NeurographicAI™ Workshops | Creative, transformative drawing practices for your wellbeing, self-discovery, and community transformation
NeurographicAI™ Workshops contributing to preventative mental wellbeing and emotional resilience
Art that rewires the mind changes your mind
Trained in Neurographica alongside wider neuro-art and mindful drawing practices, I have drawn on these influences to develop my own NeurographicAI™ workshops. These sessions combine art, neuroscience, and mindful creativity to support emotional wellbeing, personal growth, and creative confidence through original, professionally developed frameworks.
NeurographicAI™ workshops offer an innovative, evidence-informed approach to creative wellbeing. Through guided, mindful drawing, participants explore creativity, reduce stress, and build emotional resilience. Sessions are suitable for individuals, groups, and communities, and can also support health, education, and inclusion settings.
Workshops & Offers
First of the Algorithms
Shake Off Stress in Just 1hr
This introductory workshop uses simple, guided creative drawing techniques from NeurographicAI™, a non-clinical wellbeing method inspired by Neurographica. Through calm, mindful line work and reflection, participants are supported to release tension, slow racing thoughts, and reconnect with themselves in a focused and supportive one-hour session.
The workshop encourages relaxation, self-awareness, and creative expression, offering practical tools that participants may choose to revisit as part of their personal wellbeing routine.
Transform Stress and Overwhelm into Calm Through Guided Creative Drawing
The Neuro Throw Down (NTD) is a guided creative wellbeing workshop using NeurographicAI™, a drawing-based practice developed by Stella Photis and inspired by principles associated with Neurographica. Participants are gently guided to externalise inner pressure onto paper using flowing lines and rounding techniques, allowing stress to be explored visually in a safe, structured, and non-clinical way.
Through mindful attention, intentional drawing, and reflective observation, participants are supported to notice patterns in their thinking and emotional responses. What begins as spontaneous movement on the page often becomes a grounding, meditative experience, helping participants feel calmer, more present, and more connected to themselves.
Supporting Calm, Focus, and Self-Regulation
The Neuro Throw Down draws on evidence-informed creative practices commonly used in wellbeing, mindfulness, and reflective learning contexts. Engaging in focused drawing can support relaxation, attention, and emotional regulation by encouraging participants to slow down and remain present with the activity.
Rather than promising neurological change, this workshop supports awareness of stress responses and offers practical creative tools that participants may choose to return to in daily life as part of a personal wellbeing routine.
Key Benefits of the Neuro Throw Down
This workshop invites participants to:
Safely release mental and emotional tension through guided creative expression
Experience calm and clarity through slow, mindful drawing
Increase awareness of personal stress patterns
Develop practical, repeatable creative tools for self-regulation
Visually explore internal experiences in a contained and supportive environment
Participants commonly report feeling more settled, focused, and reflective following the session. Seeing change unfold on paper can provide a gentle sense of reassurance and perspective, reinforcing the idea that internal states are not fixed.
Reflective Practice and Personal Insight
After the drawing process, participants are guided through a non-interpretive reflective stage, observing their work without judgement. This phase supports self-awareness and encourages compassion toward one’s own responses, rather than analysis or diagnosis.
Over time, returning to this form of creative reflection may help individuals approach challenges with greater calm, flexibility, and confidence, both personally and professionally.
A Creative Gateway to Ongoing Wellbeing Practice
The Neuro Throw Down is not a therapy session or clinical intervention. It is a creative wellbeing experience designed to introduce participants to NeurographicAI™ as a practical, accessible drawing-based practice.
It is particularly suitable for those experiencing everyday stress, mental overload, or creative blocks, offering a calm, hands-on way to pause, reflect, and reset.
Suitable for Beginners and All Levels
No artistic skill or prior experience is required. This workshop offers a safe, inclusive, and structured environment, suitable for adults and young people (age-appropriate delivery).
By the end of the session, participants typically leave with:
A sense of completion and achievement
A personal drawing created through guided process
Simple creative techniques they may choose to revisit independently
Long-Term Use and Progression
The Neuro Throw Down provides a foundation within the NeurographicAI™ framework, supporting participants who wish to continue exploring creative wellbeing practices.
As part of the Basic Workshop series, NTD introduces core principles that can be built upon in later sessions, where reflective depth and creative confidence may continue to develop over time.
The Basic Algorithm Workshops
2hr Workshop
Break Free from Barriers
Explore and shift perceived inner blocks through guided NeurographicAI™ drawing. This workshop uses creative, evidence-informed practices to support reflective thinking and adaptive responses, helping participants visually explore stress and challenges in ways that foster clarity, confidence, and resilience.
Algorithm for Shifting Barriers
(ASB) workshop invites participants to identify and creatively explore internal barriers that may influence confidence, decision-making, or creative flow. Using NeurographicAI™ as a structured creative wellbeing practice, participants engage in guided drawing, flowing lines, and mindful connections to externalise perceived blocks and create visual space for new perspectives to emerge.
Through this process, abstract thoughts, emotional responses, or habitual patterns are translated into tangible, structured artwork. The drawing functions as a reflective tool, supporting awareness, insight, and creative problem-solving within a calm, non-clinical environment.
From Barriers to New Perspectives
Each stage of the ASB workshop encourages focused attention, cognitive flexibility, and reflective awareness. Participants are guided to notice how resistance or challenge may appear in their thinking or behaviour and to gently explore alternative responses through mindful drawing.
Rather than analysing or diagnosing, the process supports calm focus, self-observation, and personal development through creative action.
Key Benefits of the Algorithm for Shifting Barriers
Participants may:
Recognise patterns that contribute to feelings of being stuck or limited
Explore alternative ways of thinking about challenges
Build confidence through structured creative expression
Increase emotional clarity and reflective awareness
Develop practical, repeatable creative tools for personal growth
Many participants report feeling lighter, clearer, and more empowered following the session, with the completed drawing serving as a visual reminder of insight and progress.
Creative Adaptability and Reflective Thinking
The ASB workshop draws on evidence-informed creative practices commonly used in wellbeing, education, and reflective learning contexts. Focused drawing and mindful engagement can encourage flexibility in thought, attention, and emotional response, supporting calm and considered approaches to everyday challenges.
