CURRENT WORKSHOP OFFERINGS 2014:
KEEP IT ALIVE: CONNECTING TO CREATIVITY FROM THE HEART
An 8 Week Journey into the Heart of Creativity (8 week online course)
Are you feeling stuck, creatively blocked or BORED with your creative life? Are you ready to breathe new life into the CREATIVE FIRE? Are you wanting to step into WILD self-expressiveness and into the full blossoming of your authentic being? Do you have something you want to EXPRESS to the world, but are not sure of the best way to do so? If you answered YES to any of the above questions, you will love the upcoming “Keep it Alive” Training with Nicki and Suraya.
In this 8 week online course, you will:
- Learn the 4 PHASES OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS, and identify practices that nourish creativity in each of its different phases.
- Understand the difference between the creative PROCESS and a creative PRODUCT, and learn why it is important to distinguish the two. - Identify key BLOCKS that stop you from creating when you want to do so, and transform those blocks into CREATIVE JUICE.
- Discover key PRACTICES that connect you to the river of creativity on a daily basis.
- Identify your current SOUL PROJECT – whatever creative project is most calling your soul at the moment – and create an action plan to launch your SOUL PROJECT into being!
Sign Up here:
http://www.mcssl.com/app/?af=1574529
You can also buy recordings from inspiring interviews from the Power of Creativity TeleSummit!
http://powerofcreativity.suraya.org/upgrade/
TeleSummit February 2nd-9th, 2014
Power of Creativity
THE POWER OF CREATIVITY TELESUMMIT, February 2-9, 2014 is concluded. More than 15 interviews with master practitioners who are using the arts and creativity to catalyze positive change on the planet! Click HERE to sign up to learn more about the recordings.
As part of this FREE week-long summit from February 2-9, 2014, you will have access to live interviews with over a dozen of these changemakers. Learn tips, methods and approaches from master practitioners who are using theatre, dance, visual art, creative writing, music and more to promote growth and positive change among individuals, groups and nations. Some highlights of the TELESUMMIT include:
· Be inspired by Delfina Piretti’s ideas about creative process living, which explores her experience of painting, art installation and Zen practice and its application to daily living.
· Olivia Corson, originator of Body Tales, a somatic healing practice, highlights the value of sharing our personal story in an uninterrupted process that is witnessed and its impact on unraveling trauma. She will address the gift and challenge of being a person with high sensitivity.
· Listen to Elise Peeples, writer and executive director of Art Between us, describe the collaborative art process that stimulates the creativity in all people and dissolves isolation in our human family.
· Learn about Anin Utigaard’s person-centered authentic voice-work and how this work helps us move stuck patterns and find our own voice.
· Sue Martin addresses the power of creativity and spiritual practices to respond to stress, trauma and support full embodiment bringing us into the present moment.
· Kate Donohue, a Jungian Expressive Arts Therapist, speaks with passion about the global, cross-cultural and archetypal aspects of creativity linking us a human race and will share her inspiration of various women artists.
· Lysa Castro shines light on authentic movement and Body Tales and its emphasis of deeply listening to bring us home to ourselves and become truly present.
And MUCH MORE!
With gratitude, Suraya Keating & Nicki Koethner, Co-Hosts of the Power of Creativity Telesummit 2014
Eastbay Healing Collective Stillwater Meditation February 17th, 2014 6:30-8:15 pm
1840 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Guest Facilitator/Teacher
Silent meditation and dharma talk
Being
Come and be! Nothing else required.
Creative expression as a meditation, as a way of being with yourself and your spirit
Art is spirit made visible. Being in the creative process allows the inner healer and creator to come forth deepening our connection to self and other simultaneously, crystallizing the essence of our being.
Nicki Koethner
Art is spirit made visible. Being in the creative process allows the inner healer and creator to come forth deepening our connection to self and other simultaneously, crystallizing the essence of our being.
Nicki Koethner
PAST WORKSHOPS
Eastbay Healing Collective Stillwater Meditation
November 4th, 2013 6:30-8:15 pm
1840 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Guest Facilitator/Teacher
Silent meditation and dharma talk
Simplicity and Truth
Come and be! Nothing else required.
