Where Adults Rediscover Their Creative Soul
Depth-Oriented Art, Writing, and Creative Processing Workshops
in the Greater Sacramento Area
When Life Shifts, Your Soul Longs for Creative Expression
Life’s seasons invite you to reconnect with who you truly are—beyond the roles you’ve carried.
If you’re seeking meaningful creative expression, authentic community, and practices that honor both your wisdom and your growth, you’ve found your sanctuary.
Through mindful movement, depth art exploration, and transformative writing workshops, we create space for midlife and mature adults to process, heal, and flourish.
Led by Dawn Blunk—a creative process coach with specialized training in applied somatic depth psychology and decades of experience as a writing professor—our workshops honor your journey while nurturing the creative spirit that’s ready to emerge.
Upcoming Workshops
Saturday,
3/21
1 to 4 p.m
Layers of Experience: A Palimpsest Workshop for Revealing Hidden Narratives
Sierra 2 Center, Sacramento, CA
Inspired by the ancient practice of reusing materials, this workshop introduces the art technique of Palimpsest - a layered approach that reveals traces of what came before.
Through intuitive exploration and shifting perspectives, participants will be guided through a reflective, hands-on process to uncover and express inner narratives. Students will learn to blend diverse elements like paint, paper, fabric, and found objects to create a unique mixed-media visual artifact representing your inner experience, intuition and personal narratives.
Supplies: A variety of material, paper and art supplies will be provided. Students may bring personal cards, letters, clips for books or magazines, and any ephemera or written mementos that you wish to incorporate into your artwork, and should wear an apron or clothes that can get paint on them. Participants may also bring their own journals and sketchbooks if they wish.
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My Story: Memoir Writing Workshop Series
Reading the multi-faceted and emotional personal journeys of others can breathe inspiration and a sense of knowing and connection into the fabric of our own lives. What personal experiences of yours are waiting to be expressed and shared as brave declarations of existence, learning, and evolution?
In this workshop participants will learn a variety of creative writing and thinking processes that may be applied to any personal memoir writing project. By combining playful thought explorations with basic embodiment and breath practices, you'll learn to create uniquely meaningful and informative artistic expressions in the genre of memoir writing, bringing to the surface deeply held knowing and awareness.
No prior writing experience needed. Each workshop contains new material and activities. All materials are included although students are encouraged to bring their own notebook, sketchbook, or laptop.
WordPlay: Creative Writing Workshop Series
The art of creative writing emanates from the meaning and emotional movement of words--a malleable landscape we will explore by tapping into our own somatic energetic expressions. Grounding our explorations with embodiment and breath work, we will engage several creative writing and thinking processes, including embodied mark-making to bring to the surface deeply held knowing and awareness. No prior art or writing experience needed.
Participants will learn a variety of creative writing and thinking processes that may be applied to any personal writing project or goal--whether that's writing poetry, creative nonfiction essays or entire novels. By combining playful thought explorations with basic embodiment and breath practices, you'll learn to create uniquely meaningful and informative artistic expressions.
No prior writing experience needed. Each workshop contains new material and activities. All materials are included although students are encouraged to bring their own notebook, sketchbook, or laptop.
Personal Hieroglyphics: A Depth-Oriented Creative Process for Embodied Expression and Inner Knowing
In this workshop, participants will explore their somatic energetic expressions through the practice of embodied mark-making. Depth practices of embodiment, breath, and presence work inform our markings and bring to the surface deeply held knowing and awareness.
You will learn a creative process that may be applied to any personal project or goal, combining basic embodiment and breath practices with the deceptively simple art process or mark-making as a means of producing uniquely meaningful and informative artistic expressions.
All materials are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own notebook, sketchbook, or coloring utensils.
See, Feel, Say: An Ekphrasis Workshop for Bridging Image, Body, and Word for Deeper Artistic Expression
In this workshop, participants will learn how to apply the practice of Ekphrasis, an ancient Greek form of poetry/writing as a way to bridge the visual experience with somatic experience and language as a means to further develop your own sense of artistic sensabilities and expression. This workshop combines a somatic-infused mark-making process with analysis on expression of self-created forms, encouraging a deeper self awareness and creative opening. No prior experience is needed.
All materials will be provided, but students can bring their own sketchbooks, journals, and markers or crayons if preferred.
Meet Dawn Blunk
Dawn brings together decades of creative expertise with deep psychological insight to guide transformative creative experiences. With 24 years teaching literature, composition, creative writing, journalism, and film studies at American River and Sierra Community Colleges, she understands how stories shape us—and how we can reshape our stories.
Her journey through producing and directing local film projects, combined with nearly a decade covering Sacramento's vibrant arts scene for Sacramento Magazine, gave her an intimate understanding of how creativity moves through community. These experiences revealed the profound connection between artistic expression and personal transformation, leading her to specialized studies in depth psychology.
Today, Dawn weaves together her literary background, somatic movement practices, and depth psychology training to create workshops that go beyond traditional creative writing. Her approach honors the body's wisdom alongside the mind's creativity, offering mature learners a path to authentic self-expression through embodied creative practice.
Whether guiding participants through embodiment/breath work, depth art exploration, or transformative writing exercises, Dawn creates safe, nurturing spaces where creativity becomes a doorway to healing, growth, and genuine connection—both to Self and community.
Dawn holds specialized training in applied somatic depth psychology and continues her own journey of creative exploration and embodied learning.
“Dawn is a bright light and gift to the world. Her deep wisdom and ability to hold space for you and your creative spark is unmatched. Dawn’s work is thoughtful, intentional and playful. Having her as my creative process coach has helped me gain the clarity and confidence to pursue my creative urges with joy and curiosity. Her workshops are full of laughter, humor, fun and spontaneity; they are the perfect container to deep dive into my soul through artistic expression. I always leave sessions with Dawn uplifted and inspired. ”
“Dawn’s workshops are informative, fun, touching, insightful, creative, safe, and loving. Dawn is super enthusiastic; you can tell she is excited to turn us on to new ideas. I walk out of the workshops buzzing with new ideas and each time, a little bit more healed.”
“I had the pleasure of taking the Palimpsest class with Dawn Blunk of Soulworks Creative. It was a very well-designed class taught step-by-step with good instruction. Dawn is very warm, friendly and attentive. There were lots of great supplies to use and it was a fun and relaxing experience. Although the process was more important than the end result, I was pleased with what I produced. Highly recommended. Five stars. ❤️”
“I find Dawn Blunk to be an inspired and inspiring teacher who is gifted in getting us connected with ourselves for the benefit of our writing career!”
“I have had the pleasure of working with Dawn. It has been incredibly helpful for me. She has a special way of getting straight to the heart of what I need, while bringing a flexible and genuinely loving presence to each session. I always feel fully supported and clearly guided. Dawn has a way to design the right process to help me move forward. This is a rare talent and a truly valuable skill and a warm friendship not to be missed.”
“Taking a workshop or class from Dawn Blunk lets me simultaneously get in touch with my creativity and reset my life energy. She is knowledgeable, empathetic, and passionate, and she helps her students find those things in themselves.”
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