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Are you ready for a creative adventure?  

Are you ready to take your first step to facilitating
creativity and expressive arts workshops?

 

Join me for an Introduction to
Creative Awakenings 

An Introduction to Creative Awakenings

A 4-week workshop to awaken and ignite your creative spirit,
guiding you toward new possibilities and meaningful growth.

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"Creative Awakenings will invite you to answer your deepest questions. It will give you a safe place to begin to imagine the life you truly want to create, a way to look beyond what you can see now with creative exercises, tools and techniques to use along the way. Your journey begins here in this moment. I invite you to let the chatter and negative voices fade away and allow your heart to open to the possibility this experience will offer. There is a story inside you waiting to unfold. The seeds of your dreams lie dormant, awaiting water, sunlight and nourishment.”

Sheri Gaynor
Creative Awakenings: Envisioning the Life of Your Dreams Through Art, 2009

A Note from Sheri

Hello Creative heARTs,

I am so grateful for your interest in the Creative Awakenings Introductory Workshop!

In a world that’s changing quickly, often shaped by technology and dominant voices, women’s perspectives are more vital than ever. Our voices bring balance, nurture creativity, and uplift future generations.

As I observe the growing discomfort with quiet moments free from screens and the advancement of living in a technology driven world, I feel a profound sense of loss—loss of our connection to our intuitive wisdom, to the natural world and the creative energy that flows from within.

This workshop is an opportunity to reconnect with your inner wisdom, your creative essence, and the intuitive voice that lives within you through the Creative Awakenings visual journaling, practice and process.

The Creative Awakenings Introductory workshop is designed to be a nurturing container—a place where you can explore, reflect, and express yourself freely, without judgment or pressure. Before joining the full facilitator certification, you will learn the basics of the Creative Awakenings visual journaling practice and process, so you have a deep sense of the foundational roots.

You will step into a supportive environment where we will honor our individual paths and the shared experience of being in a creative community with one another. Here, we celebrate the transformative power of living with intention, the power of visual journaling, and the transformation that comes when we listen deeply to our deepest desires and take action to manifest a life of purpose and passion. 

By taking this initial step to eligibility for full facilitator certification, you will learn by doing, in other words, you'll be walking through the Creative Awakenings visual journaling process yourself. I believe that we must first navigate and source our own creative blocks, fears, and outdated core beliefs before we can effectively guide others to explore their own. 

I’m excited to introduce this new live online workshop—EnVision The Creative Awakenings Practice + Process. In this workshop, you’ll experience guided meditation and engaging visual journaling exercises, along with insights into the unique concepts from my book, Creative Awakenings: Envisioning the Life of Your Dreams Through Art.

There will also be ample time for meaningful conversations and deep dives with fellow participants, allowing you to share your experiences and ask any questions you may have. I look forward to creating this enriching space together!

With gratitude and appreciation,

🦋 Sheri

 

What’s Inside the Workshop

Session One:

The Adventure Begins

In Session One, you'll learn the roots and origins of Creative Awakenings and the story of finding my authentic self and knowing I could no longer play it safe.

In this session, you will learn the foundations of the book as a metaphoric adventure for self-discovery and personal growth. 

In this session, we’ll explore:

  • The Creative Awakenings origin story
  • The Four Essential Sections of the Book
  • The Calling + The Poem
  • Gearing up for the adventure 
  • Experiential activity + Open discussion 
  • Session One Creative Assignment

Session Two:

The Book of Dreams + The Art of Intention

In Session Two, you will immerse yourself in the practice and process of the Book of Dreams Journal, a powerful tool designed to facilitate deep exploration of your life’s dreams, aspirations, and inner narratives. This session will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how the Book of Dreams can serve as a supportive companion on your journey of self-discovery and personal growth.

In this session, we’ll explore:

  • The Envision DreamTime Guided Meditation
  • The Art of Intention: The difference between a goal and an intention
  • Creating and personalizing your Book of Dreams journal
  • Why visual journaling 
  • Using the Book of Dreams Journal as a safe space for reflection and exploration
  • Experiential activity + Discussion 
  • Session Two Creative Assignment 

Session Three:

The Deck of Transformation

In Session Three, you'll learn how to use the Deck of Transformation. 

The Deck of Transformation is an essential component of the Creative Awakenings book experience. Holding onto your dreams can be challenging without a supportive structure. The Transformation Deck offers creative exercises, journal writing, storytelling, adventure, and personal challenge techniques to support your process and motivate you to action! 

In this session, we’ll explore:

  • The Guiding Principles of the Deck of Transformation
  • How to Play: Using the deck as a tool to inspire action!
  • Creating your own personal Deck of Transformation
  • Experiential activity + Open discussion 
  • Session Five Creative Assignment

Session Four

Travel Tips, The Visa, and The Milestone Passport

In Session Four, you'll explore how to fully commit to the Creative Awakenings journey. You’ll discover how to use the Visa and Milestone Passport as engaging tools to build accountability for your creative adventure in a fun and meaningful way.

In this session, we’ll explore:

  • The Envision DreamTime Guided Meditation
  • The Art of Intention: The difference between a goal and an intention
  • Creating and personalizing your Book of Dreams journal
  • Why visual journaling 
  • Using the Book of Dreams Journal as a safe space for reflection and exploration
  • Experiential activity + Discussion 
  • Session Two Creative Assignment 

Session Five:

Twelve Months of Dreams: The Art of Intention

In Session Five, you'll meet the eleven artists invited to join me as I wrote the book. Each artist was given a packet describing the Envision process and practice and asked to create a mixed-media art piece based on the intention revealed to them during the DreamTime Session. The artists were not assigned intentions or topics; they created their own intentions from their desires or needs.

