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SHELLEY KLAMMER
EXPRESSIVE ART INSPIRATIONSHome
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SELF-HEALING WITH ART AND WRITING Spontaneous art and writing offer a mirror of your inner world and can help you to express, release, see, and heal your emotional pain. For self-healing expressive art and writing classes, I warmly invite you to visit my online classroom HEREFor
a free tour of 100 of my free resources, I welcome you to sign up for my EXPRESSIVE ARTS LEARNING LIBRARY.
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CULTIVATING CALM
A Year of Healing Collage I invite you to join me for a year of HEALING COLLAGE!
This free challenge begins in January 2020 but you can join anytimeHERE.
For this challenge, I invite you to do this companion expressive arts exercise to deepen and anchor the healing power of your weeklycollage.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS EXERCISE * TO DEEPEN into the word of the week, choose a quote, that for you, emotionally reflects the word. * TO ANCHOR the healing power of your weekly collage, write a short spontaneous poem that personally reflects your collage and chosenquote.
WEEK ONE COLLAGE CONTEMPLATION - CALMQUOTE:
_“Rushing into action, you fail._ _Trying to grasp things, you lose them._ _Forcing a project to completion,_ _you ruin what was almost ripe."_ _~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching_POEM: CALM
_Remain calm._
_No rushing. No forcing._ _Trust all will come together when fully ripe._ CULTIVATE CALM THROUGH INTUITIVE MANDALASShelley Klammer |
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A YEAR OF HEALING COLLAGE PROMPTS I invite you to join me for a year of Healing Collage for 2020! This free challenge in January 2020 but you can join anytime!METHOD:
1. Consider the healing word for the week and see where it lands inyour body.
2. Once you have anchored the good feeling from the word of the week, start to intuitively look for imagery that matches your thoughts and feelings about the word. 3. Create an intuitive collage. To find out how to make an intuitivecollage go HERE
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4. You can download the list of prompts HERE.FACEBOOK GROUP
Join me in the DISCOVER INTUITIVE COLLAGE FACEBOOK GROUP HERE.and
tag me @SHELLEYKLAMMER .Shelley Klammer |
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THE SPECIFICITY PRINCIPLE _"The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates."_ _~ Jacqueline Woodson_ As a creative person, it is so easy to get distracted, and lost in many things. Yet, I think we can only have one main passion, and maybe a few others on the side. There is so much to learn about even one thing. And, even if we do many things, at the root of everything that we do - there is likely just one main theme. The Specificity Principle states that exercising a particular skill primarily develops that skill. It is good to choose to be devoted to one thing and then get onto the job of focusing on it intently. For a few years, I have been observing many genius-level spiritual and spiritual teachers online, and I have noticed that each one is very niche-oriented in their true work. Each genius-level teacher basically delivers one thing to the world, specifically and excellently. I have long pondered how little time we actually have to do even one thing really well on a genius level. When I think about the spiritual teacher, Michael Beckwith, as an example, he really only has one message - _Visioning. _ And, he focuses on delivering that one principle in every sermon, on every radio program, in every book and article that he writes. When I think about my specificity, I am clear that, for me, all roads of fascination lead to "the art of emotional healing." I am intrigued by the somatic, psychological and spiritual mechanics of deep emotional healing. I am a therapist that supports people to emotionally heal. I create and facilitate expressive art directives to invite emotional healing. This is such a powerful day to contemplate your specificity. On this 12th day of the 12th month of the year...I wonder...what is yourspecificity?
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TEN MINUTE INTUITIVE COLLAGE PRACTICESELF-REFLECTION
ON THE GO
I created this ten-minute collage practice when I was working full-time as an art facilitator in healthcare. Feeling emotionally overwhelmed. I did not have much time to tend to my inner life. And I know, after years of teaching this course that artists and non-artists alike can find surprising emotional freedom of expression through this simple daily creative practice. Many of us tuck away and accumulate difficult emotions in the interest of properly functioning in our practical life. In the process of growing up, you likely did not learn how to properly process your emotions in the first place, and unknowingly you could be accumulating heavy emotions with each passing year. My creativity has always provided a way for me to see, accept and process all parts of myself in a loving visual way. For many years, I personally have used the practice of spontaneous self-expression to help me honour what I was not allowed to express when I was growing up and also to process the untended emotions that accumulate in a busy,stressful life.
