March 2010 WILDWING Creativity- Newsletter

‘RIDING THE DRAGON’

- a Series of five

SHAMANIC CREATIVITY COACHING

Evening workshops

Fridays 5-8pm

19th Feb ‘Into the Journey

and the hazards of Beginnings'

12th March 'Vision and Reality Testing'

26th of March 'Facing Gremlins and

Riding the Dragon-tackling Obstacles'

16th of April 'Mask of Power- get behind yourself!'

23rd of April 'Into the World'

This small coaching group offers a unique, exciting and

opportunity to deepen shamanic practice and work

specifically with issues around creativity and creating.

At the core of this group we will be working with shamanic journeying to support, nurture, celebrate, deepen and honour our creativity and our personal creative projects.

Coaching techniques and stimulating coaching exercises will complement this exploration and will help us integrate the wisdom, help, healing and advise we receive through the shamanic journey. There will also be space to directly work on a particular individual project of any medium throughout the course of the group.

The group is open to anyone with some experience in core- shamanic practice and a commitment to work on her/his creativity.

If you are interested but have no shamanic experience as yet,

please get in touch. It is possible to book a few individual

Shamanic Counselling sessions in beforehand.

When: Fridays from 5pm- 8pm

Where: WILDWING- 108 North Street, Portslade/ Brighton

Cost: £33 drop in

In the spirit of Whitman’s ode to a leaf of grass,

I wish you a very good day and welcome to

WILDWING’S MARCH CREATIVITY NEWSLETTER with some of my

‘wabi-sabi’ photos, celebrating the beauty in the imperfect,

overlooked...try it out, go hunting for some

hidden treasures, its a lot of fun!

Wow, we ARE in March- and what a month! The sap is rising, the precious sun is peeping through and I witness creative juices flowing everywhere!

The month that celebrates International Women’s Day on the 8th of March has indeed a

lovely line-up of creative morsels and substantial offering by some of my lovely friends and colleagues:

Jenny Edbrook hosts a fabulous, fun evening in Hastings for Women’s day ;

Erin Burns will be showing her gorgeous paintings at the AFFORDABLE ART FAIR in London;

Natasha Davis is performing her new Solo-show ‘ASPHYXIA’ at Camden People’s Theatre;

Dee Leyden and 8 other women artist are putting on their show ‘Grave Days indeed’ at Dissenter’s Gallery, Kensal Rise

and myself and four other BLANK artist will be joining Blast Theory for a fabulous

‘PECHA KUCHA NIGHT’! No idea what that is?

Check it out, it’s a great formula to get creative

without too much fuss:

show 20 slides, 20 seconds each, talk, sing,

dance, whistle, lecture alongside...There will be

10 presentations on the night- mine is called

‘the Lady in the Box’...

For more info of all these events please scroll down!

Our ‘RIDING THE DRAGON’ shamanic Creativity Coaching group

has taken to a great, flying start! If you want to join us and drop in for one or few sessions please get in touch - the next workshop will be on the 12th of March on ‘Visions and Reality Testing’ and 26th on ‘tackling obstacles’.

There are some places left in the Intro to Shamanism course at City Lit on 13th of March

and if you you would like to dive deeply into your creativity on the coast of Cornwall, join us on the MASK OF POWER -Shamanic Creativity Retreat!

Have a fabulous March and I look forward to hearing from you!

Eva

‘There will be never any more perfection than there is now’

Walt Whitman

Introduction to Shamanism

for HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

CITY LIT Institute, London

on 13th of March 2010 - 10.30-5.30pm

cost: £51, concession £22

for more info and to book click here

Over the past few years Shamanism has received a lot of interest from various areas, including health practitioners, therapists and artists.

Shamanism is the oldest spiritual path known; it holds a world-view that all things are connected and that everything that exists has a living spirit.

Shamanism is a path of the heart, which helps us to connect more deeply and fully with ourselves, with other people, nature and spirit-helpers/ guides in various forms through the way of the ‘shamanic journey’ in which the practitioner asks for help, guidance and knowledge and healing.

