About Creative Process Workshops
Creative Process Workshops offer a dynamic environment for change
and personal growth. These weekends are designed to mid-wife the emergence
of the essential self through therapy, dreams, bodywork, interactive
group work, movement, meditation, yoga, and the arts. What each participant
brings to these weekends is a vital part of the workshop format.
Creative Process Training is based on the idea that our lives are not fixed, but emergent and creative. Each workshop format is intended to deepen one’s experience of oneself--by challenging the outer personality and its masks, and exploring the inner self with its potentials and strengths. These weekends enable participants to directly access fields in the unconscious where our self-limiting beliefs and our resources for a profound creativity exist side by side.
Program topics include:
relationship work, communication, conflict
transformation, creative partnering, the skill of conscious loving;- personal and spiritual growth, healing and recovery from trauma,
self acceptance work;
- courting the inner artist through writing, clay, journal, and sacred drama;
- exercising the body and soul and through movement, yoga, meditation, play, prayer, and an occasional sweat lodge.
Along with the traditional therapies, the Creative Process incorporates the feminine element in healing work. Because the feminine is innately relational, this means exploring an uncompromising relationship to the whole self; to the inner world of feeling and intuition; to the body and its senses, and their vocabulary; it means exploring the archetypal language of dreams, synchronicity, and the numinous world of Spirit.
The
aim and goal of Creative Process Training establishes
a working dialogue between the masculine and feminine energies and the
key archetypes in the unconscious as they present themselves in dreams
and real life situations; and explores how to expand that dialogue in
relationship.
During the course of the weekend participants will have the opportunity to dissolve conflict, heal the pain of past events, create a self-concept that works, and encounter their own sacred ground within.
These groups and workshops are designed for individuals, couples, health care professionals, clergy, students, and anyone intrigued by the concept and practice of a divine wild in the soul.
"How
does one describe the feeling of giving birth to a long awaited
child. The transcendent feeling of coming heart-to-heart
with the beloved? Within the container of CPT I have felt
the pain of labor, the all- encompassing support of the group, and
the loving hands of a midwife. Through the grace of the Spirit
I have also felt a delivery, a coming home to myself. The experience
speaks volumes, and yet is also simultaneously silent and deep. "Diving
into the Wreck" can be frightening and yet has been essential
to my encounter with redemption, forgiveness, discovery and the
empowerment of the feminine."
"This workshop far exceeds any professional
training I have received because it takes me deep within myself.
There's a river inside I'd forgotten existed." |
Creative Process Workshops are held:
in waldport on the central oregon coast (click photos for a larger view)
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and in santa fe, new mexico (click photos for a larger view)
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