SYMBOL RELEASE
For most of my teen and early adult years, I depended on my private creativity journals to help me feel better emotionally. Unknowingly, I was implementing the process of what psychologist Carl Jung would refer to as "symbol release." While I did not understand the emotions I was releasing through my creativity, I nonetheless was allowing a daily emotional clearing of my body and unconscious mind. I knew that if I was spontaneously creative each day I would feel clearer, lighter, and freer. This course was created during a period in my life when I could no longer fit my extensive expressive art practices into my life. When I began to work full-time, I found that by the end of my working week, I would feel heavy with emotional accumulation. So I began creating a ten-minute "morning collage" with my tea very early each morning, before getting myself off to work. AN EASY CREATIVE PRACTICE To make your experience almost effortless, I invite you to have a stack of old magazines, books, and colourful patterned papers on hand so that you can make a ten-minute collage in the morning before you start getting ready for your day. Even if you are going to be home for the day, make yourself a cup of tea or coffee first thing in the morning, and create your collage immediately after you wake up so that you will be as closely connected to your unconscious mind as possible. Two or three torn images spontaneously chosen, a word, or a phrase or two is all that is required for your collage to reveal something new. I prefer to work with imagery but if you simply want to play with coloured papers in spontaneous, abstract ways, do. This is an excepted from my course INTUITIVE COLLAGE FOR EMOTIONAL INSIGHT . If you have already taken the course - be sure to go download the updated e-book at the end of the course.Shelley Klammer |
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WHY I CREATED 365 MANDALAS _"Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life."__- Pema Chodron_
For three years I created intuitive mandalas as my morning meditation practice. This is the longest creative practice I have done to date. Usually, I aim to finish one sketchbook or journal that is dedicated to a particular medium or modality. This practice took much longer than I expected, as I rarely finished a mandala in my 30 minute morning meditation practice. I always set a healing intention with every creative practice. My intention with this creative practice was to calm my mind and heal my adrenals after years of overworking in the big city. Daily mandala making seemed like the perfect meditational practice for emotional calm and spiritual deepening. WHAT I LEARNED FROM CREATING 365 MANDALAS: This was a particularly long practice....and 6 mixed media journals later, this what I learned: 1. CREATING FOR 15-30 MINUTES A DAY IS DOABLE. It was both fun and challenging to create within the container of the circle each day. It made my creative practice a simple, structured thing to do the first thing before I went to work. (I work as a therapist in privatepractice.)
2. CONCENTRATION CREATES CALM. Having done much deep catharsis through expressive art in the past, I am now at the regulations stage of my emotional journey so drawing and colouring in small, concentrated ways were very calming to my nervous system. 3. PLAYING WITH PATTERNS IS FUN! I have always loved playing with intuitive patterns, so the pattern lover in me was very content inthis process.
4. REPETITIVE CREATING SUPPORTS A POSITIVE AFFIRMATION PRACTICE. I was able to regularly practice soothing mantras and repeat affirming new truths because my chosen creative practice was quite repetitive. 5. RELEASING EMOTIONS INTO A MANDALA IS POSSIBLE: A mandala represents who we symbolically are within the structure of the circle. Some days, especially when I was feeling emotional, I simply released my emotions through an intuitive drawing within the structure of the circle. 6. MANDALAS ARE A WAY TO FOCUS INWARD: The circle offers a way to intensify focus on the inner self. I enjoyed consecrating my 15-30 morning minutes on honouring the shades and shapes of my inner world. 7. A LONG CREATIVE PRACTICE ASKED ME TO DIG DEEPER: I got bored with my mandalas at times, as is common with a long dedicated practice of any kind. The boredom incited me to dig deeper into my own process and to experiment with new techniques like the collage mandalas that yousee here.
8. A MANDALA CAN BE LEFT UNFINISHED FOR A WHILE: This was a pressure-free creative practice. I did not ever pressure myself to complete 1 mandala a day. Some morning I felt like drawing a mandala and some mornings I felt like meditatively colouring a mandala - I usually had 5-10 unfinished mandalas in process at all times. 9. A MANDALA PRACTICE IS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: My ultimate aim was to deepen and calm into my spiritual life. As with all of my creative practices over the years, I deepened through my daily dedication to aregular practice
10. SETTING AN INTENTION FOR ANY SPIRITUAL/CREATIVE PRACTICE CREATES CHANGE: My intention to calm my mind and nervous system were achieved. I deepened my focus considerably during this three-year practice and I really enjoyed this practice.Shelley Klammer |
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BEST COURSE CREATION PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS MY COURSE PLATFORM RECOMMENDATION I truly love COURSECRAFT for my EXPRESSIVE ARTS CLASS LEARNING PLATFORM ! When Ryan and Sara at COURSECRAFT opened up their affiliate program, I joined right away because I felt so steadily supported by them as I transferred over hundreds and hundreds of lessons from my old class platforms. In my opinion, CourseCraft is the best course creation platform for artists, and I have tried many. If you are an artist/facilitator and are looking for a great class platform, COURSECRAFT is similar to Teachable but I have found its intuitive navigation best suits my creative mind. It is super simple and lovingly designed for artists. You can experiment with creating your first class for free HERE.
FREE COURSE FOR ARTISTS Sara from CourseCraft has created a starter guide called AN ARTIST'S GUIDE TO CREATING AN E-COURSEand you can sign up
for free HERE !
COURSECRAFT REVIEW
Here is a video that offers a review of CourseCraft.Shelley Klammer |
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OVERCOMING CREATIVE RESISTANCE_
"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be noResistance.” _
_~ Steven Pressfield_ I had such a fun conversation about OVERCOMING CREATIVE RESISTANCE with DAWN MONTEFUSCO on her Ultimate Writers InterviewShow.
We talked about why we are so often afraid of our authenticself-expression.
