Beginning the Journey
Rilke’s Book of Hours, Love Poems to God, Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Session 1
“A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
In our first gathering, we step into circle together. Co-creating the container that will hold our personal and collective voyage into the field of creativity. We will set intentions, call in resources and begin to explore what creativity means to us and how it moves through our lives.
Reflection Prompts
Defining Creativity
What does creativity mean to you?
If creativity were a feeling, texture, or movement, what would it be for you?
Accessing Creativity
When do you feel most creative?
Are there specific environments, times of day, or activities that tend to bring you into a creative state?
Collective Seeds
Urge to Make
Limitations Help
Out of Fear
Everything I Do Is Creative
Creativity Feels Like Breathing
Make Breath Bigger
Urge for Healing Space
Live an Authentic Life with Spirit In It
Leading with Ease
Making/Creativity
Inside/Outside
Whats Important, What To Give Weight To
What Is It to Not Get Stuck
Finding My Voice in the Making
Voice & Clarity
Links
Grounding to the Earth Practice
Guided by Erin McGuiness
Home Practice
The invitation is to be curious and explore - stepping out of a right or wrong frame. To give yourself more permission to play and be curious.
If resistance comes up as you practice, note the resistance. Experiment with setting the resistance down for the moment and turning your attention to a place of resource in the body (warmth of a hand on leg, feeling where the chair supports you etc.) and then return your attention to the exploration of creativity or pause and come back to it later.
Option 1
Notice choice points in your life and see if you can access the raw energy of creativity in those moments. Try experimenting with pausing and feeling into those moments.
Option 2
Envision a creative moment and doodle what it feels like.
What colors, shapes, or marks express your creative energy?
Reflection Partner Check-in
Reflection & Integration - Connect with your Reflection Partner and share what you are learning and exploring. Each buddy system decides how often, how long and in what way they want to meet. You can be creative!
Session 2
Reflection & Integration
“There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to decide how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.” Martha Graham
“Often the creative life is slowed or stopped because something in the psyche has a very low opinion of us, and we are down there groveling at its feet instead of bopping it over the head and running free. In many cases what is required to aright the situation is that we take ourselves , our ideas, our art, far more seriously than we have done before...the business of valuing one’s creative life - that is, valuing the beauteous and artful ideas and works which issue from the wildish soul...”
Home Creativity Practice
Tending the Dark: A Practice for the Turning Year
Read full ritual here
The Collective’s Reflections
Returning, taking up the leadership of one’s own life
Need to laugh, have the energy move
Feeling whole and connected, so I can give of myself fully
Freedom for personal flow
Quiet
Space
Look Inward
Feel your desires
Links
Podcast
Arawana Hayashi: True Activity, Direct Knowing & Japanese Court Dance
Reflection Partner Check-in
Reflection & Integration - Connect with your Reflection Partner and share what you are learning and exploring. Each buddy system decides how often, how long and in what way they want to meet. You can be creative!
Track your desires this week, big and small. Write them down in your phone, or before bed, however feels right to you. Share about this process with your partner.
Prompts
What is my deepest desire?
What needs to be released to make room for that desire to come into being?