About Us

The Journey Home is an expressive arts studio providing a safe-place for dialogue, support, and enrichment.

Mission

to provide a safe place for stillness and healing through expressive arts and restorative practices.

Values

Compassion Kindness Integrity Community Creativity Generosity

Vision

a community that offers hospitality, compassion, and hope to all of its members and future members.

Bonnie M. Winfield, Ph.D

Dr Bonnie is an expressive arts facilitator and educator. She has been providing open studio and safe space for over thirty years. She received her advanced degrees from Syracuse University and attended classes and workshops at Marrywood University and IIRP. Most recently she is the director of a reentry program for women who are and have been impacted by the criminal justice system. She has thirty years experience in higher education as a faculty member and administrator.

Community Arts Studio

Inside the Local County Jail

There is a Buddhist Koan about a person who is walking along in the mountains and falls down a cliff. She grabs a hold of some tree roots and holds on in fear of death. I told this story to the women in a group I facilitate in the local county jail. The story ends with the person seeing a delicious strawberry and letting go of the roots to eat the strawberry.

This story was about my difficult decision. As I explained to the women in my group, the tree roots represented my professional life at the time. It seemed that I was clinging to it and afraid to let go. The strawberry was, is the women, the work in the jail.

I chose the women and retired from my professional academic career. The women were thrilled especially to know that they are my strawberry. I wonder how many of them have truly been the strawberry in someone’s life?

A colleague listened intently to my story and suggested that the group is now “Bonnie’s Strawberry Patch.”

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Bonnie M. Winfield, Ph.D

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