MY AUTHENTICITY PROTECTOR In the interview, I shared that we all have a spiritual self that wants to express all of who we are. And, we also have younger, fearful personality parts inside that fear standing out in the crowd. To "get along" in society we have protective parts of self. Some social protectors keep us fitting in, conforming and carefully scanning the environment to see if it feels safe. These (younger) social protectors are often self-critical. They criticize us in similar ways that we have been criticized in the past in an attempt to keep us safe, small and fitting in. The good news is, we can develop a different kind of social protector to help us feel safer to express who we really are! We can ask for an inner protector that advocates for our authentic self-expression. We can ask an inner protector to help us feel big and bright and brave! In my interview with Dawn, I shared how a recent intuitive collage called herself my "authenticity protector." (See my collage above.) What a wonderful shift of confidence this fierce inner protector hascreated in me!
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NEW EDITION OF PHOTO THERAPY E-COURSE_ _
_“Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying themind.”
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_~ Amit Ray_
THE NEW EDITION OF PHOTO THERAPY IS HERE! In this course, I share my personal journey of healing a deep pocket of emotional pain and grief at the death of my mother. My story might ignite and inspire your own journey of deep healing as I touch into the deeper spiritual dynamics of healing emotional pain such as ancestral healing, empathic pain processing, and the soul and karmic contracts that we come here to heal. If you are interested in exploring spiritual and alternative ways to heal your emotional pain, you will love this course. The emails that you will receive touch into the reality that we are larger than this one earth life we are walking now. This larger perspective will support you to call upon the spiritual support of your ancestors, guides and spirit helpers to heal your emotional pain._
_CRACKING OPEN TO BEAUTY When I developed this creative practice, my life was full to the brim with work. I was working full-time in a government-funded art studio, and I was building my private therapy practice in every minute available in my evenings and on weekends. My lunch hour was literallymy only "downtime."
So, I decided to go for a "visual beauty" walk on my lunch hour each day. For an entire year, my "Photo Therapy walk" became a treasured form of soothing meditation. And, ever being in love with visual symbolism and metaphor, my photos started to express their own healinglanguage.
_You can access the Photo Therapy Class HERE._
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INNER CHILD THERAPY WORKSHEETS _“We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.” __~ Serina Hartwell_
I loved creating my Inner Child Therapy Worksheets and the 2019 updates are now available for purchase. In celebration, I warmly invite you to enjoy the art journal exploration excerpted from the worksheets below. If you already own the worksheets, you can go to the classroom and download your new set of worksheets HERE.
THE PROPER APPLICATION OF AFFIRMATIONS Because negative emotions become trapped in the body, you might only able to keep a life-affirming statement running in your mind for a few minutes before you revert back to your habitual negative self-talk. Commonly known as positive affirmations, statements such as, "I love myself," do not often take hold when you are holding onto trapped inner child emotions. Finding the "antidote" statement that will change the structure of your emotional body is essential to emotional healing. Yet, you must take care not to simply wallpaper a new positive judgment over top of a negative judgment. It is important to release negative emotions first to make room for new positive truths to take hold. After negative emotions are released, an antidotal healing statement will usually arise from your true self. Once you find a healing statement that has a strong positive energy charge of truth, you are likely going to need to practice saying this new truth all day, every day, for at least a month or more. Sometimes it takes well over a month, and even a year or more to reverse a lifetime of conditioned inner child negativity. Saying, "I love who I am." Or, "I am worthy of love," over and over until it becomes a regular believed truth in your muscles, cells, body organs and tissues takes time, practice and effort. ART JOURNAL EXPLORATION - FINDING YOUR INNER CHILD'S POWER STATEMENT Paint a background in your art journal that expresses your inner child's sense of innocence, hope and power. Sense into where your body feels pain and ask it, "What do you need to hear in order to feel better?" You will have one or more inner child "power statements" that fill your body with energy, hope, strength. Once you hear your body's affirmative message, write it down on your painted background. Embellish your inner child's power statement with details and images, and spend time repeating it, looking at it, and asking it to find a home within your body. Imagine this new power statement flowing in through the top of your head and filling your body with colour, light,and healing.
Excerpted from INNER CHILD THERAPY WORKSHEETSShelley Klammer |
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HOW TO FACILITATE ART FOR OLDER ADULTS For ten years, I was privileged to facilitate art for older adults in a well-funded government art program for Canadian veterans called Artworks Studio. Encouraged by my mentor DR DALIA GOTTLIEB TANAKA, founder of THE SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS IN DEMENTIA CARE, I wrote an e-guide about my experiences working in ARTWORKS STUDIOin 2010.
I recently updated my book "HOW TO FACILITATE ART FOR OLDER ADULTS" and I was flooded with such a rich sense of appreciation for the rare opportunity I had to witness older artists discovering their creative power - often for the first time in their lives. Over the years, I met so many wonderful elder artists, and I learned so many different ways to facilitate art for people with dementia. And the best part is: all of the 75+ images of art in the book are created by artists aged 80 to 100+! AN ARTIST WITH DEMENTIA _"An angry and troubled man, he would often switch gears from anger to inspiration and say the most profoundly poetic things when he painted. On one day he would be grouchy, and on another day he became enchanted with the visual world. Often, a look of pure inspiration would appear in his eyes. As he painted, he would gaze out the window and exclaim at the colour of the sky, the turn of a tree branch or the shape of a cloud. He would then say, “The sky is off-blue with a whiff ofsnow.”_
_(Quote from the book "HOW TO FACILITATE ART FOR OLDER ADULTS")_
If you have already purchased the book you can log in to CourseCraft HERE to download yourupdated ebook.
