Our Services

Classes for those looking for healing after trauma, or short term stress relief.

Trainings and workshops for pottery teachers.

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How can we help you?

First and foremost, we are dedicated to healing. Whether that is short term stress relief or longer term post traumatic growth. Our Slow Throw™ classes are the result of years of research and development on the therapeutic benefits of working with clay on a pottery wheel.
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We are also committed to making this work as accessible as possible by training ceramics instructors. Whether you’re a veteran ceramics educator or new to teaching, a graduate student who hopes to teach throwing clay, or a ceramicist interested in personal growth, The Center for Haptic Healing offers trainings valuable for all levels of interest and experience.
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Workshops take place throughout the years.
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Studios

Enrich your instructors professionally. Helping ceramicists help others, and making the studio itself safer and more trauma-informed.

Partners

We’re building community by pairing CHH-trained pottery studios with mission-driven organizations interested in integrative programming.

High schools

The signs of most childhood trauma are hidden. Especially geared toward teachers in high schools, this training includes a module on childhood and developmental trauma, and how your work can help address it.

Community Art Centers

Bring instructors together to help transform smaller, local studios into trauma-informed spaces. Broaden your arts and cultural strategies and deepen community engagement.

Retreats

Join us in for half-day self care retreats at local studios that are CHH certified. These classes are perfect for relieving stress and preventing addressing burnout.

Veterans

Deepen the therapeutic work you do with veterans by learning HTH practices. Learn to help veterans through using clay and a pottery wheel, or expand your existing healing practices using clay and pottery wheel to be more relational and trauma-informed.

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Joshua Beckett developed Haptic Healing at the Pottery Wheel in 2018, and has been using clay and a pottery wheel to help trauma survivors ever since; making throwing not just a creative practice, but a relational practice, a practice of healing, and a practice of becoming.
Joshua Beckett trauma-informed potter and founder
Joshua Beckett
Director, Center For Haptic Healing

Would you like to train with us?

CHH practices apply to throwing at the wheel in all settings and contexts. CHH trainings and workshops provide the time and space for practice, questions and reflection.

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Upcoming Workshops & Events

San Diego, CA

Haptic Healing at the Pottery Wheel 2-Day Training
Day 1 hosted by Veteran's Art Project
Day 2 hosted by Tao of Clay

Lakeland, FL

Haptic Healing at the Pottery Wheel 2-Day Training
Hosted by Marvelous Mud Pottery Studio
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