A Space to Return to Yourself
Most people who arrive here aren't looking for another program. They're looking for something that meets them differently — beneath the level of managing, explaining, or trying to hold it all together.
People come at all kinds of moments: in the middle of something hard, at the edge of something new, or carrying a quiet creative pull that hasn’t yet found a place to land.
If that feels familiar, you're in the right place.
This is a space designed to meet you where you are. No experience needed. No expectation to perform. Just a simple invitation: to work with your hands, to pay attention, and to let something take shape.
What To Expect
Every journey begins with a conversation — not an intake form, but a real exchange that shapes what your guide designs just for you. From there, four weekly sessions follow a simple rhythm: each session invites you to settle into your body before it asks anything of you, moves into making, and closes with something small and real to take into your week. What gets made in each session is different, and what surfaces in the making often surprises.
What shifts is different for everyone, which is part of what makes the work honest. Your guide holds the space and follows what emerges. Where the journey takes you is yours to discover.
Your Guide
Dea Jenkins
Ethos of Care's founder, Dea Jenkins, is an interdisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and creative liturgist working at the intersections of art, spirituality, and healing. She helps people create from the soul, accessing and expressing what lives beneath the surface through practices that are embodied, intuitive, and honest. Through her work creating interactive installations, designing creative workshops, and cultivating spiritual formation, she invites people into forms of expression that allow their inner life to take shape through what they create.
This Is For Your If
~ You've tried to think your way through something and it hasn't moved.
~ You're carrying something you haven't been able to name yet — and you're ready to stop waiting until you can.
~ You want support that is shaped around you specifically, not a curriculum you fit yourself into.
~ You've always had a pull toward making things, and you've never known quite what to do with it.
~ You want to work with your hands, your body, and your actual life — not just your history of it.
~ You're not looking for advice or a framework. You're looking for a space where something can finally shift.
If any of that is close — that's enough to reach out.
FAQs
What will my journey actually look like?
The short answer is that it depends. This is a space designed entirely around you. The orientation conversation is where your guide comes to understand where you are and what you're carrying. The sessions are designed from there, and nothing is predetermined before that conversation.
Some people arrive in the middle of a loss they haven't finished grieving. Others come carrying a life that looks fine from the outside and feels hollow from the inside. Some are at the edge of a significant change and don't yet have language for what they're moving toward. Others simply know they need to make something, and have been ignoring that pull for years. All of it is valid. All of it is welcome.
Most people who come to these journeys have never done anything quite like this before, and that's not a problem. You don't need prior experience with any creative practices or with structured self-reflection. The sessions will meet you where you are.
Do I need to be an artist or consider myself creative?
How is this different from art therapy?
How is this different from coaching?
“The value of this experience is unlike one I've experienced before. There are therapeutic undertones mixed with art and cultural awareness of self. So many people are hurting and would benefit from a space that is separate from traditional therapy that allows creative expression and release.”
“This was a great and needed reminder that art is literally at our finger tips. I was an artsy kid that had to substitute art as a hobby with responsibilities. It has been beautiful to see this side of me again.”
“I loved how every session I had a chance to create and allow my body to speak to me vs. letting my mind lead.”
“I felt supported throughout the process and enjoyed the session holistically.“
Begin Here
A small number of journeys are available each season.
Four spots remain for Spring 2026.
Founding rate: $500
Available for a limited time.
Includes:
- An initial orientation conversation
- A journey designed around you
- Four 60-minute sessions
- A simple digital journal
- A brief closing reflection
