an invitation to wishBIG ecamp (and a giveaway)
I am so delighted to share with you that I am teaching at wishBIG ecamp!
This online ecamp/virtual retreat takes place March 21 – March 27, 2011, and it is packed full of so many incredible classes.
As Mindy (your Camp Director) shares:
Let’s kick off spring together! come immerse yourself in an online experience that is all about rocking your creative girl power in a unique and fun online community and event!
Your week at camp includes:
- 10 (2 hour) online creative living workshops from a host of fabulously inspiring camp counselors, each of them bringing their own special talent and insight to help you wishBIG, createBIG and liveBIG! (schedule and descriptions below). all classes will be available online through the end of april and are self paced.
- camp T-shirts for all campers!
- daily ecamp inspiration postcards (via email) created especially for you by our talented teachers
- evening campfire gatherings and activities to encourage community and fun!
- ecamp cabinmates to help you connect with local campers
…and it wouldn’t be camp without s’mores!
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I am simply delighted to be teaching with the following incredible creative ladies: Kelly Barton, Violette Clarke, Shona Cole, Shannon Kinney-Duh, Goddess Leonie, Darrah Parker, Jamie Ridler, Andrea Schroeder, and Kate Swoboda. (Peek into all their juicy classes here.)
And I am quite sure I speak for all of them when I say that we hope you will come along and join us on this adventure where you will spend time playing, discovering, getting messy, writing, taking photographs, and uncovering pieces of who you are as you claim the creative dreams you want to live into reality.
Here is some information about my class: Creative Senses Adventure & Guided Meditation
I close my eyes and see an image of a nine-year-old little girl with brown pigtails who gathers up a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, her current Trixie Belden book, a thermos of apple juice, and her newest diary and favorite blue pen and tucks them inside a backpack. She tiptoes out the back, carefully closing the squeaky screen door and jumps down the two steps to the brick patio. She looks out toward the forest seemingly unaware that she has less than a quarter of an acre to explore as she finds the path toward her favorite log beside the chain-link fence.
I often think about this little girl when I gather up my camera and journal and head out to the woods to breathe and notice and find myself again in the midst of all that must get done… In this workshop, we will use the senses to look at where we are in this moment and to remember the real and imagined adventures of the child’s spirit that lives inside us. We will closely examine how the senses can be an important tool in our personal and creative toolbox as we take our cameras on a photography excursion and put pen to paper to find a poem or two waiting within us. We will also explore ways to quiet our minds through guided meditation exercises and look at how focusing on the breath can connect us to our day-to-day experiences. This is your invitation to come along and explore the textures of your world, meet your inner poet, breathe deeply, and find your center.
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Today, I am so happy to be able to give away one spot at wishBig ecamp. To enter to win this spot, please leave a comment sharing one creative dream that is sitting inside your heart today.
The giveaway will be open until Thursday at noon PST.
workshops in an invitation
Reader Comments (27)
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one creative dream resting quietly in my heart is the ability to wander the beautiful cities of europe with just a camera and a journal. right now i am working on resting a little closer to that dream by simply dreaming of a dslr to call my own. i miss the feel of a camera in my hands, seeing a sliver of clarity in my existence peeking through the viewfinder...
My creative dream is to write my own book on creative living. I've held onto this dream for years and it is just weighing me down. I need to release it and it's energy for it to come true.
One creative dream... to have my photography published.
So many dreams swirling around in my head. One big dream I have is to someday teach at my own creative retreat.
Not only is this dream sitting inside my heart it is ready and bursting to come out: I would love to be a full time artist; supporting my family with my creativeness while inspiring others.....actually living the life I imagine in my head. I would love to tap into that and make it happen and this camp sounds like the perfect way to jump start this dream of mine - thank you for this chance!! xo
My creative dream is to introduce children to the fun of art journaling and mixed media on canvas - teach them to be free and to love art and colour as much as I do. I hear too often how art in schools can kill the love of art and the confidence our children have in themselves to begin with - to the point that so many adults no longer feel they are 'good enough' to draw or paint. I would love to run local workshops for children, youth and adults even - to re-introduce a love of art and show them that it can be fun, therapeutic and enjoyed at all ages and abilities!!
xxx
Thank you so much for giving away a spot.
Currently, my biggest creative wish is that my art could touch people's heart. I am finally taking the leap and opening my Etsy shop. This is one of the many creative dreams/wishes swirling around and inside me currently.
