- $600
F.A.C.E. - Forge Ahead Create Everyday- 8 Week Online Course - Starts JANUARY 3, 2025
START YOUR NEW YEAR WITH AN ARTISTIC, ENERGETIC, & AN EMOTIONAL DEEP DIVE
Starting Friday, January 3rd, 2025 – Join this immersive 8-week online program that will guide you through multiple layers of art, the expressive self and creative explorations.
F.A.C.E. is a course that is Experiential, Experimental and Expressive. It is more of a course about the QUESTIONS than the ANSWERS
Which makes it very UNIQUE & DIFFERENT to typical courses
If You Have Found Yourself HERE, Reading this page, I IMAGINE, YOU are most likely NOT TYPICAL, EITHER!
In this 8 week online Program we will become Wild Adventurers Of The Heart & Explorers of our Emotional Waters Diving into the Depths!
F.A.C.E. (Forge Ahead Create Everyday) combines non-representational drawing, mark-making, art-making, and shamanic-inspired energetic practices to help you align with your deepest, most authentic self.
More than just an art-making or painting program, F.A.C.E. is an immersive energetic experience designed to anchor and ground you as you step into the new year.
This program is about learning to show up in the moments that challenge you, staying committed to your authentic voice—not only in your drawing, painting, and creative practice but also in how you show up more fully in life, embodying your authentic expressions.
Often, we hide parts of ourselves due to fears and we don't enter into our Art & Creative work as Authnetically as We Could. We hide in our lives, too!
Whether it's the fear of failure, judgment, or simply the discomfort of vulnerability, these fears can stop us from fully expressing our true selves. The F.A.C.E. program is designed to gently guide you through these barriers, helping you embrace and explore all the spaces and places within that are calling you as an individual artist and creative.
It's about learning to show up to your art practice and creative process even when it feels difficult or uncomfortable, and trusting that by doing so, you are creating a space for growth.
This commitment to your creative journey, even in hard moments, ripples out into your life, empowering you to show up more fully in all areas. By facing these challenges, you not only unlock new artistic possibilities but also develop the resilience and self-awareness that fuel transformation in everyday living.
By Journeying Through FOUR key phases—Energy, Emotion, Intuition, and Integration—you'll learn how to F.A.C.E. yourself and start showing up more fully in ALL your Creative Expressions!
As you move through these four transformative phases, you’ll explore and deepen the layers of your creative and personal voice, embarking on a profound inner journey of self-discovery.
$600
SPECIAL BONUS ONLY INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM
- THE MARK MAKING MEDITATIONS
- 101 BASICS LEARNING TO SEE FOR YOURSELF & YOURSELF IN THE ART - LOOSE MAPS FOR DESIGN & COMPOSITION
And Materials LIST - Provided At SIGN UP
To All - - I will keep it as basic as I can to not add a huge extra cost - And I always encourage my students to use what they have. It's important as we don't all have the same access capabilities.
F.A.C.E.
Forge Ahead Create Everyday
F.A.C.E. is a transformative journey through the energetic, emotional, intuitive, and physical bodies, guiding you toward creating a meaningful body of work that reflects your truest self. By blending non-representational drawing, expressive mark-making, collage, and shamanic & energetic practices, this immersive experience helps you release fear, connect deeply with your heart, and unlock the layers of your creative voice. Through experiential and experimental exercises, F.A.C.E. empowers you to forge ahead and create art that’s grounded in authenticity, as well as start to remove the fears that keep you from showing up fully to all your unique artistic and creative expressions, at the same time helping you to STOP HIDING what's INSIDE!
JOURNEY WITH ME IN JANUARY 2025 - F.A.C.E. Is An 8 Week Immersive Experience with non-representational drawing being the foundation of the program, as well as art making and collage exercises. It's a Holistic Model designed to help you work with Energy, Emotion, Intuition and Integration so YOU can SHOW UP more FULLY to all of your CREATIVE and ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS! Together We Will JOURNEY and F.A.C.E. the our deepest desires and longings and learn to who up daily to all life, creativity and art have to say.