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NEW EDITION OF 100 DAYS OF ART JOURNAL THERAPY I love to clarify the process of emotional healing and make it as understandable as possible without sacrificing depth. For this reason, every few years, I read through my courses to make sure they reflect my current knowledge and insights. If you have not yet purchased 100 DAYS OF ART JOURNAL THERAPYand you want to
do some deep emotional processing through creativity, I warmly welcome you to join me. It was such a profound joy for me to write this course. This in-depth e-course shares the "how, what, why, when and where" explorations of emotional pain and how to heal it through expressive art and writing. If you have already taken this course in the past, as part of your "lifetime access," your 2019 edition of 100 DAYS OF ART JOURNALTHERAPY is now
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CREATING AND MARKETING E-COURSES My Introverted Approach to E-Course Creation and Marketing I often get asked to teach how to create online programs. However, according to popular marketing principles, my approach to course creation and marketing is considered completely backwards! My slow-building, intuitive method of course creation and marketing have never been met with an enthusiastic response from people who want to start up an e-course business quickly. Popular marketing wisdom tells us to build a big audience first, then survey the audience to see what they want to learn. Later, you create course content once you learn what the market wants and needs. This is what I would call the extroverted approach to creating and marketingcourses.
THE WISDOM OF STARTING SMALL Today, some people go into e-course creating expecting to make six-figures in the first few years through building large email lists, and I often wonder, is this fast track realistic for introverts? As an introvert myself, it has taken me ten years of weekly sharing and growing right along with my email list. I must say, I am in awe of the rapid speed of current marketing approaches. Today's course program marketers now build the same size email list that I have built up over a period of ten years in as little as a year - usually through online interview series. Even so, I do feel gratitude for the online interview series and group teaching events I am asked to partake in because they invite my introverted self out to speak out loud! INSIDE-OUT COURSE CREATION When I was first building EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS ten years ago I understood how easily influenced I was by the outside. Because I had such a history of being overly influenced by others, I stayed off the internet for many of the earlier years of building my business. I only went online to write my blog posts and email my courses. Needing to originate my own voice, I created my courses from the inside-out. My newsletter subscriber list was tiny at the beginning. As an online course creator, it has taken me ten years of slow emotional maturation to personally be able to hold a wise, safe and stable container for a larger audience. THE PROCESS OF AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION _“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someoneelse's.” _
_~ Joseph Campbell_ Many people have said to me, "I want to do exactly what you do and I want you to teach me how to do it!" The thing is...my marketing and course creation methods have no formula! I have just listened to my intuition every step of the way. Together, all of my intuitive steps eventually formed a cohesive online business that I could have never planned or trained for. Behind the scenes, my process of business growth has been very ordinary. I have simply been willing to show up in a dedicated way even when no one was watching. Ten years ago, I was working full-time facilitating art in health care. When I got home, I made dinner for my family. I then wrote on my blog and created my e-courses before I went to bed. And, I still spend time tending my course creation and maintenance - in some capacity - every day. INTUITIVE COURSE CREATION _“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality inthemselves” _
_~ Joseph Campbell_ I was recently interviewed about my approach to online course creation and the article I submitted was not published. I surmise this is because my intuitive methods do not reflect repeatable marketing principles. However, because I often get emails requesting online course creation and marketing coaching, I wanted to share theinterview with you.
Because the e-course hustle is now all over the internet and a multitude of experts seemingly abound, it can seem pointless to start in a loud and oversaturated market. I share this interview because it is easy to give up your original voice in today's market. If you are looking for an immediate large feedback loop for your original work, you might stop sharing your true heart before you really begin. Before I started teaching online, I dreamt of a quiet, contemplative way to earn a living, and I have been surprised to learn that it ispossible.
