Workshop overview
Paint Your Essence
It is all about YOU and creating your inner landscape. Your landscape is the fertile ground to discover YOU and to create change. Color, imagery, and symbolism will be your guides in this expressive painting workshop. This workshop is an opportunity for you to connect to YOU – your Expression. How does it get any better than that?
With different themes every month, we use art to learn about ourselves in a fun, playful way. Welcome.
WILLING & UNWILLING
That is Paint Your Essence 2026 Theme
Welcome to Paint Your Essence
This year, Paint Your Essence invites you to step boldly into the art of creation—not just by asking what do I want? but by exploring the deeper question: What am I willing to do, and what am I unwilling to do, to truly show up as myself?
We often know what we don’t want more clearly than what we do. Flipping that script isn’t always easy. That’s why this year’s journey is about playfully and powerfully examining both sides: the things we resist, the things we embrace, and the choices that shape our essence.
Through monthly explorations across love, career, health, vitality, soul purpose, and relationships, we’ll uncover the hidden patterns that keep us small—and the courageous willingness that expands us into growth, joy, and freedom.
🌟 The Essence
Paint Your Essence 2026 is about courage, clarity, and play. It’s about saying yes to what expands you and no to what diminishes you. It’s about discovering that willingness is the spark that pushes us beyond comfort zones, while acknowledging that unwillingness can reveal our deepest values.
This year, you’ll paint with both colors—the vibrant strokes of what you’re ready to embrace, and the bold lines of what you refuse to carry forward. Together, they create the masterpiece of your evolving essence.
January 26 – Goals & Willingness:
What are you willing to try? What are you unwilling to sacrifice?
In this first session of the year, we’ll explore the tender space between desire and action—what you think you want versus what you’re truly willing to step toward. Through intuitive painting, reflection, and gentle inquiry, you’ll uncover the goals that feel aligned with your essence and the hidden “unwillingness” that may actually be protecting your energy or values. This month invites you to begin 2026 with clarity, courage, and a willingness to experiment with possibility.
February 15 – Love & Self-Love:
How do you show up for yourself? Where do you resist?
This month is an invitation to soften into the truth of how you love yourself—and how you don’t. Through color, texture, and embodied creativity, we’ll explore the places where you resist receiving love, the patterns that keep you guarded, and the willingness required to show up for yourself with tenderness. Expect a heart‑opening session that helps you rewrite your relationship with love from the inside out.
March 22 – Mission & Soul Purpose:
Are you trusting your intuition or blocking it?
March calls you into deeper alignment with your inner compass. Are you listening to your intuition, or are you unintentionally blocking your own path? Through guided prompts and expressive painting, you’ll explore the whispers of your soul purpose and the fears or beliefs that keep you from trusting it fully. This session helps you reconnect with the mission that wants to move through you—and the willingness needed to follow it.
April 26 – Transformation & Play:
Inner child, creativity, leadership—where can joy expand your life?
This month is all about rediscovering the magic of play as a catalyst for transformation. We’ll invite your inner child, your creative leader, and your joyful self to take the lead. Through playful experimentation and intuitive art‑making, you’ll explore where joy wants to expand your life and where seriousness or self‑judgment has been holding you back. Expect a liberating, laughter‑infused session that opens new pathways for growth.
May 31 – Security & Safety:
What anchors you, and what limits you?
In May, we explore the foundations that help you feel grounded—and the structures that may be limiting your expansion. Through reflective art practices, you’ll examine what truly anchors you, what you cling to out of habit, and what you’re ready to release. This session invites you to redefine safety in a way that supports your evolution rather than constraining it.
June 28 – Sisterhood & Relationships:
How do you connect, support, and allow yourself to be supported?
June invites you into the heart of connection. Through collaborative and individual creative exercises, you’ll explore how you show up in relationships, how you support others, and how you allow yourself to be supported. This session helps you identify the relational patterns you’re willing to nurture and the ones you’re ready to shift, opening space for deeper, more authentic sisterhood.
July 26 – Emotional Energy:
Break ancestral cycles and free yourself from inherited limitations.
This month is a powerful exploration of emotional inheritance—what you carry, what you’ve absorbed, and what you’re ready to break free from. Through expressive painting and guided release practices, you’ll identify ancestral or familial patterns that no longer serve your essence. July offers a transformative opportunity to reclaim your emotional energy and step into a more liberated version of yourself.
August 23 – Communication & Self-Priority:
Speak your truth. Put yourself first.
August invites you to speak your truth with clarity and compassion. Through creative expression and reflective prompts, you’ll explore where you silence yourself, where you over‑give, and where you’re ready to prioritize your needs. This session helps you practice the willingness to be seen and heard—and the unwillingness to abandon yourself in the process.
September 20 – Shredding & Letting Go:
Release what no longer serves your essence.
As the seasons shift, September becomes a sacred moment of release. Through symbolic art‑making and intuitive movement, you’ll identify what no longer serves your essence—old stories, outdated roles, lingering attachments—and gently let them go. This session offers a powerful reset, clearing space for the next version of you to emerge.
October 11 – Health & Habits:
What are you willing to change to thrive?
October invites you to look honestly at the habits that shape your vitality. Through creative exploration, you’ll examine what you’re willing to shift in order to thrive and what you’re no longer willing to tolerate in your daily rhythms. This session supports you in crafting nourishing, sustainable practices that honor your body, energy, and well‑being.
November 22 – Limitations & Tolerance:
What boundaries empower you? What are you no longer willing to tolerate?
This month is a deep dive into boundaries—both the ones you set and the ones you’ve outgrown. Through expressive art and guided reflection, you’ll explore what limitations have been quietly shaping your life and what you’re ready to stop tolerating. November helps you reclaim your power by choosing boundaries that support your expansion rather than your exhaustion.
December 13 – Intentions for 2027:
Carry forward only what fuels your growth. Let the rest go.
In our final session of the year, you’ll gather the wisdom, clarity, and growth from 2026 and paint your intentions for the year ahead. Through ritual, reflection, and intuitive creation, you’ll identify what you want to carry forward and what you’re ready to leave behind. December becomes a beautiful closing ceremony—an honoring of your evolution and a welcoming of what’s next.
Supplies Needed
If you do need supplies, no problem! I have a Creative Playtime Painting Kit at additional cost:
- List of Kit Supplies: Canvas board, palette paper, brushes, 2oz paint tubes- 1 blue, 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 black & 1 white
- Cost for supplies is $48.50 – this includes shipping & handling
Workshop Prices
Single Virtual Workshop
- One Virtual Workshop
- May gift or share with friends and family
- Valid for 1 year from time of purchase
3 Workshop Package
- 3 Workshops Package
- May gift or share with friends and family
- Valid for 8 month from time of purchase
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Telephone: 818-751-2844
Email: karen@paintyouressence.com