The Listening Path - What is it?
As is the case with all of Julia Cameron’s books - it’s an invitation, a process and a means of creatively connecting to our wisdom and purpose.
You might consider it either an introduction to The Artist’s Way - or perhaps a way of rekindling or revisiting it.
It is a process. Over the course of eight weeks we’ll explore six layers of listening:
Listening to Our Environment
Listening to Others
Listening to Our Higher Self
Listening Beyond the Veil
Listening to Our Heroes
Listening to Silence
We’ll employ the time-tested & proven tools introduced nearly thirty years ago -
Morning Pages, a daily writing exercise
An Artist Date, a weekly time out - a play date for an hour or two
Walking, a twice weekly twenty-minute walk
“They are simple and repetitive” - said a critic who meant to disparage the tools.
Cameron counters that it’s precisely how they are meant to be, simple! "They are very potent. You can’t use them without having a spiritual breakthrough”
By exploring our insights in a 90-minute weekly group session, we will practice the art of deeper listening - cultivate a heightened awareness, and learn to be patient and curious as a means of coming to trust ourselves.
When you have completed our eight week journey through The Listening Path you will:
have a conscious connection to your environment
have a more heightened awareness of your inner wisdom
recognize and embrace the attributes, strength & guidance to be found in silence
be at peace & confident that listening attentively offers us everything we need to know
Most significantly, you will have learned to embrace the future confidently.
Online groups are currently forming.
You can also join our free network here & pace yourself through the chapters in good company!
Register interest below for future programs.
Groups start regularly.
How does the process work?
It doesn’t, you do!
The author’s intention was that you and others would come together in small peer groups and work through the chapters together.
Begin with the book. Adopt the practice of daily Morning Pages, the weekly Artist Date and twice-weekly Walking for all the programs. There are more specific tools such as Counting, Abstinence and Time-outs for the work of The Prosperous Heart.
When you are ready to begin, read each chapter thoughtfully and do all of the exercises.
Why consider a facilitated group?
Structured regular meetings provide a framework to support completed assignments and peer encouragement to take two hours “refilling the creative well”, the point of the #ArtistDate.
You come to understand that your fears and negative self-talk are not your unique obstacles to change. Other group members and the facilitator have been where you are.
The facilitator is not a teacher, rather, a catalyst offering the discipline, structure and support to keep you focused, champion your efforts and become your “believing mirror”.
Or…
You now also have the option of doing the Artist’s Way work via recorded video with the author on-line.
Or…
Register your interest above or enquire about options for supported groups. We can help you convene or facilitate your own Creative Cluster!
Or…
You can join our free network here & pace yourself through the chapters in good company!