Immersive Art Meditation (I AM) with Helena Karchere and Matt Maes (IN PERSON ONLY)

Answer the Call to Experience Your Life as a Hero’s Journey

What is Immersive Art Meditation?

Immersive Art Meditation (I AM) is a unique experience that blends visual art, mythical and personal storytelling, and powerful guided meditation. Each multisensory session includes:

• A focused deep dive into the symbolic meaning of a mythic art piece.
• Guided meditation and conversation to integrate and apply insights into your unfolding life story.
• Timeless tools as aids in navigating your Hero’s Journey–with all of its trials, reconciliations, humbling lessons and hard-won treasures.
• Pathwork to understand your past so that you can bring more vision, creativity, intimacy and power into your future.

Join us for this 7-session series OR attend the sessions that interest you A la carte!

Session 1 Theme:

We’ll combine mythic visual art with powerful guided meditation and storytelling, starting with the story of Eve from the Judeo-Christian tradition. What can we learn from this first woman about embarking on the journey of our lives, answering the “call to adventure”, while reconciling with our dual nature? This powerful 3 hour workshop promises to bring us as a group to the heart of what it means to embrace the beauty and reconcile with the chaos inherent in our lived experiences.

Our Story

Immersive Art Meditation is the brainchild of Matt Maes and Helena Karchere, born from their shared passion for the transformational power of storytelling and creativity. We got our start with the first series of events going through Matt’s The Edge of Myth series, a spiritual and psychological journey featuring deities from across the world, representing different phases of  The Hero’s Journey, popularized by Joseph Campbell. Matt had expressed a desire to create exciting ways for artists on the same path of storytelling art to present their craft. The concept of Immersive Art Meditation (I AM) came to Helena who immediately shared the idea
with Matt. The excitement of co-creation early in our relationship colored and deepened our shared bond. Everyday conversations would quickly segue into dreaming up this amazing new venture, and soon enough we launched our first cohort going through 7 sessions with a group of devoted regular participants.

Matt tells that one of his favorite aspects of these meditations is seeing people relate to concepts in mythology in ways that apply to their own lives. This demonstrates the relevance of mythic stories as being alive through our real human experiences, something that he is deeply passionate about revealing in audiences everywhere. We all have many daily responsibilities in the modern world. We’ve found that transcending that and diving into mythical storytelling (as so many seek to do with books and movies) has brought us a purpose, magic, wonder, and playfulness that puts all the mundanity into perspective. We seek to pass on that same spirit of aliveness to all who join us on this path of adventure.

Who We Are

Helena Karchere

Helena is a licensed Shadow Work ® coach and passionate enthusiast of the archetypal framework, the Enneagram and Insights as ways of understanding human psychology and behavior. She is a student of world faith traditions and infuses interfaith principles into her facilitation. In her career she leads a non-profit association for family businesses, infusing her background in adult education, life coaching, and business. You can find more about her work at www.helenakarchere.com and www.immersiveartmeditation.com

Matt Maes

Matt is a lifelong artist with a love for symbolic meaning and storytelling, channeled through mythic visual art. His existential curiosity and devotion to his craft guides him to create imagery rich with layers of deep meaningfulness. Being on the spectrum himself, he speaks to neurodiversity, mental health, and the ways that non religious spirituality and creative expression saved his life. He co-leads the “Mythic Monday” on Instagram live, is the inventor of “Drawing Games” and the illustrator of the fantasy novel “Azreya”. You can find more about Matt and his artwork at www.quantumkeyholestudio.com

Purchasing the full series includes a bound copy of Journeyers Journal and an 11X14 print from the Edge of Myth series by Matt Maes.
Take advantage of the early bird discounted cost of $340 through December 10 th .

This is a neurodiverse-friendly workshop! The physical space will allow for the freedom to have solo time. We encourage people to participate to the level they want to, and provide journaling as a way to process without speaking. We highly recommend attending all seven sessions to truly understand and integrate lessons from the Hero’s Journey and to benefit from the community that is built by sharing over multiple weeks. However, if you drop in to a single session you will receive a helpful catch up to the process and introduction to your fellow journeyers. Feel free to sign up for the first session and then decide whether you’d like to upgrade to the entire series. www.immersiveartmeditation.com

We value and welcome diversity including differences in religions/value systems, sex, age, race, ethnicity, and national origin, range of abilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, financial means, education, and neurodiversity.