Filling the Well: A Mixed-Media Creativity Workshop for Women
Can you drive your car without stopping for gas? Our bodies need sleep and good food to function properly. So does our imagination. We need time, space, and a little “creative pit stop” to rest, relax, rejuvenate and reawaken our passion and purpose.
In this workshop, you will learn how to make a magnificent visual journal, complete with lusciously painted and decorated pages. Your book becomes the Well of your Creative Source, which you'll fill to the brim with musings, writings, ideas, and lots of mixed media techniques to support the creative process.
If the idea of attending a workshop like this making scares you a little, (or a lot?!) or you think you’re not creative, great! The act of creating something new makes us vulnerable. Here you will learn how to recognize and deal with that nagging voice of the inner critic (which past participants say is worth the price of admission alone).
"I just loved your workshop yesterday. I can't wait to continue with my journal.
Usually, I walk away from all-day workshops a bit tired, but not yesterday.
Your style of teaching is so relaxing that you forget you're learning something new. I was very relaxed, as if I had been relaxing all day. No stress! Yeah!"
—Judy Ranieri, Artist, Filling the Well participant
All work—and life itself—requires us to take risks, try new things, do stuff we don’t feel good at, solve problems, deal with uncertainty. Each new challenge and opportunity is a metaphorical blank page. Visual journaling helps us invite more ease, joy, and fun into these uncertain moments.
Crafting and working in your own visual journal provide a respite from the jarring realities of life. A place to relax, regroup, and rekindle your passions and sense of purpose. All while learning how to approach “the blank page” with courage and confidence.
No prior art or writing experience is required. Absolute beginners and those who feel they are "not creative" are especially encouraged to attend!
You'll be surprised at what new, beautiful work you can create using common materials that are already close at hand.
Through the magic of mixed-media creative expression, will explore the themes of:
- RE: Purpose...How to find more heart and meaning in all that you do
- RE: Generate... Making something out of nothing
- RE: Charge... How taking time for creative play gives back more energy and time
- RE: New... Where do ideas and inspiration come from?
- RE: Cycle... The natural life-death-life cycle of creativity and how to use it to your advantage
- Finding your unique expressive voice;
- Using visual journaling as a problem solving tool...and lot's more.
Why Keep a Visual Journal?
For more than 20 years, Lisa Sonora Beam has taught visual journaling as a powerful way to develop problem-solving abilities and gain insights in ways that linear, non-visual approaches to thinking and learning don't access.
Visual journaling helps us go beyond what we know in our rational mind, so we can access other ways of knowing—the kind of knowing that results in truly original thinking, ideas, and creative breakthroughs. Plus, it's so much fun that it should come with a habit-forming warning label.
What you'll take away
You will leave with a visual journal brimming with texture, pattern, color, and verbal and visual cues to kick start your imagination, along with plenty of inspiration and support to keep going long after the workshop.
