I’m Aideen, founder of Five Leaves Creative.
I’m passionate about Creative Expression as a pathway to Wellbeing & Connecting with the Natural World to support Belonging and Joy in our lives.
My main mission with Five Leaves alongside sharing these passions is to support and Empower Expression through Intuitive Art.
My approach with this work includes :
the Red Thread approach to Womens’ Circles
Bringing the cycles of Nature into the theme of our Circles and painting workshops
Teaching body-based meditations to bring us fully into present moment awareness, where creativity and joy can arise.
Supporting and guiding Intuitive and Spontaneous Art as a pathway to living a fully expressed life and in touch with our truest nature.
The intention of my offerings is to be gentle, nourishing and inspiring to each participant and to support a deeper relationship with ones own Creative Self, Outer Expression & Inner Joy.
Current online offerings:
Intuitive Painting Workshops ~ Meditation & Intuitive Painting groups where I guide and share approaches to Meditation & Art Practices.
Celtic Creative Circles for women~ A creative celebration of each season in the Celtic Year, where I share myth, history, symbolism and themes associated with each festival, along with guided meditation, inquiry and intuitive art to connect with and reflect on what each season offers us personally and collectively.
Red Thread IC Sessions ~ These Intentional Creativity Circles are based on the Red Thread approach to Circles. They involve being guided through a specific process of creating intuitively with an intented outcome; for example: discovering what your gifts are or creating your own artistic vision-plan book. This process is based on meditation, art & journalling for clarity from the heart.
Paint your own Feminine Archetype workshops (Intentional Creativity approach) ~ These workshops are 5 hour Intuitive Painting Workshops, based on creating your own Feminine Archetype specific to a shared theme, for example, ‘Valuing our worth’, ‘Living from the Heart’, ‘Honouring our Voice’, among others. They involve participating in a 13 step process of visioning, sketching, journalling and painting to bring into being your own wonderful Archetypal Painting.
For upcoming events please see main Five Leaves page.
For more information on any of my group sessions or to subscribe to my newsletter, please email me at: aideensweeney@hotmail.com
Why Expression & Intuitive Art?
Creative Expression is a very natural, nourishing, life-affirming approach to wellbeing. It is a way to express ourselves through movement, colour, image and form, without the need for words. I see it as our life force moving through us, allowing us to bring shape and form to whatever needs or wants to be expressed through us, offering personal insight, inner wisdom, a sense of balance, flow and joy.
So often in our lives we can become stuck in worry, fear, focusing on problems that cannot be solved by the worrying mind. A regular focused practice of Meditation and Expressive or Intuitive Art can take us out of this constrictive way of being, into a more relaxed state, of left and right brain balance, of ease, relief and openness, where solutions to problems can more easily arise and where we can find joy, insight and more flow in our lives.
My experience & qualifications
My background is in a lifelong love of Nature and Intuitive Art. I am a primary school teacher, with many years experience in Education Systems in Ireland and abroad with students of all ages including Special Needs, Primary teaching, TEFL and Early years Education. I have an Honours Degree in History & Sociology, a Post-Grad Certificate in Education and am a member of the Teaching Council of Ireland.
I’m a Mum, a Yoga and Meditation practitioner of over 20 years, a trained Hatha Yoga teacher, Children’s Yoga teacher. I have trained in Childrens Mindfulness and run Art & Nature workshops for Children & Families ('Free to Be Me & 'Treehearts'). Im also a certified Red Thread Circle Guide and Guild Member with Musea Intentional Creativity Foundation (founded by Shiloh Sophia)
I have certified in and practised Art Synthesis with the amazing Marie Perret ('Healing Art') for over 10 years, which is a combination of meditation, energy awareness practices and painting. In this practice, we use body awareness meditation to go within and then bring out or express through image, colour & shape what is inside. These processes never cease to amaze in what can emerge from within each participant in terms of depth and transformative power.
Currently I’m continuing my training as an Intentional Creativity Teacher with Musea, Intentional Creativity Foundation. This involves intensive training on awakening creativity and facilitating greater Creative Expression in the world. These teachings are shared in my current offerings, alongside my own crafted content and experiences in Healing Art whch is greatly influenced by my wonderful teacher and mentor Marie Perret.
I am fully insured to hold Art workshops and Nature education workshops for all ages as well as: yoga for adults and children, Meditation, Meditation and Creativity Sessions (group and one-to-one), Intuitive Art sessions, Red Thread Circles, Intentional Creativity Sessions and General Education for children ages 3+
Looking forward to sharing some nourishing creative time with you 💛
Aideen x
