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Posts Tagged ‘conscious’
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Rosanne Bane 
Most writers wonder at times what the heck is going on inside their heads when they want to write, but can’t. Why do we make progress with our writing for while, then – for no reason we can discern – sabotage our own best efforts?
When we understand what’s happening inside our brain, we can learn to overcome resistance in the moment and rewire our brain in the long term to develop productive, sustainable writing habits.
In this session you will:
- Learn about your brain in easy-to-understand, layperson’s terms
- Understand why a limbic system takeover trumps your writing commitment and creativity
- Discover what you can do to reverse those limbic system takeovers and put your creative cortex back in the driver’s seat
- Recognize why habits are far more valuable and reliable than discipline or will power
- Identify the three habits that support the writing life
- Decide which habits you’re ready to adopt and design your commitment plan to build those habits
- Gain appreciation for your own efforts so far, and be reassured that you can be the writer you want to be and the world needs you to be.
Rosanne Bane, M.A. is a creativity coach, teaching artist, speaker and author of Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance and Dancing in the Dragon’s Den: Rekindling the Creative Fire in Your Shadow. A veteran teaching artist of more than 20 years, Rosanne specializes in helping creative people understand why it’s so hard (at times) to do the very thing they love to do. She has helped thousands of writers, artists and creative people of all sorts achieve their professional goals and make their creative dreams reality. See www.RosanneBane.com and www.BaneOfYourResistance.com
Date: Thursday 9th May Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
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Tags: conscious, conscious creativity, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Rosanne Bane, writer, writer's block, Writing
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Suze Casey 
Suze Casey explains that she “writes because she cannot not write”. Yet, moving from writer to widely published author took more courage than she knew she could muster. She had to face all the vulnerabilities, doubts and fears she had developed from the responses and feedback she had ever received. She had to come to know and value herself in a stronger and more committed way.
In this interview, you will discover:
- how to enter into – and out of – your creative space with ease
- an effective and efficient way to move through writer’s block or any other form of doubt or fear
- how to effectively acknowledge what has been in the way and give yourself permission to speak openly from the heart
- a simple decision-making process that will open the doors to new ways of writing
- how to recognize your authentic voice and have it become your way of being – in all areas of your life.
The developer of the Belief Re-patterning® technique, Suze Casey has always been fascinated with the mysteries of the human mind. She spent twenty years as an educator, and since 1999 has completely followed her passion – supporting others to learn, grow and embrace their potential. She is the author of Belief Re-patterning: The Amazing Technique for “Flipping the Switch” to Positive Thoughts (Hay House) and travels extensively offering workshops, seminars and conference keynotes as well as maintaining a vital international coaching practice. See www.suzecasey.com and www.beliefrepatterning.com
Date: Thursday 4th April Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
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Tags: authentic, author, conscious, creative, creative spirit, inspiration, publisher, Publishing, suze casey, writer, Writing
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Marilyn Schlitz
Transformations in consciousness can come as you shift your perspective on what has meaning and purpose, inviting in to your life a dynamic engagement with all the richness that comes from even the most common acts and experiences. Washing dishes, tending the garden, spending time with family, can all be an opportunity to embrace a new quality of being and can inform the nature of your writing and creative self-expression.
In this interview you will learn how to:
- Shift your awareness from the outer world and open new doors to the inner world.
- Gain insight from modern science that can open you to your highest creativity.
- See the familiar with new eyes to inspire your ideas and enrich your writing.
- Build new habits that encourage original insights and learn to listen to the guidance that comes from your most authentic inner voice.
- Use simple transformative practices to set your intentions in ways that nurture creativity and broaden your attention to embrace possibilities beyond those you have learned to expect – for your authorship and for your life.
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD is Ambassador for Creative Projects and Global Affairs and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has worked for over 19 years. For more than three decades, Marilyn has been a leader in the field of consciousness studies. A researcher, speaker, change consultant, and author, Marilyn is currently working on a compelling new movie and education program with Deepak Chopra called Death Makes Life Possible. For more information visit www.marilynschlitz.com and www.noetic.org
Date: Thursday 7th February Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
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Tags: conscious, conscious creativity, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Marilyn Schlitz, writer, writer's voice, Writing
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
 The New Year is a fabulous time to inject a fresh burst of energy into your plans for writing and publishing your book.
So here are 7 tips to help you have your best writing year yet:
1. Identify what is genuinely important to you about your writing. So many people today live in the fast lane. As a result, it is easy to lose sight of what really matters.
With your writing, being consciously connected to what is truly important enables you to give yourself permission to prioritise your writing time. This means that you will get your writing done and feel more creatively satisfied as a result.
So start this year by taking time to re-connect to the source of your inspiration to write. Then write about that in your journal to refer back to in the coming months.
2. Clarify your vision. With that connection in place to keep you grounded, the next step is to sharpen your focus on where you are heading. Being clear about your vision will inspire and motivate you to maintain your progress.
One of the most powerful ways of bringing your vision to life is to create a Vision Board. This involves making a collage of images to represent yourself as an author and what you want to achieve with your writing.
If you have already made one, the turn of the year is a wonderful opportunity to add new images which feel appropriate for this year, or make a fresh one to reflect your new ideas for 2013.
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Tags: action, author, book, conscious, conscious choice, conscious creativity, creative, ideas, inspiration, journal, publication, Publishing, vision, Writing, writing process
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Steve Taylor
When we ‘wake up’, our whole lives become an expression of a higher state of consciousness. Awakening transforms our relationships, our values, goals and our perspective of reality. It also often opens us up to a great reservoir of creativity.
