My Next Online Art and Creativity Class Goes LIVE Soon!

I am pleased to gently remind you that my next online class, once again in collaboration with the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network is still open for registration, and will go live on August 19!

If you are on my mailing list, you’ve already received an email announcement. If you aren’t on my mailing list, just shoot me a quick email with your email address, and I will consider that as my permission to add you. I will be working hard in the months ahead to bring my email list the very best in soul-nourishing spiritual and creative encouragement - beyond even what you’ll find here on the blog. So thank you for signing up.

Here is a description of this upcoming class, titled “Middle Makers - A Blueprint For Late Bloomers”

"The Middle" is less an age-range, and more a state of being.  The "middle" can feel like simply being scattered;  you experience the pull, in all different directions, of this relatively new digital lifestyle.  The middle can manifest as an unsettled feeling, a vague sense of dissatisfaction.  There is often a degree of emotional pain, such as depression or anxiety.  The result of these stresses common to midlife can be a whopping case of creative inertia.

The act of making physical things in the physical world is a powerful tool in your toolbox, for the care and maintenance of your midlife soul.  After all, when your soul is well tended, you are better able to tend souls well.  This world desperately needs women (and men!) in the middle, showing up in their full creative form, wielding their energy, sharing their wisdom, and revealing who they are and how they have been gifted.

We need you, as you, and with a flourishing soul!

Whatever your age, if you've encountered a little bit of "stuck-ness" in your middle, this course is for you.  Through a series of spacious story-telling and doable art-making, Middle Makers will unfold a blueprint for blooming.  This class is for the women who, for whatever the reason, may have put their creative lives on hold.

Until now.

Sheila Atchley is one who has known many of the deep challenges related to midlife.  After a 20 year career in church ministry, home making, and education, she picked up a paintbrush for the very first time as a means of processing transition.  The results have been breathtaking, in terms of the life and health that sprang up in her own soul.  Her art is now found in every state in the United States, and most of the countries of the world!  Teaching art has also carried her far and wide - as far away as Italy, and as wide as the coasts of the US.

She has had to overcome overwhelming inertia to be sharing her stories, and more than that, imparting a sense of luminous possibility to the other artists and creatives she encounters.  Sheila is a firm believer in the fact that midlife women, after going through a seemingly isolated season of transition, can emerge as new, more creative than ever "Middle Makers"...

...and then we all somehow find one another.

So whether you are a stark beginner or a seasoned maker, this course, with its encouraging and informative writing, as well as the art techniques taught in it, can be a powerful blueprint for your blossoming as a creative "difference maker" in midlife.

One last time, here is the link:

https://jeanneoliver.com/middle-makers-with-sheila-atchley-registration-open/

I cannot wait to see YOU in class!

just a silly selfie - hoping to show you how delighted I’d be to connect with you, and coach you a little bit, in YOUR middle…

My New Creative Writing and Art Course Goes Live Today

My next course, my third in collaboration with Jeanne Oliver’s creative network, is titled:

Playing With Fire: Poetry and Paint As Kindling

To celebrate the launch, I designed a new offering, and it is up and available, in my shop, RIGHT NOW.

The image of the point of an arrow becoming the nib of a pen…it came to me in a flash last year, and quite simply, I was never the same.

I was inspired by the ultimate badass poet: King David in the Bible. I was also deeply impacted by the movement and momentum created in my life over the entire year 2018, when I took up journaling as if my life depended on it. I wrote down every word I heard the Lord say to me! (No exaggeration.)

It. was. game-changing.

And He proved every word true…all the way down to things I wrote down and dated, noting to myself that I sensed the Lord telling me it would come to pass “within the year”…and one year to the day later (June 28, 2019, in case anyone is curious) it was deeply, clearly brought to pass.

Take your words and make them arrows that you use to target your big, beautiful outcome. Let my new class (and maybe this shirt) remind and motivate you.