Retreats in Portugal - Feeding the Muse

You should attend Feeding the Muse if you are a someone who:

• Is intrigued to discover just what the limits to your creativity might be
• Is a senior manager or executive seeking a whole new approach to thinking about business and the future
• Are an artist seeking renewed passion and purpose for your expression
• Need to find the passion and vision to expand an existing business
• Are an out-of-the-box thinker who knows it is time for something different
• Needs to explore your potential in an environment that supports individuality

What you can expect to get from Feeding the Muse:

• A way of exploring your creativity and passion non-verbally, yet expressively
• Clarity on issues and challenges you’ve been struggling with for some time
• A new way of linking your inner life with outer results you can then share with others
• Skills to self manage stressful situations
• Tools for Self management that you can pass along to colleagues, staff and family members
• A new awareness of the importance of expressive creativity to creating results in life and business

How will I be able to achieve these kinds of results during Feeding the Muse:

As with my other retreats, there is very little formal structure during the first week, although I am present at all times for ad hoc coaching conversations, as a tour guide and for general support. By design, the first week is to help you to disconnect from your existing life. It acts as a pattern interrupt that invites you to switch your focus from the outside world, and from being focused on taking care of the needs of others, to a focus on the inner world, your inner world and all about that inner world that delights you, scares you or that you are curious about. You also use this time to get to know other participants at your own speed, in your own way (and choosing to not get to know them is also perfectly OK!). This is also an important time for you to become aware of lighting, new shapes, forms and textures and to begin to assimilate new experiences into your creative essence.

During the second week we get together as a group on a daily basis. As your facilitator, I offer series of guided meditations, after which you paint your experience of the meditation. As we paint, we talk about what is surfacing into your awareness about yourself as a creative individual, what this might mean for your life, your business, your relationships. Over the week you’ll create between 12 – 20 paintings of your various ‘experiences’. And you’ll have moments of great insight, fear, discovery and joy.

We’ll work with acrylic or watercolour paints on paper throughout the week. The process I’ve developed creates spectacular results whether you are a trained, professional artist or are someone who has never picked up a brush before. It appears very simple and straightforward, yet is a process that evokes huge discovery and insights amongst participants. I provide all materials, including paints, paper, brushes. All you need is to bring some old clothes and your enthusiasm for exploration!

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