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MARCH 2006
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What are the I's of
March?
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Jilly Con Marney
Teleseminar
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An abbreviated
intoduction to
Kaizen-Muse
Creativity Coaching
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Hit print and read in a comfy chair with a pillow under your feet.
Dear Creative Seeker,
The I's of March are Inspiration, Intuition, Ingenuity, Imagination, and Intergalactic Travel. "To Infinity and beyond." As Buzz Lightyear would say. My wish for you is to "march" forward in all of these areas. Begin by listening to that wise voice deep inside.
"I" is also a "letter" and the picture you see to the right is Meg Hill's interpretation of a love letter.. (in the spirit of loose associations). Your March creative project prompt is to collage, paint, sculpt, doodle or dance a love letter. Make it a love letter to your muse. Or to your leprechaun. Or to someone who means a lot to you. Or even better, someone who means very little.
Here are some March acronyms:
From Laurie Hawley:
Muse Albert Raises Creative Hypotheses.
Muse Audacity Rouses Courageous Hutzpah.
Marge Applauds Routine Created Habits.
From Mary Gray:
March Around Resistance. Choose Happiness.
From Nicky Pitman:
My Aunt Rona Chases Handsome Hunks
Many A Recovering Chocaholic Heal
May All Random Coincidences Happen
Me:
Many Artists Receive Creative Hiccups
I am Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. a creativity instigator, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach founder and trainer, artist, storyteller, workshop leader, and author of the book, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) . I lurk at www.themuseisin.com . I am skilled in getting two cats who have jealousy issues to purr simultaneously.
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One of the best ways to stay inspired, imaginative, increase all your "I's" including your Infatuation with creativity is to take workshops and teleseminars. We creative people need structure because most of the time we are floating in a vicinity that is out of our bodies - these events or telephone calls can provide the near perfect structure.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 15 REEL IT OUT AND YO-YO IT IN .. If you want to experience some cutting edge creativity exercises that differ from the ones you’ve seen hundreds of times, come experience the far out minds of Marney and Jill in this workshop that teaches you how to “toy” with ideas for ingenuity, inspiration and amusement. These fresh and original activities and guided imageries will shift your thinking. This is a part of our Kid Series of classes.
Reel It Out, Yo-Yo It In:
http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html#toys
Sub-Kid-Tion: http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html#kid
Note this is available in two versions...the 10-class series (which is now 8 live classes plus 2 recordings), or the 6-class series...both of them let's you save big bucks!)
The DreamBoard Workshop Recording:
http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html#dream
Spilt Milk and Making a Mess Recording:
http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html#mess
also, here's a direct link to a bunch of testimonials: http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html#jmcomments
THURSDAY MARCH 16TH (and every third Thursday) 7-9 P.M. Muses and Writing Workshop @ Book Works in Del Mar at the Flower Hill Mall $13 Keeping the muses out of hibernation with prompts that make prose, poetry, journal writing and creative expression easy. This month cupcakes to celebrate Jack Kerouac’s Birthday month. This month's inspiration comes from Loose Associations and Roadtrips. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20051221-9999-m1m21tfdmar.html
THURSDAY APRIL 27th Chicago - Come join Jill for Creativi-tea Workshop and Author Event at Transitions Bookstore http://transitionsbookplace.com/
SATURDAY APRIL 29, 2006 Chicago: Creativity Coaching for Healthcare Professionals. A workshop to inspire more creativity for your coaching or therapy practice and in your life. At Vision + Voice: Charting the Course of Arts, Health and Medicine Society for Arts in Healthcare 15th Annual International Conference. http://209.200.109.67/template/page.cfm?page_id=21
MAY 1 - 16 THE MUSES GO TO ITALY!
Wednesday, MAY 17th Next Marney and Jill Tele-fun on Creativity and Spirituality from a Kid's Eye-View.
MAY 26th KAIZEN-MUSE CREATIVITY COACHING CERTIFICATION TRAINING: A limited number of people will go through a 14 week course to become certified as Kaizen-Muse Coaches. See a little more about Kaizen-Muse below but for a full description of this program please email: Barbara Benedict at Info@TheMuseIsIn.com
JUNE 15th and for 12 weeks following -stay in the comfort of your home but come to CREATIVITY SUMMER BOOT CAMP on the phone and over the email. 12 Weeks that will change you creatively for a lifetime. People are raving about the Muse Journey with Denise Mihalik and Jill… the influence of Denise's weekly inspiring visuals and Jill's phone calls with powerful experiences and guided imagery gives you the inspiration and tools you need to make creativity a life time habit. Your commitment to the journey is modified according to your life load.. some people just like hanging out in the company of creative kindred spirits, others use the structure and playful tools to bring into fruition dreams that have formerly been put off due to overwhelm, fear, frustration, perfectionism or the unsatisfying habit of comfortable routines. The creative call never goes away, but the fear does. For more information please email me at jbeansky@netscape.net http://www.denisemihalik.com/muse/musead.htm
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 and WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16 PHOENIX for ART UNRAVELED!!!!
