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LEADERSHIP TRAINING
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This significant program component of the Creating Space embodies our dedication to providing continuing education and support for artists, clergy, and lay leaders who either seek to or already actively employ the arts as a vehicle for spiritual growth and transformation. We offer experiential learning and fellowship opportunities for leaders to develop their skills in utilizing the arts within their particular contexts. These formational opportunities include single classes, workshops, and retreats, as well as various ongoing educational series.
Our next Awakening the Creative Spirit program will be in the weeklong intensive format again: NOVEMBER 9-15, 2008 at St. Andrew's Retreat House on the Hood Canal less than two hours from Seattle.
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Awakening the Creative Spirit:
Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors in the Arts and Imagination
with Betsey Beckman, MM and Christine Valters Paintner, PhD
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Awakening the Creative Spirit is a program designed for spiritual directors who want to learn how to integrate working with the imagination and the arts into their spiritual direction ministry.
Our encounters with the holy are rooted in symbol and image and speak the language of dreams. Spiritual direction tends to these encounters and can be deeply enhanced by tools that invite listening to and engaging the inner symbolic life. The focus of this program is on developing the skills of working with the arts and imagination to deepen the work of spiritual direction.
Together we will explore how the healing power of such tools as guided imagery, body awareness, dream work, ritual, poetry, journal writing, visual art, movement, song, and storytelling enrich our own spiritual lives and our work in spiritual direction by giving us access to another language with which to encounter the divine presence within. Participants will develop comfort and skills in using these tools. Each session will also consist of didactic input and time for discussion and reflection on how we see using the arts concretely in our work as spiritual directors.
Absolutely no previous art experience necessary –
only a willingness to awaken the creative spirit within!
We do ask that you have some prior training in spiritual direction, counseling, or chaplaincy.
DATES: Sunday, November 9 - Saturday, November 15, 2008
PROGRAM COST: $1450 includes all instruction, art supplies, handouts, shared room, and meals.
Minimum 10 / Maximum 12 participants.
REGISTRATION:
To hold your place in this program we require a $100 nonrefundable deposit. You may either pay by credit card through Paypal (please use TheCreatingSpace@aol.com as the payment email address) or you can send a check to The Creating Space, PO Box 23160, Seattle, WA 98102. The balance of $1350 will be due by October 1st. We cannot offer refunds of the program costs after that time. Any requests for refunds prior to that time will have our credit card fee of 3% deducted (if you paid by credit card) in addition to the $100 nonrefundable deposit.
For more information contact Christine Paintner at (206) 329-3110 or TheCreatingSpace@aol.com
FACILITATORS:
Betsey Beckman, MM, is nationally acclaimed as a spirited dancer, storyteller, teacher of SpiritPlay and dancing Spiritual Director. With her extensive background in performance, movement therapy, ministry and InterPlay, she is regularly featured as artist/presenter at national conventions as well as local churches. Betsey's publications include books, audio-cassettes and videos on embodied prayer and she offers the gift of playful improvisation whenever possible!
Christine Valters Paintner, PhD in Christian spirituality is founder of The Creating Space, a Seattle nonprofit dedicated to exploring the connections between spirituality, creativity, and the arts. She teaches courses in spirituality, creativity, and the arts at various locations including Seattle University and St. Placid Priory Spirituality Center. She is a spiritual director and retreat leader who integrates the arts into her ministries, and a writer and artist. Visit her website at http://AbbeyoftheArts.com for more information about her work and to visit her blog.
COMMENTS from previous participants:
This has been a remarkable opportunity to hold up the power of the arts to reveal on the deepest level. We have entered several forms of discourse in ways that are liberating for the Spirit. I recommend this series highly. -Dr. Carol Scott-Kassner
These workshops have been phenomenal...they have validated my intrinsic desire to move, create, laugh and wonder. They have also cracked open living and working in ways I had previously unimagined, deepening and rounding out my sense of peace, inspiration and gratitude. -Ann Keller
I really love the program. . . Each weekend, I sense an excitement getting ready to come. It is an opportunity to be with others who both inspire and broaden my perspective in Spiritual Direction. The leadership is balanced and flows with an easy grace. There is a fresh newness to the experience. . . I love the versatility and implications the various art modalities give for Spiritual Direction. -Cathy Rhoads
The program has been excellent for me in numerous ways. Although not a spiritual direction training program, I don't think I could have grasped the essences of spiritual direction without this augmenting the spiritual direction training program I am in. I call it following the Divine Flow, whether following internally or expressed externally in words or art, movement or writing. I feel truly and greatly blessed from having had this experience and consider it a core learning experience in my spiritual director's honing journey. -Cynthia Gayle
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