Getting Bi+ is a 7-week expressive arts therapy group created to celebrate identity, engage creatively in community, and explore challenges that come with bisexuality, pansexuality, questioning and multi-gender attraction, whatever part of the journey you are at.
It is a customized experience shaped by the participants’ therapeutic needs where we play, create, discuss, form relationships through collective art making. No art experience required!
Expressive Arts Therapy is a way of using the arts (visual, writing, drama, dance, music, play, and more) to explore life’s challenges and build on strengths. Through the arts, people can gain new meanings and perspectives. Expressive Arts Therapy believes that everyone is an artist.
The group will meet weekly on Monday from 6-8pm at 519 Church Street. The full cost is $250 + HST ($282.50).
Jasper Bryan (he/they) is an expressive arts therapist, facilitator, multimodal artist, and children’s book author and illustrator. He is a leader in Toronto’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community, exploring the intersections of art and mental health to empower everybody. Jasper loves glitter, arts and crafts, and rollerblading!
Anto Chan has recently completed his education in Expressive Arts therapy at Create Institute. He also graduated from Guelph-Humber’s Early Childhood Education program, actively learning through play, inner child work and family dynamics. He has been a performance artist, producer, mentor and creative entrepreneur for the past 18 years. He has facilitated workshops on creativity, grant writing, intergenerational trauma, poetry, leadership, anti-oppression and so much more.
Jasper & Anto work from an anti-oppressive, social justice perspective. They use the arts to encourage individuals’ unique resources, skills, and strengths, encouraging resilience among individuals and communities. They value diversity, equity, justice, sex positivity, intersectionality, compassion, and harm reduction perspectives, which are at the heart of their psychotherapeutic approach.