In this conversation you will learn:
- Why there is such a strong connection between spiritual awakening and creativity
- Why so many poets and authors have been spiritually awakened, and so many spiritual teachers have also been poets and authors
- The sources of the surface discord of the human mind and how to transcend it
- How to cultivate a state of inner harmony which will naturally give rise to creative expression
- What ‘awakening experiences’ are and how to generate them as a Conscious Writer
Steve Taylor is a lecturer in psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality including Back to Sanity and The Meaning. He was recently included (at no. 31) in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of the ‘100 most spiritually influential living people.’ Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present’. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been featured widely in the UK media. See www.stevenmtaylor.co.uk
Date: Thursday 10th January Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
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Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here …
Tags: authentic, author, Awakening to Your True Creative Potential as a Conscious Writer, book, conscious, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Steve Taylor, writer, Writing
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
 On 21 December 2012, one of the main calendars of the ancient Maya completes.
Despite the fear-based interpretations of this being the end of the world, according to the Maya and others, this a time of immense potential for the birth of a new era of love, peace and unity.
Endings and new beginnings are a current theme for many of us, and we don’t have to look very far to see the evidence of major change all around the world.
With any form of change, the challenge lies in the phase of transition from the old to the new. Resisting the inevitability of change simply shuts our creativity down and stretches us twice as much!
Instead, we can learn to ride the wave of change, consciously and creatively, and experience it as positive transformation, come what may.
As conscious writers we can choose to go with the flow towards the fresh possibilities that will enable us to make our unique contribution to the new era the Maya and others foretold thousands of years ago.
Here are three ways for you to ride the current wave of change and emerge feeling more joyful, free, and creatively productive than ever before:
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Tags: change, conscious, conscious & creative writer, conscious choice, creative, flow, journal, transformation, writer, Writing, writing rhythm
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
To be able to induce at will
the activity of the higher imagination,
the intuition, the artistic level of the unconscious
– that is where the artist’s magic lies,
and is his only true “secret”.
Dorothea Brande
Conscious & Creative writers
learn to engage consciously with the mystery of the creative process,
and infuse their words with the essence of it as a living reality.
To your conscious & creative success!
PS Last chance for the last few places where, on Saturday 6 October
you will learn to engage consciously with the mystery of the creative process ~
read more here
Tags: conscious, creative, creative process, imagination, intuition, mystery, words
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Friday, September 7th, 2012
 Sunday 23 September 10.30am to 5.30pm
Conscious Writing
How to Bring Your Whole Self to the Whole Process of Creative Writing
with
Julia McCutchen
Listen to a FREE 30 minute audio on Conscious Writing here.
More writers than ever before feel called to make a positive contribution to our changing world with their ideas, expertise and stories. Yet, despite the best of intentions, resistance shows up in the form of the inner critic and feelings of anxiety that “it’s all been said before” leaving many writing dreams unfulfilled.
Conscious Writing is a new way forwards for writers at any stage of the writing process – even if you haven’t started writing yet. This powerful approach to following the impulse of your heart and writing with the voice of your soul is an intuitive yet structured technique for discovering and sharing your unique gifts – on the page and in the world.
As you work consciously with the full creative cycle, you release the old patterns of conditioned thought and behaviour that hold you back from being all that you are. You surrender your self-doubt, and just write!
By the end of this workshop you will have completed your first piece of conscious writing and:
- Understand how conscious writing enables you to write the book(s) you are here to write.
- Open the floodgates to receive an infinite stream of creative inspiration.
- Learn the 7 step process to overcome resistance and transform it into fuel for your creative fire.
- Discover how to access the true source of your authentic writer’s voice.
- Go to deeper levels than ever before in the Conscious Writing Sanctuary.
- Know how to give shape, form and structure to your richest ideas.
- Enjoy a taste of the freedom to be who you are as you express yourself consciously and creatively in the world.
For more information and to book your place
click here
“Thank you for a wonderful experience. I got so much from it … such unexpected things, all rather delicious! I feel like I’ve just come out of a lovely warm bath!”
“An enlightening and wonderful experience yesterday, please accept my deepest gratitude for what was a truly inspiring workshop.”
“My head has been spinning and I cannot tell you what a weight has lifted, now I completely believe it is ALL inside me ready to flow out. I now have the confidence I need for this next phase … I didn’t know how to begin. Now I do.”
“It was such a well-balanced agenda – I can’t believe the hours just flew by! I simply loved everything about it! Thanks again for a most brilliant summer session!”
Tags: conscious, conscious writing, Writing
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Writing regularly doesn’t happen
from pushing yourself to write.
It comes from consciously choosing your priorities.
What priorities will you choose today?
To your conscious & creative success!
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PPS Join our FREE teleseminar on THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
on The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success -
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Tags: conscious, priorities, Writing
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Monday, August 6th, 2012
 Six weeks ago I broke a large bone in my foot and entered a phase of involuntary stillness that has been both challenging and surprisingly rewarding.
As a core component of my daily practice, stillness has been an integral part of my life for a long time. So I chose to accept this unexpected situation fully and see it as an extended meditation on stillness and surrender.
Naturally, there have been moments when I have felt a long way from this balanced perspective! Yet, overall, the requirement to prioritize physical stillness has opened up a whole new level of appreciation for the depth of creative potential accessible to us all through stillness.
Fortunately, there is no need for you to have such a dramatic entry point or such an extended duration of stillness to benefit from the conscious and creative gifts it has to offer.
Conscious Stillness
Conscious stillness means being fully present to deep inner and outer stillness at every level. Having a still body with a chattering mind will not deliver up the same results.
When we prioritize complete stillness, even for short periods of time, a whole new world is revealed. Imagine seeing the reflected world in the surface of a lake and suddenly finding yourself within the reflection looking out.
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Tags: conscious, creative, creative process, ideas, insights, readers, words, Writing
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