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.

 

Join a band of companions and learn timeless tools as aids in navigating your Hero’s Journey–with all of its trials, reconciliations, humbling lessons and hard-won treasures. Understand your past so that you can bring more vision, creativity, intimacy and power into your future. This is a neurodiverse friendly workshop.

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've found that incorporating the love of mythical storytelling, transcending modern life, has brought us into magic, wonder, playfulness and mystery. We seek to pass on that same spirit of aliveness to all who join us on this path of adventure.

Who We Are

Helena is a licensed Shadow Work ® practitioner and passionate enthusiast of the archetypal framework, the Enneagram and Insights as ways of understanding human psychology and behavior. Her wealth of expertise and generosity with her craft infuse poignant storytelling which speaks to the heart of each session's key themes. She is a student of world faith traditions and infuses interfaith principles into her facilitation. You can find more about her work at www.helenakarchere.com 

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. 

Investment

$65 a session or $390 for entire series (includes bound copy of Journeyers Journal and an 11X14 print from the Edge of Myth series by Matt Maes).

Early bird or coupon code for $340 through December 10th

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We're planning these dates for 2025: Jan 12, Jan 26, Feb 9, Feb 23, March 9, March 23, April 6 - These dates are subject to change based on necessity, depending on participants availability and your hosts' discretion.

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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.

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You can contact either Matt or Helena about the workshops at:

matt.qkstudio@gmail.com

helenaann@gmail.com