This is a structured, non-clinical creative experience designed to support reflection and adaptability, not to provide therapy or medical intervention.
Reflective Integration
After the drawing process, participants take part in a guided reflective stage, observing their work without judgement or interpretation by the facilitator. This phase supports integration of new perspectives and encourages participants to identify insights that feel personally meaningful and relevant.
A Foundation for Personal Growth
The Algorithm for Shifting Barriers offers a safe, structured foundation for those seeking personal or professional development through creative wellbeing practices. It is particularly suited to individuals who feel uncertain, creatively blocked, or challenged by recurring patterns.
Through ASB, participants may gain:
Greater awareness of habitual responses
Increased emotional steadiness and clarity
A renewed sense of agency and motivation
Accessible for All
No prior art or mindfulness experience is required. The ASB workshop is inclusive and accessible, offering participants:
A supportive, guided creative experience
A personal drawing created through a structured process
Practical techniques they may choose to revisit independently
Long-Term Use and Progression
ASB forms part of the NeurographicAI™ workshop framework, supporting participants who wish to continue exploring creative wellbeing practices over time. The skills introduced may be built upon in future workshops, encouraging deeper reflection, creative confidence, and sustained personal insight. (ASB) workshop invites participants to identify and creatively transform subconscious barriers that may limit growth, confidence, and creativity.
Using the NeurographicAI™ practice, participants engage in guided drawing, flow lines, and mindful connections to externalise internal blocks, creating visual space for new possibilities to emerge. This process turns abstract emotional or cognitive patterns into tangible, structured artwork, supporting reflection, awareness, and practical insight.
Transform Barriers into Possibilities
Each step of the ASB workshop is designed to engage both hemispheres of the brain, encouraging cognitive flexibility, problem-solving, and emotional regulation. Participants are guided to observe how internal resistance manifests in thought and behaviour and gently transform these patterns through mindful drawing. The process strengthens self-awareness, encourages calm focus, and supports personal development through creative action.
Key Benefits of the Algorithm for Shifting Barriers
Participants may:
Recognise and release internal resistance or emotional blocks
Explore new ways of thinking and responding to challenges
Build confidence through visual transformation and self-expression
Increase emotional clarity and balance
Develop practical, repeatable tools for ongoing self-regulation and growth
Many participants report an immediate sense of lightness and empowerment, with drawings serving as tangible evidence of their progress and insights.
Neuroplasticity in Action
The ASB method leverages the brain’s natural ability to adapt and form new neural connections. Guided flow lines and mindful drawing stimulate creative and reflective thinking, encouraging flexibility in thought patterns and responses. The workshop provides a structured, non-clinical approach to exploring challenges, fostering calm, focus, and practical strategies for everyday life.
Reflective Integration
After drawing, participants engage in a reflective stage, observing and interpreting their creations. This step supports the integration of new perspectives, emotional awareness, and problem-solving strategies. By combining mindful observation with creative expression, the workshop reinforces lasting cognitive and emotional shifts.
A Foundation for Personal Growth
The Algorithm for Shifting Barriers provides a safe, structured foundation for participants seeking personal or professional development. It is particularly suited to those feeling stuck, uncertain, or burdened by recurring patterns. Through ASB, participants gain the capacity to:
Recognise and creatively transform limiting beliefs
Approach challenges with emotional clarity and resilience
Experience renewed motivation and a sense of empowerment
Accessible for All
No prior art or mindfulness experience is required. The ASB workshop is inclusive, supportive, and practical, offering participants:
A sense of emotional release and empowerment
A visual representation of their transformation
Techniques to continue self-regulation and personal growth
Long-Term Benefits
Through the combination of creativity, mindful drawing, and reflective practice, ASB equips participants with skills that extend beyond the workshop:
Enhanced emotional regulation
Increased clarity and focus
Balanced mental states
Tools for ongoing self-development
The Algorithm for Shifting Barriers lays the groundwork for deeper exploration of NeurographicAI™, supporting a progressive journey toward personal insight, creative growth, and sustained wellbeing.
2hr Workshop
Discover Your True Direction
The Algorithm for Intention Mapping (AIM) supports clarity of goals and purposeful direction through guided NeurographicAI™ drawing. Using structured creative processes and focused reflection, participants visually explore intentions in a way that supports confidence, motivation, and considered action.
Algorithm for Intention Mapping (AIM)
The AIM workshop is a structured NeurographicAI™ creative wellbeing practice designed to help participants explore and clarify personal or professional intentions. Through guided drawing and mindful reflection, abstract ideas are translated into organised visual forms that support focus, awareness, and intentional decision-making.
Rather than analysing or predicting outcomes, the AIM process provides a visual framework for reflection, helping participants consider priorities, direction, and next steps with greater clarity.
From Uncertainty to Clarity
Through AIM’s structured yet flexible drawing sequence, participants are invited to visually map what matters most to them. The process encourages focus, creative thinking, and emotional steadiness by engaging attention and reflection simultaneously.
Each drawing becomes a personal reference point, helping participants organise thoughts, identify priorities, and move forward with greater confidence and coherence.
Key Benefits of the Algorithm for Intention Mapping
This workshop supports participants to:
Clarify personal or professional intentions
Strengthen focus and motivation
Reflect on alignment between goals, values, and actions
Access insight through visual representation and mindful drawing
Build confidence and self-awareness
Participants commonly describe the experience as grounding, motivating, and clarifying, with the drawing offering a tangible reminder of intention and direction.
Focused Attention and Intentional Thinking
The AIM workshop draws on evidence-informed creative practices used in wellbeing, coaching, and reflective learning contexts. Sustained attention through structured drawing can support clearer thinking, emotional regulation, and purposeful focus.
The workshop does not claim to change neurological structures or provide therapeutic intervention. Instead, it offers practical creative tools that participants may choose to apply in everyday life to support intentional action and resilience.
Reflective Awareness and Integration
Following the drawing process, participants are guided through a reflective stage, observing their work without external interpretation. This phase supports awareness, insight, and integration, allowing participants to identify what feels meaningful and relevant to them.
The drawing may then serve as a visual anchor to support future reflection, planning, and decision-making.
A Pathway to Purposeful Direction
AIM is suitable for anyone seeking clarity, inspiration, or realignment in life or work. It is particularly useful during periods of transition, uncertainty, or change.