And, as a person who loves quiet time and solitary creative activities, I did not expect that sharing my authentic voice publically would help me to heal emotionally, and hone me into a vastly different human being. MY UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW 1. YOU HAVE LOTS OF E-COURSES ABOUT PRETTY SPECIFIC TOPICS. HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE COURSE TOPICS? My course writing process reflects my own emotional healing journey in some way. I process my traumas, hardships and difficulties through expressive art. When I get through to the other side of a painful emotional pattern, I offer what I have experientially learned to others in the form of an e-course. I first get an intuitive sense of what to write based on emotional themes I am working with inside of myself. Sometimes I begin writing a course right after I get the first insight, and sometimes I work on a course for a very long time. 2. HOW DO YOU CONSIDER HOW A COURSE WILL FIT INTO THE REST OF YOUR PRODUCT LINE OR CUSTOMER BASE? DO YOU TRY TO APPEAL TO THE SAME PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT PRODUCTS OR OFFER THINGS FROM MANY DIFFERENT ANGLES FOR DIFFERENT CUSTOMER TYPES? I have been in the online course biz long enough to see that every teacher has a very specific niche that reflects what she or he most needs to learn on a personal level. This deep engagement with our personal growth process is how we become a true teacher and a lifelong passionate learner in our area of interest. In my niche, I support introspective, sensitive people to maintain creative practices that support emotional healing. As a contemplative introvert, I like to provide choice, privacy and variety in my online educational platform. So, I offer a profusion of creative practice prompts to invite people to come out of emotional hiding and into honest self-expression. 3. WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST TIP FOR TEACHING A PHYSICAL, OFFLINE TASK LIKE JOURNALING IN AN ONLINE FORMAT? I seem to be able to generate endless prompts for expressive writing and art-making. This is probably because I have been creating expressive art for my own emotional healing for over 20 years. After going through many deep emotional healing journeys myself, it is no surprise that I love to create "idea sparks," and also in-depth lessons for people who need some inspiration to get honest, dig deep, and free themselves from emotional pain. My courses provide a plethora of creative inspirations for deeper inner looking. My courses provide regular lessons with idea sparks for expressive art-making to support people to deeply explore their emotional life offline - and on online if they so choose. 4. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WISH YOU HAD DONE BETTER OR MORE OF WHEN YOU LAUNCHED YOUR FIRST COURSE? When we are creating courses from within our own life process, we teach what we most need to learn. For this reason, it can take years to fully mature into our true teaching. Online courses come only as a hint or an inking at first, and then we have to flesh them out in writing, imagery, voice and video over time. My first e-course called "COLLAGE FOR SELF-DISCOVERY" was written over
ten years ago. Back then, I used to personally email the various course lessons to each of my participants every Sunday afternoon! Initially, I taught only 1-4 people at a time, never dreaming that online courses would become so popular. What is the one thing I wish I would have done better? I wish I had not judged the worth of my first courses by how many sales I made. When we are innovating teaching processes from within our own original growth process, the courses we create might be expressing a paradigm shift and may be ahead of their time. I always feel better emotionally when I focus more on the process of creating my courses than my course sales. I love immersing the process of course creation because it opens my heart so deeply to the people I imagine will take my course. I find when I take my mind off of the numbers, and share from my heart, I am surprised and grateful when my courses sell well....either now or later. COURSE PLATFORM RECOMMENDATION I truly love CourseCraft for my expressive arts class platform! When Ryan and Sarah at CourseCraft opened up their affiliate program, I joined right away because they have felt so supported as I transferred over hundreds of lessons from my old class platform. If you are an artist/facilitator and are looking for a great class platform, Coursecraft is similar to Teachable but I have found its navigation best suits my creative mind. It is super simple, fast and intuitive, designed particularly for artists, and you can start forfree HERE .
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A DEEP CONVERSATION ABOUT INTUITIVE ART What a beautiful conversation we had during Soul Art Day 2019 with Laura Hollick! I really enjoyed the breadth and depth of what we discussed. The topic was "ART AS MEDICINE" and we discussed the healing range of intuitive art from trauma integration to the highest octaves of joy. If you have not yet watched our conversation you can view it HERE.
In our conversation, I shared how after years of emotional shadow work, joy is now coming through my spontaneous art - simply and very delightfully! I have written a creative practice course on my current explorations in affirmative collage. You can view the course HERE.
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TOP 100 EXPRESSIVE ART INSPIRATIONS Twenty years ago, I worked as a junior art curator in a "bricks and mortar" art gallery. In 2011, I started curating expressive art on my virtual Facebook Gallery EXPRESSIVE ART INSPIRATIONS. In support of the emotional healing process, I fell in love with the pairing of expressive art with meaningful quotes. Recently, I felt inspired to go through 8 years of posts, and I thought, "These posts are just too gorgeous to be buried within Facebook!" It was so fun to choose my most inspired curations from the past eight years. If you are struggling with emotional pain, I hope you feel encouraged by the quotes. If you are an artist, I hope you will love the expressive art I have curated. If you are on my email list you will receive this free series automatically. If you not on my email list, and are interested in weekly inspirational art and quotes, I invite you to sign up here.Shelley Klammer |
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EMOTIONAL PAIN PROCESSING FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE If you are an empathic, intuitive, creative, emotionally sensitive person, one of your greatest challenges will likely be to learn how to process the uncomfortable and disturbing emotional energies around you, and within you. Besides processing your own quota of personal pain, you might consider that emotional healing is also an interpersonal and transpersonal process that includes feeling and distinguishing the emotional energies of other people, places and time. Some people who see me for therapy cannot find a tangible story of abuse in their life history to explain why they suffer so much. If you cannot access traumatic memories from your past, and you are feeling intense emotional pain, you might contemplate how you are beingaffected by:
* OTHER PEOPLE'S PAIN: You are feeling emotional energies that are not your own. Your emotional body is like an instrument that can tune into the energies of other people around you. * ANCESTRAL PAIN: You are feeling emotional pain for your mother, father, and your family lineage. The science of epigenetics states that we all inherit portions of unhealed pain from our ancestry * SOCIETAL PAIN: You are being emotionally affected by untrue societal programming. Many societal norms are not healthy, kind or inclusive. It is important to note that when acquired societal beliefs do not feel good in your body - they are untrue for you. * COLLECTIVE PAIN: You are feeling the current state of the world. Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says that we each inherit our share of the collective human condition to process. You might be feeling and healing the pain of all women, of your ethnicity, your country, theearth and so on.
