KHF Guest Speaker Recovery Skills Workshop Series
September 18, 2026 @ 11:00AM — 11:45AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Art as an Anchor: An Art-Making Workshop for Recovery
Join us for this creative virtual workshop learning how to connect with yourself, express feeling, and find a sense of calm through Art Therapy. No experience necessary!
Our guest speaker, Taylor Beardsall, Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and yoga therapist, will guide you through this creative, grounding workshop.
Using materials you likely have at home, you will be led to create meaningful and mindful art pieces to support connecting with yourself, expressing feeling, and finding a sense of calm. You will be introduced to Neurographica, a technique for nervous system regulation. This session focuses on process over product: you cannot mess it up! No experience necessary.
Topics include:
- Using art as a tool for nervous system regulation and mindfulness
- Exploring Neurographica as a grounding creative practice
- Psychoeducation woven throughout the art-making process
Suggested supplies include:
- Paper (watercolor paper or mixed media, 2 sheets)
- Permanent marker
- Watercolor paint, if available
- Something to add color (markers, colored pencils, oil pastels, etc.)
- A small rock or stone
- Something to write with (pen or pencil)
Upon registration, you will receive additional program details and log-in information
The KHF Guest Speaker Workshop is a group intended to be a collaborative space for participants to learn and discuss psychosocial skills, nutrition skills, and daily activities that may present a challenge in their eating disorder recovery. The guest speaker may bring a topic for discussion in his/her field of specialty or may use his/her own testimony of recovery, as a teaching tool and encouragement to participants.
The group is being offered at a discounted cost, and all proceeds will benefit eating disorder scholarships.
For questions, please email misskhaglund@gmail.com
The Kirsten Haglund Foundation
Taylor Beardsall is a Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC), M.Ed. She provides creative mind-body services for individuals, groups, and organizations. Taylor is a founder and art therapist at Solstice Art Therapy, an expressive arts therapies studio in Bloomfield Hills, MI. She is also the art therapist at Brighton Center for Recovery and Maplegrove Recovery Center. She is an adjunct Art Therapy professor at Wayne State University.