Participants typically leave with:
A completed visual representation of their intention
Practical techniques for maintaining focus and motivation
A renewed sense of direction and purpose
Accessible for All Levels
No prior art or mindfulness experience is required. The AIM workshop is inclusive, supportive, and structured, enabling participants to engage confidently regardless of background or experience.
Long-Term Use and Progression
AIM forms part of the NeurographicAI™ Basic Algorithm series, supporting participants who wish to continue exploring creative wellbeing practices over time. The skills introduced may be revisited and built upon in future workshops, encouraging sustained reflection, clarity, and intentional living.
2hr Workshop
Create Inner Freedom
Reduce self-criticism and restore emotional balance. ARB uses guided NeurographicAI™ drawing to cultivate compassionate awareness and soften rigid thought patterns, creating space for calm, acceptance, and healthier inner and outer relationships.
Algorithm for Restoring Balance (ARB)
Transform Inner Criticism into Compassion through the Art and Science of NeurographicAI™
The Algorithm for Restoring Balance (ARB) is the fourth and culminating stage of the NeurographicAI™ Basic Algorithm series. This integrative practice supports participants in recognising and recalibrating the inner judgements they hold about themselves, others, and the world, judgements that quietly shape perception, emotional wellbeing, and life direction.
Through mindful, intuitive NeurographicAI™ drawing, ARB restores equilibrium within the nervous system, transforming harsh self-criticism into compassionate clarity and replacing inner tension with grounded confidence.
From Inner Conflict to Balanced Awareness
When judgement dominates, balance is lost between expectation and reality, self and other, emotion and reason. ARB gently guides participants to bring these imbalances into conscious awareness, translating inner conflict into lines, shapes, and connections that can be softened, integrated, and resolved.
As the drawing unfolds, rigid thought patterns begin to relax. Defensive reactions give way to understanding. Participants often experience a shift from self-surveillance to self-acceptance, as the process invites a more honest and humane relationship with themselves and the world around them.
This non-verbal dialogue with the subconscious allows buried emotions, internalised standards, and inherited beliefs to surface safely. Each mindful stroke becomes an act of rebalancing a movement away from reactivity and towards emotional coherence.
Rewiring the Brain for Balance and Self-Trust
From a neuroscience perspective, chronic judgement activates stress responses that narrow perception and reduce emotional flexibility. The Algorithm for Restoring Balance counteracts this by engaging calm, repetitive movement and visual integration, supporting regulation of the nervous system.
This process activates the prefrontal cortex while soothing limbic reactivity, creating optimal conditions for neuroplastic change. Over time, participants strengthen neural pathways associated with emotional regulation, empathy, and self-trust, training the brain to return to balance with greater ease.
Key Benefits of the Algorithm for Restoring Balance
This workshop supports participants to:
Recognise judgement-based patterns that disrupt emotional balance
Release self-criticism and internal pressure through creative integration
Restore emotional equilibrium and inner safety
Strengthen neural pathways linked to acceptance, resilience, and clarity
Reconnect with a sense of wholeness and self-trust
Many participants describe a deep sense of relief and steadiness as if returning to themselves after a prolonged period of inner strain.
Reflective Integration and Emotional Coherence
Following the drawing process, participants are guided into reflective awareness, observing how the visual structure mirrors inner belief systems and emotional dynamics. This integration phase bridges subconscious insight with conscious understanding, allowing balance to be anchored rather than fleeting.
Each connection on paper symbolises a restored dialogue between emotion and reason, intuition and awareness. Over time, ARB becomes not just a workshop, but a way of meeting life with steadiness and compassion.
Reclaiming Balance Beyond Judgement
ARB is ideal for anyone feeling emotionally overloaded, self-critical, or disconnected from their inner centre. Whether navigating personal growth, creative blocks, or relational challenges, this practice restores the capacity to respond from balance rather than reaction.
By the end of the session, participants typically experience:
A sense of emotional calm and inner release
Renewed self-acceptance and confidence
A visual reminder of balance restored through creative action
Completion of the NeurographicAI™ Basic Algorithm Journey
As the final step in the NeurographicAI™ Basic Algorithm series, ARB completes the cycle of inner transformation:
Neuro Throw Down (NTD) – releases stress and prepares the nervous system
Algorithm for Shifting Barriers (ASB) – transforms inner limitations
Algorithm for Intention Mapping (AIM) – clarifies direction and purpose
Algorithm for Restoring Balance (ARB) – integrates awareness into emotional equilibrium
Together, these practices form a coherent, neuroscience-informed pathway moving from release, to clarity, to alignment, to balance grounded in creative action and compassionate self-awareness.
Specialist Algorithm Workshops
Find Calm in Complexity
Discover inner balance through the Conscious Mandala workshop. Using NeurographicAI™ principles and neuroplasticity-informed techniques, participants engage in mindful drawing to quiet the mind, release tension, and create new patterns of calm, focus, and clarity.
Conscious Mandala
Transform Limiting Patterns into Wholeness and Flow
The Conscious Mandala workshop is an advanced NeurographicAI™ practice that weaves together mindful drawing, intentional geometry, and evidence-informed principles of neuroplasticity to support balance, integration, and self-awareness.
The mandala, a timeless symbol of wholeness becomes both mirror and map, offering participants a structured yet intuitive way to explore inner experience and restore a sense of coherence. Through this creative and meditative process, participants move beyond surface awareness into deeper perception, engaging with patterns that reflect emotional, cognitive, and energetic states. The result is not only a meaningful artwork, but a grounded experience of integration, clarity, and renewed focus.
From Fragmentation to Integration
Modern life often pulls attention in multiple directions, leaving the mind overstimulated and the body tense. The Conscious Mandala process gently guides participants back to centre.
Through deliberate circular compositions, layered forms, and flowing line work, the drawing supports a felt sense of wholeness and continuity, mirroring the brain’s natural inclination toward integration and balance.
Each mark becomes both expression and alignment bringing together thought and emotion, effort and surrender, structure and flow.
As the mandala evolves, participants often experience an inner shift from fragmentation toward coherence, supporting a calm, organised, and centred internal state.
