The Artist Way Journey

If you are familiar with Julie Cameron's "The Artist's Way," written in 1992, read it, did the exercises and got something out of it, then YOU will LOVE my 12-week program developed just for women artists.

Artist women are natural visionaries. Yet some artists, some creatives have not awakened to this deep quality within that often lays slumbering until something significant in our life pokes it awake. I don't want to poke you awake, I want your awakening to be a beautifully intentional process of awakening, a choice to open the portal within you and allow through the magnificence of you!

Perhaps, you have already awakened and been living your artist dream but over the last few years have become burned out by taking too many online art programs and find yourself in a slump. This gentle journey will help support you and provide a loving jump-start to your creative inspiration once again.

Though this program has evolved into a self-paced program, please imagine that I am right there beside you for 13 weeks on an insightful journey into your creative juices. We will discover what makes you tick, what inspires you, what gets in your way, how you might waste your time and energy and what the most important direction is for you to go now.

For 28 years women around the planet have read Julie Cameron's book, formed study groups and circles based on it. I found my way to it in 2010. The first time through it propelled me back into my artistry. Since that time, I've gone back through it three times, threes a charm and on that third time around, which was in 2019, due to important events in my life, I experienced a self actualization around my creative process. This is when I was guided to develop "The Artist Way" with a focus solely on the painter. 

Though I use Julie's book loosely as a guideline, you will find my program to be just as soulful but drastically transformed and designed for the painter. Yes, I will encourage you during the 12 weeks to read sections of her book, though doing so is only suggested and never mandatory, so if you've never read it, you will along over our 12-Week Journey.

Come take a journey with me and together we'll walk into your soul Artist to artist, hand to hand. The Artist Way beckons you to step into your inspiration, into the spiritual experience of creativity which is mystical. Opening your awareness to what must be made through the act of intentional creativity. Making your art, you make an artful life. Making your art, you meet firsthand the hand of your Creator.

Once you register you will receive entrance into the classroom, with links to all recordings. During your 12 weeks, I am available to you for any questions or assistance you might require, simply contact me.

No matter what age you are or your life path might be, whether making art is your career, your hobby or a long-time dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to open to your creativity. Creativity is an experience, a spiritual experience. It does not matter which way you think of it: creativity leading to spirituality or spirituality leading to creativity -- in fact, there is no distinction between the two, in the face of such experience, the whole question of belief is rendered obsolete and as Carl Jung answered the question of belief late in his life, "I don't believe, I know."

The following spiritual principles are the bedrock on which creative recovery and discovery will be built as we journey together.

1, Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.

3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.

4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.

5. Creativity is a Divine gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to MotherFatherGodGoddessAllThatIs.

6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.

7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God, Goddess, Great Spirit: good orderly direction.

8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.

10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

As such there is a necessary time commitment during the 12-week journey of about 3 hours each week--15 - 30 minutes a day, or slightly more if you choose and a few hours for your weekly creative time. This modest commitment to using the tools can yield tremendous results within the twelve weeks of the course. The same tools, used over a longer period, can alter the trajectory of a lifetime.

Each week special projects are given for you to create and through creating, learn and experience specific tools. Tools not only to strengthen your artistic craft, but tools also of personal conscious transformation.  

What you receive with this program:

• 12 complete lessons
• 12 weekly meditations
• 5 canvas mixed media projects
• 4 special projects
• 1 artist challenge
•  and more

This is a journey of your creative recovery or perhaps a creative rebirthing. There will be a rhythm to each week. This allows for greater support and also the development of positive creative habits that form and become a normal way of life for you by the completion of our 12-week journey if you choose to give yourself solely to this program.

To do this, I will use some tools: Weekly Meditation, weekly Seed Journaling, Daily Doodle, Artist Date, and Creation Time. 

I set the weekly program to  begin each new week every Sunday, with a suggested manner in which to work that week. Every week contains assigned reading, weekly meditation, seed journaling, and Daily Doodles five days each week.  Choose which day of the week will be your weekly Artist Date and then keep it on that day each week. Lastly, I recommend assigning Saturdays as your Creation Time. This is only a suggestion, yours might need to be different. 

My point here is to set YOUR WEEKLY SCHEDULE and then commit to it for the 12-weeks.  However, because this is a solo journey, you are welcome to take as long as you need to complete it, but I highly recommend approaching it as an intensive. By doing so, you will get so much more out of it and achieve greater results.

You are reading this because it calls to your Artist Soul, your Creative Soul. Register today to give yourself this gift of a 12-week soulful journey -- you can begin it at any time. The only thing that would stand in the way of clicking the enrollment button is your resistance to freedom, or lack of self-confidence that YOU are an artist. You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours! So claim yourself today! Claim your creativity. Claim your Artist Self. Say yes and take action by enrolling today.

Please note: In addition to Paypal (below), I now accept payment using Venmo.  Use code: Artist Way