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Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
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* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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ClassBento money-back guarantee
Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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A: Free to cancel or reschedule up until 3 days before the class
Q: How long does the class run for, and what's the price?
A: 2 hours, $165 per guest
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Learn how to translate your emotions into an abstract expressionist painting.
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arrow_right_alt arrow_downward- Be guided through a breathing exercise.
- Learn how to engage with concept development.
- Explore emotional regulation analogies like "flip your lid" and "the window of tolerance" to translate your emotional states into vibrant colours and expressive marks on canvas.
- Consider TIPP skills/ Activities and distractions to address emotional regulation in our nervous systems.
- Mark making exercise: Different mark making techniques, (pour, scratch, dance) using paints & pencils on paper.
- Learn about Colour theory- how to choose colours for your work.
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Sally McKinnon is a trauma-informed artist based in Adelaide / Tarntanya, South Australia. Her practice moves through abstract expressionism, guided by curiosity, lived experience, and a sustained fascination with the human condition.Her work is rooted in emotion as both material and method. Rather than depicting narrative, she explores the felt experience of being alive; awe, fragility, intensity, stillness, rupture, and repair. At the centre of her practice is a simple but persistent idea: that existence itself is astonishing, and that meaning is often found in the act of paying attention.Sally’s approach is shaped by a trauma-informed lens and a background spanning mental health nursing, visual art, performance, music, curation, and community-based creative projects. This intersection informs a practice that is sensitive to emotional states, embodied experience, and the ways memory and feeling surface through gesture, colour, and material and where that all sits in the vastness of the universe.Her work reflects a belief that time is both fleeting and restorative. As her grandfather once said, “Life wasn’t meant to be easy.” In response, her paintings often hold tension alongside softness containing moments of intensity balanced with a certain calm, inviting viewers to gain insight into their own internal universes.Sally’s work is held in private collections internationally.
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