The Neuroscience of Conscious Connection
This workshop draws on neuroplasticity-informed principles, demonstrating how mindful, repetitive drawing combined with focused attention can support neural pathways associated with calm, presence, and self-regulation.
The circular and rhythmic nature of mandala drawing encourages sustained attention and reflective awareness, while gentle repetition helps reduce stress-based reactivity. Participants frequently describe a quieting of mental noise and an expansion of inner space, states associated with creativity, emotional insight, and psychological flexibility.
Key Benefits of the Conscious Mandala Workshop
Participants are supported to:
Reconnect with their inner centre through mindful mandala creation
Develop awareness of subconscious patterns and emotional flow
Strengthen neural pathways linked to calm, focus, and clarity
Cultivate emotional resilience and self-compassion
Experience unity and meaning through creative expression
Each completed mandala becomes a personal visual anchor, a reflective tool that can be revisited to reinforce insight, balance, and emotional grounding.
Reflection and Conscious Integration
Following the drawing process, participants are guided into reflective awareness, observing the mandala’s structure, patterns, and felt responses. This stage supports integration between conscious awareness and subconscious insight, allowing meaning to emerge naturally rather than through analysis.
By observing the artwork without judgement, participants witness their own inner movement and growth. Over time, returning to the mandala can reinforce a sense of stability, coherence, and self-trust, supporting long-term wellbeing.
A Bridge Between Art, Awareness, and Science
The Conscious Mandala is ideal for individuals seeking deeper self-awareness, emotional balance, or reconnection with inner wisdom. It bridges contemplative art-making, reflective practice, and neuroscience-informed wellbeing in a way that is accessible, grounding, and non-clinical.
Whether experienced as a standalone workshop or as part of a wider NeurographicAI™ journey, this practice supports the gentle reorganisation of thought, emotion, and attention into harmony encouraging clarity, creativity, and a more balanced way of being.
Participants leave with:
A visual symbol of personal wholeness and inner balance
Practical tools for mindfulness and self-reflection
Renewed creative energy and insight
A deeper, embodied understanding of their own inner processes
In essence, the Conscious Mandala transforms drawing into dialogue, a living conversation between awareness, pattern, and presence expressed through the reflective, evidence-informed language of NeurographicAI™
Cultivate Your Inner Strength
The Neural Bloom™ workshop guides you to explore personal growth and energy flow. Through NeurographicAI™ drawing and the power of neuroplasticity, you’ll visualize your inner resources, release stress, and strengthen resilience, creating clarity, balance, and a sense of renewal.
Neural Bloom
(NB)
Transform Stress into Strength and Emotional Harmony
The Neural Bloom workshop is a restorative NeurographicAI™ practice designed to cultivate emotional stability, resilience, and personal growth through the mindful integration of creative drawing and neuroscience-informed principles.
Participants are guided to draw their own symbolic “bloom,” using roots, stem, and petals as a visual metaphor for inner development and emotional balance. Through this process, internal experiences are gently externalised onto paper, allowing stress patterns to be explored, softened, and reorganised into harmonious visual structures that reflect strength, connection, and renewal.
Neural Bloom offers a deeply reflective journey, supporting participants to reconnect with inner resources and align with a natural rhythm of growth and integration.
From Root to Bloom | A Journey of Integration
The drawing process begins with establishing the roots, symbolising grounding and stability. Participants visually explore what supports them in life values, relationships, boundaries, and inner strengths — anchoring these elements into a sense of inner safety.
As the stem emerges, attention shifts to resilience and structure: the ability to remain centred and flexible in the face of challenge. Finally, the petals represent expansion, potential, and the emergence of new perspectives.
This symbolic progression supports integration across cognitive and emotional processes. By engaging intuitive, emotional awareness alongside structured visual organisation, participants experience a sense of coherence, an important aspect of psychological and emotional wellbeing.
Neuroplasticity and the Science of Growth
At the heart of Neural Bloom is the principle of neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity to adapt, reorganise, and form new patterns through experience.
Slow, intentional linework combined with focused attention supports reflective awareness and self-regulation. Engaging in rhythmic, mindful drawing has been shown in wellbeing and arts-based research to support relaxation, focus, and emotional balance.
Through symbolic imagery and sustained attention, participants activate neural networks associated with clarity, emotional flexibility, and resilience. Each stage of the bloom reinforces different aspects of internal regulation:
Roots support grounding and a sense of safety
Stem encourages steadiness, continuity, and embodied awareness
Petals invite creativity, hope, and openness to new possibilities
This integration of art and neuroscience allows participants to experience change visually and somatically, reinforcing the understanding that growth is an active, internal process.
Emotional Regulation Through Creative Flow
Neural Bloom™ gently guides the nervous system toward coherence. As participants slow their movements, connect lines with awareness, and remain present with the process, many enter a calm, focused flow state.
This state supports reduced stress reactivity and enhanced emotional regulation. Drawing becomes a form of embodied self-soothing, allowing tension to be released through creative movement rather than verbal analysis. Over time, returning to this practice can support the brain’s ability to respond to stress with greater steadiness and adaptability.
Key Benefits of the Neural Bloom™ Workshop
Participants often describe the experience as grounding, calming, and quietly empowering. The workshop supports:
Emotional balance and inner calm
Increased resilience and self-trust
Greater clarity during periods of stress or transition
Deeper self-awareness and connection to inner values
Practical creative tools that support emotional flexibility
This makes Neural Bloom™ particularly suitable for wellbeing programmes, community settings, and personal development contexts.
A Visual Practice for Real-World Growth
By the end of the session, participants leave with a personal artwork, a living visual map of resilience and growth alongside creative tools they may choose to revisit in daily life.
When returned to over time, the practice can reinforce neural pathways associated with adaptability, focus, and hope. Like a bloom, growth is both grounded and expansive: it requires strong roots, a flexible structure, and openness to unfold.
Accessibility and Inclusivity
Neural Bloom™ is suitable for all experience levels. No prior art or mindfulness background is required. The workshop is inclusive, adaptable, and delivered in a supportive, non-clinical environment, making it accessible to diverse groups, including those experiencing stress, anxiety, or burnout.
