The Renewal Studio

A five-session workshop series for teachers, caregivers, and other big-hearted people.

Join us for all sessions, or whichever ones resonate most with you.

the renewal studio

About the series

The Renewal Studio is a five-session arts-based workshop series designed for the people who spend their days showing up for everyone else. Each session follows a gentle, supported rhythm — check-in, intention setting, art-making around a theme, and a reflection and witnessing of the art. You can join all five or come to whichever sessions call to you. No art experience needed. Just show up.

Sessions meet on Tuesday evenings from 4:00 - 5:30 PM at 700 Rayovac Dr., Suite 307, Madison, WI. 

Each session is $35. 

All materials provided.

The Series

a space for you

You spend your days pouring into other people. You show up, you give, you hold space for everyone around you. Somewhere in the middle of all of that, taking care of yourself falls completely off the list.

The Renewal Studio was created for you.

This five-session arts-based workshop series offers something most professional development never does: time and space that is entirely yours. Each session follows a gentle, supported structure and is designed to help you slow down, reconnect, and leave feeling more like yourself than when you arrived.

No art experience is needed.

About your facilitator

Taryn is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Art Therapist who has spent her career sitting with people who are exhausted from giving everything they have to others. She knows that the people who most need care are often the least likely to prioritize it for themselves, and she built The Renewal Studio with exactly that in mind.

Her approach is gentle, integrative, and grounded in the belief that creativity isn't a luxury or a reward for finishing your to-do list. It's a way back to yourself. Taryn uses art therapy not to produce beautiful things, but to create space for the kind of processing, rest, and reconnection that helping professionals rarely get anywhere else.

She has worked with individuals navigating burnout, life transitions, grief, and the particular weight that comes from caring deeply about other people's wellbeing. In The Renewal Studio, she brings that same attentiveness to every session — so you can finally be the one who just shows up.

Taryn Cates, MS, LPC, ATR

Sign up for a session today. 

Your future self will thank you.