Jill will be teaching two workshops at Art Unraveled this year - There's a Muse in the House
http://www.artunraveled.com/MuseintheHouse.htm
and Mortals Who Collage with the Muses
http://www.artunraveled.com/MortalsWhoCollage.htm
SEPTEMBER 8,9, 10 … Hiawatha, Iowa CREATIVITY WEEKEND At Prairiewood Retreat Center
SEPTEMBER 21 and 22, 2006 SAN DIEGO Jill teams up with UCLA's author, psychologist and international seminar leader, Dr. Robert Maurer (www.scienceofexcellence.com ) to present a dynamic one and a half day workshop on Kaizen-Muse techniques to break through creative blocks. This is the Muses latest state of the "arts" ingenuity in what truly works to make creativity an effortless life-long habit. You will establish new appealing ways to help banish the fears, overwhelm, lack of focus, and perfectionism that frustrate you in the creative process. Additionally, Dr. Maurer will be doing a three-hour workshop on Overcoming Self Sabotage . Registration is limited for this special event so register early. Please email for details to jeansky@netscape.net
OCTOBER 5- 10, 2006 Art and Soul Portland, Oregon Jill will be facilitating a workshop on October 6th . Hope to meet you in person. See http://www.artandsoulretreat.com/portland-workshop-single.php?workshop=253
MUSE FACILITATOR TRAININGS Facilitate Muse Groups and workshops in your area for an additional stream of income and joy using the wisdom and magic of the nine modern day Muses (and of course the bodyguard). Receive a comprehensive instruction on how to run, market and delight in running Muse groups. Go deeper with your own creativity the same time you are spreading the fulfillment of creativity to others.
On-line and on the phone: MARCH 13th – MAY 29th 2006
INPERSON (limited to 10)
OCTOBER 22- 25 2006 San Francisco at the Petite Auberge in downtown SF
NORTH SAN DIEGO EVENTS EVERY TUESDAY at NoonWriting Practice at E Street Cafe in Encinitas.$8 - keep the creative juices flowing easily with a weekly drop-in group. Just show up with pen and paper. http://www.estreetcafe.com/ Jill alternates with Ann Anehun.
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To continue with the I's of March, to "I" add "CAN" and then you have "I CAN Do IT" and then apply it to your Creative Dream and if your obnoxious inner critic tells you that you CAN'T well just reply, "I'll DO IT anyway." Do it for your self-esteem.
Why do we talk about self esteem in a publication on creativity?
Self-esteem is simply essential to the creative process, that’s all. Feeling good about ourselves is so important to eliciting the motivation needed to 1) make the time needed to answer our creative call and, 2) feel like we have something worthwhile to share. Additionally, when we don't have self-esteem, that unrelenting tyrant - perfectionism, is more likely to appear. When used at full strength, perfectionism simply adds to our self-loathing as it can set us up for failure by demanding that we meet up to its unrealistic expectations. Unrealistic expectations are…unrealistic. When we perceive failure, our self-esteem plummets and so does our motivation. We need motivation – without it we are more susceptible to the many distractions and excuses that keep us from our creative process.
So Aha-phrodite came up with a scheme to help your self worth to rise – in the process, enhanced inspiration and motivation will follow.
Go get your journal, or pull up a blank word document. Write down all of the roles you play in your life- For example: mother or father, significant other, your career title, writer, artist, pet owner, shopper, observer, spiritual being. Then write down positive adjectives that you strive to (and mostly likely do) employ for those roles. You will meet up with a collection of positive attributes (unless you have a block obstructing your own brilliance.
For instance in my role as a Workshop Leader I try to employ empathy, confidence, intuition, quick wit, clarity, resourcefulness, helpfulness, perception, cosmetic correctiveness, good accessories, responsiveness, and ingenuity.
As a cat owner I employ good listening skills, perseverance in the face of hairballs, tolerance for fur on most of my black (and some navy blue – though I look much better in black) articles of clothing, playfulness, coyote cautiousness, openness to being walked on, and sensitivity to tuna and catnip needs.
And as a writer I employ a little quirkiness.
Etc.
So in the process of just reflecting on this exercise I feel a little esteem wattage being generated. I need esteem wattage in creativity. It actively lights up my little idea light bulbs. I love idea light bulbs.
If you just read through this exercise without doing it -WAIT JUST A #*@$#& MINUTE. Are you the type who HAS a library of books on creativity under your bed but reads them without doing any of it? One of the keys to creative growth is to throw yourself into action, any action, with no attachment to the result. One of the ways to procrastinate in the creative process is to read a lot without applying what you read.
Will Rogers said "Even if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you don't do anything." If not now.. when?
Spread muse energy for lucky March... the luck is when you forward energy - it come back to you. Forward this to someone who needs a little more self esteem.
(c) The Muse Is In 2006 Please do not use without written permission
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Every body is filled with creative motion.
