Welcome

Life is an active process of self-creation, and creativity is therapeutic and healing. Innovation is what drives a program forward to heal those in need.

We would like to introduce Valohna Wynn.

The multi-modality experience with Valohna Wynn takes a client inward to experience. Whether it is a weekend retreat or an individual client, Valohna has a way of communicating with her clients about how to live an authentic life by owning and recognizing the energy that makes up the soul.

Because her body of work touches upon movement, meditation, and somatic experiences, the client is drawn into an intimate inward journey. The process brings a client back to themselves with a vital idea for the future, beyond old belief systems that do not serve the soul.

Coming back to oneself is all about owning the gifts of being through life's challenges and finding a way to constructively own the past by making the here and now be the focus and stepping into a new possibility for the future feeling whole and complete.

Utilizing therapeutic art programming, dance movement, meditation, and deep, immersive conversations about personal belief systems, Valohna intimately reaches people. As a life coach and multi-discipline artist, Valohna is unique in her field of expertise, capable of creating programming that usually requires many instructors to complete. As a dedicated healer, this program gives beyond just the client; it creates a bridge to the healing for all who participate, be it the family member, social worker, therapist, care giver, or the facility's program director. Valohna Wynn offers an intimate perspective into holistic mentorship, Be it trauma-based, education-based, or in private practice.

Sample Work

Profile

As an educator and healing arts practitioner with over 30 years of experience specializing in the creative arts programing, I am dedicated to this process and all its therapeutic benefits to help augment and heal people beyond traditional therapeutic modalities. My unique art programing is inward directed and designed to release negative trapped emotions to offer the corporate client, individual client or art directors (train the trainer model) new insights into themselves and their populations with the goal of reframing personal belief systems. Areas of expertise include working with marginalized populations of human trafficking, homelessness, abuse, neglect and addiction. In addition, I have a strong background in program development and facilitation, strategic planning, budget development, grant writing along with staff management, mentorship, and leadership. 

Experience

CEO, Valohna Wynn, Inc., Palm Desert, Ca. 1989-present
As a multidisciplinary artist and artistic program developer. Valohna Wynn, INC. is a creative resource for all things artistic to promote healing, people and personal well-being and products thru specialty concepts using art as a medium to bring conscious thought to the corporate world, private clientele and therapeutic institutions.

Creative Arts Life Coach 2019 - Present
Trained as a certified Emotion Code Practitioner, I maintain a private practice that focuses on somatic experiences in the body as a Creative Arts Life Coach. Using many artistic and energy driven modalities to assist individuals in self-discovery and personal healing through the use of art allows for the expression and release of hidden emotions that allows clients to find their voice. This treatment is stand alone or can be augmented with traditional therapeutic modalities to achieve greater success. Group seminars are done as well. 

Art Director of the Sinatra Art Camp, Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, Rancho Mirage, Ca. June 2021
Created and implemented the Sinatra Art Camp with programs for 6-10 year olds, 11-13 year olds, and 14 - 17 year olds who are suffering the affects of child abuse and neglect, and who are at risk to be abused.

Special Events, 2006-2019
Designed and executed multiple special events for grand openings, fundraising and private parties to benefit charities or local programs in the Coachella Valley.

Fashion Design & Retail Establishment, 2010-2017
Owned and operated retail store in Rancho Mirage, Ca., which carried my own clothing and jewelry designs as well as other artisans. Featured designer of El Paseo fashion week.

Corporate Retail Development division, 1989-2008, Los Angeles, Ca.
Worked with nationwide mall chain on visual merchandising, retail development as well as resource for specialty leasing managers and clients who chose temporary tenant cart and RMU retailers or temporary inline retail operators. This was a turn key visual merchandising service program, education system responsible for meeting mall aesthetics as well as execution of all visual merchandising of temporary businesses ensuring that they would satisfy the malls visual criteria while still promoting an individual marketing expression of the owner to maintain branding identity. Responsible for training sessions for mall management in visual merchandising principles created for mall leasing managers and tenants. Launched a nationwide barricade marketing program for Westfield mall when tenant occupancy levels were low, visual merchandising barricades that were customer interactive or inspirational were built and designed to camouflage vacancies in new or lower rated mall facilities. Professionally brought in when Malls were under intense pressure when new temporary tenant mix was crucial and time lines were extremely short.  Primary design resource that delivered exemplary service for specialty leasing mangers in over 35 centers in southern California for Westfield, Simon properties, General Growth, and Center Mark Properties. Yearly income in excess of $125K per year. 