* PAST LIFE PAIN: You are feeling emotional pain from other lifetimes (if you believe in past lives.) Some spiritual teachers say that this is "the lifetime to heal all lifetimes." Because the "veils" between lives are now thinner than ever before, some spiritual sages say, we could be feeling the emotional imprints of all our lifetimeson earth.
Experiencing Emotions as Energy If you are suffering from emotional pain, your "hurt story" could be far too small to explain what you experiencing. If you are highly sensitive to your own disquieting emotions, and to the disturbing emotions of others, solidifying a logical narrative about the cause of your emotional pain might not be the best healing route for you. Because emotions need to be energy in motion, creating a story about WHY you are in pain can limit your fullest healing potential. As an energetically sensitive being, you might need to process your emotions in ways that do not involve locking into logical sequential thinking. Emotions are energy in motion and they need to continuously flow. Pain arises from trapped and repressed emotions. Emotions that are not flowing hurt. For highly sensitive people, getting your emotional field flowing again is the key to emotional healing. 8 Ways to Process Emotional Pain as Energy * ACCEPT YOUR EMOTIONS FULLY. Do not resist your pain. Any resistance to emotional pain limits flow and causes more pain. * FOCUS ON THE EMOTIONS IN YOUR BODY. Unravel your emotions from the inside of your body instead of looking for what is wrong on the outside. Feel your emotions as energy - without a story. * OSCILLATE IN AND OUT OF YOUR EMOTIONS. Go within and feel your emotional pain for a few moments. Then, come out of your painful emotions, and using your senses, find something to appreciate. Oscillating between emotional pain and sensory appreciation will help you to not overtax your nervous system. * WALK OR DANCE YOUR EMOTIONS. If it feels too difficult to sit still, oscillate between feeling your emotional pain in your body, and then move back out into sensory appreciation while walking or dancingto music.
* PAINT OR DRAW THE ENERGY OF YOUR EMOTIONS: Sensing into your body, invite the energies of your body to express and release through spontaneous painting or drawing. * DO NOT LABEL YOUR EMOTIONS: Experience your emotions as they move, shift, dance, walk, breathe and paint without attaching words orstories.
* WRITE POETRY: If you want to use words, write poetry. Poetry expresses emotions in a looser, leaping, less logical way. * CULTIVATE JOY: Practices of love and joy can help to heal the most painful emotions. Empathic, highly sensitive people heal emotions best by staying and playing within the higher octaves of energy. Invent projects that are fun, interesting and uplifting to keep you playing with your energy at a higher octave of joy.Shelley Klammer |
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MULTIMODAL EXPRESSIVE ARTS PRACTICES Over the past 20 years, Paolo Knill, Shaun McNiff, Natalie Rogers and Steve and Ellen Levine have pioneered the evolving theory of intermodal/multimodal expressive arts practices as a way to "increase the range of play" in therapy. As a way to care for yourself, you can regularly take breaks from habitual states of mind by designing your own regular expressive arts practice sessions. In this article, I offer ideas on how to set up a multimodal expressive arts practice athome.
In an expressive arts practice session, it is encouraged that you try two or more disciplines of artistic expression to deepen the meaning and momentum of your experience. You might, for example, transfer from painting to dancing, and then write a poem before your session is complete. As you move from one creative discipline to another, it is helpful to keep notes about how your process has deepened, enriched and progressed through each creative discipline. The Intuitive Logic of Your Imagination You can transform painful emotional states by entering into the imaginative world of play, dreams, visions, free association, guided imagery, making art, interacting with art, and using metaphors and brainstorming. Expressive arts practices create a container for change which Paolo Knill calls "alternate experiences of worlding." After a period of expressive arts practice, you can re-enter the regular world with all your adult concerns and responsibilities, changed and opened, with a newly enlivened perspective. Entering into a regular expressive arts practice, you can temporarily leave the troubled logic of your practical life behind, and enter into the "intuitive logic" of your imagination." Helpful symbolism for forward-growth arrives through right-brained creative play, imagination and intuitive exploration. Right brain imagination has its own intuitive logic that differs from linear left-brain thinking. Entering into your imagination through structured expressive practices, you can temporarily move away from problem bound states to resource surprisingly new solutions. Amplifying Imagination The expressive arts could be considered a kind of play for adults. The expressive arts provide ways for you to leave your logical mind and experiment spontaneously into ever-new realms of imagination. Creating spaces and times to create spontaneously every day can loosen you from the world-weariness of adult concerns and invite the long-forgotten innocence from your childhood to reemerge. The aim of an expressive arts practice is to explore two or more artistic disciplines within a single session. Regularly changing up your creative practices can keep you imaginatively nimble. Expanding your range of play by creating a drawing and then writing a poem about it, or dancing to a song you are singing can deepen your connection to your imaginal world. To "decenter" out of regular linear consciousness and "expand your range of play," you can open the door to your imagination through the combination of two or more expressive arts disciplines. You might consider combining some of the following: painting, drawing, writing in your journal, creating a poem, collage, singing, playing an instrument, acting out a play, dancing, or whatever else feels rightat the moment.