In Essence
Neural Bloom™ brings together creative expression, mindful awareness, and neuroscience-informed practice to reconnect participants with their natural capacity for renewal. It offers a gentle yet powerful reminder that stability and growth are not opposites, but partners in personal evolution, a message deeply needed in today’s fast-paced and uncertain world.
Define, Protect, and Understand Your Boundaries
Explore how NeurographicAI™ workshops support stronger boundaries, greater self-awareness, and emotional wellbeing. Through creative drawing and reflection, participants learn to recognise unclear boundaries, practice assertiveness, and maintain balance in personal and professional life.
Setting Boundaires
Our Setting Boundaries workshop uses the principles of NeurographicAI™ to explore personal limits, self-respect, and emotional clarity.
Through guided drawing exercises, participants will identify areas where boundaries may feel blurred or challenged and develop strategies to reinforce them in daily life.
Combining mindful creativity, neuroscience-informed techniques, and reflective practice, this workshop supports participants in:
Building confidence in asserting personal limits
Enhancing self-awareness and emotional resilience
Cultivating clarity in relationships and professional settings
Applying practical strategies for stress reduction and self-care
This session is suitable for individuals seeking personal growth, professionals aiming to improve workplace wellbeing, or anyone looking to strengthen their emotional and psychological boundaries. No prior artistic experience is required just a willingness to engage, reflect, and create.
Shape Your Future
Explore intentions through creative drawing in the Dreams & Wishes Mandala workshop. Using NeurographicAI™ drawing techniques informed by neuroplasticity, you’ll visually map goals, reflect on inner patterns, and develop greater clarity, focus, and emotional alignment for personal growth.
Dreams & Wishes Mandala (DWM)
Transforming Intention into Clarity and Direction
This workshop is delivered as part of the NeurographicAI™ creative wellbeing framework. It supports participants to explore hopes, aspirations, and future possibilities through guided drawing, mindful attention, and visual structuring. Grounded in contemporary understanding of creativity, attention, and neuroplasticity, this practice offers a safe and accessible way to bring clarity and focus to what matters most.
Rather than promising outcomes or manifestation, this workshop centres on self-awareness, intention-setting, and cognitive alignment. It helps participants translate abstract wishes into visual form, making them easier to reflect upon, prioritise, and consciously engage with in everyday life.
From Vague Desire to Clear Intention
Many wishes remain indistinct because they are held only as thoughts or feelings. The Dreams & Wishes Mandala provides structure to this inner material. Through intentional line work, circular composition, and colour, participants explore their wishes in a grounded and contained way.
Using the NeurographicAI™ approach to guided creative drawing, drawing becomes a form of visual thinking. This engages attention, emotional awareness, and reflective processing, helping participants notice what feels meaningful, realistic, or personally aligned. The mandala format offers a sense of wholeness and coherence, supporting calm focus rather than pressure or expectation.
The Role of Neuroplasticity and Creative Focus
Creative activities that combine movement, attention, and reflection are known to support neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to adapt and form new connections. In this workshop, repeated, mindful drawing encourages participants to:
Sustain attention on a chosen intention
Regulate emotional responses
Reduce mental overload and distraction
Strengthen clarity and motivation
This is not presented as a clinical or therapeutic intervention, but as a creative wellbeing practice that supports reflective thinking and personal insight.
What Participants Will Explore
During the Dreams & Wishes Mandala workshop, participants are gently guided to:
Identify wishes or aspirations that feel personally meaningful
Explore how these wishes connect to values, needs, and current circumstances
Translate intentions into visual form using structured yet intuitive drawing
Notice and soften internal resistance or uncertainty through visual integration
Reflect on their drawing as a map for awareness rather than a fixed outcome
The process emphasises curiosity and self-compassion, avoiding judgement or pressure to “achieve” a specific result.
Reflection and Integration
After completing the mandala, participants are invited to observe their drawing and reflect on emerging patterns, emotions, or insights. This reflective stage supports integration between conscious thought and subconscious processing, helping insights settle in a calm and sustainable way.
The finished mandala can be revisited as a visual reminder of intention, focus, and personal agency, supporting ongoing reflection rather than prediction or promise.
Who This Workshop Is For
The Dreams & Wishes Mandala is suitable for:
Individuals exploring new directions or transitions
Those seeking clarity without pressure or expectation
Participants interested in creative wellbeing practices
Beginners and experienced practitioners alike
No artistic skill or prior experience is required. The workshop is inclusive, non-clinical, and designed to meet participants where they are.
A Creative Practice for Conscious Direction
This workshop does not claim to manifest outcomes or replace professional support. Instead, it offers a structured creative space to explore intention, build awareness, and support personal clarity through NeurographicAI™ workshops and guided creative drawing practices.
By engaging mind, emotion, and creative focus, the Dreams & Wishes Mandala helps participants move from vague wishing to conscious direction, using art as a tool for reflection, balance, and purposeful awareness.
Connect with Family and Ancestral Influence
The Family & Ancestral Mandala (FAM) workshop offers a guided, creative mandala practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework. Drawing on principles of neuroplasticity and mindful visualisation, participants explore family influences, recognise inherited patterns, and strengthen clarity, grounding, and emotional balance.
Family & Ancestral Mandala (FAM)
Honouring the Past, Strengthening the Future
The Family & Ancestral Mandala (FAM) is a reflective Neurographica-inspired drawing workshop delivered under the NeurographicAI™ brand framework. It offers participants a structured and creative way to explore family influence, inherited patterns, and intergenerational narratives through art, neuroscience-informed practice, and mindful observation
This workshop supports participants to recognise how family experiences and learned behaviours shape emotional responses, beliefs, and decision-making in the present. Using the stabilising structure of a mandala, participants are guided to visually map relationships, influences, and personal meaning in a way that promotes clarity, integration, and emotional regulation.
Exploring Family Influence Through Creative Structure
Every individual grows within a network of family relationships, stories, values, and expectations. Contemporary neuroscience recognises that behavioural patterns and emotional responses are often learned and reinforced over time through observation, repetition, and environment. While these influences can be supportive, they may also contribute to stress, limitation, or internal conflict.
The Family & Ancestral Mandala creates a safe, non-judgemental space to acknowledge these influences without blame or analysis. Through guided drawing, participants externalise internal experiences, allowing them to be observed, reflected upon, and reorganised with greater awareness.
