For December 2019, Council of Muses explored the quality of Wisdom. Wisdom is about learning from our experiences and using that learning to CREATE a future more to our liking…and closer to our hearts. In our creative practice this month, we took a look back at the year in review to see what lessons we could glean.
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Council of Muses, November 2019 Creative Practice
For the month of November 2019, Council of Muses explored the theme of “Patience” as it sustains us in pursuing our goals, including patience with self, with circumstances and with outcomes that might not come as quickly as we would like. Above all, though, PATIENCE IS NOT PASSIVE – IT IS PERSISTENT! In this video I share an art journaling practice to help you explore how you can sustain yourself with active roots, sunshine of joy and refreshing rains of self-care while pursuing your dream. For more information about the Council of Muses creative mastermind program, including monthly support calls and quarterly online retreats, email me at tara@taraerin.com.
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Council of Muses, October 2019 Creative Practice
For the month of October 2019, Council of Muses explored the theme of “Courage” as it relates to accomplishing our goals. Courage is certainly a necessary component of challenging the narrative of your Inner Critic. In this short, 6-minute video I share an #IntentionalCreativity art journaling practice to help you courageously claim your experiences and skills in service of your dreams. Program members also enjoyed a wonderful discussion on the theme of Courage, as well as a report out where we shared our accomplishments for October and our commitments for November. If you would like this kind of accountability and support, email me at tara@taraerin.com for more information about joining…
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Pillars of a Creative Life
Several years ago, when I first embarked on the Intentional Creativity journey as a member of the Red Madonna “Queen of the Cosmos” yearlong creative practice group, our teacher Shiloh Sophia asked us to contemplate what she called the “pillars” of our belief. Of the many inquiries we initiated that year, this one has had particular sticking power for me, perhaps because it was one of the first times I began to seriously consider my own inner knowing as a source of authority. More recently, I’ve found myself revisiting the seven pillars I chose at that time and, much to my surprise, I find that as creativity has moved to…
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Council of Muses: September 2019 Creative Practice
In September 2019, I held the online orientation for my creative mastermind group, Council of Muses. This video shows how I prepped my own art journal for our yearlong journey together.
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Imagine 2019
With the exception of 2018 when I completed 5 major paintings for the Color of Woman training program, I have worked on a yearlong painting project each year since 2015. For 2019, my project is based on Shiloh Sophia’s Imagine curriculum. First taught in 2017, its goal is not the creation of an art masterpiece, but the use of creativity to cultivate resiliency and build capacity for thoughtful and creative response to the seemingly endless stream of personal and collective traumas of life. In truth, these benefits have been evident in all the prior paintings as well, but in this year’s project it feels as if the layer of creating…
