Are you thinking of fun things to do by yourself or with friends, family, or staff get-together? Check out the descriptions below. Additional times may be available.

You are welcome to bring alcoholic beverages.

For descriptions and examples of hand-building pottery methods in our Pottery Playshops click here.

Pottery Playshops

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Pottery Playshop for 1-3 people
please schedule during regular gallery hours
2-Hours $75 per person

Individual and small group playshops are available during regular business hours by appointment.
Price includes all materials, instruction, and assistance in hand-building methods. Primitive Mud Pottery Studio will finish your piece and is ready to pick up in 3-4 weeks.

Pottery Playshop for 4-16 people
schedule during or after gallery hours
2-Hours $65 per person

Pottery Playshop for 4-16 people available any day or evening depending on availability.
There is space for up to 16 people depending on what you want to make. It takes more space for certain methods and items. Price includes all materials, instruction, and assistance in hand-building methods. Primitive Mud Pottery Studio will finish your piece and is ready to pick up in 3-4 weeks. Contact Teresa if you have any questions!

We can bring a Pottery Playshop to your location! Would you like a private party at your home, business, bar, or winery? Let’s talk!

Pottery Playshop at Double Edge Brewing Co. in Lancaster, Ohio pictured.

Mindful Living

Mindful Living with and without Art sessions include mindfulness practices combined with making pottery which helps you to slow down, be present, relieve stress, and increase joy.

Compassionate Communication

Private Playshops in Compassionate Communication are available for 12-16 at Mud Gallery, or we can come to your location for a larger group. Free Consultation.

Empathy Cafe

The Empathy Cafe offers an experiential learning opportunity focusing on one of the main components of Compassionate Communication and emotional intelligence. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Empathy is one of the most valuable gifts we possess as humans, the ability to listen deeply to others and to be deeply heard and understood without judgment. “Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feelings. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.” ~Marshall B. Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication.

Self-Empathy Dance

The Self-Empathy Dance offers an experiential learning opportunity focusing on one of the main components of Compassionate Communication and emotional intelligence. The playshop will consist of large and small group exploration of self-empathy and practices.
It is beneficial if you have attended an Empathy Cafe but not a requirement.

Why a dance? Our emotions, thoughts, and needs are never static, they move! Communication, whether with others or with ourselves is like a dance, ideas form within, and movements are expressed outwardly.

Empathy is one of the most valuable gifts we possess as humans, the ability to listen deeply to others and to be deeply heard and understood without judgment. But, don’t forget about yourself! We can empathize with ourselves, often transforming painful experiences into meaningful self-connection and understanding.

Speaking Peace: Introduction to Compassionate Communication

An introduction to the principles of Compassionate Communication with large and small group practice. Rather than focusing on what is right or wrong in our relationships (or in the world), we can connect to what we want, to what really matters, improving our relationship with self and others.

This playshop focuses on meaningful relationships, whether personal, family, or professional, and the ability to:

• Listen More Effectively—Learn how to listen so your partner, colleague, or family member is confident they have been heard. Learn how to translate another’s language, regardless of words used, into feelings and needs in order to transform emotionally charged situations into powerful connections.
  
• Stay Connected to Your Values—Deepen your personal connections by entering all interactions from a place of compassion.
  
• Find Greater Intimacy—Strengthen your connection to your partner, siblings, family, and friends by more clearly understanding their values, hopes, and needs.
  
• Make Clear, “Doable” Requests that are actually “doable”, easy to understand, and can be done willingly. Learn alternatives to coercive behaviors like demands, threats of punishment, or promises of reward that often motivate people to fulfill their requests from a sense of fear, guilt, or shame.