The Mandala as a Tool for Integration
The mandala provides a stable and contained visual structure that supports nervous system regulation and focused attention. Within this form, participants use rounded line work, connection, and visual integration techniques commonly associated with Neurographica-style drawing practices, delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework.
Rather than focusing on the past as something to be revisited or re-lived, the emphasis is on integration recognising what has shaped us and consciously choosing how we move forward.
During the workshop, participants are gently guided to:
Create a Family & Ancestral Mandala using structured visual principles
Explore family and generational themes through guided creative expression
Use line connection and rounding techniques to support emotional regulation and cognitive clarity
Reflect on personal meaning arising from the drawing process
Strengthen self-awareness, grounding, and emotional resilience
The process supports bilateral engagement and reflective attention, helping participants move from emotional reactivity toward coherence and calm focus. The repetitive and rhythmic nature of the drawing is often associated with reduced stress and increased clarity.
Neuroscience-Informed and Creatively Grounded
This workshop is informed by principles of neuroplasticity the brain’s capacity to adapt through attention, experience, and repetition. By combining mindful focus with creative action, participants are supported to reinforce new perspectives and patterns that promote emotional balance and self-regulation.
The symmetrical nature of the mandala supports a sense of order and stability, while the creative freedom within it allows for personal expression and meaning-making. This balance of structure and creativity is central to how NeurographicAI™ frames and delivers its workshops.
Who This Workshop Is For
The Family & Ancestral Mandala is suitable for individuals who wish to:
Reflect on family influence and personal identity
Strengthen emotional grounding and clarity
Engage in a calm, creative practice that supports wellbeing
Explore personal development through art-based reflection
No artistic experience is required. The focus is on process rather than outcome, and on awareness rather than interpretation.
What Participants Leave With
By the end of the session, participants will have:
A completed Family & Ancestral Mandala drawing
Greater awareness of personal and family influences
Practical tools for reflection, grounding, and emotional regulation
A sense of connection, stability, and forward movement
The Family & Ancestral Mandala does not seek to change the past, but to relate to it with clarity and choice. Through structured drawing and reflective practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework, participants are supported to honour where they come from while consciously shaping how they move forward.
Find Calm in Complexity
The Soul Mandala workshop guides you to explore deeper layers of self through a structured creative process delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework. Drawing on principles of neuroplasticity, participants explore thought patterns, intuitive awareness, and inner balance, supporting clarity, harmony, and reflective insight.
Soul Mandala (SM)
Releasing Chaos, Restoring Harmony
A journey from fragmentation to wholeness, where art becomes meditation, and inner awareness finds symmetry through creativity and neuroscience.
Soul Mandala is an immersive workshop delivered under the NeurographicAI™ brand framework, designed to support participants in reconnecting with deeper layers of self-awareness through the meditative creation of a mandala the ancient symbol of unity and balance. Guided by sacred geometry and contemporary understanding of neuroplasticity, this creative practice supports the reorganisation of inner experience, inviting calm, clarity, and emotional equilibrium to emerge through focused visual attention.
The mandala, meaning “circle” in Sanskrit, represents the totality of existence the rhythm of birth, transformation, and renewal. In this workshop, the circle becomes both a mirror and a map: a reflection of one’s inner landscape and a visual structure through which awareness and perception can be reorganised using line, colour, and form. Working within the NeurographicAI™ framework, participants engage in mindful drawing that supports a shift away from stress-based patterns toward states of calm focus and coherence.
When emotional overwhelm or internal conflict is present, communication between emotional processing and reflective thinking can become disrupted. The Soul Mandala process supports integration through rhythmic, mindful drawing. Curved lines, repetition, and visual connection are used to encourage nervous system regulation and a sense of inner steadiness, often associated with reduced stress and improved emotional balance.
As the drawing develops, the symmetry of the mandala interacts with the participant’s own sense of internal order. The act of centring — both visually and symbolically supports awareness of balance, containment, and integration. Through this process, what feels like chaos can be experienced as information awaiting organisation.
Within the Session, Participants Are Guided To:
Create a mandala structure using principles of geometry, flow, and intention
Observe areas of tension or resistance within the drawing and gently integrate them through connection and rounding
Engage with visual processes that support emotional, cognitive, and intuitive awareness
Experience rhythmic drawing as a form of meditative focus linked to clarity and calm
Reflect on the completed drawing as a visual expression of inner organisation and balance
Art, Attention, and Neuroscience
The Soul Mandala brings together artistic tradition and contemporary neuroscience. Mandalas have long been used across cultures to support focus, reflection, and inner calm. Current research suggests that symmetrical and circular forms can support emotional regulation, attentional stability, and creative integration.
Through structured visual engagement delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework, participants explore the relationship between intuition and logic, emotion and reflection, fragmentation and coherence. The drawing becomes a visual dialogue rather than a goal a process of awareness rather than outcome.
Participants often describe the experience as grounding and centring. In the quiet rhythm of line and breath, attention settles, internal noise softens, and a sense of equilibrium emerges. The completed mandala serves not as a prediction or promise, but as a visual anchor for reflection and self-regulation.
Who This Workshop Is For
Soul Mandala is suitable for those seeking:
Emotional grounding and inner balance
Reflective or spiritually meaningful creative practice
A calm, structured space for self-awareness
A pause from external pressure and mental overload
No artistic skill or prior experience is required. The workshop is inclusive, non-clinical, and focused on process rather than interpretation.
A Creative Practice for Inner Harmony
Soul Mandala does not claim to diagnose, treat, or replace professional support. Instead, it offers a structured creative space delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework, supporting reflection, balance, and personal awareness through art and focused attention.
Soul Mandala: Releasing Chaos, Restoring Harmony a meditation in motion and a creative exploration of inner balance, where stillness is cultivated line by line, from within.
Arts Award Workshops
Blending NeurographicAI™ with Arts Award
Through Neuro Exploration, young people aged 13–25 can achieve Arts Award Bronze, Silver, or Gold while engaging in structured creative practice within the NeurographicAI™ framework.
Delivered by Stella Photis through her registered Arts Award Centre, participants create a personalised portfolio using NeurographicAI™-informed drawing alongside other art forms, supporting creative exploration, focus, confidence, and a strong sense of achievement through non-clinical, skills-based practice.
