MUSE : NORTH
Includes The Muse Painting, Muse Fuse, Amused, Critic & The Muse IC Session, Chocolate for the Muse, Messages from the Muse, Cultivate the Muse Talk
- Watch the 5 minute video: Turning to the North
- Schedule a two day Muse Painting Immersion between now and the end of the Month!
- If you were unable to participate live in Muse Fuse Livestream, note the recording is available. Recommended as preparation for teaching your 13 step painting workshop!
- April 7 Group Call Recording
- Read IC GuideBook Section Four. Taking some time with: the "She Said...Then She Said" journaling and also the Inquiry Practice: Confronting the Critic’s Stories About You.
- Watch through the Invitation to Cultivate the Muse from 2012 and participate in the Critic and Muse IC Session from 2018. These are not required assignments but useful for managing the dance between the Critic and Muse in yourself ...and your students!
Our priority this month is the completing your Muse Painting (as well the other the required assignments to date). But because Muse is such a popular and juicy topic there are lots of wonderful resources! This week we have two livestreams from last year called "Amused"
- If you're done with the 2018 Muse Event Painting, dive into the Amused IC Sessions from 2020. These are great templates to teach!
- Have you started your Codex Painting?! Moon Four Observer is UP and ready for you.
- Cohort Groups are Assigned! The Point Person will be contacting you within the week. More details in the iMusea group HERE.
- Book your FIRST of two Coaching sessions with Stella Mac. This one for May or June. Details, Questionnaire and Registration Access HERE.
- Group Call Recording
- Are you in love with the Muse as an IC Session? We've got two more for you to watch or try out as you imagine creating your own. Chocolate for the Muse from 2015 and Messages from the Muse from 2013. Notice how Shiloh Sophia evolves as she teaches and give yourself permission to start where you are!
- Review the Required Assignments in the checklist below. Consider how to approach your to dos in partnership with the Muse.
- Get ready for Alchemist! Coming up in May our next painting "Talisman" is demoed on 1x2 wooden panel. You can use one of the two 1x2 (24x48) canvases as suggested in the supply list or use 3x4 ratio canvas like Legend and Muse (if you like consistency) or try a wood panel. Leslie's introduction on: wood panels
- Last month we shared Catt Z Gellar's Cosmic SmashBook (don't forget to return and do the Muse video!) This month we're sharing a "Soulwork" project from a 2017 Graduate Dancing the Muse with Brunehilde Yvrande As you watch, consider how you might apply what you're learning in the Training to other interests! (This will be a Required Assignment introduced after Alchemist)
March-April Checklist in Order:
1. Watch 5 minute Declaration video and create your own (half hour)
2. If you plan to certify, log into Classroom and submit your completed Declaration (half hour)
3. Watch the Storybook Livestream and create your storybook. (half day)
4. Complete your Legend Painting*
5. Complete Codex Painting through moon two (half day)
6. Review the Required Teaching Events page and choose placeholder dates for the Painting Workshop and IC Sessions. (half hour)
7. Muse Painting (Two full days as an immersion is recommended)
8. Complete House of heart & Medicine Basket project Intentional Creativity Session (half day)
9. Complete Story cards project Intentional Creativity Session (half day)
10. Codex moon three + four (half day)
Scroll down the page to access all the videos and links for this part of the Alchemical Compass Journey.
Turning to the North
THE MUSE PAINTING
On the Muse Painting page you'll find the full process as delivered in 2018.
The Muse loves to go fast and fluid so, if you can, we recommend booking out two full days for immersing yourself in the process.
(Note that the 2019 Event is also available for those who would like additional practice and as preparation for teaching your own 13 step painting workshops.)
Required. We recommend completing by the end of April.
MUSE FUSE LIVESTREAM
(Public Event Presented March 28 2021)
This Live class was intended as a demonstration- so that you can see how Shiloh Sophia might lead a quick painting process online.
Suggestion is to participate as a student while keeping your teacher eyes open to the possibilities!
Note from Shiloh
"We touched on each of the 13 steps even briefly. We did in a day what could also take place over six months or a year. You bring to it what you choose. I hope today both inspired and provoked to you toward your Muse and your own courage in leading Intentional Creativity online."
AMUSED (2020)
Muse based Intentional Creativity Sessions
These demos from 2020 are not required assignments but they're definitely recommended. The Muse is a great template for teaching!
Amused One: Integrating the Critic and the Muse
This three-part painting process, is about inviting the students to listen closely to the voices of the Critic and the Muse and move into a place of integration. The hope is to access a more true inner voice, heal the fragmentation between outside eyes and inside eyes, heart and mind, left brain and your right brain. This process is demoed on watercolor paper.
Amused Two: A Healing Journey with the Muse
In this second process we are inviting the student to begin with listening to heart before the mind. For our purposes, consider the heart being the seat of the Muse, the mind being the seat of the Critic. This process invites an exciting integration relationship between heart and mind, aka muse and critic.
Making a new pathway of connection between these voices will enable you to curate and navigate how you speak to yourself, how you access your intuition and how your imagination can give you clues from the hidden self.
Critic And The Muse (2018)
An Intentional Creativity Session
For use when you want to
- Access an idea you want to bring into form using Intentional Creativity.
- Explore the idea of the critic and the muse and how they can work together to move you closer to that idea.
- Discover how right and left brain work together with the heart to show us what we might not be seeing.
- Drawing and thinking about your idea at the same time, and how that changes the idea and how it can come into form.
Chocolate for the Muse (2015)
An Intentional Creativity Session
Perfect for a one day/half day workshop
Find the remainder of the videos here:
https://vimeopro.com/shilohsophiastudios/chocolate-for-the-muse
Password: ChocolateMuse
Messages from the Muse (2013)
An Intentional Creativity Session
Totally optional for those who like to practice with the concepts. Note how Shiloh Sophia's presentation evolves through the years!
Album: https://vimeo.com/album/2367598
Password: yourmuse
Invitation to Cultivate the Muse (2012)
Shiloh has refined the idea of the Critic and the Muse over the years but this gem from 2012 is worth watching! (That's Sue Sellars loud "Aho" at the end.)
RECOMMENDED EXERCISES FROM THE IC GUIDEBOOK -
- Liberate the Critic and Empower the Muse Journaling "She said . . .. Then She said." (pages 103-105)
- Inquiry Practice: Confronting the Critic’s Stories About You (pages 106-107)
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