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Inspire Your Heart with Art and Coaching · Sunday 31 January 2027

THE WINGS

Two wings, one flight.

Six images and a mirror, walked in silence. A card you make with your own hands. Then a small circle with a trained coach, and a red thread that joins every city.

What is your heart ready to give form to?

The Walk Within, second edition. In 15 cities across 13 countries.
The Tehran edition is on Friday 29 January 2027.

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Organised by TimeCoach Academy · Curator: Iman Abrishamchi

Why 31 January

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day.

31 January is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day, an informal international observance that asks people to notice what art does to them: a painting, a song, a poem or a play that changes how they feel. Nobody seems to know who started it. It has spread through museums, schools and galleries because the idea is so simple.

THE WINGS adds one word to the day: Inspire Your Heart with Art and Coaching. Art moves something. Coaching gives that movement time and company, so it does not vanish on the way home.

Two days in the WITHIN year

  • 10 OctoberTHE WALK, held on World Mental Health Day. First edition, 2026.
  • 31 JanuaryTHE WINGS, held on Inspire Your Heart with Art Day. First edition, 2027.

THE WALK asked people to stop and look. THE WINGS keeps the walk and adds making, so each person leaves something of their own on the wall.

What it is

Art opens a door. Coaching keeps you company on the other side.

THE WINGS is the second WITHIN programme, held on 31 January, Inspire Your Heart with Art Day. You look at art in silence, make something of your own, then talk it through in a small circle held by a trained coach. Nobody is promised a result.

The wing of art

Art asks you to look, feel and imagine, sometimes before you have words for any of it. Here it is not a warm-up for something else. It has its own place in the day, and its own time.

The wing of coaching

A coach brings presence, listening and open questions, and makes room for whatever you want to look at. The coach does not interpret your card, your colours or your words.

A bird needs both wings, moving together, to fly. Flight here means freedom, attention and new possibilities. It is not a destination everyone has to reach.

The day

One afternoon, six movements.

Every city follows the same order. The timing bends a little to each venue, and no step is compulsory.

  1. 01

    Arrival

    A welcome, a few simple agreements (privacy, the right to stay silent, the right to step out), a short explanation of the day, and one breath together.

    10 min
  2. 02

    The walk within

    Six images, each with an open question beneath it, walked alone and in silence. The seventh station is a mirror. Stop where you want, pass what you want.

    50 min
  3. 03

    Making

    An A6 or A4 card and the question above. Collage, drawing, a few words, a mark, or nothing at all.

    25 min
  4. 04

    Pause

    Water, a short rest, and a walk to your circle.

    10 min
  5. 05

    The circle

    Group coaching in circles of five or six people, never more than seven, each held by a trained coach. You talk about the experience and your card if you want to. Silence counts as taking part.

    45–60 min
  6. 06

    The thread

    If you choose to, you hang your card on a wall where a red thread joins it to the others. You can also take it home.

    10 min
150–165minutes in all, depending on the venue
32people at most in one session
5–7people in each coaching circle
Freeto attend, in every city

The mirror

Thirty birds went looking for the Simorgh.

چون نگه کردند آن سی مرغ زود
بی‌شک این سی مرغ آن سیمرغ بود

When the thirty birds looked, they saw it at once: the Simorgh was the thirty of them.

Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds, 12th century

In Attar's poem the birds set out under the hoopoe to find their king. They cross seven valleys, and most of them turn back. The thirty who arrive find no king waiting, only a surface in which they see themselves.

That moment shaped the seventh station. After six images you come to a mirror. It can be a chance to look at yourself, at someone else, or at the line between "me" and "us". Or you can glance and walk on. The mirror carries no set meaning, and unlike Attar's birds you are not being led anywhere.

The thread

Everyone walks alone. No one walks apart.

The invisible thread is the link that runs through an image, a question, a look or a silence, from one person to another. It does not erase differences or push everyone towards one answer.

At the end of the day, cards that people choose to share are joined with a red thread on a wall. With the owner's separate permission, photographs of some of them go into an online gallery, where the walls of different cities hang side by side.

Hanging a card is not consent to publish it. Your name only appears if you say so, and no personal details are published without permission.

  • NowRegister your interest in a city
  • 4 January 2027Registration opens in each city and places are confirmed
  • 26 January 2027Final cities and venues announced
  • 29 January 2027Tehran edition
  • 31 January 2027THE WINGS in every other city. The global gallery opens at 20:00 Tehran time
  • 3 February 2027Gallery complete; a follow-up note goes to everyone who took part
  • 10 February 2027Global reconnect, online, for anyone who wants to join

Cities

One day. Many walls. One thread.

Each city is run by a city lead and trained coaches, to one standard of care. Venues and session times are confirmed city by city before 26 January.

15cities13countries4regions

Americas

Toronto
Canada · Sunday 31 January 2027
Hosted by Solmaz Tahzibi, Neda Rezaei Azar, Reyhana Riyahi, Bahareh Babadivand and Pirooz Hassani
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Europe

Delft
Netherlands · Sunday 31 January 2027
Hosted by Zahra Ahanjian, Mahsa Ahanjian and Marzieh Amini
Register in Delft
Berlin
Germany · Sunday 31 January 2027
Hosted by Narjes Eskandarnia and Helia Mofrad
Register in Berlin
Vienna
Austria · Sunday 31 January 2027
Hosted by Mahyar Seyedi, Elara Raboudan and Sogand Shojaie
Register in Vienna
Your city
Coach-led, to the same standard
Trained coaches can still bring THE WINGS to a city for this edition or the next one.
How hosting works

Middle East

Dubai
United Arab Emirates · Sunday 31 January 2027
Hosted by Farideh Niknejhad and Pourya Najafabadi
Register in Dubai

Asia–Pacific

Before you come

What this is, and what it is not.

Is this therapy?

No. It is coaching, not psychotherapy or art therapy. Every session has a person responsible for wellbeing, a quiet room, and a qualified professional available if someone needs one. See the safeguarding summary.

Do I have to talk, or make something?

No. Looking, staying silent, being present or simply moving on are all ways of taking part. No one is asked to finish a step, speak in the circle or show their card.

Will anyone interpret my card?

No. Coaches do not interpret images, colours, symbols or what you say, and they do not diagnose or give advice. They ask open questions and keep time so everyone who wants to speak can.

Will I be photographed?

Not during the walk, the making or the circle. Filming and photography are not allowed there. Cards are only photographed for the gallery with their owner's separate written consent.

Do I need any art or coaching experience?

None. Materials are provided, and the coaches have been trained for this format.

What does it cost?

Nothing. THE WINGS is free to attend in every city. Places are limited because a circle has to stay small.

Organised byTimeCoach Academy
Project director and global curatorIman Abrishamchi
Creative directorKiana Fariborzi
Project coordinatorFara Abdi

Want to host? Each city has a lead, an art host, five trained coaches including a senior coach, a wellbeing lead and a documentation lead. City leads are trained online by the central team before the day. Write to the TimeCoach Academy team to start a conversation.

What is your heart ready to give form to?

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