Artist's Way - 1st Week of New Session 2025 - Pls read Week 1: Safety (no tasks)

For our upcoming meeting on Sunday, January 12th at 4 pm:

Please read Week 1: Recovering a Sense of Safety—just the chapter reading, without completing the tasks. The tasks will be part of next week’s assignments. During Sunday’s Meetup, we’ll discuss your thoughts on the reading.

As always, please join us no matter where you are in the reading. All are welcome!

MEETING NOTE: 10 minutes after the meeting starts at 4 pm central time, admittance to the meeting will be closed so as not to disturb shares.

PS.
If you'd like to join the Facebook group where we can support and encourage each other throughout the week, please follow the link and request to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/782964946936136

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Welcome musicians, writers, actors, dancers, singers, painters...creative Beings. This is Julian Cameron's step journey to get to the "other side" The author refers to the Artist Way, as: "we use the book, not read it." The book is structured with chapters read weekly, but please join whenever this crosses your paths. The Artist Way is for anyone who has thought: "Too late to create, it's just my ego, I'm not good enough, I'll wait until I make more money or retire" etc.

The foundation of the Artist Way is morning journaling, called "morning pages" (i.e. writing 3 pages of whatever is on your mind daily) and also "artist dates" (A date with yourself alone; cook a new recipe, take pictures of nature, paint on a canvas, create a vision board, poems read to yourself, mid-day-matinee, make smores...etc). It is common to postpone creativity within our "things to do" busy lives. The group supports creative visions and shares unfinished projects, dreams, or goals.

Assignments and homework are suggested to witness results within stagnant visions. We gather to share our experiences, discuss chapters, and make connections. We meet once a week. This will help with accountability and consistency. (even if you don't complete assignments, still come. This helps ensure you don't fall off the path).
Come share the creative space at your own pace. Please feel free to start where you have joined the meetup.

Our Approach: Alternating Weekly Format -------------------------------------

One week, we'll read a chapter and discuss it during our Saturday meeting. Feel free to highlight or note anything that resonates with you to help spark discussion. At the end of the meeting, you can choose two to four tasks from the chapter to complete during the following week (always welcome to do more!). The next week, we'll come together to share and discuss the completed tasks.

We do it this way to spread out the workload and make it less overwhelming.

Hope to see you there!!