Discover Your Vital Spark
Alchemy and the Arts offers a wide range of creative personal development workshops and individual consultation. Our safe and nurturing space provides the opportunity to evolve, discover your vital spark, transform your narrative, and cultivate the capacity to lead a unique and purposeful life.
These workshops are not simply about building skills — though skills will be built. They are an invitation to develop a wider state of consciousness and deepen your awareness of the forces that shape your life from within: your emotions, your dreams and visions, your wounds, your desires, your hard-won life experience. Each creative form we work with — theatre, movement, song, story, mask, ritual — speaks to a different dimension of who you are. What moves you in one genre may unlock something entirely different in another. Together, they offer a rich and varied path toward knowing yourself more fully, and learning to live from that knowledge with intention and creative power.
We are committed to growing a living community of practice — a place where the work begun in workshops continues to deepen, where connections formed in the creative container endure, and where participants are supported not only in discovering their vital spark but in learning to tend it over time. Guided by the Alchemy and the Arts team, community members are offered ongoing opportunities to build on their skills, deepen their self-exploration, and bring the creative wisdom they have cultivated into their relationships, their vocations, and their lives in the world.

Sometimes, when we hear the call of fate, we listen with an inner ear for quiet whispers of the psyche. This call arrives in many forms. Our approach will follow the varied threads of your story, using verbal and non-verbal methods, encouraging spontaneity and the healing influence of the imagination. These sensorial processes lead to an aesthetic and spiritual understanding of the soul.
Meet the Team
Maude Davis, PhD(c), RDT, REAT
Is a licensed student research psychoanalyst in the state of California, Registered Drama Therapist and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist in private practice. As the founder of Alchemy and the Arts, Davis’ practice integrates Jungian/Archetypal Psychology with Drama and Expressive Arts therapy. Her approach to working with clients outside of California consists of a consultation practice that integrates a variety of creative arts methods including drawing and painting, theatre and music, poetry and puppetry. This work encourages the healing influence of spontaneity and the imagination.
As a teacher, Davis has presented lecture demonstrations and facilitated experiential workshops at numerous international conferences and events for organizations such as: the North American Drama Therapy Association; the International Association for Jungian Studies; the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association; and the Expressive Therapies Summit.
She empowers clients to channel the spirit of play to bring forth their unfolding journey.

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