Creative Facilitation
Lana has provided arts-based facilitation and consultation for schools, universities, organizations, and businesses.
Former clients include the:
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
- City of Ottawa Cultural Funding Support Section
- York Federation of Students' Access Centre, York University
- RyeACCESS Equity Service Centre, Ryerson University
- Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Ottawa
- Creative City Centre
- Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity
- Centre for Students with Disabilities, University of Ottawa.
Lana's direct and intuitive facilitation style creates fertile ground for transformational insights, compassionate connections, and healing.
Workshops are uniquely tailored to the specific needs of the group.
Email lanakouchnirbooking@gmail.com if you'd like to discuss the possibility of booking Lana as a workshop facilitator or speaker for your organization.
Celestial Mythology and the Arts
Lana combines her nationally-recognised artistry with her formal astrology education to offer arts workshops grounded in celestial mythology.
She is a soon-to-be-alumna of the Traditional Hellenistic Astrology Certification Program taught by internationally-renowned astrologer and scholar Demetra George. Her astrological practice centers traditional astrology and interweaves contemporary techniques. Lana is a member of Astrology Toronto.
Visit OdesaAstrology.com to learn more about her consulting astrology practice.
Email lanakouchnirbooking@gmail.com for media inquiries or if you would like to book Lana as a speaker or reader for your event.
Former arts facilitation and arts consulting clients include:
Workshop Offerings
The Astrology of Ukraine's 1991 Independence Chart:
A Decolonial, Generative Arts Workshop
In a warm and gentle environment, we will attend to our creative well of inspiration and celebrate Ukrainian resistance against 3.5 centuries of ongoing russian colonization. A selection of traditional astrological interpretations of Ukraine’s August 24, 1991 Declaration of Independence event chart will serve as prompts for decolonial and generative artistic exercises (poetry, stream-of-consciousness journaling, collage, and more) designed to nourish our creativity.
This workshop is for you if:
■ You want to aliven your relationship to your creativity and personal artistic practice.
■ You want to deepen your understanding of one of Ukraine’s astrological signatures.
■ You want to develop an emotionally embodied relationship with one of Ukraine’s astrological signatures.
■ You aim to connect with other creatives in a warm and gentle, pro-Ukrainian space. No prior astrological or artistic education is necessary for this workshop; artists, non-artists, astrologers, non-astrologers are welcome to join.
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Lana is an Odesa-born, Toronto-based emerging actor, multidisciplinary artist, and consulting astrologer. She is a soon-to-be-alumna of Demetra George’s Traditional Hellenistic Astrology Certification Program. Her astrological practice centers traditional astrology and interweaves contemporary techniques. Lana is a member of Astrology Toronto.
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Note: This workshop will not act as an astrological how-to delineation lecture nor as a historical lecture. While this workshop will reference astrological and historical elements, this workshop is designed to be experiential and arts-based in nature.
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Poster photo depicts Hutsuls from Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Source: National Digital Archive in Poland.
Photographer: Leo Stanisław