Have you ever wondered what your emotions would look like if they were colours? Would grief be a deep indigo? Would joy shimmer like gold? Would peace feel like a soft wash of lavender, or would kindness be yellow?
These are the kinds of questions we explore in Mapping Emotions with Colours an experiential workshop that invites you to slow down, tune into your inner childhood and let your emotions speak through colour.
How would it look like to have an easy visual tool to connect with your emotions in a creative way?
Questions & Answers
Have you ever felt uncomfortable when you were asked: "How do you feel?"
Learning to express our feelings, might not come that easy to many of us. It might be because in a fast-paced world filled with noise and constant movement, our emotional selves often get buried beneath the "to-do" lists and the rush of daily life.
Or because we might not know what we are feeling or we have not being taught how to acknowledge and be with our emotions.
As a therapist I am witnessing the difficulty of being with one’s feelings and emotions and how challenging it can be to express it, but also I am witnessing what happens when we give space to our feelings, without judgment or analysis.
There is something magical, a shift takes place and sometimes the process can reveal wisdom we didn’t know was there.
This workshop offers a playful, intuitive, and surprisingly powerful way to connect with those inner feelings. Using simple tools like paper and colours, we create visual maps of our emotional landscapes.
No artistic skill is required — just curiosity and a willingness to explore.
This is a psychoeducational creative workshop where we will explore what feelings are and how to corelate them with colours.
The space is held gently, with guided exercises that invite you into the here and now to get to know yourself and others.
We might use a grounding meditation to help you settle into your body. Then, through prompts and gentle reflection, you'll start mapping out how different emotions live in you — and what colours, shapes, or textures might want to come out as a daily practice to help connect you with your inner self.
You might discover that anger feels like jagged purple lines … or that love comes in soft round lines of pink and red. You might be surprised by how much your inner world has to say when given permission to speak in colour.
This isn't a therapy group, but it is deeply therapeutic. It’s a form of creative soul-care that helps you feel calmer, clearer, and more connected — both to yourself and your creativity..
This workshop is for anyone longing to reconnect with their inner world in a gentle and creative way. Whether you’re navigating big emotions, on a healing path, or simply curious about your inner landscape, this space is for you.
You don’t have to be an artist. You don’t have to be “good at feelings.” You just have to come as you are.
For thousands of years, colour has been used for healing, entertainment, in politics, to create beauty, to bring beauty and health into our lives.
Colour is everywhere, in nature, in our wardrobe, our homes and our food. They have the capacity to change mood and influence our lives in so many ways.
Many organisations and businesses, use colours based on the properties of these colours and the effect that have on people. For example, many hospitals use certain colours on the walls that are known to calm and relax their patients.
Colour can be a language the soul speaks fluently. When words seem difficult to express, colour steps in and helps us to have a visual image of our daily experiences that could be difficult to be seen.
Whether you're feeling in pain (emotional or physical) experiencing grief, feel overwhelmed, tired, grateful, in love or happy — this is your invitation to pause, pick up some colours, and map your way home to yourself.
Because when we see our emotions clearly, we stop being ruled by them especially by those that are having a negative connotation. And when we honour them creatively, we begin to heal in a soft, playful way.
I am Mihaela Marian, a creative person-centred humanistic therapist and aspiring artist who learned from experiences in the therapy room and from my creative practice that colour and feelings have a strong bond and that colours have different meaning and different effect on each of us..
The in person workshop takes place on the 13th of September 2025 between 10:00 and 12:00, at Kestrel House, Knightrider Street, Maidstone, ME15 6LU
Costs: £25 for 2 hours session with materials included.
The online workshop takes place on the 20th of September 2025 12:00 -14:00, joining details will be send near the date.
Costs: £20 for 2 hours session
For bookings, please contact us at creativecalmtherapy@gmail.com or use our contact form