4-WEEK SERIES
CREATIVE PRACTICE FOR STAYING HUMAN
CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS/NEXT DATES TBA
Facilitated by Kim Wayman
We are human, capable of creative processes AI can’t touch!
Our creativity brings beauty to the world and ties us to the web of aliveness—it involves our actual physical bodies, our emotions, our human ideas, our spirituality, etc. This four-week series brings us to art-making as a way into our own deep knowing and our humanness, something we are called to connect to so that we can continue to show up in our lives for the people, beings, and causes we care most about. Come, feel, think, connect, be with other humans, put your phone away, and make art.
No art experience or skill required, just you.
$160
making art PUTS US IN TOUCH WITH HOW TO SIT WITH THE UNKNOWN, HOW TO SHAPE CHANGE, AND HOW TO OFFER BEAUTY AS A RESPONSE TO DIFFICULT TIMES
In each week of this series, we’ll be guided through a creative process that blends art therapy and spiritual inquiry. Each class begins with a grounding practice, moves into inquiry and discussion, and then drops into non-conversational art making, followed by a reflective writing practice.
This four-week flow gently guides us into remembering what it’s like to be a human in a body engaging in creative practice.
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In our first week, we explore what it’s like inside the creative unknown, the space of possibility before it is shaped by intention. What does it feel like to contact the place where all knowns are released and we are simply there?
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Once we have dropped into the void, how do we hone our ability to listen? What are the cues we are listening and feeling for? How do we know which way the energy is moving us? What are our natural responses?
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In the third week, we practice giving more shape to what emerges from our listening, starting to be in conversation with creativity as it moves through us, a back and forth dance.
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In this final week, we bring what we’ve been practicing together in one longer-form creative session, where we invite and allow expressions of beauty to emerge, in whatever form they may take, and we spend some time creating intentions for our practice moving forward.
what past participants are saying
Kim holds a wonderful, supportive space as a facilitator. The space itself is zen and charming. Classes there have allowed me to reconnect with latent practices and just let go and play. I would recommend this place for adults or children, anyone looking to play in their creativity!
— Adam J.
This series helped me to crack open the door to something that was always in me but that I had trouble finding my way back to on my own. The world is pretty harsh, and it takes a lot to make all the pieces fit together. It's easy to deprioritize making when there's money, and relationships, and dishes, and swimming, but making art throws a magical shimmer over everything else, it makes you feel alive in a way that can get lost if you're not intentional about it. I'm so glad to have art making back in my life, and conspire has been part of bringing it back in.
— Emma M.
It was a real treat to slow down and move through ritual and practice within such a thoughtful container. I really enjoyed the opportunity to show up to a creative practice without much of a plan and allow attunement to the moment, the materials, the readings and discussions to inform my making. The art making portions of our evenings felt like a humming hive of honey bees with everyone buzzing around tending and droning out to their important work of embodied creation.
— Lyndsey B.
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR: KIM WAYMAN
Hi, I’m Kim. I have been teaching and facilitating topics related to healing, spirituality, sexuality, community-building, and art-making in small group settings for 15 years, as well as practicing art for as long as I can remember. I hold a BFA in painting from UNCA (recent work here). I am inspired by art that comes out of the fine art world, but I also see the harm and the missed opportunities that arise from presenting creativity as the sole territory of fine artists. I’m passionate about helping people of all experience levels find greater connection to your creativity and the creative process. I believe that our capacity to be with change and the wild uncertainty of these times is something we can grow through creative practice. Learn more about me on our About page. Email your questions to me at kim@conspire.studio.