“Creative Nectar Studio is a warm friendly place that allows your creative soul to speak, dance and play. I get something out of the process every single time I go. Thanks Jenny and Stephanie for a very supportive experience.”
—TM, De Soto, KS
“This was a fantastic way to spend a Saturday! I can’t wait to come painting again. Just what I needed! I HIGHLY recommend! :)”
—CT, Roeland Park, KS
“… It has been exciting to share how the process freed me up emotionally … I found it to be a safe place to experience the kind of emotional vulnerability that we are so often expected to conceal. The studio is also a fun and inspiring place to be. It has a warm fun energy. As facilitators, Jenny and Stephanie were both amazing at being present with me and encouraging me. I felt their deep compassion and desire to see my life enriched by the process…”
—BL, Lee’s Summit, MO
“Every time I show up something absolutely completely new about my process shows up. I am nurtured to grow in this group, but what makes it all possible is having a completely safe place and group of people to move through my process with. The space and the ‘format’ are very consistent from meeting to meeting. That helps because what comes up never is! During sharing I feel deeply listened to and the group has such amazing energy. This experience is sacred and beyond words.”
—KL, Kansas City, MO
“Painting for process is the gift of seeing with my eyes what’s going on with my thoughts and emotions that I’m usually too busy to notice. All I’m aware of is the confusion. Painting without concern for judgment or product is just plain fun and amazing.”
—RM, Raytown, MO
“Thank you for being so kind with our granddaughter, Karlyn [who is autistic]. At dinner yesterday, she told us that she likes to go to the studio because ‘I feel calm when I paint’ and ‘it helps me with my anger.’ She is always eager to go to the studio. Going has been a huge blessing for her. Thank you so much for being a place where miracles happen.
—PW, Kansas City
"Thanks again for the lovely workshops - I had a wonderful revelatory time! You are providing an incredible art/life form that people really need!"
—SB, Kansas City, KS
“Painting for process has become a valuable part of my growth and healing. It allows me to reconnect with myself and to speak in the language of color and image and dimension. I love the freedom that comes with abandoning myself to the page and the brush and the paint – freedom from always having to know what I’m doing or what I mean. I am not required to have a plan or to explain myself. Even as the one who allowed the images to come onto the page, the paintings are often an intensely intimate mystery to me. They remind me of what I didn’t know I knew.”
—SM, Olathe, KS
“I love CNS!!! If you've been saying to yourself, 'I want to try process painting at CNS....'. Give yourself a gift and show up. You'll be so welcomed and cared for!”
—BP, Kansas City
“The sheer joy of playing with color has been richly mixed and deepened with a refreshing, unconditional exploring of who I am in the present moment. It is an honoring of that exploration in myself, shared and reflected with those who join in community in this studio. It is a painting meditation. I am cultivating a deeper sense of who I am. I am deeply grateful.”
—MH, Overland Park, KS
