Discover patterns in the Zentangle zone! Here are a few options for learning – see what best suits you…
Online Lessons
I have a mixture of free videos available on my website, or check out my Mindfulness Month Playlists on YouTube and paid lessons from my website which are downloadable to suit your timetable. I have various sets and one offs, you can check them out here.
To book my physical/in-person courses
With all my scheduled courses, it is essential please that you enrol in advance, so that the venue can confirm numbers attending.
For Risingholme courses enrol on the Risingholme website.
For CWEA (Canterbury Workers Education Ascn) courses enrol on the CWEA website.
For Monthly Tangle sessions – usually the third Tuesday morning of the month. Click the button on the event. – These are monthly group sessions, where we cover bigger and usually colourful projects, or a deeper study, when 3 hours is a delicious time frame to work with. These are notified by my monthly Events email for local tanglers, subscribe if you want to stay informed.
For 2026 – a three day Zentangle retreat called Manaaki Tangles. Sessions run by seven of the CZTs based in New Zealand, and a few invited guests, come together in Ōtautahi Christchurch for 3+ days of tangling fun.
The retreat will run from 1pm on Thursday 29th October – 2pm Sunday 1st November 2026. So a long-long weekend of tangling fun with others. It will include NZ inspired sessions during the day, all with morning/ afternoon teas and lunches provided, for a fully immersive three days of tangling fun.
The Retreat is being run at The Maker Workshop in the Arts Centre, with lunches at the Atawhai Cafe, a 40 second walk away, and if you need accommodation, at The Give Hotel next door. If you have not been to this type of event before, it’s an opportunity to tangle alongside others with 12 sessions over four days. The room means we are limited to 38 people. The format we are planning is to start at 8.30am; two session in the morning, split by morning tea, then a lunch break of 90 mins. (Lunch is provided, with time to have a short walk around the nearby botanical gardens or explore the rest of the Arts Centre complex.) After lunch there will be two sessions in the afternoon, split by afternoon tea, to finish our ‘tangling day’ at 5pm. The cost of this event is $450, or an early-bird price of $400 (available until 30th April 2026). You are responsible for your own breakfast and most evening meals, all your own travel arrangements and accommodation expenses.
We are planning some optional extras to join in with if you wish – a Retreat Dinner out on the Thursday evening (can add partners), and perhaps evening sessions for Yoga Nidra, Mindful Crochet and/or a Walkabout Tour looking at tangled street cabinets and some of Chch’s famous street art murals.
We are currently fully booked, but if you would like to be added to the wait list, or might like to have access to the recorded lessons after the event please register this interest here.
One-off scheduled sessions
I run a few different one-off courses at Risingholme.
Tailored Courses
Prologue
This is a short workshop run as a lunchtime slot for mindfulness in the workplace. Designed to fit into a lunch hour, it covers four tangles, the basics of the philosophy of Zentangle and it’s mindfulness attributes. It’s a compact hour that can change your outlook; whether inspiring creativity, increasing focus, helping with relaxation, or tuning into increased gratitude and social cohesion if working in a group.
Contact me for more details if you think your workplace would like to try this session.
Full calendar of upcoming courses
Loading…If anything mentioned above doesn’t suit or if you have a particular group/time frame in mind, I would be only too delighted to make up a suitable lesson/session/workshop plan and bring it to you in a format and situation that suits you; that may be a retirement home, children/school session or holiday programme – please get in touch, let’s see if we can make something work for you and your group/party/book club/friends.
Feedback about my teaching
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My Bio
I have a passion for patterns. Whether in fabric, paper or other mediums I’ve always loved the look of a wandering line or lines, colours and shapes. I have been weaving for many years and have done workshops in schools, kindergartens and polytechnics, lectured to groups and through polytechnics and universities in weaving in Australia, Scotland and England. When I found Zentangle it was a more portable method of pattern concepts and design, and just suited and complimented the weaving perfectly. Due to a continual quest to learn, I obtained my Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) qualification in 2017, and in 2018 finished my Certificate of Adult and Community Education. I just adore being able to pass on this knowledge and fun, it’s such a privilege to teach, and watch others grow alongside yourself, and Zentangle is such a lovely medium to creatively blossom with a pen and a positive outlook.
