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CULTIVATE: Creative Practice in the Belly of Impermanence
REALIZING, MANIFESTING, and RELEASING our LIVING ARTISTRY
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WE BEGIN with the truth THAT every human being IS innately & uniquely CREATIVE.
In this potent chapter of global vulnerability and transformation, we are called to gather with brave and tender humans willing to dive into the belly of our ever-changing circumstances.
Welcome to CULTIVATE Creative Practice: a global/online and local/in-person embodied, interdisciplinary exploration and training in which we harness, catalyze, and source the creative aliveness of our churning world.
Facilitated by Lauren Beale and Brooke McNamara, CULTIVATE is a practice of attuning to, cohering with, and yoking the generative principle that inherently pulses through each of us in every moment. We practice not only to refine skillful awareness of this creative vitality,but to grow a multidimensional capacity to realize and mobilize the imaginative power and potential at the center of our deepest humanity.
As old structures within and around us collide, collapse, and transform, CULTIVATE ignites our skillful capacities to sense, sniff, woo, court, magnetize, and catalyze living ideas and inspiration.
Through intimate and playful conversation, improvisational movement, guided visualization, exploratory free writing, imaginative prompts, visual art and more, CULTIVATE primes, tenderizes, forges, steadies, and awakens ourselves as vessels for these living ideas to come into form.
As CULTIVATE facilitators, we are devoted to guiding the manifestation of creative aliveness from a place of wholehearted intention, embodied knowing, micro and macro interconnectedness, honoring of each participant’s uniqueness, and genuine community.
In this creative practice (for people of all backgrounds, identities, and levels of experience) we aim to create a brave space in which we can:
Descend to include deeper layers of body, psyche, soul, and imagination
Tenderize through conscious contact with emergence and impermanence
Become fertile eco-systems to magnetize inspiration and ideas
Recognize that wounds and challenges are entwined with deepest gifts
Transform internal leadership from conditioned tyranny to wakeful sovereignty
Track creative aliveness and engage it as a compass for purposeful choice making
Forge a reliable practice in a community of care and dignity
We hope you’ll join us.
Experience a full CULTIVATE Creative Practice workshop!
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LOCAL/In-Person
Our Spring Boulder/Denver Cultivate Creative Practice series is happening NOW!
Please inquire here for more information about our upcoming FALL 2023 Local Series.
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GLOBAL Online
Our next GLOBAL/ONLINE Cultivate Creative Practice series will take place in the FALL/WINTER 2023.
Please inquire here for more information!
“I loved this workshop! It was the perfect place for me to celebrate who I am as an artist and who I am becoming. It gave me new ideas, new exercises, new perspectives, and best of all new community for all my creative endeavors. Brooke and Lauren's facilitation was uniquely deep and relatable and wise. I cannot recommend this experience enough!”
— Lindsay