Art Director, Safehouse of The Desert, Thousand Palms & Riverside, Ca. June 2015-Feb 2021
Created and implemented Skills Lab, a module based creative arts program for teens at risk ages 11-17 and homeless young adults 18-24. The program serviced over 200 clients per year with the objective of self-regulation and self-sustenance via educational life skills utilizing the creative arts as a bridge to self-awareness, self-regulation and better communication with therapists while learning a craft. Secured over $50K in grants over the past 6 years. Collaborated in grant writing process. Skills lab has been recognized by community partners, grant agencies, government funding and has been highlighted on local news and radio stations in the Coachella valley as significant programs to the shelter system culture. The intention of my programming at Safehouse was to bring an educational program that was focused on esteem building, life skills while using many creative therapeutic modalities to empower students to see themselves, reframe their lives or personal belief systems about their trauma and learn to communicate with confidence, in preparation for college career paths and or for the work world and interviews in general. As a result of this programing focused on communication, skill building, learned techniques and opportunities to be part of our community to sell their work, students were empowered by their abilities to create a line of retail products with their friends or they stepped into the design world as sole designers of their own retail product for sale. The heart of Skills Lab is directed towards self-sufficiency after a student leaves the program. 

Art Director & Drama Stage Manager, Marywood Palm Valley School, Rancho Mirage, Ca. 2006-2011
Developed an after-school program called “TAP” Theater arts program for lower school children grade 3-5 to build a bridge between lower school drama and middle school drama engaged and taught grade 8 interns in class management to build theater skills sets. Theater Arts Program rotated every 6 weeks with 15-20 children each season. Program received accolades and support from both administration and parents whose children needed creative outlets to build self-esteem, self-regulate behavior and reframe personal belief systems. TAP embraced a multi-modality approach to esteem building, practical skill building and scholastic work in the arts driven by acceptance, creativity and support, while focusing children to express emotion while being teamed with solid theater skills which they took with them to the middle school program. Also responsible for working with youth ages 12-18 including full-time management and execution of all specialty costumes, created and designed all large construction stage sets, oversaw all stage construction crews, created theater hand props with students, marketing and business model presentations to families for funding.  Managed annual $16K budget for show production and hardline construction. Consistently under budget every year. Developed the first point of sale retail boutique program with product for all shows as an income stream for the drama department. Co-created 5 award winning plays as the art director of all middle school stage shows which won numerous awards and mentions for stage play, costumes and set design.  

Lead Program Developer, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising San Francisco, LA  2000-2003
Assisted department head of merchandising and marketing for the visual communication program. Responsibilities included curriculum development, creation of student handbooks, programing of classroom syllabi specifically for students interested in visual merchandising and design. Facilitator, educator and curriculum developer of professional practices and portfolio management for freelance visual merchandising artists. Created curriculum for graduate students, including marketing material development, portfolio development, lecture, and public speaking skills development and business negotiation and business practices needed to open and run a successful freelance visual merchandising business. Guest lecturer, career counselor and mentor to students entering FIDM interested in Visual Communications, marketing host of videos to promote the Visual merchandising core curriculum for FIDM school program catalog and sales materials. Speaking engagements to spark enrollment interest at FIDM.  

Education

CSUSB, Career & Technical teaching certification, arts media and entertainment, 2019

Emotion Code Practitioner, Certified 2018

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising San Francisco/Los Angeles, Visual communication and merchandising concentration, Associates Degree, 1984