How to Set up an Expressive Arts Practice Knill refers to expressive arts explorations as finding "freedom within limits." To set up regular expressive arts practices, I invite you to explore spontaneity within the following structures: * CHOOSE A TIME DURATION FOR YOUR PRACTICE: I typically prefer to set up expressive practices that fit into my working life. I commit to exploring my imagination for at least 15 - 30 minutes a day. * CHOOSE TWO OR MORE PRACTICE MODALITIES: Choose your own combination of creative processes. You might combine collage with free association writing, story writing with dancing or singing withpainting.
* CHOOSE YOUR PRACTICE MATERIALS: Choose the combination of art materials that you want to explore for the length of your practice commitment. You might dedicate yourself to playing with oil pastels and writing a poem, scribbling with pencil crayons and vocalizing your drawing, or dancing and painting to music for 30 days or more. * CHOOSE THE LENGTH OF YOUR PRACTICE COMMITMENT: I currently love short practices, and I typically commit to a minimum of 30 days of creative practice before moving onto the next one. Periodically, I commit to longer 365-day practices to deeply explore two or more creative disciplines. * ENTER YOUR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE: You might light a candle, say a prayer or recite a poem to consecrate your art-making space in a ceremonial way. You can ask your logical mind to step aside during your practice time so your imagination can more freely come forward. * EXECUTE YOUR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE: Take imaginative action based on the structure you have committed to. Know that each expressive arts session will feel different depending on what needs to emerge from your imagination each day. * EXIT YOUR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE: Create a closing ritual that brings you back to your daily life. You might sit in stillness for five minutes, blow out your candle, neatly store away your art materials, and offer gratitude to the imaginative processes you have justexperienced.
* DOCUMENT YOUR PRACTICE: You might want to take note of how you deepened or changed through your varied creative experiences. Keeping a detailed practice log of what you experienced as you progressed through each artistic discipline will remind you of how you are steadily guided to grow forward - in an out of the box kind of way. * RECORD KEY INSIGHTS FROM YOUR PRACTICE: Each expressive arts session will likely yield at least one key insight. You might want to keep an abbreviated diary of the main inspirations that arise from your creative practices as they are easy to forget once you re-enter logical left-brained thinking. * EXTEND YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE MEDICINE: You might want to create totems or altars to your expressive arts explorations in your home so that you can touch into the magic of your imagination between practice times. Mount your art on a wall where you can meditate on it. Recite your expressive poems as you tend to daily tasks. Regularly hum a tune you invented as you walk.Shelley Klammer |
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ART BUNDLE FOR GOOD ONLINE CLASSES! A Wonderful Way to Give and Take Art Courses Too! I contributed my INTUITIVE MANDALA MEDITATION VIDEO COURSE to the bundle in 2019. Stay tuned for 2020!XO SHELLEY
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SHARING PORTALS ON EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS When I created my educational website EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS over ten years ago, I had no idea what a large portal it would become for people interested in theexpressive arts.
Over the years, I have initiated three sharing portals that you are welcome to participate in: * CREATIVE HEALING STORIES:
This healing story series honours the human journey from hurt to creative self-empowerment, limitation to inspired new possibilities, and fear to compassionate contribution. * CREATIVE PROCESS PORTAL:
This is a place for artists, authors and therapists to share how their creative process supports mindfulness, self-awareness, emotional healing and soul connection. * ART PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD:
This is an online portal for artists and therapists to share their art programs, classes, and creative initiatives with others around theworld.
RECENT SHARING ON THE PORTALS 1. CREATIVE HEALING STORIES: MORGAN BLAIR - ART AND EATING DISORDERS - Morgan Blair is the Founder and Creative Director of Unpolished Journey. Through her own recovery from an eating disorder, PTSD, and depression, she decided to build a community of survivors who could share their stories through creative expression. READ MORE... 2. ART PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD: KASSI MARTIN - EXPRESSIVE ARTS FACILITATION IN SCOTLAND - Kassi provides Expressive Arts for everyone however, the majority who attend and sign up online are Caring Professionals. READ MORE... 3. CREATIVE PROCESS PORTAL: ELLIOT THOMPSON - ILLUSTRATOR - What do feelings look like? What do they sound like? Elliot's book is a structured guide of human emotion, through illustration and poetry. READ MORE... 4. CREATIVE HEALING STORIES: MARÍA SANZ GALLEGO - GESTALT ARTTHERAPIST
- Maria from Madrid, Spain implements body-based art therapy to transform what does not feel supportive - for herself and others. READMORE...
5. ART PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD: PANNA MAESTRINI - EXPRESSIVE ARTS FACILITATOR IN ITALY - Panna loves sharing the expressive arts by hosting guests in her Sparks of Wonder studio and house near Perugia and Assisi. READMORE...
