and replenishing the energy to re-set yourself. Learning some quick methods to move forward and face challenges feeling lighter and nourished. Sounds goooooooood, right? Art Journaling with a cuppa and relaxing music, and together online with a lovely group of people, from overwhelm to feeling calmer in a few minutes. How about joining me for an hour of fun & freedom to try something new, discovering a few go-to self care tools you can reach for anytime, and see how you could bring a nourishing, more oasis like vibe to your home and your head. Invite your friends and let's PLAY and UNWIND together through Creative Journaling ✨🥰🌱💫 - DM me for info - or sign up to the mailing list in Bio - Sunday 6th Dec 8-9:15pm CET on Zoom and it’s FREE 😊 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWXuYNn_UX/?igshid=1mqwg1ct0rfst

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