Creative Writing for Wellness • Crafting Workshops • Party Kits • Speaking • Consulting and More!
Amy Muscoplat’s programs and workshops have been featured in public and private for-profit organizations. She has presented to community groups, in healthcare settings, libraries, for Michaels craft stores and online classrooms, Papyrus greeting card and stationery stores, been a part of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant funded program celebrating local artisans and has also presented to citywide continuing education programs and older adult programming. She teaches both children and adults both in-person and online. Amy holds both an MLIS and an MFA.
For current course and workshop price list, as well as speaking engagements and consulting rates, please contact [email protected], or fill out the form below.
Writing for Wellbeing Courses:
Many of these classes are offered both in person and/or virtually. Please be in touch to discuss which mode you prefer and class size limit.
Enhance Your Life: Write!
Bring your creative writing voice out into the world and see what fun you can have expressing yourself in written form! Unleash your inner creative writer using inspiring, reflective journaling prompts and fun, free-writing starter exercises. Writer, Amy Muscoplat, encourages you to turn your ideas and thoughts into expressive writing in an enjoyable way. 2 hours.
Be Your Own Life Storyteller: Memoir Writing
Come find ways through creative, expressive writing prompts and tools to begin writing your own life story. Join writer Amy Muscoplat to help begin mapping out the elements you’d like to include in recording the story of your life! No experience necessary. 2 hours.
Joywriting: Writing for Joy and Creativity
Discover the joy of writing and expressing yourself more creatively in words. This workshop will specifically focus on using writing exercises aimed to discover and increase joy and creativity in your life while writing for wellness. Join writer Amy Muscoplat to explore finding the words that help you tap into your inner joyful writer. 2 hours.
Mindful Journaling for Health and Healing
Join writer and program presenter, Amy Muscoplat, for a guided mindful journaling workshop tailored especially for individuals with chronic/persistent pain. In this ongoing workshop, we will explore and expand on the unique practice of mindful journaling, which is sometimes called expressive writing. Find ways to create or grow a personal journal writing practice as an adjunct to your medical care. See how this healing modality can be used as one way to release stress and increase self-compassion while living with pain. 1.5 hours.
Mindful Journaling for Trying Times
Find ways to create or expand a personal journal writing practice to use in self-care, reduce overall stress and as a healthy tool to address overwhelm. See how this creative and healing modality can be used to increase self-compassion while living through trying times. Writer and program presenter, Amy Muscoplat, MFA, MLIS, will lead you through this guided mindful journaling workshop. 1.5 hours.
Spark the Creative Writer Inside You!
Want to spark your inner creative writing voice to the forefront and see what happens? Come take a courageous leap in this workshop, where we’ll write for wellness, creative communication and self-exploration. Using inspiring, reflective journaling prompts and fun free-writing starter exercises, you’ll be encouraged to try turning your ideas and thoughts into expressive writing in an enjoyable way. Come join writer and librarian, Amy Muscoplat, for this unique workshop and happily coax the creative writer inside you out into the world. 1.5 hours.
Writing for Self-Care in the Physical or Virtual Workplace
Using evidence-based practices from the emerging science of happiness field, come learn how to use these ideas, combined with expressive writing, to increase your overall mindfulness and resilience to stress at work. Explore tools to help you increase your own self-compassion, empathy and emotional intelligence and discover how you can use these to hopefully build a stronger foundation for happiness at work. Writer and program presenter, Amy Muscoplat, MFA, MLIS, has completed training in these topics and holds a professional certification in The Science of Happiness at Work program. 2 hours.
Other Writing Services:
The Art of Card and Letter Writing
Come learn the art of writing thank you notes and how to write a card of appreciation for someone special in your life! Choose from a great collection of cards and stationery and learn tips and tricks for how best to express the sentiment you wish to convey. Enjoy learning how to craft a personal note to send. This brief, fun workshop, led by workshop leader and writer, Amy Muscoplat, MFA, MLIS, shares fun and easy ways to help you craft a special message when writing to those you care about! 1 hour.
Play Your Cards Write!
Want to send a thank you note, but don’t have the time? Want someone to send a condolence note or a new baby gift note, but you can never seem to get to the stationary store or find a stamp? Have no fear, Amy with Play Your Cards Write is here! Amy, the queen of card and note writing, will write your letters and thank you notes for you. Contact us for a consultation with our “card ghostwriter”.
Writing Coaching
Want to get back into your writing project or need some assistance with editing your manuscript? Reach out to a veteran creative writing instructor and coach to see if we can assist you in getting your writing project going in the “write” direction!
Crafting Workshops:
Many of these classes are offered both in person and/or virtually. Please be in touch to discuss which mode you prefer and class size limit.
Art Journals
Design, decoupage and embellish your own handmade journal to capture and record your brilliant visual and written ideas. 2 hours.
Crafting Gratitude Jars!
Come create a way to capture and help remember the good and positive things that happen in your daily life. Join Amy Muscoplat in a craft workshop decorating a small container in which you’ll be able to keep notes and memories of events and things that are good or make you happy in life! Build your way to more a more positive day when you open the lid and read what’s inside later on. 2 hours.
Crafty Gift Packaging
Have fun learning creative ideas and awesome alternatives for packaging your special holiday gifts. Amy Muscoplat will show you how your parcels can “pop” when you add a little something extra to the way you wrap them. Craft unique containers for presents using fun household products, artistic embellishments, and gift-wrapping staples. You and your loved ones will be wowed with the results! 1.5 hours.
