CREATIVITY

CIRCLES
Empathy and Creativity

This Creativity Circle is focused on empathy in American

history and the proliferation of the idea of walking a mile in
someone else’s shoes. This concept came from Native
American culture and was put into poetic form by Mary
Lathrap in 1895. Since then, it is a community used phrase
in church, school and everyday life.
Cultivating empathy in our culture is very important and
relevant in our contentious political environment.
You will draw each other’s shoes in a complex composition
and have conversations about each other’s paths and
experiences.

Journaling in Nature

We will journal using a selection of plants and flowers that tell

a story about location, season and atmosphere.
This Creativity Circle will encourage the exploration of personal
expression as we connect to nature and learn to focus on what
story nature wants to reveal, be in the way of light cascades
across the leaves, the interaction of color, the movement of the
lines, or the details in the surroundings that add context and
emotional weight.
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MLK Creative Response

Reading and responding creatively to one of his great speeches.

Given in 1967 “Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a
deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own
somebodiness.
Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you count. Always
feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always
feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has
ultimate significance.”
Take these ideas and make art to manifest your somebodiness,
set goals, communicate with each other, and represent our
ideas in drawing and painting.

Cycle-Recycle Imagine-Reimagine

When something breaks with the routine of everyday life, it

becomes memorable, leaves a bookmark, to look back upon
and illuminate certain truths that you had previously gone
without notice. Thus, in separating from the norm, it allows
us to use it.
A mixed-media piece can reveal a truth, emotion, or
discovery much in the same way. This Creativity Circle will
explore how to create a mixed-media piece that express a
moment, experience or image that is meaningful to you.
Bring a journal, a few photographs, objects, poems, articles
or print out things that resonate with you, even if you can’t
describe why. We will use these materials as starting points.
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Creative Dates

In each of these Creativity Circles, we will explore the

themes of the particular month’s New Moon. Then, we will
create a meaningful and beautiful rainbow. We will leave
deeply-seeded, soul-felt intention for the next lunar cycle.

Cosmic Smash Booking

It is a mash up between intentional creativity and art journaling.

In this Creativity Circle, we are going to start making a book that will
help you develop your own personal style, while creating
spontaneously for personal discovery and creative awakening.
The idea is that at the end, you will have a deeper connection to your
intuition, increase confidence to make bolder choices, freedom to let go
and explore various options, and understanding that everything is
transformable. It is important to know that you don't have to be an
artist to complete a book and use these techniques. Ignite the creative
spark inside you in discovering how to journal intuitively, you will learn
to surrender to your true visual voice as your personal process.

Create Because You Care

In this Creativity Circle, each guest is given two terra-cotta

pots and asked to paint a symbol or shape that represents
them and paint it on their pots. Then, we pass the pot and the
next person adds their symbol, until each pot has made its
way around to everyone.
Creatives leave with a pot that has each member’s symbol, to
keep and one pot to donate!
This relaxing, fun and bonding activity culminates with
planting a succulent in each pot.