“Polish the Compass: a Retreat for Our Inner Artists” will nurture our deep selves by hosting delightful company, delicious questions, regenerative communal creative spaces. It's an opportunity to step back, sink in — reflect on goals, be in conversation, as well as collaborate & make and share your art.
While we benefit from each others' presence, we also make good on the opportunity for solitude in a remote location. Open to all Artists, of any medium, including the canvas of "life in general.”
The goal is to leave you feeling refreshed, empowered and excited to co-create this next season of your life. Attendees will leave with a list of supportive inner-artist-affirming actions, inspiration, a refined sense of where they want to be in themselves as they move toward dream and destiny.
For some of us, this will serve as an in-breath before the activities of Autumn take place. For others, it will be deep contemplation and integration after a very unusual year. It will serve us to prepare to host this new level of life, arriving as the earth revolves and seasons exchange places on the wheel of life.
Questions we will explore:
What does my inner-artist want?
How can I restore those desires to her?
Where does she find comfort and right expression?
How can my inner adult create structures that support the inner artist to be free?
How do we orient ourselves toward the birth of the More Beautiful World our Hearts Know to be Possible?
How can community activate our most desirable futures?
Activities:
The activities focus around the mission statement and the pathways of practice that will support this mission. Thursday and Friday will invite us to restore balance, and “catch up with ourselves.” Saturday will invite us to dream. Sunday will encourage us to bring these dreams into ourselves, and articulate. Monday will invite us to celebrate the process, let this all go.
Solitude, Morning Pages affirm the space required to host our own journeys. The circling will foster a group dynamic that honors our depth. The Morning Art will invite us to play and uncover symbolic pathways inward. We will affirm and reflect afterwards, to help us get beyond our censor.
Afternoon will invite contemplation on a topic and reflection; open ended time before dinner. Witching hour is a space to improvise together, to delve into the delicious gifts of the relationship between music and inner & outer movement. No previous musical experience necessary -- expert coaching and supportive group will help.
