2026 Vision Board: Neuroscience + Art

A Messy, Fun, Brain-Rewiring Journey with Isabel Zhang

Dates: Thursdays - Jan 8, Jan 15, Jan 22, Jan 29

Time: 10:30am - 11:45am

Tuition: $222

4-week series. Each session is 75 minutes

Location:
Arts Wayland Gallery
35 Andrew Ave., Wayland MA 01778

Instructor: Isabel Zhang

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Description:

Reset your nervous system
Rewire your inner state
Integrate & Complete 2025
Step into 2026 with your vision

A creative, grounding, and wildly clarifying journey to reset your nervous system, wrap up 2025, and step powerfully into your 2026 vision.

If you’re craving a fresh start, more clarity, less stress, and a grounded sense of direction for the year ahead, this 4-week series is for you. This isn’t a typical art class or a surface-level vision board workshop.

It’s a neuroscience-based, hands-on creative experience designed to help you regulate your nervous system, shift your inner state, and build your 2026 vision from a calm, aligned, empowered place.

No art skills required — truly. Just curiosity, paper, and a willingness to play.

Why?

It’s rooted in neuroscience, not just “positive vibes.”
You’ll access creativity in a way that quiets the inner critic and lowers stress.
You’ll get a gentle, structured way to reflect on & express gratitude for 2025.
You’ll build your vision board from a regulated nervous system — which makes it stick.
It is art as brain-rewiring.

The science:

Non-Verbal Expression: By using both hands, which we will, we allow for non-verbal channel of the brain to express emotions and implicit memories that are often difficult to articulate in words.
Rhythmic & Repetitive Motor Action: The brain finds predictable rhythms soothing, as they signal safety and stability.
Vagal Nerve Stimulation (Subtle): activate the vagus nerve and shift the nervous system toward the parasympathetic state.
Corpus Callosum Activation: Enhancing the connection between the emotional/spatial right hemisphere and the logical/sequencing left hemisphere.

Gratitude: Increases the “positive appraisal” circuits, especially the medial prefrontal cortex. Reduces the amygdala’s reactivity/ "fight-or-flight” activation.