Creative Souls
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
We had a wonderful time on Saturday at the Creative Soul Workshop. Thank you to all the wonderful, inspiring women who participated and shared your creative souls!
This workshop was held at Sarson’s beach, in a house with big windows that looked out over the lawn and big Weeping Willow trees along the edge of the lake. Couches would have been nice instead of folding chairs, but other than that it was a lovely venue, with lots of light and a small kitchen where we made tea whenever we needed it (read: continually).
We collaged, journaled, wrote about our creative obstacles and set some do-able goals. Toward the end, we all chucked some stones into the water and planted some creative dreams in the flowerbeds out front.
One of the things that always comes up in these workshops is the concept of taking baby steps, and the best word I’ve come across for this is “MICROMOVENTS”, a word coined by SARK in her book ‘Make Your Creative Dreams Real’ (see resource page). I can’t go on and on enough about how much I love this book. It was there that I first learned that as a divergent creative, I didn’t need to try so hard to stay focused on one thing, it is perfectly okay to work in creative spurts, to go from one thing to the next, to work within the parameters of my energy instead of forcing it.
I see this flowing naturally in my 4-year-old. She will wake in the morning and come out to the dining room where she will practice her printing, then she will hop on over to the piano and plunk out “Rain Rain Go Away” a few times before skipping over to the kitchen to ask me to get down the playdough. This is such a natural, instinctual way to grow. Why, as adults, do we feel we have to summon the energy to work long, hard hours at our creative play?
More classes like this to come…. Would love to see you there at the next one!
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