Each artist was to interact as often as possible with their art of intention piece and keep a journal of their experiences for a full month. The stories and the resulting mixed-media pieces are incredibly inspiring and show that the process and practice works! 

 

Meet the Artists:

  • June: Sheri Gaynor,
  • July: Susan Tuttle
  • August: Katie Kendrick
  • September: Claudine Hellmuth
  • October: Juliana Coles
  • November: Deborah Koff-Chapin
  • December: Anahata Katkin
  • January: Mary Beth Shaw
  • February: Suzanne Simanaitis
  • March: Jand and Thomas Wynn
  • April: Lesley Riley
  • May: Linda Woods and Karen Dinino
  • June: Laura Kirk
  • Experiential activity + Open discussion 

What You’ll Receive Inside the Course

#1) 6 LIVE, Online Teaching Sessions with Sheri

On four consecutive Wednesdays, you’ll meet live with Sheri for a group call. We'll have 60+ minutes of discussion, where we will enter into a dialogue and you can ask questions and enter into conversation with Sheri. PLEASE NOTE: It is required that you join the sessions live in order to fully participate in and benefit from the course. If this is problematic, please reach out to Sheri

#2) Access to All Course Content Through Video and Audio Downloads

Within 24 hours, you’ll be able to watch or listen to the replay at any time convenient for you. You will have access to all video, live videos, and downloadable materials to work with that you can integrate into your daily life and creative practice for six months.*

*Enrolled Certification students will have the material available for one year. 

Please Note: It is the student's responsibility to download all available course material during the four-week workshop. You will only have access to the online material for six months.

#3) A Private Member Portal [Website, Mobile Phone, and iPad Accessible]

All of the course materials will be available in a private member portal for easy access. For safety and confidentiality, we do not use FaceBook as our CAAmember portal. You can watch, listen, and engage with all course materials on your computer and smart devices, take notes, reflect on the teachings, and practice along  in whatever way is most resonant and convenient for you.

#4) Optional Access to the Creative Awakenings Open Community Facebook Group

You are invited to join our Creative Awakenings Facebook community, a space created just for you to explore, connect, and grow alongside kindred spirits. Whether you're seeking inspiration, deeper connection, or simply a place to nurture your creative journey, the community is here to support you. Participation is completely optional, and you're welcome to join at any time that feels right for you.

Plus These Gifts

Gift #1:

The Creative Awakenings Guided Imagery

Part 1 and Two

AUDIO 

Many of our contemporary self-help, personal growth, and even spiritual teachings have disregarded the body and the nervous system in their approach to the journey of transformation and healing. While we see some evidence that this is starting to shift, it’s important to remember we’re working against thousands of years of the marginalization of the body’s intelligence, including the diminishing of non-rational modes of inquiry and perception.

The fields relational and contemplative neuroscience have helped us to see how essential it is to include the human nervous system as an essential part of the spiritual journey. From within these discoveries, there is a vast storehouse of wisdom to include on any contemporary, trauma-sensitive, and full-spectrum approach to our healing paths.

Gift #2:

The Creative Awakenings Vintage Vault

 

One of my favorite bonus gifts

Access to original vintage Creative Awakenings videos. When I say vintage, I mean, created on a Flip phone for my first online courses in 2007! The material is just as meaningful now, but you'll get some fun glimpses into the beginnings of Creative Awakenings and my online classes!

 

Gift #3:

Access to the Creative Awakenings Podcast Series

Liberating the Lost Orphans of Psyche and Soma

Podcast

For many of us, our deepest sensitivities and vulnerabilities are intimately linked to our paths of transformation and experiences of “the holy.” In ways that may seem paradoxical, there is a sacred component to our wounding – a profound connection between trauma and the sacred – a discovery we need to unpack as it’s nuanced and subtle, and easily misunderstood.

Over the years, in my work as a psychotherapist and teacher, there is probably no topic which has come up more frequently than that of trauma – the nature of what trauma is, how it shapes our perception and behavior, and the nature of what it might mean to “heal” or “recover” from the effects of traumatic organization in the body, brain, and nervous system. And how a new relationship with the shattered is a form of initiation for so many.

In this short eBook, though we’ll only be able to scratch the surface, we’ll open up into a conversation and landscape where we can begin to explore some of the nuances of this very subtle (and heartbreaking) territory.

Your Guide and Mentor for the Workshop

Sheri Gaynor, LCSW is a psychotherapist, author, and registered expressive arts therapist, who has been working with expressive arts and nature based modalities for over 35 years. Over the last 35 years, he has been involved in the dialogue between psychological, contemplative, and meditative approaches to personal growth, emotional healing, and spiritual transformation.

 

ROOTS 

The Creative Awakenings

Practice + Process

Here’s what you’ll receive:

  1. Live 4 Session Online Course with Sheri Gaynor
  2. Audio and Video Downloads of All Course Content
  3. Private Membership Portal (Not Facebook)
  4. Private Creative Awakenings Facebook Group (optional)

You Will Also Receive the Following Bonus Gifts:

  • Bonus #1: The Creative Awakenings  Guided Meditation
  • Bonus #2: The Creative Awakenings Vintage Vault
  • Bonus #3: Access to the Creative Awakenings Podcast series

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My Personal Guarantee & Promise You

I created this introductory course as a vehicle for us to connect with one another and open to the mysteries of healing and spiritual self-discovery in a way that’s embodied, compassionate, and kind. The course is a direct expression of my own personal and professional journey and experience over these last 35 years. My sincere hope is that you will benefit from our time together and find it interesting and supportive. If you are not satisfied with the course, you can receive a full refund by emailing us before September 23rd, at midnight U.S. Pacific time. We appreciate your understanding that no refunds will be possible after this time.