As in the wisdom traditions of old, the cycle of the seasons gives a perfect eight stage process for making you dreams come true in your life. The winter is where we incubate our seed vision for our heart’s desire; spring is when we pour our attention onto the sprouting seed; Easter is when we affirm our gifts and talents in the face of obstacles (usually the Inner Critic); May is the time to get support and form a ‘dream team’ of friends who share our dream themes; summer is when we protect and make boundaries for our plan of action and support; autumn is when we start acting out our vision and getting immersed in creative reverie; winter is a time of reflection and celebration, acknowledging the new insight and seed vision for the coming year.

Now is the time to find a way of living from our hearts, using Creative Journal and Expressive Arts such as collage, rhythm, mandala and sound to empower our deeper values. Watch this space for dates.

VISIONING WORKSHOP

Working with Creative Journal Expressive Arts (r)

Being able to picture your vision in action in the future is a key to being able to bring it about.  This workshop gives you tools for dreaming on paper with writing, drawing or graphics, and having a dialogue with
your images to find out what they symbolise in your life.   Your commitment to your future dream-in-action relies on engaging both the left and right hemisphere, so that your words are illustrated with pictures.
These come from magazines or your own drawing.  The workshop brings a creative reverie into mind and acts on your subconscious to prepare you for a playful start to any project:  think and picture yourself 
into the future playfully and with confident anticipation!

NEW VIDEO – SPRING INTO ACTION this new year – we all need inspiring and encouraging to follow our OBSESSIONS AND PASSIONS for what is beautiful and satisfying in our lives. Make fresh changes to your New Year resolution, by visiting my EVENTS page.  

….And watch this video about this year’s first Visioning(R) workshop – CLICK HERE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjC2j2fW6fU

LIVING OUR HEART’S DESIRE: Go to my new page on EMBODIMENT – ‘Whatever you dream, begin it now’ – Visioning and Matwork, bring your intuition to engage with with your body and a passion to succeed, bring commitment to act.

CLIA provides Expressive Arts activities for parents to learn to play and enjoy joining in with their children.  Here are some helpful hints and creative journal prompts that are easy to use to reflect on what it’s like being a parent without judgement. Find another parent friend and do the exercises together with a cup of tea, you could have lots to share with each other.

Creative Journal: The following is adapted with gratitude from ‘Creative Journal for Children’ by Lucia Capacchione.  Chose a topic and write a journal prompt on the top of a page, e.g. ‘I draw what I like doing, I write about what I draw’.  Children love exploring their feelings and thoughts with pictures and a few words.

CJ for Children prompts

‘Being a Parent’ activities:  With special thanks to Jackie Sokolov, the founder of Parent Network, for permission to reprint material contained in the following activitiy sheets, adapted from their Parent Training Manual:

Reflecting Feelings

Praising

Reflective listening to yourself

Saying what we feel

Visualise what you want

Suppressing feelings

The following journal activities are adapted with gratitude from ‘Creative Journal for Parents’ by Lucia Capacchione.

How I was Raised wksheet

Nurturing Parent

Peace and Quiet

When I was your age

Play Team members and their journals.

Go to Natural Spirituality for more about expressing Nature’s gift of reverie, peace, playfulness and connectedness in ancient woodland. Dates for events this year:  June 23 Wistman’s Wood Dwarf Oakland; August 26th Kingley Vale Yew Woodland.

TAKE A LOOK AT NEW GALLERY PICTURES

Pictures of many types of Creative Journal Expressive Arts and Vision(R) collage activities used in CLIA coaching for adults, children and groups:  CLICK HERE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: My thanks to Michael and Helen Loxton who kindly provided photos of Wistman’s Wood dwarf oaks, taken in June 2011, and CaptainKaranga for photos of Home Education artwork.