Date: August 23, 2025
Time: 9:30am-4:30pm Eastern Time
Location: Bloomington, IN
Instructor: Heather Maritano
Contact Hours: 6 CEs available for clinicians, open to anyone.
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Filling the Cracks with Gold
This 1-day workshop* * allows participants to experience powerful healing metaphors through the breaking, adorning, and rejoining with gold. Kintsugi, golden joinery, is an ancient Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery by filling the cracks with lacquer and gold dust. As a philosophy it represents honoring breaks and repairs as part of the history of an object. It is related to wabi-sabi which is the embracing of the flawed. Additionally there will be a ceremonial and community witness aspect throughout the day.
Each participant will be supplied with all materials to go through the full process with a single bowl. We will start and end the day together, with free art making and lunch in the middle, on your own pace. Vegetarian lunch is provided.
This is an expressive workshop with no previous experience necessary and is open to anyone. Therapists can receive 6 CEs upon completion.
*Equity pricing acknowledges that we all have different financial realities and that access to desired services might not be possible. Thus I provide a few spots at a discounted rates for those that need it. This is based on self assessment and trust. Spaces at the discounted rate are limited, so please be considerate in your choices that could impact on someone else’s ability to attend. If the lowest price is still too high for you to attend, please contact me for scholarship information.
**This is a Broken Bowl workshop. Broken Bowl is a trademark of Christa Brennan, LPC, LCAT, ATR-BC, CADC II. Heather Maritano, LCSW, RPT-S is an approved facilitator.
Objectives
- Recite the history and philosophy of kintsugi and wabi-sabi
- Identify the clinical uses of kintsugi & wabi-sabi
- Prepare a ceremony of cracking
- Create art on broken pieces
- Apply ‘joinery’ with glue and gold to repair
- Practice frustration tolerance with self & other
- Demonstrate compassion for brokenness
- Describe the emotions of the experience
Prerequisites
None
Training Checklist
All sections must be marked as complete to receive certificate.
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Inner Resources Training Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7363. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Inner Resources Training Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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Inner Resources Training Institute is an approved provider for the Indiana Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapist, and Mental Health Counselor. Boards have approved this organization to provide category 1 continuing education units for LSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs. Provider # 98000765A
