True offers one-one-one creativity coaching and workshops that are open to all levels of experience.
The fact of your birth, and that you have made it this far in life, is proof of the creative power that flows through you. Your curiosity about and longing to express it will resource your ability to do so. It is that simple.
Medicine painting classes and workshops are not simply about learning to paint. They are an opportunity to go on a medicine journey where paint and canvas are the mediums. They allow you to dive deep into a healing process in an area of life that is seeking to shift and is that ready to open to greater awareness.
True's breadth of experience and training as a psychologist, shamanic practitioner, yoga teacher and Intentional Creativity teacher allows her to lead participants through a deep exploration of themselves, guiding them into expanded awareness of their consciousness and wisdom through the oracle of the painting they create.
In addition to painting, you will be guided in meditations and journeys, journaling, and wanders on the landscape. Sessions may also include yogic movement and as would facilitate your process.
True has taught these workshops to people with no painting experience and to people with formal art training. No two workshops are the same because True tailors them to facilitate each participant's inquiry, adapting the process moment to moment to meet the shifts in co-creative consciousness.
To find out more about True's offerings in medicine painting visit www.artbytrue.com
What is Intentional Creativity?
Intentional Creativity was developed by Shiloh Sophia, artist and healer in Sonoma, CA. Even more than an approach to painting or healing, Intentional Creativity is best described as a philosophy of living. It is based in the belief that patterns of being can be transformed by awakening our innate creativity and through the grounded application of imagination. The practitioner of Intentional Creativity claims themselves as a place where storytelling and art-making reconstruct often unconsciously-held narratives through which the act of living itself evolves into an art form.
One of the most beautiful aspects of Intentional Creativity is that it is available and accessible to everyone. To create is our birthright and the only requirement to create in this way is a willingness to be present and to explore what is. Rather than beginning with the left-brain question of, “What should I make?” when the Intentional Creativity practitioner stands before a canvas (or any other gateway of creation), they ask the sacred question, “What is my intention?”
By asking these sacred questions, one looks boldly within and surrenders to mystery and possibility. Conscious-altering portals are painted to open perspectives and expand patterns of thinking. Linear thought yields to stream of consciousness as new intentions ask to be included. Flow precedes composition as layers of brush strokes and washes of color solidify into shapes, symbols, and codes. The multi-faceted image that is ultimately revealed on the canvas could not be architected from the start. Rather, it is born out of the inner wisdom that has been accessed and given form through the journey of intention.
I am a graduate of Color of Woman, the Intentional Creativity Certificate Teacher Training Program offered by Shiloh Sophia. I have participated in other courses with Shiloh Sophia including Legend and Temple. In addition, I have received individual mentoring program from Shiloh in Quickening focusing on Intentional Creativity, medicine painting and the creation of ritual.