Passport to the Creative Process
Passport Workshops for 2007
Led by
Sara Spaulding-Phillips
My passport is my best friend and teacher. I use it to focus on transformation in all areas of my life. When I want to lose weight, I create a passport. When I want to put my finances into order, I create a passport. When I want to unclutter and simplify my life, develop a new, exciting project or enhance a relationship, I create a passport. When I want to travel, I create a passport to be my companion and journal along the way. My passport is my , lover, best friend and the palette through which I can express myself most intimately on my path through life—the best of companions.
Experience this remarkable creative process yourself while focusing on the theme of your choice during any or all of these exciting workshops! The Creative Process may be applied to anything you ever wanted in your life.
What is Included
In the five-hour workshops, participants will be introduced to the Creative Process and provided with a blank passport book, an abundance of art materials, plus lunch or supper to sustain them. There will be times of silence, meditation and easy sharing with like-minded women, and perhaps a brave man or two! We will discover images, words and marvelous oddments to paste into our passports, inspiring brief but concise journal entries and inspiration for lots of writing and art to come.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own passport portraits, personal images, and copies of pages from official passports to use. Participants are welcome either to use the theme of each session to guide their creations or to venture out on their own journeys.
The Creative Process is an exciting and powerful way to put your dreams into action and experience them manifesting in your life!
Fee: $60/5-hour workshop ($50 for Mysteries Women).
Fee for weekend retreat is $475 ($400 for Mysteries Women). More information on the retreat can be forwarded upon request.
To register, please call Sara at (707) 578-7272, ext. 2 or e-mail sarariter1@gmail.com
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Passport workshop dates:
Passport to New Beginnings
Saturday, April 14, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Have you ever wanted to start over again and be someone new? Spring equinox is the time to do just that. Create your dream life and learn tools to put your dreams into action! 1, 2, 3 — GO!
Passport to Body Central
Saturday, May 19, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Focus on our body-temples for renewal, optimal health, weight loss and vitality. Includes a brief introduction to qigong.
Passport to the Creative Process
Friday-Sunday, July 20-22
A Weekend Retreat at The Sea Ranch
Joyfully play, learn and create your dreams by the sea. Call or e-mail for more information on this weekend retreat immersed in the Creative Process.
Passport into the Dark
Wednesday, October 24, 5:00-10:00 p.m.
Celebrate the journey into fall and harvest time. Honor Samhain, Dia de Los Muertos, and loved ones who have moved on this year. Focus on deep introversion, restoration and creativity the winter months can bring. We will create an altar and a special journey of the imagination that will entice our natures.
Passport to Spirituality
Friday, November 30, 5:00-10:00 p.m.
Focus on thankfulness and gratefulness for all we have. This Creative Process workshop will assist us in setting our intentions for the coming year.
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My Passport History
I will never forget the day I received my official U.S. passport. I was nearly thirty and planning a trip to Australia for a year of studying the dream paintings of the Aborigines. My passport represented my ticket to a bigger world and other cultures and peoples.
When I was asked to teach Writing Practice in Greece last year, I thought what a wonderful small traveling journal a passport-sized book would make. At first I thought to fake an official passport by copying and altering pages, but then I discovered a perfect passport-sized journal and voila! the beginning of passport art.
Each time I travel, I begin a new passport in which to collect memorabilia and write pithy, important observations and “Aha!”s that come along. I have made many passports now. The way they differ from my hundreds of other journals is that they hold both writings and images to help me relive experiences once again.
There is no limit to the subject of such a treasure. The desire to enhance physical and spiritual health, create a simpler life, honor a loved one, cultivate higher qualities—all serve well as subjects for passport art because passports can be created, seen and felt as prayers.
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What participants have said about
Passport Workshops:
What a unique, original process to help me focus on my intentions for my life. —Z.J.
I have drawers full of journals. I am ready for a brief illustrated place to keep my daily thoughts. —L.P.
I’m traveling to Europe this summer. What a fabulously easy and small travel journal. —J.C.
A birthday present to myself for my 50th birthday. I’m using this passport to remind me of all my treasures. —C.P.
I haven’t had so much fun in ages! —L.B.
I just have to get healthier, stronger and lose weight this year. This will be my companion. —S.S.
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