An Emotional Exploration Art Journal Circle with Carly
The Emotional Exploration Art Journal Circle is a monthly creative coaching workshop where we explore emotions through art journaling, collage, writing, and reflection.
Each session focuses on a theme — from awareness and anger to joy and resilience — offering prompts that help you get to know your emotions in fresh, compassionate ways.
No art experience is needed; you’ll build a one-of-a-kind journal that becomes both a playground for creativity and a mirror of your emotional life.
Additional prompts will be offered for ongoing creative work throughout the month.
November Theme: Gratitude
November 7th 6:30-8:30pm
We’ll begin on November 7th with Gratitude, exploring what continues to nourish us even in seasons of loss or uncertainty.
Using layered collage, words, and color, we’ll create “harvest pages” that reflect the gifts and relationships that sustain us. This session will offer both playfulness and depth as we practice gratitude in a way that feels authentic, not forced.
Upcoming Themes:
December 5: Illuminating the Darkness
January 2: New Beginnings
February 6: Love in Many Forms
March 6: Cracks and Gold
April 3: Playfulness and Joy
May 8: Abundance and Enoughness
First Friday of the Month starting November 7 and continuing the first Friday of every month for 12 months.
Cost $40/each session (includes all supplies EXCEPT journal)
Journal books available for purchase: $10
ps. You don’t need to attend all of them to get benefit, and you can pick and choose the days that work for you!
Your Facilitator: Carly Flagg, MA, PCC
Hands at Heart Coaching, LLC
Carly Flagg is a Professionally Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), with advanced training in creativity-based coaching, creative grief support, compassion fatigue education, trauma-informed coaching, and end-of-life doula care. She founded Hands at Heart Coaching, LLC to companion helping professionals and others navigating burnout, grief, and life transitions through practices that reconnect heart, hands, and purpose.
Blending creativity and compassion, Carly’s approach centers on restoring presence, imagination, and meaning as antidotes to overwhelm and disconnection. Her work is grounded in compassion-centered coaching principles and shaped by studies in counseling, narrative therapy, nonviolent communication (NVC), compassion cultivation, and the Enneagram.
A lifelong maker and expressive artist, Carly believes that creativity offers both language and medicine for the human experience. Her aesthetic practice spans gardening, painting, collage, fabric arts, dance, theatre, movement, film, music, and more. Each practice has taught her a way of listening for what wants to be made and allowing healing to unfold through the process.
Before founding Hands at Heart Coaching, Carly spent nearly 25 years as a college professor and sign language interpreter. She now draws on that deep well of experience to create spaces for reflection, belonging, and wholehearted expression.
Carly lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband and their three-legged hound dog, who dreams of becoming a visiting therapy dog. She finds joy in traveling to South Korea to visit her daughter, tending her core value of PLAY, and making space for curiosity, color, and connection wherever she can.