Wayfinder
Deep Seeing®
Guided art observation for self discovery and personal growth
"A revolution to arts education and to the health and wellness field.
Experiencing Wayfinder changed how I look at art and facilitating."
— Anthony Febo, Artist, Poet, Educator
Wayfinder Deep Seeing® is a contemplative aesthetic method that uses guided mindful art observation to support self-discovery, self-trust, and reflective clarity.
This insight process is well suited to personal reflection in individual and group contexts, and to thematic and open-ended explorations, and is supportive of staff and board retreats and collaborative processes. Professional therapists, coaches, and art educators can soon learn how to incorporate the Wayfinder Deep Seeing® method into their practice.
Unlike interpretive or analytic approaches to art observation and personal growth, Deep Seeing emphasizes direct experience and cultivates presence, curiosity, and inner listening. Participants are invited to notice what arises through mindfulness and visual attention, and to relate what they see to their own personal areas of inquiry and healing.
"A safe space where these external artworks are able to shine light on our own inner wisdom and experience."
Steven Hosking
Expressive Arts Therapist
"If you’re feeling stuck in any way, (Deep Seeing is) helpful to either get unstuck or to understand more the nature of your stuckness. Because so much of who and what we are is unconscious, and we generally try to unstick ourselves by thinking, which doesn’t often work… I would describe the Wayfinder process as guided self-exploration. You’re in conversation with the art, in a reflective space, connected to your body, and using the practitioner's guidance along with a piece of artwork in order to discover something about yourself… It’s gentle, yet it makes you aware of your projections, so you get to see what’s in you. Your projections are operating at all times, and if you can have a clear sense of the lens you’re viewing the world through, you can have a lot more perspective, agency, and ability to use your creative power.”
Rebecca Bateman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PsyA
“It was like a meditation on steroids. It brought to light things in me I didn’t know were happening and got me on my way to taking care of them.”
Natalie Foster
Clinical Art Therapist
"BEST EXPERIENCE EVER WITH ART IN PAJAMAS.”
Carlie Febo
Artist