MASKWORKSHOP 2012
Discover, Connect, and Awaken your Animal Spirit
through Sacred Drumming and Mask Making
Saturday November 4, 2012 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Terra's Temple, 654 Oakland Ave, Oakland, CA
$125 (sliding scale available)
RSVP is required (Space is limited)
call 510-779-2842 nkoethnermft@yahoo.com
Have you been seeking?
Wanting a deeper sense of belonging, meaning and purpose?
Have you been restless, anxious or depressed?
Or simply felt the calling to be more fully alive-not just functioning and paying the bills?
Now is the time to go deeper and answer the calling!
Change is a golden opportunity and can also bring forth painful emotions. The universe is going through many shifts causing people to reevaluate their lives. Staying grounded and centered in these times is not an easy task . Many people are feeling stressed, stretched and overwhelmed. In order to make the choices of your true self rather than the ego, it is important to have guidance and places where you can connect with your soul.
Join us in for a shamanic journey to receive your animal totem guidance through sacred drumming and deepening it with mask-making, sharing, movement and writing. Please bring drums and rattles if you have them, a journal, and water. A few drums and rattles will be available. No prior drumming or mask-making experience is required. Art materials are provided and you are invited to bring additional ones for the decoration of the mask.
MEETING YOUR ANIMAL GUIDE- A sacred space is created as we journey to the otherworld to meet and receive messages from your Animal Spirit Guides. Animals are here to teach humans. They have many powerful lessons to give. They remind us that we are only a small part of creation; that each part of creation has a place; that each creature has its own skill and wisdom.
Making masks is an ancient tradition practiced in many indigenous cultures. Masks invite us to enter an altered state of consciousness and invite universal energies to be expressed through us, allowing new or split-part of ourselves to be embodied. Rather than wearing masks, we can hide behind, we are creating images of what we want to become. The masks become allies of our journey through life, helping us to embody our true selves and infuse our animal guides with powerful vibration.
Owlsnake is the Founder and Director of Esoterica Shamanic Center. She is a Shaman/Medicine Woman (Lineage), Esoteric Coach, Interfaith Minister, Reiki Master and Certified Rape Crisis Counselor. She specializes in working with individuals who are healing from traumatic events such as physical/mental/emotional abuse, or just for someone who has lost themselves. She utilizes a holistic “Mind, Body & Spirit” approach in her work. She works with individuals and groups. Find out more at www.esotericashamanic.com.
Nicki Koethner, MA, MFT is the founder of Express-Explore-Expand. She is licensed Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, Multimedia-artist, and a mystic who guides people through transitions and transforming trauma into empowerment. She has a private practice in Oakland for individuals, couples, children and families in English and German and facilitates rituals and ceremonies. She also specializes in Expressive Arts consulting. Find out more at www.express-explore-expand.com.
Engaging in the creative process is meditation and action combined, touching the mystery of life and highlighting your encounter within it. It serves as reflection of being fully in your life, true to each moment and responsive to what is emerging within you. It is about the process of being alive and being truly yourself. Nicki Koethner
MASK WORKSHOP 2011
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Mask Workshop December 2010
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Mask Workshop 2010
Participant looking at the mask of her face after it dried on her face. People often enter a meditative, contemplative state when plaster is applied to their face. Working on mask
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Partner work - soulful connection
 Meditation in Connection. Working with a partner by applying plaster on partner's face is an intimate process of creating an attentive intentional connection in service to another.  Decorating Mask-
A new image is created. Curiosity;
What wants to emerge?   Here it is - an alter ego- an energy speaking to me! 
Incubation phase- release and preparation for the new to emerge
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"Fall Play" Workshop 2010
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  dancing- moving -inner impulses responding to the sounds, elements in time and space and other people |
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 a day of fall rejuvenation - we all felt less stressed and reminded what our priorities are |
"Spring Play" 2009 co-facilitated with Delfina Piretti
People responding to
and embodying drawings after poetry, and movement to deepen the process of connection to their questions, current challenges and emerging selves  a collage of images to connect to collective creation process |
"SPRING PLAY"
setting the space- creating intentions - the snake as a symbol of letting go and being born anew
music-making and image-making
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