Speaking Engagements

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Jill speaks to any organization or group interested in the creative process. Her emphasis includes breaking through blocks to creativity, creating the life that nurtures your soul by thinking creatively, and innovation through play and thinking differently.

Jill's presentations are refreshingly unique, motivating, inspiring, humorous, filled with stories and concepts that keep audiences captivating.

To schedule Jill Badonsky for a workshop,seminar, lecture or keynote address:
Email info@themuseisin.com

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Awakening and Unblocking Creativity

This dynamic, practical, and entertaining talk will introduce six distinctive ways to use the power of creative thought. Practical tools in the innovative guise of nine Muses will inspire and empower your imagination and ingenuity as well as your ability to overcome creative blocks to authentic self expression including procrastination, overwhelm, fear, perfectionism, self-sabotage and difficulty making time for creative endeavors.. Accompanies an optional hands-on workshop where the creative principles are experienced through writing and process art.

Approach the world with resourcefulness, motivated imagination and reinforced confidence to express in your true potential. Based on her book I Get to Live on the Planet Another Day and The Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence. Called "Brilliant, dazzling, informative, and entertaining!"

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Keynotes:

ZNE Conference, Pleasanton, California, 2009
Pink Women's Day Conference, Hilton Head Island, January 2009
The Grove, Creativi-tea, San Diego, March 2008
Spirit Fire Retreat, Massachusetts, 2007
Women of the Golden Isle, St. Simons Island, GA 2007
Art Unraveled, Phoenix 2006
Sophia Mountain Center’s Women’s Retreat, Hot Springs, Montana 2006
National Expressive Therapy Association, St. Petersburg, FL 2006
Carlsbad Score Breakfast Conference, 2005
Artella Retreat, November 2004, October 2005
National Association of Women Writers, Dallas 2004
San Diego Creativity Club, 2004
National Organization of Team Spirit, San Diego 2003

Weekend Workshops & Retreats

Agelessness Retreat, October 2007 and 2008, Lehman, MA
Dreamboard Workshop, Ramona, CA 2006
Society for Arts in Health Care Annual International Conferences, Chicago, 2006 and Alexandria VA 2004
Prairie Woods Retreat Center, Hiawatha, Iowa 2004, 2005, 2006
Lee Art Center, Arlington, VA 2005
Art Unraveled Conference, Phoenix, AZ 2005

Guest Lecturer:

Golden Fleece Storytelling, Washington, DC 2005
American Business Women’s Association, Escondido
Unnamed Writer’s Group, Reno, NV
Learning Annex, San Diego
National Speakers Association, Palm Springs
Orange County For You Women's Networking Group
Silicon Valley Singles Group
Romance Writers of America, San Diego 2003
National University, San Diego
Team Building: County of San Diego Mental Health Services
St Elizabeth Hospice
Ruben H. Fleet Science Museum
Fallbrook Writers Conference
Psychiatric Institutes of America Team Building: Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago, Washington D.C, San Diego, Ontario, CA
Shand's Teaching Hospital: Gainesville,
The Golden Door Health Spa, Escondido, CA
Ongoing San Diego Girls , Newcomers, and La Jolla Garden Club

Spiritual Workshops:

Annual Seaside Weekend Retreats
Religious Science Eastern Conference, Atlanta 2004
Religious Science Conference at Asilomar 2003

Sunday Message and Afternoon Workshop:

Religious Science Churches: Seaside, Encinitas, Long Lakes, Minnesota, Riverside, San Jose Center for Spiritual Living, Chatsworth, Cypress
Unity Churches: Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Cedar Rapids, Unity of Melbourne, FL, Sierra Center for Positive Living, Nevada City, CA, Order of the Ascended Rose Fellowship, Encinitas, Unity of Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Bookstore Workshops:

Monthly Third Thursdays Book Works, Del Mar
The Grove, San Diego
Barnes and Nobles ,Minneapolis, St. Louis, Irvine, Long Beach, L.A.
Peppertree Bookstore, Palm Springs
Piece of Mind Bookstore Edwardsville, Ill.
Transitions Chicago
Changing Hands Phoenix
Earth Song Del Mar
Heaven on Earth and Bridge Way Book Encinitas
The Grove San Diego, L.A.
Monterey, CA, Orlando
Great Southern Occupational Therapy Conference

Improv/Comedy Workshops

Encinitas 2003- 2006
Seaside Church, Encinidas 2004

"Jill's keynote presentation at the Artella Retreat absolutely dazzled and delighted me. One of Jill's many unique gifts is her uncanny ability to dynamically handle the energy of an entire group, yet also create meaningful individual connections with each and every person in the audience. Because of those connections, the participants are still talking about her presentation and what it meant to them on a deeply personal level. Motivation and movement, performance and poetry, wisdom and wit—Jill expertly combined them all, drawing us into a world where we are all geniuses. When I typically see a skilled speaker, I walk away thinking how talented the speaker is. But with Jill there's something more . . . she makes you walk away thinking about how talented you are."
—Marney K. Makridakis, Artella Magazine and Creativity Network

"She creates the magic in speaking. When she speaks, people listen—her creative ideas are beyond belief."
—Rita Kahn, International Speaker and Former TV Host

"...you do have a way of bringing out more of the eccentric in me, as you have worked diligently to express you own uniqueness, and thus, without effort or even consciousness, you instantly give permission to everyone in front of you to dare to be creative. I wish you a Happy book, and a happy you."
—Scott Kalechstein, International Song Writer and Musician