TESTIMNONIALS ABOUT MY CLASSES & MY PRESENCE AS A TEACHER
What Past Class Participants Have To Say...
"Natalie Dadamio's class is much like her artwork: raw, authentic, automatic, direct, accessible, instinctual. Her course is rich in detail: she is a spiritual guide who digs deep into her intuitive process and she shares it all with you."
JENNIFER R.
"Natalie has a powerfully calm and expressive way of taking you into a journey into your own soul.
A way of looking at your inner self and allowing it to be reflected back through your art."
TRACEY M.
I love Natalie's approach and infusion of her art skills and knowledge in which she demonstrates and encourages us to express our emotions helping us connect and express to our playful side while creating our own abstract art.
LEAH B.
Weeks 1 & 2
Energy: The Primal & The Playful
Dive into primal and instinctual creativity. Through expressive mark-making, grounding exercises, and shamanic drumming, you’ll tap into your raw energy and explore the foundational power that fuels your creative process. We’ll focus on unlocking those deep, subconscious impulses that guide your mark-making.
We will talk about The PRIMAL & The PLAYFUL and DRAW, CREATE & RELATE with these concepts in mind.
Weeks 3 & 4
Emotion: The Mental
Uncover the connection between your emotional landscapes in your life and open the doorway to infusing it into your Art & Creative Work. In these weeks, we’ll explore the ways emotions affect your mental states and how that translates into expressive, abstract work. You’ll experiment with emotional release through gestural and non-representational drawing and collaging, learning how to catch, process and release your feelings and express it through the art and creative process.
Weeks 5 & 6
Intuition - The Soulful & Poetic
In this phase, we’ll explore concrete language and investigate how it can be integrated into mark-making and non-representational drawing. You’ll learn to trust your inner voice and embrace your intuition as a guide, possibly even experimenting with combining text into your artistic process. This phase encourages you to lean into your marks and create from a place of flow, soulful connection, and creative trust.
F.A.C.E.
DISCOVER WHAT'S POSSIBLE, WHEN YOU OPEN TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER
When we learn to let go, dive deep into the heart of the matter and start to show up to all our authentic expressions, we live more fully into our art and creative hearts as well as start to show up more fully into who we are and want to be as people. IT'S ALL CONNECTED and YOU HAVE THE CREATIVE RIGHT TO ALL YOUR EXPRESSIONS!
F.A.C.E.
Forge Ahead Create Everday
At its core, F.A.C.E. is a transformative non-representational drawing course that combines intuitive art-making with powerful experiential and experimental exercises to help you reconnect with your most authentic creative voice. Through this 8-week journey, you'll explore various methods of self-expression—including collage, mark-making, and mixed-media techniques—designed to break down the barriers between thought and action, fear and freedom.
Guided by Natalie Dadamio, F.A.C.E. blends non-representational drawing—where expressive mark-making takes precedence over traditional forms—with energetic and spiritual tools drawn from shamanic wisdom and healing arts. You’ll be invited to step beyond the limits of what art “should” be and discover the power of creating from a place of pure instinct, intuition, and emotional depth.
Why F.A.C.E. Is Unique
F.A.C.E. is more than an art course; it’s an invitation to face yourself—to confront fear, release judgment, and dive deep into your own creative potential. Each week is filled with opportunities to experiment with collage, explore raw, expressive mark-making, and engage in live shamanic drumming sessions to ground and align your creative flow.
The non-representational drawing practices at the heart of this program will challenge you to move beyond the familiar, unlocking new realms of creativity. Throughout the course, you will also engage in collage-making, working with layers, textures, and abstraction to add depth to your process. By incorporating diverse art-making techniques, the course helps you access new creative territories, resulting in a body of work that is deeply personal and instinctive.
Throughout F.A.C.E., you will explore layers of your creative and personal voice through the core practice of non-representational drawing. This is not about traditional forms or recognizable images—it's about creating marks that express your emotional and energetic states, and using those marks to journey deeper into yourself.
Weeks 7 & 8
Integration - The Body & The Body Of Work
Ground everything you’ve learned and start moving towards creating a cohesive body of work. In this final phase, we’ll focus on integrating the insights from energy, emotion, and intuition into a meaningful series of art pieces.