Creative Hand Lettering and Faux Calligraphy
This workshop teaches different ways to do creative lettering and faux calligraphy. Learn simple creative hand lettering skills and steps while practicing them on a variety of surfaces. Amy Muscoplat will show you how to start incorporating your decorative flair into these lettering projects to lend originality and imagination to each piece. 1.5 hours.
Cursive Kids Club
Learn creative ways to form and write cursive letters, even if you’ve never written cursive before. In each session’s project, you’ll make unique letters using materials like glue, chocolate sauce or yarn to write and develop your own special handwriting style. Course geared to grades 3-5. 1 hour.
Decorative Miniature Plant Terrariums
Create a miniature planted succulent world in a container of your own unique design. Instructor Amy Muscoplat teaches how to blend the natural world of succulents with the decorative craft world in order to fashion a living work of art to care for and enjoy. 2 hours.
Design and Create Fancy Paper Envelopes
Design and make fancy paper envelopes and envelope liners for personalized cards and letters. Using beautiful papers, as well as recycled everyday paper items, have fun in this workshop creating different sizes, styles and shapes of envelopes you can use and learn how to replicate later. 1.5 hours.
Fabric Bag Painting
Design and embellish your own tote bag to carry supplies, library books or summer beach things! Let your creativity shine as you decorate a canvas bag using fabric markers, stencils and other crafting tools and embellishments. 2 hours.
EnVision Your Life: Vision Board Your Best Life (Creative Vision Boarding)
Create an inspirational vision board for personal goal manifesting. Amy Muscoplat helps you design your own vision board collage using images and words. The process can help you clarify your dreams and aspirations, and the end result helps you stay motivated in achieving your goals. 2 hours.
Handmade Holiday Decorations
Amy Muscoplat shows how to hand make crafty banners, centerpieces, garlands and one- of-a-kind decorations for a beautiful holiday celebration. Enjoy crafting using felt, hand stamping, papercrafting techniques, and more to create special items for any holiday. 2 hours.
Holiday Card Making
Come create vibrant and artistically unique holiday cards for the season. Workshop led by handmade card making artist, Amy Muscoplat. 1.5 hours.
Memento Plate Making
Create a beautiful decorative plate to give to someone special. Instructor Amy Muscoplat shows you easy ways to paint and make a beautiful decorative keepsake plate, which you can take home to bake and set. Everyone completes a memento plate that they can then gift to a loved one or keep as a memory to mark a special occasion. 1.5 hours.
Spring Card Making
In this workshop we will create colorful and unique one of a kind cards for all occasions. Get crafty and creative and learn techniques for making your own greeting cards. Supplies provided, you bring the creativity. For a sampling of Amy’s cards or ideas of what she may teach, see gallery here. Workshop led by handmade card artist Amy Muscoplat. 1.5 hours.
Washi Tape Crafting
Transform ordinary objects into beautiful new works of art with colorful washi tape! Workshop gives participants 3 or 4 different options for projects allowing them to add their creative touches and flourishes and teaches various ways to work with washi. 2 hours.
Party Kits:
C3 = Cards, Crafts & Connection Kit
C3 kit is perfect for calling together friends, pulling together lots of cool crafting supplies, hand-making and/or writing cards for fun or a cause and having much camaraderie and connection over great food and good times together. This can be a great bonding experience with those there, as well as those you hand make cards for. Get The Kit
Celebrate Life Soiree Kit
This is your chance to shout out to the world and anyone you choose to invite how grateful you are for all that is going well, even in the midst of what might not seem to be so grand all the time. Celebrate Life Soiree gatherings are a way to focus on blessings, gratitude, divine providence, and call together those individuals whom you know also want to try to focus more and more on the good (and hidden good) in their lives and all around us. Get The Kit
Happiness Room Kit
Want to pull together fabulous resources and different types of interactive materials and exhibits that help showcase various unique ways to understand the concepts of happiness, joy, gratitude, calm, flow, calm and meditation? The Happiness Room Kit and Tutorial has a template to make this easy to do. Get The Kit
Joyfest Kit
Everyone loves an excuse to get out and be joyful and come to a day full of joy-upping activities! Have you ever wanted to plan all sorts of activities and events for inculcating joy and happiness and frivolity in others? Get in on planning a JOYFEST and pull together all sorts of ways to jump for joy and up your (and possibly even others’) joy quotient. Get The Kit
Speaking Services:
Joyfestival Industries aims to inspire and motivate people towards upping the joy in their lives. Amy is also a motivational speaker, entertaining your audiences with inspiring and uplifting topics that engage the listener and move them in noticeable ways.
A sampling of topics include: Joy in the Workplace and Joy in Daily Life: How to Up Both and Have More of a Synergy Between the Two; A Joy Greater than an Abundance of Good, and What this Really Means; How to Keep our Focus on the Good when Life Throws in Curve Balls and Difficult Things; Channeling One’s Inner Doris Day: Que Sera Sera and the Moments in Getting There!; and Crafting Calm on the Daily, One Handmade Card at a Time. Please be in touch to find out further information on the speaking engagement service topics and fees.
Consulting:
Please be in contact to find out more about consulting rates regarding planning your Joyfestival or any other custom-tailored services offered by joyfestivalindustries.com. We look forward to hearing from you! Contact us below.
