CREATIVE WELLBEING WORKSHOPS - Key Persons

Gioia serves as one of CWW's primary workshop facilitators and continuing education coordinators. She was a Provost Fellow at Drexel University's Creative Arts Therapies Ph.D. Program where she completed award-winning original research on the expression of positive emotions in art. She has taught at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and presents on positive art therapy internationally. Gioia is a also a Licensed, Registered and Board-certified art therapist with over 30 years of clinical experience. She holds licenses as a Clinical Professional Art Therapist (LCPAT) in Maryland and Certified Substance Abuse Counselor (CSAC) in Virginia. Gioia is on the faculty at George Washington University and publishes regularly on such topics Positive Art Therapy, Positive Emotions and Art Therapy, and Arts-Based Research. In addition to being a practicing artist, Gioia has a special passion for communal art projects such as Altered Books and collaborative art swaps. She, her husband and two daughters, and Barley, the Golden Lab, live in Alexandria, VA. Gioia's brightness and generally cheerful disposition naturally embodies the optimism that CWW teaches.

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• Artist and Illustrator of Coloring Creates Wellbeing

Rebecca is also a practicing artist and illustrator of Coloring Creates Wellbeing: The Desert Mandalas Coloring Book. Her artwork can be seen at www.RebeccaWilkinson.com. Rebecca lives between Washington, DC with her mother, twin sister, and nephews and Tucson, AZ with her husband and cats.