Asheville Creativity Journaling Meetup Group

At this first creativity journaling meetup, we’ll explore the use of journaling and meditation in creative work. We’ll nurture the song within and see what that shy inner voice wants to tell us. It is about listening first – sensing what wants to become. This is time set aside for artists where we can drop beneath the busy surface mind and listen for what's trying to emerge.

Bring a journal to write in and a pen.

• We’ll explore the use of journaling and meditation in creative work. We’ll nurture the song within and see what that shy inner voice wants to tell us. It is about listening first – sensing what wants to become. This is a forum where artists can drop beneath the busy surface mind and listen for what's trying to emerge.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual--become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest vision....At such times there is a song going on within us, a song to which we listen. It fills us with surprise. We marvel at it. We would continue to hear it. But few are capable of holding themselves in the state of listening to their song. Intellectuality steps in and as the song within us is of the utmost sensitiveness, it retires in the presence of the cold, material intellect. It is aristocratic and will not associate itself with the commonplace--and we fall back and become our ordinary selves. Yet we live in the memory of these songs which in moments of intellectual inadvertence have been possible to us. They are the pinnacles of our experience and it is the desire to express these intimate sensations, this song from within, which motivates the masters of all art.
- Robert Henri from The Art

• We’ll explore the use of journaling and meditation in creative work. We’ll nurture the song within and see what that shy inner voice wants to tell us. It is about listening first – sensing what wants to become. This is a forum where artists can drop beneath the busy surface mind and listen for what's trying to emerge.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual--become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest vision....At such times there is a song going on within us, a song to which we listen. It fills us with surprise. We marvel at it. We would continue to hear it. But few are capable of holding themselves in the state of listening to their song. Intellectuality steps in and as the song within us is of the utmost sensitiveness, it retires in the presence of the cold, material intellect. It is aristocratic and will not associate itself with the commonplace--and we fall back and become our ordinary selves. Yet we live in the memory of these songs which in moments of intellectual inadvertence have been possible to us. They are the pinnacles of our experience and it is the desire to express these intimate sensations, this song from within, which motivates the masters of all art.
- Robert Henri from The Art

• We’ll explore the use of journaling and meditation in creative work. We’ll nurture the song within and see what that shy inner voice wants to tell us. It is about listening first – sensing what wants to become. This is a forum where artists can drop beneath the busy surface mind and listen for what's trying to emerge.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual--become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest vision....At such times there is a song going on within us, a song to which we listen. It fills us with surprise. We marvel at it. We would continue to hear it. But few are capable of holding themselves in the state of listening to their song. Intellectuality steps in and as the song within us is of the utmost sensitiveness, it retires in the presence of the cold, material intellect. It is aristocratic and will not associate itself with the commonplace--and we fall back and become our ordinary selves. Yet we live in the memory of these songs which in moments of intellectual inadvertence have been possible to us. They are the pinnacles of our experience and it is the desire to express these intimate sensations, this song from within, which motivates the masters of all art.
- Robert Henri from The Art