6. Creative Healing Stories: Louise Chalmers - shares how creativity and nature can help us to heal ourselves.Shelley Klammer |
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HOW TO FEEL SAFE
ANTICIPATORY
FEAR
_"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."_ _~ Eleanor Roosevelt_ Fear is defined in the dictionary as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something dangerous is likely to cause painor a threat.
Fear is a hardwired primitive emotion. Fear is like an alarm system, which warns us against threats to survival. Survival, in our ancestral past, meant staying alive in the face of threats that could cause death or serious harm. Fear can also habitually arise in the absence of a present moment threat. Anticipatory or objectless fear can turn into chronic anxiety related to nothing specific to your current life, and this can becomedebilitating.
WHEN
YOU FEEL ANTICIPATORY OR OBJECTLESS FEAR: * STOP AND BREATHE. When you feel unsafe, your flight or fight (sympathetic nervous system) is activated. When you feel fear - stop and breathe deeply into your belly. * INTRODUCE SAFETY. Remind yourself that you are safe at this moment. Saying, "I am safe right now" will introduce safety into yourbody.
* FOCUS ON LOVE. Once you have shifted into your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest), move your focus to an animal, person or activity that you love. Flood love through your body until you feelcalmer.
* INVITE YOUR FEAR TO SPEAK. Once you are calm enough to witness yourself, ask your fear, "What are you afraid of?" A memory, a few words or an image might spontaneously pop into your mind. * SOOTHE YOUR FEAR. Say something soothing to your fear such as, “Everything’s going to be okay. I’m here for you. I’m never going to leave you. I love you.” * STAND UP. At the root of fear is abandonment, shame or betrayal from the past. Stand up strongly for your right to be treated well - in your imagination or out loud to yourself. * IMAGINE STRENGTH. Imagine yourself as a superhero overcoming past harm in powerful and magical ways. This imaginative exercise can reinforce new feelings of empowerment in your body. * ANCHOR SAFETY. Take one small action step to anchor this feeling of safety into your nervous system. You might take a warm bath, lay on the ground in the sunshine, colour a mandala or listen to meditativemusic.
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7 WAYS TO INTERRUPT THE NEGATIVITY BIAS_
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negativity bias is the notion that even when of equal intensity, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral orpositive things._
_In other words, something very positive will generally have less of an impact on a person's _behaviour_ and cognition than something equally emotional but negative." (Wiki)_EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS
Neuroscientist Dr. Rick Hanson explains how our ancestral "survival brain" is wired to be biased toward the negative. He writes, "In effect, the brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. That shades “implicit memory” – your underlying expectations, beliefs, action strategies, and mood – in an increasingly negative direction." It is easy to become trapped in negativity. Because our brains are wired for survival, our default feeling is fear. Fearful thoughts, repeated over time and throughout generations, become deeply patternedinto our neurology.
Not realizing that you are "practicing" your negative emotions, you will accumulate lower vibrational thoughts, emotions and experiences into an ongoing pain story that can feel hard to climb out of. Assembling more fear-based evidence along the way, you will unconsciously confirm that your negativity bias is real.THE
POWER OF REPETITION
_"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."_ _~ Earl Nightingale_ If you are hurting emotionally, you can be sure you are repeating a fearful thought. And, fearful thinking gathers power throughrepetition.
Fear makes us feel small and inadequate. Repetitive fear can have us doubting our capacities to be able to survive in the world. Always on the lookout for what is wrong, we can forget about what is good aboutour life.
Our negativity bias might have us fearing we are not good enough, not lovable enough, not worthy, smart or talented enough, or not abundant enough to be able to physically survive. The good news is, once we become aware of our negativity bias we can regularly interrupt it. HERE ARE 7 WAYS TO INTERRUPT CHRONIC NEGATIVE EMOTIONS: 1. WITNESS YOUR MIND In meditation, you can learn to identify more with your larger witnessing self instead of just your smaller hurting self. You can witness your innate negativity bias without becoming it. 2. EXPAND YOUR AWARENESS To expand your sense of self start a daily creative project, spend time in nature or cultivate a regular spiritual practice to invokefeelings of awe.
3. CONTRADICT NEGATIVE THINKING Counteract your negativity bias soon as you notice the painful thought. Identify your painful thought and then interrupt the negative momentum with a new better-feeling thought or action. 4. REPEAT POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS When stuck in the negativity bias, saying "I am..." positive affirmations can feel fake. When you feel doubtful about better-feeling thoughts, practice wondering instead. "I wonder what it would feel like to be loved, successful, respected...etc." As you wonder, a slight sense of possibility will arise. Build on this. 5. MINIMIZE NEGATIVE STIMULI Your subconscious mind registers all violence as emotionally real. If you are prone to chronic negativity, it is best to avoid watching the news, violent television and movies. You also might also want to spend more time with people that support and uplift you. 6. APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE All negative emotions are underpinned with a fear of lack. To build a feeling of abundance, see how many things you can appreciate during the day. When you are struggling with fear and negativity, amplify your appreciation for even the smallest details in your life.7. AMPLIFY THE GOOD
Fear-based survival programming is deeply conditioned into your brain, body and nervous system. To interrupt your negativity bias, persistent, the deliberate practice of noticing what is good willincrease your joy.
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