{"id":10,"date":"2023-10-12T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T07:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defaults.extendstudio.net\/post-templates\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:14:14","slug":"el-arte-de-encontrarse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/2023\/10\/el-arte-de-encontrarse\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ART OF THE ENCOUNTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever felt nervous or apathetic about an upcoming meeting with colleagues or\nacquaintances? I used to, often. But not anymore. That wonderful scientific discipline\ncalled neuroscience which informs us about the nervous system<\/strong> has its own explanation,\narguing that when there\u2019s a lack of coherence between our feelings and actions, our\nnervous system is on high alert, translating as a feeling of discomfort. <\/strong>. Crassly put\nwhen we cannot be ourselves and feel like we have to fit into certain roles, our bodies\nreject those encounters in which we are not relaxed because we are in a state of\nalertness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Let\u2019s think about all the encounters<\/strong> of the last week, whether they were personal or\nprofessional. Then think of the ones where you felt most welcomed and therefore most\ncomfortable and able to shine. Being completely honest with yourself, were there more\nthan five of these moments? If so, then you might not be in urgent need of joining The Healthy Art Club<\/strong>, but if you have trouble thinking of a time when you felt great about an\nencounter, I\u2019d love to invite you to experience one of my workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


One of the main reasons I founded The Healthy Art Club<\/strong> was to be able to offer healthy encounters.<\/strong>What do I mean by this? Well, just as when we become unwell, it\u2019s\nour body telling us that something is thrown off-balance when we\u2019re healthy<\/strong>, we\u2019re in tune\nand everything feels in place.<\/strong>This is why I like to talk about \u2018healthy\u2019 and \u2018less healthy\u2019\nencounters. Healthy ones are balanced, which don\u2019t take a lot of effort, where we give and\nreceive in equal measure, and where everything is in place. They might sound utopian, but\nthey exist, and they\u2019re the basis of the methodology behind The Healthy Art Club<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Sharing with others, and experiencing an empathetic feeling of being accompanied\nthrough group dynamics and artistic processes allow us to demonstrate that we are\nthe only ones who live, feel and think. <\/strong>The dynamics I offer are created from a place of\nrespect and by listening and welcoming everything that might arise in a meeting \u2014<\/strong>and\nreturning them healed. The artistic techniques we use are always inclusive and pleasant:\nwatercolour, pigments, clay, and geometry, while all wonderful, also provide \u2018delicious\nexcuses\u2019 to generate welcoming encounters where we perceive ourselves and others. <\/strong>It\u2019s\nwhere we end up living <\/strong>our human nature based on social sharing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I\u2019m currently reading an incredible book by someone I really admire, Rosa Montero, \u201cEl\npeligro de estar cuerda\u2019. For Spanish readers, I highly recommend it. She perfectly\nexplains why human beings need healthy encounters in it:<\/strong> \u201cWe love collective activities\nthat heal, excite and complete us so much because doing things together allow us\nto be you and others. To be you thanks to others.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n


I couldn\u2019t have put it better myself,\nand I can assure you that our meetings at The Healthy Art Club <\/strong>are designed for\ntogetherness. Because today more than ever, we need healthy encounters<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00bfTe ha pasado en alguna ocasi\u00f3n el sentir mucha pereza o nerviosismo por acudir a una reuni\u00f3n de conocidos o de trabajo en la que no te sientes c\u00f3moda?. A […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}