Meet Michael Anderson, a visionary art teacher and meditation trainer with a mission to unleash the inner artist in all of us. With over 25 years of teaching experience in schools worldwide, he has now founded Art of Being, a transformative programme designed to help individuals tap into their natural creative potential. Michael firmly believes that each and every one of us possesses an innate artist within and that through contemplative practice, we can unlock and express our authentic selves through art. Join Michael and discover the power of contemplative practice in creating a space for genuine art-making to arise.

“As a young child, I used to listen to the stories of my great uncle who told me about crossing the ocean on that ship as a boy. He told me of watching a moving picture on the ship, a flickering film of a horse running. He told me about the village of Vallelunga, where our family worked the land for hundreds of years. Vallelunga stayed in my imagination until the day in 2012, when I stepped off a train there and brought that journey of the S.S. Patria full circle.

Our world is in a state of rapid change, flux, and uncertainty. People are on the move today in search of basic needs, just as the family of my grandparents was swept up in a wave of migration in 1914.

It is important that we find a still point in this turbulent world, that we come to know ourselves and tell our story as only we can tell it. It is important that we come to see our individual lives as an integral piece of a much larger human tapestry. To do so is to become more fully human, more fully our true selves.” – Michael Anderson