OTHER LINKS AND EVENTS
DENVER AREA WORKSHOP with Trained Muse Facilitator Laurie Hawley:
Muse Mystique: Unleashing Your Creative Spirit
Saturday March 25, 2006 12:00-4:00 p.m.
$48/$50, plus $6 materials fee
Swallow Hill Music Association (303.777.4394)
303.322.3562/ lmhawley27@msn.com
In this compassionate, playful but profoundly transformative environment, Creativity Coach and Muse Group facilitator, Laurie Hawley, will help you to unleash your creativity, reconnect with your inner child, and discover your authentic being. You'll get an introduction to ten powerful principles, in the guise of nine whimsical muses and their bodyguard, that will facilitate breaking through your creative blocks and diminish your fears around the creative process. This Workshop will provide valuable information, tools and exercises to ground you in the present moment, motivate and inspire you, and generate the know-how for realizing your creative dreams.
Trained Muse Facilitator in the Atlanta area
stacey beth shulman decatur, ga.
404/202-3929 potterybliss@aol.com
Watch for creativitea parties, muse groups, and more...
Denise's website: http://www.denisemihalik.com/
Stand-up Comedian Jim Billingsley's blog: www.jbillingsley.blogspot.com
:: Artella's "Sprites of Spring" is officially in Swing! It's another magical gift exchange from Artella! The full details of this super cool way of spreading a little magic can be found at
http://www.artellawordsandart.com/2006spritesofspring.html And, speaking of MAGIC, if you haven't seen the current Artella issue, be sure to grab some of its poetic majesty and glitter at
http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ZineIssues.html
Here's a cool Web site presenting gorgeous craft how-to projects in a retro-style space storybook universe: http://www.zerogdanno.com
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If you would like to work with a Kaizen-Muse trained Creativity Coach or are interested in taking the training that begins the week of May 26 please email Barbara at Info@TheMuseIsIn.com
EVERYONE CAN BENEFIT FROM AND ENJOY LIFE MORE BY BEING CREATIVE
As a highly sensitive, creatively obsessed person, studying the creative process since 1979, Jill Badonsky has written a popular book and developed this model of creativity coaching that is catalyzing long lasting breakthroughs for individuals wanting to move forward in creative pursuits or who want to think and act in a more creative manner. Creativity seekers from all walks of life are learning and integrating life-changing tools that result not only in less frustration and resistance in the process of creativity but also result in a new lease in the journey of life.
In 2005, during her continuing exploration of helpful tools, Jill discovered UCLA psychologist and international workshop leader, Dr. Robert Maurer’s book, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way. (wwwscienceofexcellence.com). His work has greatly influenced, augmented and simplified portions of this coaching model. His participation in the program enriches it with his impressive background, expertise, and gentle, thorough style of teaching.
Here are just a few compnents of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching's philosophy:
1. Empowering questions, intuitive reflections and the prescription of tools discovered and proven over and over to honor the creative process and the idiosyncrasies, uniqueness, resistance and sensitivities experienced by creative individuals or any individual embarking upon the creative process, support, guide and inspire clients to make long lasting changes.
2. Distinctively designed, Kaizen-Muse guided imageries are instrumental in quieting unhelpful mental chatter and in eliciting and cultivating imagination, intuition and inner wisdom.
3. State of the art approaches that reshape the way the mind works in order to establish lasting changes, make creative living, thinking, and productivity easier. Frustrations of frequently experienced creative blocks and resistance are at last solved and creative progress is more easily made.
4. Tapping into and cultivating our child-like spirit liberates creativity. By giving ourselves permission to be free from judgment at the beginning of a process and to stay with a journey that often veers off into opportunity masquerading as dead ends, unexpected discoveries, seductive tangents, and , rest stops where nothing appears to be happening yet subconscious activity is busy being restored for a future burst of inspiration.
5.The use of play, compassion and gentleness are essential to creative progress. Unconventional tools framed playfully, shift the individual into a sphere of possibility and easily enlist long lasting commitment.
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Writing Prompts:
"Strip your poem to
the bare bones. Only
use nouns..."
Continue with this
start:
"Fred? I just
noticed that there's
a tunnel in our
closet..."
Use these words and
more in poetry,
prose or nonsense:
mellow, dry wall,
frame, shiver,
reflect, instigate,
gang, yell, partake,
privy, wind chimes,
line.
In honor of Jack
Kerouac's birthday,
write a
freedom-laden,
run-on sentence
about an experience
you had on a trip.
Feel free to
embellish. To get
you in the mood,
here's an excerpt
from his work, The
Subterraneans
"So there we were at
the Red Drum, a
tableful of beers a
few that is and all
the gangs cutting in
and out, paying a
dollar quarter at
the door, the little
hip-pretending
weasel there taking
tickets, Paddy
Cordavan floating in
as prophesied (a big
tall blond brakeman
type subterranean
from Eastern
Washington
cowboy-looking in
jeans coming in to a
wild generation
party all smoky and
mad and I yelled
"Paddy Cordavan?"
and and "Yeah?" and
he'd come over)--all
sitting
together...."
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