FAQ

Georgina Owino is a contemplative practitioner, healing art facilitator, children’s author, prayer minister, lawyer — and so much more. Through her work, Georgina holds space for people to slow down, listen inward, and meet what’s true without rushing past it.

Georgina offers guided 1:1 sessions, small group gatherings, standalone practices, and self-paced online courses (coming soon!) — all built around five core practices: stillness, creative expression, movement, time in nature, and heart work. Depending on what a person needs, a session might focus on just one of these or weave several together. She offers this through her wellness practice, Live Unchained.

This work is for anyone ready to be present with themselves — whatever that presence looks like right now. Some people come for healing, carrying something from the past they’re still holding. Some come simply to be, without an agenda or a problem to solve, just needing space to exist without performing. Others come searching, discerning a question about what’s next. Most people move between all three at different times, sometimes even within the same season. However you arrive, we simply ask that you come as you are. No prior experience with meditation, art, or contemplative practice is required.

Yes. Published through Mighty Kids Publishing House, Georgina writes stories that awaken courage, spark imagination, and remind children that, with God, they can do far more than they ever imagined. Her work reflects the intersection of social-emotional learning and faith, particularly the quiet ways God speaks to our hearts — especially in the midst of big feelings like worry, fear, self-esteem, loss, and change.

Yes. Georgina is certified through the Shalem Institute’s Transforming Community program, where she trained in leading contemplative small groups and retreats. She is also trained as an Art Sozo prayer minister, and is currently completing her certification in the Art4Healing® method — a guided, non-clinical approach to emotional expression through art. Her approach combines this formal training with years of lived experience walking alongside others.

This work is spiritual at its core. Georgina believes there’s something Sacred within and around every person — although sometimes we travel so far from this truth that we simply forget it’s there. Much of what she offers is a way back: creating space to notice, remember, and reconnect with the Sacred already present in you and around you. Georgina’s personal path is rooted in the Christian faith tradition, and that shapes how she moves through this work with others - but her work with others isn’t offered as instruction in a particular belief system. It’s an invitation to return to what’s already sacred in your life, wherever you’re starting from.

Contemplative prayer is a quiet, wordless way of being present to the Sacred — less about asking or speaking, and more about listening and resting in stillness. Rather than filling the silence with words, it invites you to simply be present, trusting that presence itself is enough. It’s one of the oldest forms of prayer across contemplative traditions, and it’s woven through much of Georgina’s work as a shared practice of settling into stillness.

A contemplative retreat or small group offers a slower rhythm — time set apart from daily noise to rest, listen, and simply be present. A gathering might include periods of silence, contemplative prayer, creative expression, gentle movement, or time outdoors, along with space to reflect together. Rather than teaching or instructing, Georgina holds space for each person’s own process of listening and returning to what’s Sacred.

Contemplative practice is any practice that slows a person down enough to be present — to their own inner life, and to what’s sacred around them. Rather than solving a problem or working toward an outcome, it asks you to simply notice: your breath, your body, the quiet underneath your thoughts. Stillness is one of the clearest examples — sitting in shared silence, without an agenda, and letting whatever surfaces have room to be there.

Stillness might look like sitting quietly together for a set period, with no conversation to fill the space — or it might be a shorter pause built into the middle of a session, a chance to settle before moving into something else. There’s no technique to master. The invitation is simply to stop, notice what’s present, and let that be enough for a while.

No. Contemplative practice isn’t about achieving a particular state or doing it “right.” If your mind wanders, that’s part of the practice, not a failure of it. Georgina’s role is to hold the space, not to grade how well you settle into it.

Georgina’s work is grounded in five core practices, used individually or woven together depending on the person and the season they’re in:

• Stillness — deep, held space for sacred listening
• Creative Expression — reaching the heart through art and other forms of creative expression
• Movement — creating space for the body to express what words cannot
• Time in Nature — attentive, restorative rhythms outdoors
• Heart Work — meeting the stories and agreements we’ve made and releasing what no longer serves us

Sessions can focus on a single practice or draw from several, depending on what you’re carrying and what the moment calls for. Georgina walks alongside you rather than prescribing a fixed method.

Heart Work is the practice of meeting the stories, fears, and agreements we’ve made that no longer serve us — not to fix or analyze them, but to witness them honestly enough that they can be released and loosen their grip.

No. Movement here isn’t about fitness goals — it’s a way of letting the body express what words can’t yet reach. It might look like gentle, unstructured motion rather than a workout.

Georgina offers both as distinct ways of practicing creative expression, and which one fits depends on what you’re looking for. Art for healing is exploratory and process-focused — it makes room for whatever emotion, memory, or grief needs to move through you, through art without needing words to lead the way. Art meditation is more structured and present-focused — using art as an anchor into stillness, much like a breath or a walking meditation would. Neither requires artistic skill or a finished piece; both use the hands to reach places words can’t.

Art meditation is a contemplative practice that uses simple, repetitive creative motion — like color, line, mark-making — as an anchor for staying present, the way breath or sound might anchor a traditional meditation. Rather than sitting in silence, attention rests on the movement of the hand and the choices unfolding on the page. It’s especially helpful for people who find seated, silent meditation difficult, offering a way into stillness through the body rather than around it. No artistic experience is needed — the practice isn’t about the artwork produced, but about where it leads you.

Art for healing is the practice of using creative expression — drawing, painting, collage, or other visual art-making — as a way to access, hold, and move through emotion without needing words. It’s one expression of Georgina’s broader creative expression practice, used to reach the heart when language runs out.

No. Art therapy is a licensed clinical profession, practiced by a licensed art therapist as a form of psychotherapy. Art for healing, as Georgina offers it, is a contemplative practice — not a clinical treatment, diagnosis, or substitute for mental health care. It draws on the same truth that creative expression can move us toward wholeness, but it doesn’t carry a therapeutic or clinical relationship.

Sessions are unhurried and process-focused, not outcome-focused. There’s no art skill required and no “right” way to make something. The art-making becomes a doorway into stillness, memory, or feeling — Georgina’s role is to hold space and witness, not to interpret or diagnose what emerges.

No. Nothing here is about skill or the finished piece. The value is entirely in the making — what surfaces while your hands are moving, not what the result looks like.

Many people find contemplative, non-clinical practices like this to be a meaningful complement to therapy — though it isn’t a replacement for it. If you’re currently in therapy or working with a mental health provider, this practice can sit alongside that care, not in place of it.

Getting started begins with a conversation, not a commitment. Reach out through the contact form and share a little about what’s bringing you to this work right now. Georgina will follow up personally with a few questions about what you’re looking for, then help point you toward the right starting place — whether that’s a single session, an ongoing practice, or simply more detail on an offering you’re curious about.

No. Many people reach out with only a general sense that something needs attention, not a specific practice in mind. That’s normal, and figuring it out together is exactly what the initial conversation is for.