Take care
I left my job of nearly 8 years in August to pursue a life of my own design. I had visions of spending my days writing, crafting, drawing, cooking. Basically, I wanted to create things all day long. Now I'm at a point where I need to figure out how to focus my creative efforts. So my dream would be to live a creative life, but live it in a way that not only helps me pay the bills, but helps others.
Thank you, Liz.
A creative dream sitting inside my heart today is to eventually work into creating my own artist retreats. It really is an idea that just came to me. It need time to be nurtured and loved before it comes out into the world. I'd love to win a space in this ecamp.
Kate
so many little creative dreams in my heart.. I would say the one that is asking for attention is starting up my coaching, but with creativity a huge part of it this time..
Thanks for the chance to win and I wish all of your dreams and readers dreams come true!
My creative dream is to help other women find time for themselves and show them that they are already creative. So many mothers put their family first and over time, lose a sense of who they really are. I want to help them recapture it, without any feelings of guilt.
My creative dream is to launch a weekly prompt on my blog, that anyone can play along with, centred around worthiness.
my creative dream is to find my creativity again. Between a messy divorce, one year of unemployment and having to short sale my home...my mojo needs some help. I've been unpacking my craft/office space in the new house and I'm hoping that as I unpack I find the creative self I've lost in the last couple of years
i have lots of creative dreams living in my heart. they feel a bit vulnerable to share. one dream i have is to be an "artist." that is to see myself and really believe i am an artist.
My creative dream simmering most these days is to give struggling women (single moms, poverty, abused etc.) a place and a program to encourage and support and empower them to embrace and celebrate their dreams and creativity. Many of us have stories about Art saving us.
Recntly I discovered that I totally gave up on dreaming all together - living a life that was filled with problem-solving and surviving the day. Now I want to learn to dream again and get all the creativity that has been holding back, to come out and start flowing again. I am hoping to find that artistic voice and being able to express it.
I thought for most of my life that I did not have the ability to be creative. When my daughter was born over two years ago, I found a creative voice through scrapbooking and photography. I would love to be creative for a living! :) That is my dream.
The creative dream I have stirring in my heart...
That an interested publisher finds my Online Serial, The Virgin Wife Chronicles, helps me through the rest of the writing process, pays me a lofty advance, markets the heck out of it, and publishes it.
A girl can dream, right?
Thank you for the opportunity <3
xo,
Angela
So many dreams planted, ready to be watered....
I have *Art Afternoons* with a few friends of mine every few months. We'd love to put together an art sale in a renovated church that is available for weekend rentings. Such a beautiful spot to invite people in to share our creative mucking abouts. I'd love to have enough creativity and courage to be able to go through something like that.
The dream that is sitting in my heart today is my hope that my children will learn to understand that "comparison is the thief of joy" much earlier than I did, and thus, be able to fully enjoy & celebrate their creative pursuits from a much younger age!
My creative dream right now is to be confident enough to proclaim myself as a real artist, and to connect with other creative people without doubting myself...
i long to find that spark i felt about 3 years ago....when i first started blogging, when i first started taking pictures, when i opened etsy and sold my first little painting and was so stunned that someone actually wanted to pay money for it...
i'm not sure where i'm at right now...i'm confused. i spend so much time gathering ideas and yet...i am not doing anything. And i've turned photography into a business {that i enjoy and i am grateful for} but it doesn't give me that same spark anymore. too many times, it's a "have to" not always a "want to".
i want to give myself a kick, i want to get going in the right direction, i want to move forward.
oh. and my "word" for 2011 is connection...because i think i need to connect more with like minded people...and this would be a great opportunity to do just that...
:)
Hello there Everyone,
I am toying with the idea of becoming an art therapist. I have lived through my share of depressions and art journalling is what grounds me and I'd love to be able to make others aware of the Immensely healing qualities of art.
Thanks!
Katy
I typed it out and then quickly backspaced over it because I am still not brave enough to share. But it DID feel good to let it out for a minute...I can't imagine how good it would feel to LIVE IT.
My heart keeps telling me I need to write a book because what I have to say needs to be heard. About loving yourself, being the change, conscious pregnancy/parenting, mind/body/spirit health... I have so much to say. El problemo is that my mind keeps making excuses and I keep coming back to feeling like I shouldn't because I don't have children yet. People see me as the expert, but I don't feel like one. I just feel like a girl, who wakes up, touches lives (I'm a massage therapist) and makes a difference in the world. I just want that difference to ripple further and touch more people.