The initiative Pinceladas de Sabiduría, created in 2022 by Mónica Planas (AcuarelaEmocional), celebrates its fifth edition from the 2 to the 30 of November 2026. The programme includes eight live online meetings with watercolour artists and personal growth professionals from various countries, a proposal that establishes this project as a reference space for those seeking inspiration, well-being, and meaningful learning.
Since its inception, Pinceladas de Sabiduría has offered 40 conversations with diverse voices from the creative and emotional fields, who have shared practical reflections, real-life experiences, and tools that invite the discovery of different ways to approach self-care.
“If I paint to stay aligned, what do other artists and professionals do to stay connected? And if you don't paint, what do you do, how do you do it?” are the questions Planas asks herself, which gave rise to the idea of inviting artists and people who work with others' emotions to answer this concern and inspire many other people who are also looking for habits and formulas to find serenity, well-being, and inner peace.
The success of previous editions with speakers from the fields of art, well-being, and personal growth has set the tone that will be developed in this month's call: after each meeting with a specialist, attendees will participate in a guided AcuarelaEmocional practice to integrate what has been shared.
This year's guests and their different fields of work, in order of participation, are: Cecilia Gavilán, perceptual intelligence; Nabila Arenas, creator of the Escuela Visión Expandida; Laia Giménez, psychologist; Almu Ruíz, visual artist; Carlota Cao, engineer and artisan; Míriam Aguilar, non-maternity grief; Victoria de la Serna, artist and curator; Eugenia Elizalde, therapist.
Pinceladas de sabiduría 2026 explores further and presents the opportunity to learn about other perspectives and new resources that help personal growth professionals and artists to live with more calm, presence, and connection with themselves.
Aimed primarily at women, but open to all types of people seeking to improve their self-care and emotional balance, the annual meetings have generated a community that values the authenticity, depth, and human focus of the AcuarelaEmocional method which, with the organisation of courses and individual or group practical sessions, has helped more than 400 women between the ages of 30 and 40 acquire habits that lead to greater inner balance in their day-to-day lives.
The first person to experience the method was Planas. She was living an intense pace of life that was incompatible with her Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) condition, which caused her to end up in a wheelchair more than three times. Following this event, she began a process of search and introspection to improve her quality of life, which led her to discover all the benefits that painting brought to her daily life. “I have been researching and working on the method since 2007. In 2018 I began applying it to help other people. My purpose is to help them connect with themselves and their emotions so that they do not reach the point I reached, and for them to discover the secret of releasing feelings. In Pinceladas de Sabiduría I seek to expand and offer other perspectives that complement what has been established so far”, explains the designer.
This year, the closing session led by the founder will have a special format that will be revealed during the congress.
The calendar of the sessions, lasting 55 minutes, includes every Monday and Thursday in the month of November, at 18:30 h (Spanish mainland time). Registration is free and must be done via this link: Pinceladas de Sabiduría ’26 – AcuarelaEmocional
About Mónica Planas
She is a product designer, jeweller, and illustrator. She has trained in psychotherapy and astrology. In 2017 she created the HakunaBcn brand of illustrated embryo ultrasounds and in January of 2021 she unveiled the AcuarelaEmocional™ method, after several years living with a diagnosis that changed her life: a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
Her experiences with the disease, the search for tools to mitigate stress, and finding emotional balance led her to discover the healing capacity of watercolour, which in her words “transports you to a state where neither time nor the mind exists”. She lives each moment, making even the most everyday things become great achievements. “Solo gracias. Diario de acuarela y gratitud” was her first book (2022).
About the Acuarela Emocional™ method
More than 400 people, mainly women between the ages of 30 and 40, have completed courses with the Acuarela Emocional™ method, guided by the creator to discover resources that, with practice, lead to greater emotional balance and well-being. Participation in workshops and practical sessions helps attendees acquire healthy habits of inner connection and to paint using the watercolour technique.
To request more information, please contact the following people:
Mónica Planas - acuarelaemocional@gmail.com, tel. 679933063.
Mercedes Piera (Communications) mp@mercedespiera.com, tel. 666539630.