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Beyond the Mirror with Melissa Phillips – Workshop and Creative Wellness Experience

A Creative Wellness Experience- October 19, 2026, 5:30pm-7pm

Class size is limited to 15 participants

Through guided reflection and mixed media art, you’ll create a layered self-portrait that explores identity, strengths, values, and resilience.

No artistic experience required- Just curiosity and a willingness to create

Your self portrait will come to life one layer at a time including:

• Background -the environment that shapes us
• Hair – Our thoughts, ideas, memories, and imagination
• Eyes- How we see ourselves and the world
• Mouth- Our voice, truth, and self-expression
• Heart- What matters most
• Clothing- The many roles we carry
• Hidden Layer- The parts of ourselves others may never see.
• Future Self- The person we are becoming

What is included:

All art supplies provided, No artistic experience necessary, Guided facilitation, Supportive uplifting environment, Leave with your finished artwork and new insights.

Workshop details:

• 90 minutes
• 8-10 Participants
• All Levels Welcome
• All Supplies Provided
• Adults of all Ages

About your Facilitator:

Melissa C. Phillips, MSW – Registered Clinical Social Work Intern

Founder of Gulf Coast Integrative Counseling, Melissa brings more than 25 years of experience helping individuals, families, and organizations thrive with a compassionate, creative approach to emotional wellness. Her workshops blend therapeutic insight with artistic expression, creating meaningful experiences that nurture self-discovery, resilience, and connection.

Pianist, accordionist and composer Ben Rosenblum has traversed a truly unique musical path, one that has seen him perform alongside world-class musicians across more than twenty music genres and twenty-five countries, lead bands at prestigious venues across the world, all while maintaining a signature, melodic musical voice. Rosenblum’s journey has taken him on tours with Grammy-winning pop artist Rickie Lee Jones, Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Catherine Russell and Juno-winning contemporary Indian singer Kiran Ahluwalia. He’s played Brazilian choro with Ephrat Asherie Dance and Brazilian forró with The Late Night Show’s Nêgah Santos and famed forró band Forró in the Dark. His roots in jazz have led to an over ten-year relationship with Grammy-winning bassist Curtis Lundy, performing at festivals alongside jazz luminaries Bobby Watson, Sean Jones and Warren Wolf. He has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on accordion, and as a guest soloist on piano at Carnegie Hall’s Stern-Perelman Auditorium with Maestro Reona Ito’s New York Harmonic Band. Throughout it all, Rosenblum has always maintained the same priority – to tell a compelling story with his music, reaching the hearts of his audience and connecting on an emotional, intellectual and spiritual level.

Rosenblum brings this wealth and diversity of experiences to his projects as a leader, overseeing a full tour schedule as a solo artist, with his trio and most recently, with his six-piece ensemble, the Nebula Project. Since his first album as a leader, Instead (4 stars, Downbeat Magazine), he has since released three follow-up records to critical acclaim, including favorable reviews in almost every major jazz publication (Downbeat, All About Jazz, Jazziz, JazzTimes, JazzEd, NYC Jazz Record, JazzLife Japan and many more). Across multiple tours in Japan, Europe, Canada and the United States, Rosenblum has brought his bands to perform at some of the world’s most respected music venues, including Ravinia, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, the Library of Congress, AngraJazz (Terceira Island), Bird’s Eye (Basel) and Yokohama’s Himawari-No-Sato Concert Hall. At any given show, Rosenblum might draw on influences from ten or more countries, with interests going beyond jazz to include various music traditions from South America, Eastern Europe, Ireland, India, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Your Life Blueprint and the Canvas

Rewriting the Patterns That Shaped Us—and Intentionally Creating What Comes Next

Presented by: Heidi Guimond, Author 

What if some of the choices you make today were actually shaped by a blueprint written long before you realized you had one?

Our earliest experiences can quietly shape how we see ourselves, the roles we take on, the relationships we choose, and the lives we create. But understanding where those patterns came from gives us something powerful: the opportunity to choose what comes next.

In this personal and inspiring presentation, author and transformational educator Heidi Guimond explores how the patterns formed through our life experiences can continue to shape us—and how awareness, intention, and creativity can help us begin to rewrite them.

Through storytelling, reflection, and a simple creative experience, Heidi invites participants to consider their own life blueprint, recognize the patterns that may no longer serve them, and imagine what they would intentionally choose to create on the canvas before them.

Because we may not have chosen everything that was written into our original blueprint—but the canvas of what comes next is still ours to create.

Heidi Guimond | Angelica Harte | Heidi Ann

Heidi Guimond, who writes as Angelica Harte and Heidi Ann, is an award-winning author, speaker, and transformational educator who is exploring the hidden patterns that shape how we see ourselves, make choices, and move through the world.

Drawing from personal experience and her background in health, wellness, and personal transformation, Heidi invites women to understand what shaped them while discovering their ability to consciously choose what comes next.

Creativity is an important part of that work. Through writing, journaling, visual art, movement, and other forms of creative expression, Heidi explores how creativity can offer another language for reflection, self-discovery, and personal growth.

She is the author of The Power of Healing Your Inner Child: Let Go of Pain, Heal Deep Wounds, and Break Free from Negative Patterns to Create Lasting Emotional Freedom and its companion workbook. Her work has received recognition from the International Impact Book Awards. Heidi is currently working on her next book, The Phoenix Within: A Journey Through Motherhood, Loss & the Fire That Forged Me.

Her signature keynote, Change Your Blueprint — Change Your Life, combines storytelling, practical tools, creative exploration, humor, and vulnerability to remind women that while