Your creative wisdom is present, always, and a potential source of power in your life.
You can create space for this wisdom to emerge, as part of your daily life.
You can develop a simple, enjoyable arts practice that increases mindful self-awareness and more authentic living.
Here are 3 images I created spontaneously over the past few weeks. As I reviewed them, and re-read their messages, I became aware of an unfolding theme that is currently present in my life. Watch and listen.
As a long-time expressive arts facilitator and therapist, I am fully engaged in a wide and exciting variety of arts practices, including movement, sound, visual art, rhythm, writing, ceremony and more.
- Get quiet and tune inward.
- Make an image – spontaneously.
- Give the image a voice and let it speak.
- Write down what it says.
- Look and listen, with your eyes, your heart, and your body.
- Trust the wisdom that arrives, and weave it into your life.
You don’t need a lot of time.
Whether you spend 15 minutes or 2 hours, you will access your own creative wisdom.
You don’t need a lot of supplies.
Just a piece of paper, and some markers or crayons will do just fine.
- Gather the materials you have.
- Set aside 15 minutes or so of uninterrupted time.
- Listen to the “in this moment” guided meditation.
- Allow a spontaneous image to arrive on the page.
- Look at your image, with curiosity. Turn it around, and look from different orientations.
- Notice what you see, and what you feel, in your body.
- Imagine your image has a voice.
- Write the words, “I am……..” and, imagining that your image is speaking, write down what it says.
- Re-read your writing. Be open. Be curious. Let go of the question: “What does it mean?”
- Notice, over the next few days, how the message of your image begins to “make sense” in the context of your life.
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Kathleen and Tamara, our wonderful facilitators/teachers/guides, created a welcoming, safe, and inclusive atmosphere for this amazing workshop. I quickly shed any reservations I had about participating in the various forms of creative, expressive activities that enriched our time as a group. The moments we shared in their presence provided opportunities for learning, creating, and reflecting that I found to be transformational. This program surpassed my expectations and I feel so fortunate to have been a participant. Carolyn S., 2017 Hollyhock Workshop participant
This article originally published on Expressive Arts Florida’s Blog.
