Because of his own experiences and studies, he has a comprehensive and multi-discipline understanding of the creative process. Taylor accomplished his Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He taught many studio art and academic art courses on the college/university level from 1982-1998, also many workshops and presentations between then and now. See www.DouglasETaylor.net for more information.
Presentation: Using Both sides of Your Brain for the Creative Process
Understanding the right and left side of the brain and how they relate to creative expressions so you may apply and develop your unique process. A few diagnostic exercises will create better understandings and a list of challenges and projects will be given.
Amanda Walker is a Joyful Living Coach and Founder of The Path of Joyful Living at www.amandawalkercoach.com and the host of Messy Masterpiece, a weekly podcast on iTunesand Stitcher Radio. Amanda encourages you to see the Message in your Mess and turn it into a Masterpiece. She teaches Christ Centered Meditation as the foundational practice for spiritual awakening and healing. Amanda believes everything is possible. There are no accidents, and gentle healing is available to everyone. She mentors women who have suffered deep Stress, Shame, and Trauma gently guiding them to transform their life into a masterpiece. You have the power to create a life overflowing with inexpressible joy. She is the mother of 6 terrific humans and wife of the steadiest, most patient man in the world.
Presentation: Present Moment Awareness
We live in an unrelenting, frenetic and flat out stressful world. The mantra of more, better, quicker beats its drum in our head. If you want to acquire a new skill, finish a creative project or simply improve your relationship, you are in for a treat. Join the growing numbers of individuals that practice the skill of quieting the mind and present moment awareness. Whatever your belief about the creator or life by learning to harness your innate power to settle into the moment your ability to create meaningful work expands.
Kris Bayer has 7 children and homeschooled for 27 years. She currently teaches creative writing at Riverstone School in Hamilton, holds space for Socrates Café and other local discussions, and loves to facilitate conversations that matter. She holds a BA in Education and has been trained in Liberating Structures, the Art of Hosting, Community at Work, and Mediation. She loves to read and learn new things.
Presentation: Creative Process Stories
Three stories communicate her experience with the Creative Process. Gourd art, creative writing imagination,
and MIT uLab Online course: Leading from the emerging future. She will share these stories with you and hope that you discover your own unique ability to create what your heart desires. Consider letting go so that what wants to come forth can become present for you.
Harold Shinsato claims Montana as his home since 1998, but was born and educated on the East Coast, and began his career as a computer programmer in Silicon Valley in 1984. He's a trained and certified personal coach through the International Coaching Federation and applies his coaching skills for organization evolution as a "culture hacker" across the country. He helped found Montana Code School and still teaches there on occasion. He is co-author of The OpenSpace Agility Handbook, co-authored software patent 6108698, and facilitates organizational evolution through Open Space Technology and other social technologies.
Presentation: Creating Your Life
Personal, life, and business coaching helps you be the artist of your own life. Great artists get really good at the technologies of their medium, and in this workshop we will play with some of those principles and technologies to make a masterpiece of the canvas of our lives.
Lynna Hite comes from three generations of entrepreneurs and kept up with the family tradition. She and her husband run American Tile & Brick, a tile installation company, she helped her kids start the Kids Kookie Company when they were 7 and 10-years-old, and she started a Coaching Club three years ago. Native to Montana, she has been living here for seven years after a thirty-year break in Southern California and looks forward to sharing her experiences with you.
Lynna Hite will be speaking on starting her project, a Coaching Club, the creative process on getting her project off the ground, and the necessity of keeping a creative approach when it was called for during the course of the club’s activity. A Coaching Club was started with young people in mind, a place for them to be encouraged in entrepreneurship, to learn professional skills and meet new people.
Cell 406-360-4914 Email: lynnajo@aol.com
Presentation: Creation of a Coaching Club
Jacqueline Locke has loved living in Hamilton for almost 40 years. She holds a B.S. in Recreation and has been a certified Laughter Yoga Leader for almost 4 years. She is excited to share with you how to choose laughter to improve your health, spark joy, and inspire creativity.
Presentation: Creative Laughter
Laughter Yoga is a unique practice of consciously deliberate laughter that actually changes your body
chemistry to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and alleviate pain for improved health. The yogic breathing oxygenates your brain, which helps you think more clearly and creatively. And sharing the fun of laughing together creates a social bond among participants, which can facilitate group cooperation and problem solving. In fact, the stated goal of Laughter Yoga is "World Peace Through Laughter"!
Sarah Lloyd is an interdisciplinary theatre artist, educator, and school administrator who moved to the Bitterroot from Baltimore, MD in 2015. In Baltimore, she taught theatre at a public charter school and acting at Towson University as an adjunct faculty member. Currently Sarah is the Administrator and Theatre Teacher at Riverstone School in Hamilton. Sarah holds a BA in History from the College of Wooster, and an MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University. As a theatre artist she has toured, performed, and trained both nationally and internationally in: Argentina, Boston, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, NYC, Poland, and
Slovakia. Sarah is originally from the Pacific Northwest and grew up hiking the Cascades and exploring Puget Sound. She is very excited to be a part of this workshop and is honored to have the opportunity to play and explore the creative process with the Bitterroot community!
Presentation: Creating with Improv and Performance
This segment of the retreat will guide participants through an exploration of the creative process using drama and improv. Participants will engage in individual and small group activities that will stimulate the imagination, activate creative potential through movement and physical expression, and evoke a sense of child-like play and presence.
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