Join the Session: $75

Every seat includes full access to my (Christina’s) curated botanical buffet: watercolor bases, custom cutouts, and finishing sleeves. During our time together, I will be there to guide you through the process of unwinding and arranging your own unique collage.

Corporate Retreats & Team Building

Looking for a unique, grounding experience for your next company retreat, strategic planning day, or team offsite? The Mindful Blooms Collage Workshop offers a perfect creative pause for teams visiting the New Hope and Lambertville area.

  • The Perfect Intermission: A 1-hour session is designed to fit seamlessly into busy itineraries. It serves as an ideal mid-day lunch break or a creative BYO Happy Hour to unwind after a day of meetings.

  • No Experience Required: Every team member sits at the same table and works with the same curated botanical buffet, yet every finished piece is entirely unique. It’s an engaging, pressure-free environment that celebrates individual intuition and collaborative energy.

  • Flexible Scheduling: I do not lock in rigid calendar dates. I work around your group's specific itinerary. Tell me what day and time works best for your team, and I’ll will do my best to accommodate you.

Capacity & Details:

  • Group Size: Ideal for small to mid-sized teams (contact me for custom group caps).

  • Amenities: BYO beverages and light snacks are welcome for happy hour slots! I’ll have some snacks.

  • Location Note: The studio is located at the Artist’s Lofts on a historic second-floor walk-up (not ADA accessible). If your lodging or meeting space is local to New Hope or Lambertville, on-site travel options may be available upon request.

Mindful Blooms Collage: A Self-Care Art Workshop

  • Duration: 1 hour

  • Location: The Artist’s Lofts at 6 N Union Street, Lambertville, NJ

  • Facilitator: Christina Galagarza
    This workshop utilizes the arrangement of a paper & collage floral bouquet as a profound metaphor for personal agency, patience, and self-care. While every participant sits at the same table and draws from the same pool of curated materials, no two finished bouquets will look alike. Each variation is celebrated as a visual reflection of individual intuition.

What to Expect

  • The process is intentionally broken into distinct phases: Preparing the Soil, Gathering & Arranging, and Rooting.

  • Connection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the environment and your peers as from the content itself.

  • Grounded in years of non-profit art facilitation and a lifelong passion for the therapeutic power of creativity, Christina’s sessions are designed to meet you exactly where you are. We focus on creating a safe, inspiring space for self-expression. To honor your creative process, your finished artwork is presented in a premium, clear sleeve, elevating a relaxing activity into a beautiful, authentic studio study you'll be proud to display.

Our time together

  • Settle into the studio space with soft background music as we introduce the core philosophy of the Mindful Blooms workshop.

  • We begin by applying light, fluid watercolor washes to a blank 9x12 paper. The focus here is entirely on laying down intuitive color, texture, and light rather than painting a specific scene. This phase serves as a grounding metaphor: establishing the quiet, supportive atmosphere that will hold your eventual arrangement.

  • We dive into the art of pausing. You'll browse the center table to select a grounding vase shape and gather curated botanical materials and magazine elements. The golden rule here is strictly no gluing; pieces must stay loose as you explore 2–3 different compositions, using your phone to take photos of your layouts to compare options and practice creative agency.

  • After reviewing the photos on your phone, you will select the composition that resonates most with you. The remaining time is spent intentionally and deliberately securing your vase and botanical layers to the page. This crucial phase serves as a beautiful metaphor for committing to your choices and locking your personal arrangement into place.

  • We gather for a moment of reflection to admire the diversity of the finished works at the table. To finish, each completed mixed-media piece is sent home in a crystal-clear art sleeve, elevating the experience into a true studio study and sending you home with a professional, gift-ready presentation of your individual creative perspective.

Meet your host

Christina Galagarza

Christina is a fine artist and experienced art facilitator with a deep-rooted passion for community-focused, non-profit work. Believing that creativity is a vital form of self-care at every stage of life, she designs workshops that prioritize mindful process over rigid perfection.

Operating from her shared creative space at the Artist’s Lofts in Lambertville, Christina specializes in holding intentional, gentle spaces where participants can slow down, connect with their intuition, and explore material authority through vibrant color and expressive texture.

  • Grounded in years of non-profit art facilitation and a lifelong passion for the therapeutic power of creativity, our sessions are designed to meet you exactly where you are.

    Ready to bring your team together for an hour of creative self-care? Because we customize our schedule around your retreat or corporate itinerary, dates are kept flexible.

    Email christina@lolanewhope.com to check availability for your preferred date, discuss pricing for private groups, or coordinate a custom time slot.

Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime. 

Your Questions, Answered

  • Not at all! This workshop is designed for every stage of life and skill level. The process is entirely intuitive, focusing on self-expression and the therapeutic power of creating rather than technical perfection.

  • Just yourself and your smartphone! All premium mixed-media materials, watercolors, and curated botanical layers are fully provided. We use our phones during Phase 2 to take quick snapshot options of our loose layouts before committing to gluing.

  • We gather in our shared creative workspace located at The Artist’s Lofts at 6 N Union Street, Lambertville, NJ. It's a beautiful, inspiring setting that perfectly matches the mindful, artistic atmosphere of the study.

  • You will leave with your finished, original mixed-media bouquet collage. To honor your work, it will be housed in a premium, crystal-clear protective art sleeve, transforming your creation into a professional, gift-ready presentation or a beautiful studio piece ready to display.

  • Absolutely! If you are booking a private team-building hour or a post-meeting wrap-up, you are more than welcome to bring your own wine, beer, refreshments, or lunch. We will provide the space and the art materials; you bring the happy hour.

  • Yes! While we love hosting teams at our creative space at the Artist’s Lofts in Lambertville, we can also bring the "botanical buffet" directly to your local conference room, hotel, or rental space in the New Hope/Lambertville area. Reach out via email to discuss offsite facilitation.

  • Yes! For local community members, I offer a sliding scale rate between $40 and $75 per session. I believe creativity is a vital form of self-care and want to ensure financial barriers don't get in the way of a needed pause. Feel free to reach out via email to coordinate.