金継ぎ
Date: 2027 TBD
Times: 9:30am-4:30pm ET
Location: Bloomington, IN
Instructor: Heather Maritano
Equity Pricing: Tier Description
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.
Wabi Sabi
Each participant will be supplied with all materials to go through the full process with a single bowl. Lunch will be on your own schedule, as you work on your creation. It is best not to leave the space – we have a mini fridge and microwave for your use. Cookies, snacks, water, tea provided.
This is an expressive workshop with no previous experience necessary and is open to anyone. Therapists can receive 6 CEs upon completion. Additional payment applies.
Heather Maritano, LCSW, RPT-S
Workshop Facilitator
Heather is the founder of Inner Resources Counseling & Training and has been supporting the growth and healing of clients, colleagues, and community for over 25 years through therapy, education, mentoring, and advocacy. She creates soothing spaces, relationships, and experiences that invite exploration and discernment through steady presence.
Heather has clinical specialities in play, sandtray, & expressive arts therapies. She has traveled and trained throughout the world.
She maintains a sense of awe, regularly practices her belief in the healing powers of play, and is particularly fond of dancing.
Workshop Details
All times are Eastern Time.
Expressive arts workshops will never go past the designated time, but occasionally end early due to size of group, pace of creation, and level of sharing.
| Time (approximate) | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Welcome & introductions |
| 10:00-10:15 | Brief history of Kintsugi & Wabi Sabi |
| 10:15-10:45 | Poetry & story |
| 10:45-11:05 | Getting to know your bowl |
| 11:05-11:15 | Preparing your personal work space |
| 11:15-11:45 | Cracking open, 1 by 1 |
| 11:45-1:45 | Tending the pieces, nourishing self, going at your own pace |
| 1:45-2:45 | Repair |
| 2:45-3:15 | Guided prompts for written reflection |
| 3:15-4:15 | Sharing bowls & reflections 1 by 1 |
| 4:15-4:30 | Final evaluations and comments |
Nourishment
Lunch: Lunch will be on your own, paced as you create. Please bring something to nourish yourself. We have a mini fridge and microwave.
Drinks & Snacks: We have cold water, sparkling water, an assortment of teas and instant espresso packets. Cookies, snacks, and dark chocolate provided.
Materials
We provide everything you need to complete the kintsugi process:
- a white bowl
- paints, brushes, glue, variety of golds to cover the cracks
- tea candles, matches
- hammer
- variety of art supplies for use
- a favorite journal and pen. We do provide both, but you may have ones that you prefer.
- a few items to place near you while you work – this can be whatever you need for strength and/ or something to remind you of that which needs to be repaired, let go, or remembered.
- any art supplies, paints, items you like for decorating the pieces of your bowl
- a sense of curiosity and compassion for your own process
This is a relaxed training environment in which we are using paints so wear comfy clothes that can get messy!
Key Terms
- Kintsugi, meaning “golden repair”
- The philosophy of wabi-sabi, which means “to find beauty in broken things or old things”
Give me someone who knows their own vulnerability and sees mine.
Give me someone whose cracked spaces are golden.
Give me someone who has helped do kintsugi to my cracked spaces.
Give me someone who is open to me doing kintsugi to their cracked heart.
So friends, wabi-sabi me.
Let me wabi-sabi you.
Let’s repair each other.
Let’s seek what’s cracked in each other.
Let’s heal our broken spaces.
Let’s fill what’s broken with gold.
May we emerge more beautiful, more whole, and luminous.
So, my love, come and see the beauty in my cracked spaces.
I see the beauty in yours.
You are not a heart that I will discard.
Do not discard me.
We can merge from this healing golden, more beautiful.
May all that is cracked and broken be healed
be illuminated.
A Kintsugi Overview
Wabi Sabi, the book
We will read this book in the workshop, here for your later reference:
This workshop is designed to be as retreat like as possible, to foster a journey inward, as well as connection within the group. Cell phones may be used during breaks, and for completing the evaluation at the end of the workshop. Otherwise please be prepared not to receive or send messages while we are engaged in the sessions.
We acknowledge that best laid plans don’t always work; somethings are beyond our control. Please be advised of the following polices regarding cancellations and refunds:
Inner Resources Training Institute reserves the right to cancel any training due to unforeseen circumstances. If this occurs, you will be refunded the full amount of your registration fee. Liability for cancellations is limited to the cost of the registration fee. Inner Resources is not responsible for other expenses incurred by the customer, such as lodging and travel.
If you make your request for cancellation, by email or voicemail, no later than 21 days prior to the start of the workshop 75% of your registration fee will be reimbursed. You may transfer/ sell your enrollment to another qualified person at anytime.
As a general rule, no refunds will be issued for missed sessions or cancellation requests initiated within 21 days of your scheduled workshop. Inner Resources Training Institute has the discretion to issue a refund or a credit for valid emergencies such as sudden illness, death, or national emergency .