Glimmering

Join us for our online Studio Camp in July and August

The Studio for Playful Inquiry presents

We’re excited to open our Studio doors for this limited time offering designed to support your practice of attention to the things that bring you joy.

Join us online in July and August to read, reflect, make art, and gather energy together to stay engaged and hopeful to sustain us in the critical work we do.

At Studio Camp we

READ. Anchored by Deb Dana and Inciting Joy by Ross Gay.

MAKE ART. Susan will lead mixed-media projects alongside Kathryn Ann Myers who will invite us to explore materials and offer provocations to think with them.

REFLECT. Kailyn Fullerton will guide us in weekly meditation practices which will be recorded for ongoing and flexible use. Matt and Susan will curate invitations for journal writing.

GATHER. We’ll enjoy live conversations with special guests Ron Grady, Alex Morgan, and one another.

BEHOLD. We’ll take inspiration from the arts in a variety of forms.

REST. Like all our offerings, Studio Camp is slow professional development - acknowledging your right to agency, inspiration, and self-care in all you do.

WONDER. Playful Inquiry is what guides our intentions in order to support you to use playful inquiry to guide yours.

“With awareness we can explore with curiosity and create the conditions necessary to create an embodied sense of safety in our daily living experiences.”

— Deb Dana

Details:

Dates: July 1 - August 20 with access through August 31.

Each week you’ll receive a series of guided readings, journal reflection prompts, guided meditations, and art invitations. You’ll also be invited to attend live conversations each month with Ron Grady and Alex Morgan - conversations will be recorded.

Cost: US$49

Texts: Anchored by Deb Dana and Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Materials: will be suggested but easily substituted

We are committed to keeping the costs of this workshop as low as possible, and still we do not want finances to be a barrier to your participation. Please reach out to us if you need further discounts in order to join and we’ll do what we can to work with you.

Inspire and Transform members will have access to camp through their regular memberships. Learn more about membership options HERE.

Yesterday I spotted a red cardinal and stopped for a moment to watch him. Later in the day I smelled the scent of fresh-cut grass through my window. These glimmers from yesterday make me curious about what I’ll find on my path today. This is the commonly reported experience of glimmers. Once we begin to see them, we look for more and discover glimmers are not uncommon experiences. When we are open to finding them, they show up frequently in our daily lives.
— Deb Dana, Anchored

“My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. And that that solidarity might incite further joy. Which might incite further solidarity. And on and on. My hunch is that joy, emerging from our common sorrow — which does not necessarily mean we have the same sorrows, but that we, in common, sorrow — might draw us together. It might depolarize us and de-atomize us enough that we can consider what, in common, we love.”

— Ross Gay