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The Creative Awakenings
Practice + Process
An Introductory Workshop
A 6-Week  Experiential Online Workshop:
Wednesdays, Sept. 18th – Oct. 23rd
Join author, psychotherapist, and registered expressive arts therapist Sheri Gaynor for a transformative creative adventure. This is your first step on the path to becoming a certified Creative Awakenings Facilitator
REGISTER NOW"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. You will learn the basics of the Creative Awakenings visual journaling practice and process, so you have a deep sense of the foundational roots before joining the full facilitator certification.
You will step into a supportive environment where we will honor both our individual paths and the shared experience of being in 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.Â
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. It is my belief 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.Â
I’m excited to introduce this new live online workshop—ROOTS: 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
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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.Â
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 adventureÂ
- Experiential activity + Open discussionÂ
- Session One Creative Assignment
Session Two:
The Book of Dreams
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:
- Why visual journaling?
- Creating and personalizing your Book of Dreams journal
- The original Book of Dreams Cover
- Using the Book of Dreams Journal as a safe space for reflection and exploration
- Experiential activity + DiscussionÂ
- Session Two Creative AssignementÂ
Session Three:
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.Â
Session Four:
The Book of Dreams
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:
- Why visual journaling?
- Creating and personalizing your Book of Dreams journal
- The original Book of Dreams Cover
- Using the Book of Dreams Journal as a safe space for reflection and exploration
- Experiential activity + DiscussionÂ
- Session Two Creative AssignementÂ
Session Five:
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.Â
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 adventureÂ
- Experiential activity + Open discussionÂ
- Session One Creative Assignment
Session Six:
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.Â
What You’ll Receive Inside the Course
#1) 6 LIVE, Online Teaching Sessions with Sheri
On six consecutive Wednesdays, you’ll meet live with Sheri for 90+ minutes of presentations, guided Creative Awakenings process and practices, experiential exercises, and discussion where 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
Shortly after each live session, you’ll be able to watch or listen to the replay at any time that is convenient for you, as well as download each of the sessions. By the end of the course, you’ll have a library of video, and downloadable material to work with that you can integrate into your daily life and creative practice over the months and years to come. Please Note: It is the students responsibility to download all video and course material during the six 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 host. 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) Access to the  Creative Awakenings Open Community Facebook Group
We’ve created a private Facebook group for those of you who would like to be in connection with others around the world who are using the Creative Awakenings process and practice. This is not the workshop portal, it is a separate open and monitored FB group. This is a nurturing long-term community, where you can  share about your experience in a safe public community setting. Please Note: The Facebook group is totally optional and not required to engage fully in the course.Â
Plus These Bonuses
Bonus #1:
The Creative Awakenings Guided Imagery
Part 1 and Two
AUDIOÂ
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.
Bonus #2:
The Creative Awakenings Vintage Vault
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VIDEOÂ
We all have aspects of our experience that we’ve had to push out of awareness, as a way to avoid anxiety and overwhelm. Whether due to early relational trauma, ruptures in attachment, narcissistic injury, or any other form of deep betrayal in the soul, this “pushing away” served a vital (lifesaving) adaptive function; it was intelligent, creative, and our early attempts at self-compassion and self-care.
But as we know, dissociated and split-off material does not go away but becomes held in our bodies and nervous systems. Or, to use psychological language, it becomes located into the psychic underworld known as “the shadow.”
Through a (lifelong) alchemical process of embodied attunement, we can create an inner temple, or sanctuary in which this material can return home – be felt, metabolized, and integrated – which can help us to live in a way that is more meaningful, whole, loving, and joyful.
Bonus #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.
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ROOTSÂ
The Creative Awakenings
Practice + Process
Here’s what you’ll receive:
- Live 6 Session Online Course with Matt Licata
- Audio and Video Downloads of All Course Content
- Private Membership Portal
- Private Facebook Group (optional)
You Will Also Receive the Following Bonus Gifts:
- Bonus #1: Somatic Wisdom, Trauma, and the Healing of the Human Nervous System Audio Webinar (with Guided Meditation)
- Bonus #2: The Practice of Embodied Attunement Video Webinar
- Bonus #3: Trauma and the Sacred Wound eBook
REGULAR PRICE
$397
INTRODUCTORY OFFER
$197
My Personal Guarantee & Promise You
I created The Soul Alchemist 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.