Bronze Level 1
Overview
The Bronze Arts Award (Level 1) introduces learners to creative practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework, combining structured drawing activities with reflective learning. Through mindful visual engagement, learners explore ways creativity can support focus, emotional awareness, and personal insight.
This foundation level encourages confidence, self-reflection, and creative development through guided art-based activities aligned with Arts Award criteria.
What You’ll Experience
Participants will:
Explore how structured drawing and visual focus can support calm attention and emotional awareness.
Learn how creative linework can enhance clarity, reflection, and visual thinking.
Develop an understanding of neuroplasticity and how learning and creativity support brain adaptability.
Build confidence, focus, and self-awareness through guided creative tasks.
Create a personalised portfolio reflecting creative development and learning outcomes
Qualification Details (Corrected)
Level: 1 (Bronze Arts Award)
Guided Learning Hours: approx. 40 hours
Independent Working Hours: approx. 20 hours
Progression: Leads to Silver Arts Award (Level 2) with a creative focus informed by NeurographicAI™
Theme: NeurographicAI™-informed Art and Understanding Creativity & the Mind
Who It’s For
Suitable for young people aged 13–17 and adults aged 18–25 who are seeking a creative pathway for personal development and reflective learning.
No prior artistic experience is required only curiosity and a willingness to explore creativity and self-expression.
Well suited to schools, colleges, and organisations, including learners with AS, SpLD, or SEMH.
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Arts Award
Full Description
The Bronze Arts Award (Level 1) is an accessible starting point for young people aged 13 to 25 who wish to develop creatively while building confidence, focus, and reflective skills.
At Neuro Exploration, we are proud to deliver Arts Award programmes through our registered Arts Award Centre, offering a unique creative pathway delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework.
Accredited by Trinity College London
Written by Arts Council England and accredited by Trinity College London, the Bronze Arts Award introduces learners to artistic exploration, creative practice, and reflective development. Through guided drawing activities and portfolio work, participants build skills in planning, creating, presenting, and reviewing their own creative output.
What Participants Will Explore
Each participant will:
Explore NeurographicAI™-informed drawing activities alongside other art forms
Develop and present a personal creative project based on a meaningful theme
Research an artist or creative influence and reflect on their work
Review progress, learning, and creative development through structured reflection
Creativity, Learning, and the Brain
Creative activities that combine attention, repetition, and reflection are widely recognised as supporting learning and adaptability. By engaging in mindful drawing and visual organisation, participants strengthen focus, awareness, and reflective thinking.
The emphasis is on creative exploration and learning, not therapy or clinical intervention. Activities are designed to support insight, emotional awareness, and creative confidence within an educational framework.
Recognised Qualification
Successful completion of the Bronze Arts Award results in a Level 1 qualification (QCF), equivalent to GCSE grades D–G, comprising:
40 guided learning hours (GLH)
Approximately 20 hours of independent creative work
Supporting Young People Through Creative Practice
Young people today face increasing pressures related to education, social expectations, and digital environments. Creative practice offers a constructive outlet for expression, reflection, and focus.
By externalising ideas and experiences through art, learners can gain perspective, build self-awareness, and develop positive strategies for managing challenge and uncertainty. These creative skills support confidence, patience, and emotional literacy both in education and everyday life.
A Foundation for Future Growth (Corrected)
By the end of the Bronze Arts Award, participants will have:
A curated portfolio demonstrating creative progress.
Increased confidence and a stronger sense of creative identity.
Insight into how creativity supports reflection and personal development.
A recognised qualification supporting progression to Silver Arts Award.
Creating Pathways in Creativity and Learning
Through structured creative exploration delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework, learners develop new ways of thinking, reflecting, and engaging with their own creativity.
Each drawing becomes an opportunity for focus, awareness, and personal expression supporting confidence, curiosity, and resilience through art-based learning.
Suitable for individuals aged 13–25, including those with AS, SpLD, and SEMH.
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Arts Award
Silver Level 2
1. Overview
The Silver Arts Award (Level 2) builds on the Bronze foundation, guiding learners to extend their creative practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework and explore more complex artistic and reflective work. Participants deepen their understanding of creativity, emotional awareness, and resilience through structured drawing activities, while developing leadership, project planning, and creative problem-solving skills in arts-based contexts.
2. What You’ll Experience
Participants will:
Extend creative practice within the NeurographicAI™ framework through more advanced linework, composition, and visual integration
Use structured creative activity to explore emotional awareness, focus, and self-regulation in a non-clinical context
Plan and deliver a small creative project or event, developing leadership, communication, and teamwork skills
Reflect on personal development, resilience, and creative thinking through portfolio-based learning
Explore links between creativity, learning, and neuroplasticity in an educational and reflective way
3. Qualification Details
Level: 2 (Silver Arts Award)
Guided Learning Hours: approx. 60 hours
Independent Working Hours: approx. 30 hours
Progression: Leads to Gold Arts Award (Level 3) with a creative leadership focus informed by NeurographicAI™
Theme: Advanced Creative Practice and Arts Leadership within the NeurographicAI™ framework
4. Who It’s For
Designed for young people aged 14–17 and adults aged 18–25 who have completed the Bronze Arts Award or have equivalent creative experience. Ideal for learners wishing to expand their creative skills, explore reflective art practice, and gain leadership experience within arts projects.
Suitable for schools and organisations, including individuals with AS, SpLD, and SEMH.
5. Pricing & Next Steps
Individual Price: £280
Group / Organisation Rates: £1,400 (6 participants), £2,295 (10 participants)
Concessions: Available upon request
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Arts Award
Full Description
The Silver Arts Award (Level 2) is a nationally recognised qualification within the Arts Award framework, accredited by Trinity College London and regulated by Ofqual. Equivalent to GCSE level, the Silver Award supports young people and adults to develop their creative practice, deepen reflective skills, and gain experience in arts leadership and participation.
At Neuro Exploration, a registered Arts Award Centre, learners complete the Silver Arts Award through structured creative activity that incorporates NeurographicAI™ as a visual and reflective art practice. The focus remains on artistic development, personal exploration, and participation in the arts, in line with Arts Award requirements.