The focus is not necessarily on producing a finished product but rather on actualizing the internal feeling states and exploring what it takes to anchor in our physical bodies and what that means to anchor into creating a cohesive body of work.
We’ll reflect on everything we've learned and begin assembling and moving towards what our true desires are to express.
By anchoring your experiences through the energetic, emotional, and intuitive, we will work towards integrating the intangible into tangible creations, resulting in moving towards a body of work that reflects your deepest self-expression, highest interest and authentic point of view.
You May or May NOT have a clear direction at this point in relation to your personal BODY OF WORK, but you WILL have achieved a sense of peace, ease, calm, safety and security by working to eliminate the fears, access more energy, open up emotionally, access more intuition which helps you ground back into the BODY.
This will ultimately be how we CREATE a Sustainable, Robust, Fulfilling and Healthy Relationship to your art and creative practice and process's and FORGING ahead CREATING EVERYDAY!
F.A.C.E.
FORGE AHEAD CREATE EVERDAY
The F.A.C.E. program is structured around four essential keys that will guide your creative and personal transformation. Each key focuses on a different aspect of the self, providing a holistic framework for your growth as an artist and individual.
The holistic model of F.A.C.E. is designed to engage the whole self—mind, body, heart, and spirit—making it a powerful and balanced approach to creativity. By addressing energy, emotion, intuition, and physical grounding, this method allows you to access deeper layers of your creative process and personal growth. It's not just about making art—it's about aligning your inner world, healing old blocks, and connecting more authentically to your artistic voice.
This holistic approach encourages you to create from a place of wholeness, where the art you make is not only visually expressive but also personally meaningful, reflecting your full range of experience.
Weeks 1 & 2
ENERGY - THE PRIMAL & THE PLAYFUL
We begin by tapping into the primal energy that fuels your creativity, while also embracing a sense of play. You’ll explore spontaneous, gestural mark-making and collage exercises that help release judgment and unlock raw, instinctual expression. These weeks are about reconnecting with your core energy and finding joy in playful exploration. We will look into ancient markings and playful explorations to invigorate our imaginations so we can anchor and ground into our own intentional drawing and mark making explorations.
Weeks 3 & 4
EMOTION - THE MENTAL
In the next phase, we dive into the emotional landscape that shapes your art. Through expressive mark-making and emotional art making exercises, you'll explore how mental and emotional states influence your work. These exercises will help you understand and channel your emotions, both conscious and subconscious, into your creative process.
Weeks 5 & 6
INTUITION - THE ENERGETIC & POETIC SOUL
Next, we focus on opening to intuition—the guiding force behind authentic creativity. Here, we combine non-representational drawing, shamanic drumming, and energetic practices to help you trust your inner voice. You'll explore how to let go of overthinking and allow your intuition to lead you toward unexpected, deeply personal expressions in your art and creative expressions.
INTEGRATION - THE BODY & BODY OF WORK
In the final phase, we bring together all the layers—energy, emotion, and intuition—to create a cohesive body of work. This is where we ground the experiential into the physical, turning the lessons you've learned into art that speaks to who you are at your core. Through journaling, reflective writing, and art-making exercises, you will begin to create the body of work that reflects your unique creative journey.
F.A.C.E.
HELPING YOU OPEN TO ALL CREATIVE SIDES, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIDE
When we learn to turn deeper towards the self we can anchor our energy, emotions and get closer to ourselves which in turn opens up to more intuition and anchors us into innate understandings that we are CREATIVE BEINGS - DESIGNED TO EXPRESS!
COURSE FEATURES
What's Included
8 Live Zoom Sessions: One live session every week with energetic and creative exercises.
Weekly Pre - Recorded Videos that cover both making art and diving deep into ones inner landscape. A Hybrid of teachings that all center around the ART of the HEART.
Guided Shamanic Practices: Including drumming and drawing, and shamanic meditations to connect to the body, spirit, and energy.
Weekly Art-Making Exercises: Focused on non-representational drawing, mark-making, and collage.
