When you tend to your creativity it tends to you. Make your marks.
Four consecutive weeks free with a membership trial.
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Welcome.
We are a community
FREE of judgment.
Have you ever been told you’re too sensitive?
Or like you need a unique language to express yourself in this world?
The Creative School for Integration is a community of people learning to speak their own language––maybe for the first time.
Are you looking for a judgment-free space for creative rest, or supportive community as you begin, return to, or deepen a creative practice? The Creative School for Integration invites highly sensitive, autistic, and non-verbal individuals to make your marks.
Embodied Mark Making
& Journaling
Before learning to form letters, symbols and images, we all began making marks. Whether with a stick in the soil, splashing water, using a crayon on paper, dragging a seashell in the sand — we made boundless marks directly from our Creative Heart Space. Boundless marks remain alive in us and connect us to all forms of expression.
The following boundless marks were made by four year old Ashton while responding to a wild violet
Mark Making in and of itself is a precursor to doodling, journaling, drawing and painting, honestly, whatever your heart desires. Embodied Mark Making is a practice which acknowledges how the body receives the sentience of creativity into its ever expanding Creative Heart Space and then trusts the expression that emerges. Embodied Mark Making takes the approach that our bodies are the microcosm of the macrocosm and to be lived in fully.
Embodied Mark Making and Journaling can activate the Creative Heart Space in any part of the body and expand it to encompass the whole body, the field around the body — and beyond. This supports Embodied Infinity, an emergence from boundless potential. Marks of frequency are visible!
At Creative School for Integration we also engage handwriting, printing, script & beyond, as an aspect of Embodied Mark Making. Some participants choose to use our creative prompts to journal in a notebook or sketchbook. Some find they want to journal expressively with a drawing pad. Some find that their handwriting leads to drawing or painting. And some find their journaling flows into into a creative writing project
At Creative School for Integration we honor and are inspired by many sacred traditions and innovators. We dive deeper into these inspirations on our membership site and in our creative sessions
Betty Edwards; a North-American art teacher who is now 100-years old wrote her globally acclaimed Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain in 1979. In this book, Edwards focused on the creative capacity of the right hemisphere of the human brain to SEE what unfolds each moment via light, matter and shadow. In her book, she also commented on how creative people describe connection, timelessness, a lack of anxiety and a sense of close attention to shapes, spaces and forms when said shapes, spaces and forms remain nameless. For example, instead of instructing her students to draw a "hand," Edwards would coach the student to let go of what the "hand" was called and instead have the student simply draw the shapes and spaces that made up its form.
In addition to Edwards' research of the brain's intuitive right hemisphere, at Creative School for Integration we ALSO acknowledge that there are neural cells in our heart and gut. AND that the vagus nerve, the longest nerve in our body, conveys information from our brain to most organs in our body and vice versa. This means we have an integrated body and mind—or Bodymind as supported by the ground breaking research of, Dr. Candace Pert who passed away at the age of 67 in 2013.
Dr. Pert's book, Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine explains the biochemical connection of our Bodymind and provides the opportunity to heal the separation of the Spirit and the Flesh that was concretized by the 17th century French philosopher René Descartes and other dudes going back to Plato (428—347 BCE). One might say the philosophical separation of the body from the soul was a strategy to make people feel "less than" and thus need an ordained intermediary to provide a valid connection to one's own body, soul and/or higher power. At Creative School for Integration each participant explores connection in their own unique way while releasing self-judgment and re-learning to trust their intuition.
Dr. Pert's findings also support that we are ALL made from ONE Ecosystem that originated with Starstuff — pure consciousness, a field of infinite possibility and creativity—and that this is what we return to.
Edwards and Pert help us re-claim what we already know deep in the cellular wisdom of our bodies — Matter and Spirit are NOT separate — Embodiment and the Infinite are NOT separate — "both" can be expressed in unison. We can CHOOSE to trust our creative responses to the natural world in ALL of its Macro and Micro magnificence.
Betty Edwards; a North-American art teacher who is now 100-years old wrote her globally acclaimed Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain in 1979. In this book, Edwards focused on the creative capacity of the right hemisphere of the human brain to SEE what unfolds each moment via light, matter and shadow. In her book, she also commented on how creative people describe connection, timelessness, a lack of anxiety and a sense of close attention to shapes, spaces and forms when said shapes, spaces and forms remain nameless. For example, instead of instructing her students to draw a "hand," Edwards would coach the student to let go of what the "hand" was called and instead have the student simply draw the shapes and spaces that made up its form.
In addition to Edwards' research of the brain's intuitive right hemisphere, at Creative School for Integration we ALSO acknowledge that there are neural cells in our heart and gut. AND that the vagus nerve, the longest nerve in our body, conveys information from our brain to most organs in our body and vice versa. This means we have an integrated body and mind—or Bodymind as supported by the ground breaking research of, Dr. Candace Pert who passed away at the age of 67 in 2013.
Dr. Pert's book, Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine explains the biochemical connection of our Bodymind and provides the opportunity to heal the separation of the Spirit and the Flesh that was concretized by the 17th century French philosopher René Descartes and other dudes going back to Plato (428—347 BCE). One might say the philosophical separation of the body from the soul was a strategy to make people feel "less than" and thus need an ordained intermediary to provide a valid connection to one's own body, soul and/or higher power. At Creative School for Integration each participant explores connection in their own unique way while releasing self-judgment and re-learning to trust their intuition.
Dr. Pert's findings also support that we are ALL made from ONE Ecosystem that originated with Starstuff — pure consciousness, a field of infinite possibility and creativity—and that this is what we return to.
Edwards and Pert help us re-claim what we already know deep in the cellular wisdom of our bodies — Matter and Spirit are NOT separate — Embodiment and the Infinite are NOT separate — "both" can be expressed in unison. We can CHOOSE to trust our creative responses to the natural world in ALL of its Macro and Micro magnificence.
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