Inspired Offerings
Magic and wonder surround us in every moment. Sometimes, we just need to be willing to open to remembering the creative pulse that inspires -- literally breathes -- us. Living in relationship with the greater mystery that weaves through our lives enables us to understand to our core that we are never alone, bringing more vibrancy and trust into our day-to-day no matter what we're experiencing.
In addition to my soul companioning, end of life doula, and mentoring work, it is my heart's joy to offer writing groups and painting workshops, to facilitate healing circles, to speak in the community, and to develop other creative one-on-one and small group processes for engaging with the reality that we are more connected than we realize -- through each breath, to the last breath, and beyond.
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"Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?"
Joan Halifax
Join me for these creative opportunities...
Write Yourself Home
Are you looking to rediscover or revitalize your writing practice? Or to begin for the very first time? Then this may be for you!
Daily writing practice is like having a doorway to the soul. The creative muse, which inhabits us all, is a stickler for consistency and ritual -- she wants to know we're invested before she starts offering up her gems and magic to inspire our lives. When we develop this relationship with her, when we commit to engaging the mystery, it's like coming home to ourselves -- we see more clearly, we make contact with how we're really feeling about things, and we access who really lives in here, along with all of the wisdom and imagination and creative insight that is available to imbue our lives with meaning, guidance, and direction.
Connect into this inspiring space through this 6-week creative adventure -- it's easy. Our circle consists of daily prompts that you can enjoy on your own or with the group, a Monday-Friday Zoom practice space that will be recorded (no pressure, come as you're able), and additional optional time after writing practice on Mondays and Fridays to check in as a community. Dip in and out as you are called -- ample structure and freedom to meet you exactly where you are.
Think of it as your own dedicated space to come and write or rest in community -- use the prompts or not, journal whatever is arising or not, bring your own project to work on or not. The time is yours and we will hold space for one another to be in our own process. It's easier than we think to weave our creative heart and its essential expression into our daily lives. Let's use this 6-weeks of daily opportunity to practice building some momentum in our own creative lives. Trust me, I need this, too.
Supplies needed: a journal and favorite pens, computer, candle, snuggly blanket, something yummy to sip on. As we build a nourishing ritual around our writing practice, make it as inspiring and comfy for yourself as possible.
No writing experience required -- all you need is a willingness to explore.
Begins Thursday, 9/21/23 (for 6 weeks)
9:00-9:30am CST Zoom practice space, weekdays
Zoom link shared upon paid registration
Cost: $188
TO LEARN MORE AND REGISTER
Spirited Meditation Circle - ongoing
Are you looking for more peace and centeredness in your life? To approach each day with more conscious vitality to support your well-being on every level -- mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, energetic, etheric? Do you find inspiration in the collective energy of community joining together in service of heart and soul?
I invite you into this meditation gathering via Zoom to enhance a sense of compassion and connectedness, and to open a supportive energetic space in which to develop, grow, or revitalize your meditation practice. What the world needs now is more of us taking deep, tender loving care of ourselves every day, and bringing that transformational healing energy of kindness and love into the world.
For almost two years, this circle has provided a consistent community space to practice turning inward with an open heart and attentiveness both to what is happening in Nature, and how that influences our inner movements. Beginning 2023, this circle is ongoing each weekday, with inspiration garnered by fluency of soul and the cycles of the seasons.
No meditation experience is necessary – just a willingness to explore your own experience.
Ongoing, weekdays
7:30am-8:00am CST
Zoom link shared upon registration
Cost: free, gratitude donations accepted
TO LEARN MORE AND REGISTER
Past events...
Creative Lunch Break - April 2023
It's easier than we think to weave our creative heart and its essential expression into our daily lives. Join me for 90-minutes of creative exploration as we choose to ignite the fire within and step more fully over the seasonal threshold into Spring.
Using creative process as a catalyst and inquiry as a doorway, we will play with ways to breathe new life into the spark of our being as we come alive after a long winter.
Supplies needed are flexible: a journal and pen, paper for drawing or painting, and some colors - watercolors, colored pens, markers, crayons, pencils - whatever you want to play with. Make it as easy for yourself as possible.
This form of creativity is about process, not product. No creative writing or painting experience required -- all you need is a willingness to explore your own experience.
Wednesday, 4/12/23
11:30am-1:00pm CST
Zoom link shared upon paid registration
Cost: $22 (10% discount for paid Substack subscribers)
Home of the Heart
You are invited to come together in community for creative exploration of how we hold our experience of feeling at home within ourselves and in the world.
Using experience as a doorway, we will discover how long held beliefs can keep us in patterns of experience that no longer serve us. From there, we tap what is possible when we choose to write a new story and see it come to life on the canvas/paper as a means of fostering fearless belonging in our lives.
This form of creativity is about process, not product. No creative writing or painting experience required -- all you need is a willingness to explore your own experience.
Thursday, 2/9/23
1:00pm-4:00pm CST
Zoom link shared upon paid registration
Cost: $33 (10% discount for paid Substack subscribers)
Spirited Meditation Circle (summer 2022)
Are you looking for more peace and centeredness in your life? To approach each day with more grounding and vitality to support your well-being on every level -- mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, energetic, etheric? Do you find inspiration in the collective energy of community joining together in service of the heart?
I invite you into this meditation gathering via Zoom to enhance a sense of compassion and connectedness, and to open a supportive energetic space in which to develop, grow, or revitalize your meditation practice. What the world needs now is more of us taking deep, tender loving care of ourselves every day, and bringing that transformational healing energy of kindness and love into the world.
