Interplay: Mindfulness, Creativity, and Community (Online)

Interplay: Mindfulness, Creativity, and Community
CLASS | Thursdays, ______ from 6:00-8:00pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Facilitated by Amy Arnold (I&A Certified)

Interplay: Mindfulness, Creativity, and Community

from $160.00

Sliding Scale Registration | $160 / $200 / $240
Please pay what you’re able—when you’re in a position to support more, your contribution strengthens our community and makes creative learning accessible for all.

2026 Workshop Dates/Times
Thursdays, July 9-30 from 6:00-8:00pm EST

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This four-session workshop guides participants to source creative inspiration from everyday experiences and interaction with others. Together, we'll explore simple practices in mindfulness and social engagement that enhance our creative ideas and process and we'll practice making these a regular, enriching part of our lives. Mindfulness in the natural world will play an important part in our explorations.

We will gather online weekly to investigate our subject from multiple angles, using mindfulness practices, writing exercises, discussion, and collaboration. We'll discover how to ask questions that help us find meaning and purpose for our creative expression. Between classes there will be several short, daily assignments designed to deepen our learning and create new creative habits. Creative tools used will include various forms of writing, drawing, and smartphone photography, and will be relevant to other media

• Weekly Guideposts

  Week One
  Intro to topics, relevance to creativity; quick and easy mindfulness practices
  
  Week Two
  Asking questions to clarify, give insight into self, and explore meaning; mindfulness of thoughts and beliefs
  
  Week Three
  Awareness of breath and body, visualization, being grounded; somatic mindfulness
  
  Week Four
  Creativity in community; brainstorming, sharing perspectives, support and collaboration; social mindfulness

• Who This Is For

  Who This Class Is For:

  • Writers, artists of all kinds, and people seeking new ways to experience creativity

  • People who love nature and want to enhance their experience of it

  • People interested in adding mindfulness to their lives in practical, useful ways

  • Curious creators, ages late teen to older adults

• Meet the Facilitator

  Amy is a writer, midlife guide, communication coach, and shamanic practitioner. She has over a decade of experience in meditation and mindfulness and a lifetime of creative exploration. Amy is endlessly curious, asks difficult questions, and engages with the world from an animist viewpoint. Her great joy is in helping people connect more deeply with their true, inner selves and with the human and other-than-human beings around them in meaningful and life-enhancing ways.

Facilitated by: Amy Arnold (I&A Certified)