Artist's Way 12 - Week Coaching Group

If you want to:

· Be more creative

· Tap into your spiritual essence, or

· If you've started the Artist's Way and have become stuck

Joining my 12 week support class may be the next step for you.  Julia Cameron, a writer and composer, began teaching people who were blocked from their creativity to dig in and recover this.

Since then, millions of artists and just us “regular folk” found The Artist's Way, to be a launching pad into our own creativity.

This process is experiential, which means that although reading the book will lead to many changes, doing the book and as many of the assigned tasks as possible is what causes transformation and expansion. 

Magic happens in this process.  It is very simple to follow the easy steps and guidelines and with a coaching support group, insight happens exponentially!

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”

Carl Gustav Jung

Workshop Details:

Dates:      October 19, 2009 – Jan 4, 2010

Every Monday:     7 PM EST – 1.5 hour teleconference call

Bridgeline to be provided

Tuition:    $350 – includes 1 one-on-one coaching session to be scheduled at any time during the program.

Please email Sheila@lifevisioncoachingllc.com for enrollment details.

Group Leader: Sheila J. Mikulin, M.A.

Founder, Life Vision Coaching

www.lifevisioncoachingllc.com 

http://www.lifevision-soulfulcoach.com/

Email:  Sheila@lifevisioncoachingllc.com 

 

Each week we meet on a bridgeline and share our experiences as we do the morning pages, artist dates, and tasks assigned for that week. The group energy and reporting to someone once a week can keep many people motivated to finish the process. Coaching is dynamic in a group setting as the participants contribute greatly to the coaching process.

Each group is limited to 10 participants to ensure an intimate group with plenty of time for everyone to share.  I will add more than one group, if necessary.

Following is our weekly agenda:

Week 1

The Basic Tools:

Tool One:  Morning Pages –

Tool Two:       The Artist’s Date

Tool Three:     The Daily/Weekly Walk

 

Recovering a Sense of Safety

This week initiates your creative recovery.  You may feel giddy and defiant, hopeful and skeptical.  The readings, tasks, and exercises aim at allowing you to establish a sense of safety, which will enable you to explore your creativity with less fear.

 

Week 2

Recovering a Sense of Identity

This week addresses self-definition as a major component of creative recovery.  You may find yourself drawing new boundaries and staking out new territories as your personal needs, desires, and interests announce themselves.  These tasks are aimed at moving you into your personal identity, a self-defined you.

 

Week 3

Recovering a Sense of Power

This week may find you dealing with unaccustomed bursts of energy and sharp peaks of anger, joy, and grief.  You are coming into your power as the illusory hold of your previously accepted limits is shaken.  You will be asked to consciously experiment with spiritual open-mindedness.

 

Week 4

Recovering a Sense of Integrity

This week may find you grappling with changing self-definition.  The tasks are designed to catapult you into productive introspection and integration of new self-awareness.  This may be both very difficult and extremely exciting for you.

 

Week 5

Recovering a Sense of Possibility

This week you are being asked to examine your payoffs in remaining stuck.  You will explore how you curtail your own possibilities by placing limits on the good you can receive.  You will examine the cost of settling for appearing good instead of being authentic.  You may find yourself thinking about radical changes, no longer ruling out your growth by making others the cause of your constriction.

 

Week 6

Recovering a Sense of Abundance

This week you tackle a major creative block – money.  You are asked to really look at your own ideas about God, money, and creative abundance.  The essays will explore the ways in which your attitudes limit abundance and luxury in your current life.  You will be introduced to counting, a block-busting tool for clarity and right use of funds.  This week you may feel volatile.

 

Week 7

Recovering a Sense of Connection

We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativity.  The emphasis is on your receptive as well as active skills.  The essays, exercises and tasks aim at excavating areas of genuine creative interest as you connect with your personal angels.

 

Week 8

Recovering a Sense of Strength

This week tackles another major creative block:  time.  You will explore the ways in which you have used your perception of time to preclude taking creative risks.  You will identify immediate and practical changes you can make in your current life.  You will excavate the early conditioning that may have encouraged you to settle for far less than you desire creatively.

 

Week 9

Recovering a Sense of Compassion

This week finds us facing the internal blocks to creativity.  It may be tempting to abandon ship at this point.  Don’t!  We will explore and acknowledge the emotional difficulties that beset us in the past as we made creative efforts.  We will undertake healing the shame of past failures.  We will gain in compassion as we re-parent the frightened artist child who yearns for creative accomplishment.  We will learn tools to dismantle emotional blocks and support renewed risk.

 

Week 10

Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection

This week we explore the perils that can ambush us on our creative path.  Because creativity is a spiritual issue, many of the perils are spiritual.  With this week’s tasks, we search out the toxic patterns we cling to that block our creative flow.

 

Week 11

Recovering a Sense of Autonomy

This week we focus on our artistic autonomy.  We examine the ongoing ways in which we must nurture and accept ourselves as artists.  We explore the behaviors that can strengthen our spiritual base and, therefore, our creative power.  We take a special look at the ways in which success must be handled in order that we not sabotage our freedom.

 

Week 12

Recovering a Sense of Faith

In this final week, we acknowledge the inherently mysterious spiritual heart of creativity.  We address the fact that creativity requires receptivity and profound trust – capacities we have developed through our work in this course.  We set our creative aims and take a special look at last-minute sabotage.  We will renew our commitment to the use of the tools.

 

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