Private Community FACEBOOK Group: A space to share work, receive feedback, and support.
Downloadable Journaling Prompts: Reflection questions tailored to each week’s theme.
Mark Making Meditations Audio Downloads designed solely for this class, a downloadable resource to keep and return to, time and time again!
101 BASICS : LEARNING TO SEE FOR YOURSELF & SEE YOURSELF IN THE ART - These MINI 101s Will Be A Loose Guide Map To Guiding Principles In Relation To Learning To SEE In Your Art with an Internal Focus on External Principles - They are more of a LOOSE ROAD MAP and Groundwork for looking at ART
1 YEAR Access to Course Materials: Revisit the content anytime within the Year.
BONUS - ZOOM CALL - THE CELEBRATION CALL After All Our Hard Work, We Certainly Should CELEBRATE - Date TBD
Key Takeaways
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN & EXPERIENCE
How to face and release creative fears that hold you back, using non-representational drawing and mark-making as tools for self-discovery and expression.
Techniques to discover and develop your own inner creative language, expressed through non-representational drawing, abstract mark-making, and collage.
Guided meditations in recorded & LIVE Sessions inspired by shamanic practices to help you ground your energy, process emotions, and align with your intuition—offering deeper connection during the creative process.
Learn how to harness and express deep emotions through abstract, non-representational art, without the need for recognizable forms.
Explore and work towards building a body of work that reflects your most authentic creative voice, using the energy, emotion, and intuitive guidance that you will develop throughout the program.
Journaling prompts and reflective exercises to help you understand and work through emotional blocks, grounding your creative practice in personal growth.
Anchor your energy, emotions, and intuition to create work that is aligned with your inner vision and grounded in emotional awareness.
Learn to show up daily, take more creative risks, and trust yourself, using the freedom of non-representational drawing to explore new possibilities without the limitations of external validation.
WEEKLY LIVE ZOOM SESSIONS
Everyday SATURDAY at NOON Eastern - RECORDINGS Available For Those Who Cant Attend LIVE
These are INTUITIVELY GUIDED SESSIONS WHERE I WILL FEEL INTO THE ENERGY AND FIND THE TOPIC THAT IS EMERGING -SOME SESSIONS ARE LIVE DRAWING TO DRUMMING SESSIONS - WHERE I WILL NOTE BELOW - WHERE YOU JUST NEED PAPER and Simple MATERIALS - It Rotates Every Other - Also a Time To Ask QUESTIONS!
With the First SESSION being a WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY CALL
Saturday, January 4th - NOON EASTERN - WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY CALL
Saturday, January 11th, NOON EASTERN - Open Topic
Saturday, January 18th - NOON Eastern - DRAWING TO DRUMMING
Saturday, January 25th, NOON EASTERN - Open Topic
Saturday, February 2nd, NOON EASTERN - DRAWING TO DRUMMING
Saturday, February 8th, NOON EASTERN - Open Topic
Saturday, February 15th, NOON EASTERN - DRAWING TO DRUMMING
Saturday, February 22nd NOON EASTERN - CLOSING SESSION
BONUS LIVE ZOOM CELEBRATION CALL DATE TBD -
About Natalie Dadamio
Your Artful & Soulful Guide!
As your Artful & Soulful Guide, I draw from my life experiences to create a safe, judgment-free container where you can explore the depths of your creative soul. Together, we will discover the treasures hidden in the darkness.
I understand what is like when you Hide what is dying to be expressed within you. To get to the heart of the matter and to live fully into all of your expressions takes a lot of cultivation and opening to our internal awareness's.
As your guide, she holds gentle wisdom and compassionate understanding to help you open, anchor and align to your artistic expressions and heartfelt desires.
Through a fusion of shamanic wisdom, non-representational drawing, and expressive art practices, this 8-week online program is designed to help you explore the energetic, emotional, intuitive, and physical "bodies". It’s much more than an art program—it’s a holistic experience that anchors your energy and emotions, allowing you to access deeper levels of intuition and creativity.
This grounding process will help you enter the new year with clarity and purpose, as you create from a place of authenticity and alignment.
- $600