Your art matters

Hello and welcome to the first installment of The Artist Way Book Study

SETTING OUR INTENTIONS

This email lays out every step, tool, and practice we will employ together on the journey of the book study.

🪸 Step One : Grab a copy of The Artist’s Way

🪸 Step Two : Read the Introduction and everything before Week 1

🪸 Step Three : Write a 1-3 sentence intention for your time reading through this book in the comments of this email

🪸 Step Four : Check out the Discord if you have an interest in organizing smaller groups of people

HOW TO USE THE DISCORD :

The discord is used to SELF ORGANIZE creative clusters if that is something you are interested in. A cluster is a smaller group to go through the book with. Whether it is online, in person, for a specific kind of artist or person, this is a space for you to connect with other people going through the book.

YOU CAN CLICK THE PLUS BUTTON AND ADD YOUR OWN CHANNEL TO FIND PEOPLE :

Live in Brooklyn and want to find five other people to create a group with? : CREATE A CHANNEL TO FIND THEM

Want to have a group of other dancers who meet at 4pm every Wed - CREATE A CHANNEL TO FIND THEM

This is an experiment! If it doesn't seem like it is working, we will pivot! But for now this is a space for you to self organize if you wish

The discord will expire at the end of the 12 weeks

🪸 Step Five : Start doing your morning pages and pick an artist date for this week

🪸 Step Six : Do the exercises in Week One

🪸 Step Seven : On Friday June 23 you’ll receive your first PEP TALK + REPORT email where you will receive a pep talk from me and report to members of the group how your morning pages and artist date went, as well as 1-3 sentences on how the week went

🪸 Step Eight : Repeat every Friday for 12 weeks!

🪸 Bonus Steps : Join us for the live zoom sessions:
Sun July 30 9am PST / 12pm EST
Sun September 10 9am PST / 12pm EST

These zoom links will be sent out within 48 hrs of meeting

ARE YOU IN? BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER NOW TO JOIN US AND SET YOUR INTENTIONS FOR THE BOOK STUDY IN THE COMMENTS

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Not interested? No worries, You’ll keep receiving free emails every Monday and I am so grateful for you!

Many things in the last thirty five years have made me an artist, but going through Julia Cameron’s books 1:1 with friends, in small cohorts, and huge groups like this has lead me to truly BELIEVE I am an artist when the voices inside my head told me I couldn’t be.

The practice of morning pages, artist dates, and of doing the exercises in the book requires a willingness of spirit that I know you have in you. I know that within you is a desire to become closer to the consistency of creation, the devotion you long to tend to, and to the abundance of art that is ready to burst out of you.

Whether you’ve never called yourself an artist or been working at it for decades, I am so looking forward to the ways that witnessing each other will shape us for years to come.

If you’re finding this book study after we’ve started : jump on in! While I absolutely encourage you to join us and do it week by week, if you’re a week or two late and wanna dig in : by all means! If you want to join just to read through everyone’s beautiful reflections, we’d love to have you.

AND NOW FOR STEP THREE : Write a 1-3 sentence intention for your time reading through this book in the comments of this email

This is something you could also write on a sticky note you keep on the cover of the book or use as your book mark. It’s ok if you get off track or behind or speed read the chapter Friday morning before reflection time. It’s ok if you forget your morning pages or do them at 4pm. Make this book study work in a way that works for you.

I look forward to seeing all the ways we become more of ourselves

A portion of June’s paid subscriptions go towards the Grand Rapids Pride Center