WEEK 1

Recovering a Sense of Safety

This    week    initiates   your    creative    recovery.   You may

feel    both    giddy   and defiant,    hopeful and skeptical.

The  readings,   tasks,  and     exercises   aim     at  allowing

you to  establish   a   sense   of  safety, which   will    enable

you to  explore your    creativity  with    less    fear.

SHADOW ARTISTS

ONE OF OUR CHIEF needs as creative beings is support.
Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we
would be nurtured and encouraged first by our nuclear
family and then by ever-widening circles of friends,
teachers, well-wishers. As young artists, we need and want
to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as
for our achievements and triumphs. Unfortunately, many
artists never receive this critical early encouragement. As a
result, they may not know they are artists at all.
Parents seldom respond, “Try it and see what happens” to