Creative Fire
How can I release my potential?
Creativity is not an inborn trait. It is a potential that, when tapped into and harnessed, leads to breakthroughs in our lives and work. The complex and competitive world we live in demands creativity…to solve problems, discover new opportunities, and live the lives we dream of. We can all be masters of our own lives, if we learn to unleash our potential at will and with skill.
If you seek to release your creativity, we want to help you on this journey. Our aim is to help you awaken your highest potential and apply it to creating breakthroughs in your own life and the world. Creative Fire is a unique program – a transformational journey inside yourself that resources you for the next phase of your life’s journey, both professional and personal.
What you will carry forward into the world are the capacities, skills, and vision to be a force for societal good while transforming yourself and your community, whether that be a team, school, or business.
“Energy follows attention. Wherever you place your attention, that is where the energy of the system will go. ‘Energy follows attention’ means that we need to shift our attention from what we are trying to avoid
Otto Scharmerto what we want to bring into reality”
Program Overview
This three-day retreat offers a powerful practice which strengthens our creative capacity in all aspects of our life and work. It also helps us diminish those patterns which disrupt our access to generative states of flow. This approach is a basis of the work which we share with organizations to enhance individual and collective creativity.
Creative Fire is suitable for people from all walks of life, from organizational leaders to independent artists.
You will…
- Learn tools that simultaneously map and unlock invisible forces within the self, creating a systemic approach to personal transformation.
- Gain understanding of the inner forces that affect one’s ability to inspire and innovate – (i.e. energies that cultivate the “Creative Fire”)
- Develop basic fluency in applying multiple ways of knowing to access and work with inner creative energies.
- Map out one’s inner resources, identifying supporting and hindering energy states that affect creativity.
- Awaken your potential, transforming how you approach life and the effect you have on others.
Together we will explore how to harness the understanding of inner energies in our own personal development, as well as our relationship with our families, work and communities.
Creative “Energies”
Creativity is the dance between what we know and what we don’t know, a tension between possibility and constraint. The challenge is to awaken particular energies that help our creativity flourish, and to interrupt disruptive energies that kill our creativity. In this program you will learn how to identify and work with these energies to become an inner commander of your own creative enterprise, able to harness your potential at will and with skill.
What are these “energies?”
Thoughts (and their accompanying emotions) are types of energy, and over time they manifest in form. Our thoughts, and the way we think them and make meaning of them, are creating the world in which we live now as well as the world our children will inherit. Over time our habitual modes of thinking become calcified within the neural networks of our brains, locking us into repeated patterns. It would be wise for us to learn more about the power of our thoughts and carefully choose which ones to live by.
This program is designed to help you overcome ingrained patterns, to step onto new ground and find new ways of moving forward through life. It is about how each and every one of us can find our place – a place where we can connect with our own creative life force.
How does this practice make a difference?
We will introduce eight “energies” that unlock creative potential:
Purpose and presence
We all have a unique purpose that inspires us, bringing clarity and effectiveness to our actions. In its journey from imagination into form, this inspiration requires presence; a dynamic awareness that augments decision making and the ability to harness insight.
Resources and intention
This work calls us to develop relationships and build “containers” that support us as we travel into the unknown. We can harness the power of intention to create engagement and alignment in others and ourselves.
Growth and insight
Building a new enterprise, or simply responding to the challenges of our times, requires that we design environments in which we constantly learn and grow. We also have to see and work with patterns and invisible systems and cycles that exert powerful forces upon us. Understanding their rules helps us find and follow flow.
Action and vitality
There comes a turning point on any adventure, a moment of truth. It is at these critical junctures that we must act with our hearts and minds aligned: powerful, decisive, totally focused on what is needed for our ecosystems, our people and ourselves. Finally, we need to attend to our energy and vitality, to ready ourselves for what is needed now, in each moment.
As we learn to awaken these energies, we find a new power to bring our different ways of knowing into balance. This releases our creativity so we can catalyze breakthrough in our teams, our strategies and ourselves.
Program Structure
Community
To produce the depth of experience required, the group size is held to between 8 to 12 people. A facebook group for this community of practice has been set up to foster communication and ongoing support for all. Visit our page to join.
Location
The next Creative Fire intensive will be held at Questhaven in Escondido California, USA.
Dates
2024 Dates TBA
Each day begins at 9 am and ends at approximately 6pm. Please arrive 15-30 minutes early for coffee and socializing.
Costs
This is not a
Registration
Please contact us directly if you are interested in joining this program. Links for registration will be available within 60 days of the program.
Preparations
The quality of outcomes in any transformational program depend greatly upon how much one desires to “shed their old skins,” as the famous guides Meredith Little and Steven Foster eloquently said of Vision Quests. Creative Fire is its own quest, an adventure that also comes with challenges and rewards. It is thus very important for you to set an intention that you will bring to the program. Intention, like a strong vision, can carry you thru the trials of growth. Please purchase a journal and write this down. After registration we will send instructions for two short exercises that will ensure you arrive optimally prepared for the journey.
Next Steps…
We invite you to contact us to register for the public program or to request a bespoke intensive for your team or organization.