This turn of the Celtic wheel, between July 11 and September 21, brings us through the heart of summer (Northern Hemisphere) into the Autumn Equinox. It is a time of richness and savoring, as we focus in on tending our growth and nourishing what is arising in us to celebrate in the harvest to come.
No meditation experience is necessary – just a willingness to explore your own experience.
Weekdays, July 11-September 21, 2022
7:30am-8:00am CST
Zoom link shared upon registration
Cost: free, gratitude donations accepted
Writing Through the Dark
Are you looking for deeper connection with your Self through the dark half of the year? When we stay close to the changes within us with the new cycle, we can more fully embody the possibilities of the seasonal and cyclical shift. Our willingness to engage with the gifts of the darkness invites us to know ourselves more fully – when we say yes to this exploration, this is what it means to grow our relationship with soul.
Through weekly creative inquiries/prompts you will stay connected to the rhythm of this cycle and be invited to listen to yourself in a new way. As a circle of explorers, we will meet monthly via Zoom to share, as desired, what is arising for us in the process. There will be an opportunity to pair up with a partner for the duration of our time together for encouragement. And there will also be the opportunity for discounted one-on-one companioning sessions with me, as needed and desired. You'll never walk alone.
Coming together with a community of kindreds at this time in the spirit of creative exploration offers an opportunity to tune into the soul’s longing for this next turn and to prepare your response to it – what is available to us when we give the soul space to inform this next season? Together, we will create a rich, welcoming space where all of who you are and who you are becoming belongs.
No writing or creative inquiry experience is necessary – just a willingness to explore your own experience.
6-months of creative exploration, November 1, 2022-April 30, 2023
Cost: $222
The Sisterhood
We are whole. We don't need fixing. We don't need to be told what we know to be true. We have all that we need within us. We have the space and the time to tend our deepest selves when we choose it.
And now, we have The Sisterhood to support us in accessing our deep wisdom and inspiring sacred relationship with our individual and collective bright beautiful feminine light.
For 6 months we will gather together in person in the spirit of belonging, ritual, creative inquiry, inspiration, and witnessing. We will have a private online community for continued connection between gatherings. With Spirit alongside us deeply invested in what is being created here, who knows what else will arise to be included as the year evolves along with us!
If you're looking for your circle of kindreds, this is for you. If you're longing for deeper connection with the sacred feminine within you and others, this is for you. If you're listening for your intuition and unique voice, this is for you. If you're loving the possibility of discovering your what's next, this is for you.
What treasures of personal medicine are you being nudged to bring to the world? What is calling from within you to be given voice? How can we come together in sisterhood to reclaim our creative genius for the good of humanity?
Our circle is incomplete without your presence. Your world is incomplete without your gifts. Together we create wonders.
No experience with circle is necessary – bring your open heart and a willingness to explore your own experience.
6 months of gatherings on the Wednesday closest the New Moon, beginning July 27, 2022
(other dates: 8/27/22, 9/25/22, 10/25/22, 11/23/22, 12/23/22)
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: all gatherings at a private location in Lakeville, MN (details shared upon paid registration)
Cost: $122
Summer Loving Writing Circle
Summer. No matter your experience with this time of the year, thinking about it invariably evokes images of romantic picnics and a refreshing dip in the lake, the excitement of camping and promise of leisurely sunset strolls, Sunday afternoon barbecues and spontaneous gatherings with those we love. When we stay close to the changes within us with the new cycle, we can more fully embody the possibilities of the seasonal shift. Coming together with a community of kindreds at this time in the spirit of creative exploration offers an opportunity to tune into the soul’s longing for this next turn and to prepare your response to it – what is available to us when we give the soul space to inform this next season of growth? Together, we will create a rich, welcoming space where all of who you are and who you are becoming belongs.
No writing experience is necessary – just a willingness to explore your own experience.
Tuesdays, June 7-July 5, 2022 (5 weeks)
7:00pm-9:00pm CST
virtual event - Zoom link provided upon paid registration
Cost: $88
Soulful Awakening Writing Circle
The movement from winter into spring awakens so much in us – feelings of renewal, a burgeoning aliveness, the thrill of potential. When we stay close to the changes within us with the new cycle, we can more fully embody the possibilities of the seasonal shift. Coming together with a community of kindreds at this time in the spirit of creative exploration offers an opportunity to tune into the soul’s longing for this next turn and to prepare your response to it – what is available to us when we give the soul space to inform this next season? Together, we will create a rich, welcoming space where all of who you are and who you are becoming belongs.
No writing experience is necessary – just a willingness to explore your own experience.
Tuesdays, March 8-April 5, 2022 (5 weeks)
6:00pm-8:00pm CST (4pm PST/7pm EST)
Zoom link shared upon paid registration
Cost: $88 (USD)
The Quickening
The Quickening is a soulful collaboration between Tending Life at the Threshold and Spirited Transformation.
Fellow heart-healers Liz Coenen and Christy Marek are joining passions for ritual healing, creativity, ceremony, and the natural world with this gathering called, The Quickening - A Beltane celebration to ignite the light within.
The Celtic festival of Beltane celebrates the union of the sun's light from above with the light of the waking earth below, and the light within all living things. We invite you to join us in circle for an evening of exploration of what it means to be in relationship with Nature as we all ignite in the fullness of Spring. Together, through gentle movement, guided creative process, and sacred ceremony, we will nourish the quickening of our inner light, in concert with the rhythms of nature. Come prepared for an evening of connection and discovery.
No experience with circle is necessary – just a willingness to explore your own experience.
April 30, 2022
7:00pm-9:00pm CST
virtual event - Zoom link provided upon paid registration
Cost: $22
"We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small...by pulling back when we should be leaning in."
Sharon Sandberg
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