From the category archives:

Retreats

Creativity=Radical Gratitude, Extreme Patience and a Will of Iron

August 31, 2010

Making things involves, well, everything.
When you commit to a creative practice-
when you say ” I can’t not make things!”, and mean it-
you take on a new lifestyle.
You expand your awareness
You develop dexterity and control.
You refine your ability to focus.
(or why would so many of you request my HA on Focus?)
You cannot not grow and change [...]

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Play and Risk

July 15, 2009

Today’s territory:
Play, and playing.
Invention, imagination and risk.
Immersion in another world.
A world of ideas and images, rules and goals, desires and successes.
A world that we create. A world that creates us, in turn.
Hmm.
Playing does many things for children. Turns out that adults derive just as much from playing as kids, physically, emotionally, cognitively, and socially. [...]

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Perceiving

June 27, 2009

Today’s territory-
Senses and our creative nature.
Perceive means ‘to gather in’,‘to grasp entirely’, ‘to receive or collect’.
Our perceptions arise from how and what we sense.
What we sense gives us both the raw materials,
and the infrastructure,
for our creative actions.
We create as a response to our perceptions.
We will be exploring this more at our Creativity Retreat in France [...]

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Perception And Play

June 23, 2009

Today’s territory:
This year’s
Creativity Retreat at La Cascade, France

September 24 thru October 1
“Perception and Play”

Two Basic Concepts:
What you perceive leads directly into what you create. And teaches you who you are as a creator.
How you play teaches you to experiment, learn, integrate, expand and express, without risk.
The goal of this retreat is to anchor you more [...]

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Downstream

February 14, 2009

Today’s territory:

Swimming downstream.
Letting go, letting the current take over.
Being clarity.
Being ease.
In making things, as in living life,
there are actions that enhance our process and desires, and actions that obstruct them.
We have free will.
We can choose whatever serves us best.
We are here to learn to choose.
We have all the time we need.
Imagine a clean mountain stream: [...]

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Lightness

January 22, 2009

Today’s territory:
The lightness that change offers us.
Are we willing to be light?
Are we willing to be clear, agile and gracious in our creative actions?
What would our art look like?
What would our lives look like?
Okay, so like pretty much everybody on the planet I am investigating and making new choices about how I do things.
In my [...]

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Taste

January 8, 2009

Today’s territory:
Physical senses and creative action.
Taste, smell, see, hear, feel, look, weigh, intuit, imagine, empathize…
There are many more than five senses.
All of our senses are involved when we make something.
Use more or all of them deliberately as you work.
Your pieces will appeal to you more, because they are made from more of you.
You [...]

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