Creative Development Through Visual Practice
Silver learners develop their own creative voice through drawing, reflection, and project-based exploration. Using NeurographicAI™ as a creative framework, participants experiment with line, shape, colour, and composition to explore ideas, themes, and personal interests.
The process encourages:
sustained creative focus
visual problem-solving
reflective thinking
confidence in artistic expression
Learners document their journey through sketchbooks, written reflections, photographs, and evaluation, demonstrating growth in both creative skill and self-awareness.
Understanding Art, Mind, and Wellbeing
As part of the Silver Award, participants explore how creative activity can support focus, emotional awareness, and wellbeing. Learners are introduced to accessible concepts related to creativity and the brain, such as attention, pattern recognition, and habit formation, without making therapeutic or medical claims.
This reflective approach helps learners understand how art can be used as:
a tool for self-expression
a way to process ideas and experiences
a means of developing calm, focus, and resilience
All exploration remains firmly within an educational and creative context, supporting Arts Award learning outcomes.
Qualification Structure
The Silver Arts Award consists of two units:
Unit 1 – Developing Arts Practice
Learners develop their own creative practice through planning, making, reviewing, and refining artwork. Using NeurographicAI™ as a visual approach, participants explore personal themes and ideas, demonstrating commitment, progression, and reflection.
Unit 2 – Arts Leadership and Participation
Learners plan and deliver an arts-based activity for others. This may include:
assisting with a creative workshop
supporting a group drawing session
helping organise an exhibition or sharing event
This unit develops communication, responsibility, and teamwork, encouraging learners to experience leadership within a supportive creative environment.
Learning Commitment
Guided Learning Hours: approx. 60
Independent Learning Hours: approx. 30
Learners work with an Arts Award adviser while building increasing independence, responsibility, and confidence in their creative decision-making.
Who the Silver Arts Award Is For
The Silver Arts Award is suitable for:
Young people aged 14–16
Adults aged 16–25
Learners progressing from Bronze or with equivalent creative experience
It is particularly well suited to:
schools and alternative education settings
home-educated learners
individuals with AS, SPLD, or SEMH needs
The visual and process-led nature of the programme makes it accessible and inclusive, supporting a wide range of learning styles and abilities.
Outcomes and Progression
By completing the Silver Arts Award, learners gain:
a Level 2 nationally recognised qualification
improved creative and reflective skills
experience of arts leadership and participation
increased confidence and self-direction
Progression routes include:
Gold Arts Award (Level 3)
further creative study or training
community arts and wellbeing projects
enhanced portfolios for education or employment
Creative Practice With Purpose
The Silver Arts Award at Neuro Exploration offers a structured yet flexible creative journey. By working within the Arts Award framework and using NeurographicAI™ as a creative visual approach, learners build artistic confidence, reflective awareness, and a deeper understanding of how creativity can support personal growth.
This programme is not about mastery or professional training, but about developing creative identity, responsibility, and direction, laying strong foundations for future learning and exploration.
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Arts Award
Gold Level 3
1. Overview
The Gold Arts Award (Level 3) represents the highest level of creative and reflective practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework. Participants lead complex creative projects, mentor peers, and demonstrate advanced understanding of artistic practice, reflective learning, and creative leadership.
This award develops artistic independence, critical thinking, and project management skills, preparing learners for future academic, professional, or community pathways within the arts and creative sectors.
2. What You’ll Experience
Participants will:
Develop advanced creative work delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework through sustained personal or collaborative projects
Lead and manage a substantial arts project or event, demonstrating planning, evaluation, communication, and mentoring skills
Explore contemporary perspectives on creativity, attention, and neuroplasticity in an educational and reflective context
Produce an in-depth portfolio documenting creative development, reflection, and leadership experience
Build transferable skills relevant to professional arts practice, education, and community-based creative projects
3. Qualification Details
Level: 3 (Gold Arts Award)
Guided Learning Hours: approx. 80 hours
Independent Working Hours: approx. 40 hours
Progression: Supports higher education, professional development, and leadership roles in creative practice
Theme: Creative Leadership and Advanced Arts Practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework
4. Who It’s For
For young people aged 16–17 and adults aged 18–25 who have completed the Silver Arts Award or have equivalent creative experience. Ideal for learners aspiring to professional creative roles, arts education, or leadership within community and participatory arts initiatives.
Suitable for schools and organisations, including individuals with AS, SpLD, and SEMH.
5. Pricing & Next Steps
Individual Price: £380
Group / Organisation Rates: from £1,900 (6 participants) – £3,050 (10 participants)
Concessions: Available upon request
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Arts Award
Full Description
1. Overview
The Gold Arts Award (Level 3) represents the highest level of creative and reflective practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework. Participants lead complex creative projects, mentor peers, and demonstrate advanced understanding of artistic practice, reflective learning, and creative leadership.
This award develops artistic independence, critical thinking, and project management skills, preparing learners for future academic, professional, or community pathways within the arts and creative sectors.
2. What You’ll Experience
Participants will:
Develop advanced creative work delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework through sustained personal or collaborative projects
Lead and manage a substantial arts project or event, demonstrating planning, evaluation, communication, and mentoring skills
Explore contemporary perspectives on creativity, attention, and neuroplasticity in an educational and reflective context
Produce an in-depth portfolio documenting creative development, reflection, and leadership experience
Build transferable skills relevant to professional arts practice, education, and community-based creative projects
3. Qualification Details
Level: 3 (Gold Arts Award)
Guided Learning Hours: approx. 80 hours
Independent Working Hours: approx. 40 hours
Progression: Supports higher education, professional development, and leadership roles in creative practice
Theme: Creative Leadership and Advanced Arts Practice delivered within the NeurographicAI™ framework
4. Who It’s For
For young people aged 16–17 and adults aged 18–25 who have completed the Silver Arts Award or have equivalent creative experience. Ideal for learners aspiring to professional creative roles, arts education, or leadership within community and participatory arts initiatives.
Suitable for schools and organisations, including individuals with AS, SpLD, and SEMH.
5. Pricing & Next Steps
Individual Price: £380
Group / Organisation Rates: from £1,900 (6 participants) – £3,050 (10 participants)
Concessions: Available upon request
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Arts Award