What can we, as Health Professional learn from Shamanism, it’s view on illness and health, soul- loss and soul retrieval?

This one-day workshop offers an introduction to the ancient spiritual practice of Shamanism and raises questions about the relevance of its concepts for our practice as Health Professionals today. Space is offered for reflection, discussion and some practical

exploration.

Besides theoretical presentations we will also work with creative media and there is an opportunity to experience a short shamanic journey

(as well as the possibility to opt

out of this if one feels not comfortable).

Similarities and overlaps between Arts Therapies approaches and shamanic work and experience will be explored as well as clear differences. Besides an introduction to Core Shamanism, the workshop will include case material from Art Therapy practice in the field of Mental Health as well as from my experience as a shamanic practitioner in private practice.

The workshop does not require any previous knowledge of Shamanism.

‘MASK OF POWER’-

SHAMANIC CREATIVITY RETREAT

for women at Chymorgen, Cornwall

from 9-12th of April 2010

This retreat offers a safe and exciting space to dive fully into the centre of your

creativity to celebrate your unique expressions through the ancient practice of the

shamanic journey, mask- work, ritual ,voice and song, creative media such as collage,

writing, clay and especially working closely with and in nature such as at local

stone circles and the coast.

The ‘MASK OF POWER’ Creativity retreat will particularly focus on mask-work as a way

to strengthen us in our creative expression and personal power and to connect deeply

with our creativity and our spirit helpers.

We will be working with the special energy of spring and of this magical place

to support you to

•strengthen the connection to our creative power;

•sensitively work with possible obstacles and hesitations we might encounter;

•explore tools to ground creativity in our lives and establish daily practice;

•make space to honour, celebrate and affirm our unique creative talents and expressions within a circle of women.

We will go on a ‘walk with intention’, create a ‘MASK OF POWER’ and there will be space and free time to enjoy the beautiful environment in and around Chymorgen which is only ten minutes from the gorgeous coastal path with stunning views and many ancient stone circles nearby.

Delicious, locally sourced vegetarian food and accommodation n beautiful twin rooms.

Please book early to avoid disappointment as this is a small retreat with a maximum of eight women!!

COST: All inclusive £350; if two are booking together £320 each

BOOKING: To book and for more info please call: 07757747027

‘I believe a leaf of grass

is no less

than the journey-work of the stars.’

Walt Whitman

‘There will never be any more perfection

than there is now.’

Walt Whitman

March 2010 WILDWING Creativity- Newsletter

I will be showing

‘The Lady in the BOX’. For more info: www.blankstudiosgallery.org

International Womens Day Celebrations:

Monday 8th March

7pm-12pm Dragon Bar, Hastings.

Tickets £5 (ALL money raised goes to Womankind worldwide)

Join in a party of fine female art, speeches, belly dancing, song, live DJing and daft but empowering costumes!

This unmissable charity event will be hosted by Jenny Edbrooke (of Hastings WI) who will be exhibiting work from her new collection of 'Booby Paintings'. These fine and humorous works have been created using an array of mundane substances, baby products and 22ct Gold leaf.

Your £5 will go directly to Womankind Worldwide, an organisation who does outstanding work supporting women in developing countries who suffer the most extreme and unimaginable circumstances.

for info call Jenny 07743424438

www.jennyedbrooke.com

www.womankind.org.uk

THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR

Four Square Fine Arts will be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair, London between Thursday 11th March and Sunday 14th March 2010. We would be delighted to see you at fair where we will be showing new work by many of the artists in our portfolio including:

Erin Burns, Ellen Bell, Anne Berlit , Karoline Bröckel, , Margaret Cahill,, Marco Crivello , Cara Enteles, Pete Hoida , Robin Horsch, Annabelle Nicoll, and Eberhard Ross.

For more information about the fair visit www.affordableartfair.com

www.erinburns.com

Please contact us by:

Email: sonia@foursquarearts.co.uk

Phone Mobile or Text: 07742 659446

Phone Landline: 01273 474005/01273 479646