Workshop Leader, Carol Hohle, MA, is an educator, environmentalist and spiritual activist.  She speaks, leads workshops and retreats on spiritual practices and eco-spirituality.  Carol has taught Deep River classes and been trained by the book’s author, Abby Seixas, to teach courses based on her book.

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Fee:  $35.

To REGISTER, visit The Awakening Center’s website.  The Awakening Center is located at 3523 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL.

Please note:  In addition to this introductory workshop, Carol will be leading, beginning February 26, a seven-week woman’s group in the art of slowing down at The Awakening Center.  For more information about the woman’s group CLICK HERE.

“Finding the Deep River Within: A woman’s group in the art of slowing down” is a new program being offered at The Awakening Center in Chicago, IL.  Over the course of seven meetings we will experience what slowing down can do to bring balance back into our lives!  With the help of readings and meditative exercises from Abby Seixas’ book, Finding the Deep River Within — A Woman’s Guide to Recovering Balance & Meaning in Everyday Life, along with discussion, creative expression, humor, and each other, we will explore ways to free ourselves from the tyranny of our “to do” lists, and so to rest with in our deeper selves, while embracing the gift of life.

Group Facilitator, Carol Hohle, MA, is an educator, environmentalist and spiritual activist.  She speaks, leads workshops and retreats on spiritual practices and eco-spirituality.  Carol has taught Deep River classes and been trained by the book’s author, Abby Seixas, to teach courses based on her book.

Sunday afternoons, 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Seven classes convening weekly between February 26 – April 15, 2012
February 26; March 4, 11, 18 & 25; April 1 & 15.  (No class on Easter 4/8.)

Fee:  $250.

To REGISTER, visit The Awakening Center’s website. The Awakening Center is located at 3523 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL.

For more information about this group please CONTACT Carol.

The Spiritual Eco-Practice Group at Inspiration House provides an opportunity to deepen one’s own eco-practice, stay current with eco-news and find support with others who are endeavoring to live more lightly and lovingly on the Earth.

This winter/spring we’ll pick one seven-day practice each month, explore it individually on our own timetable, and check in with each other via conference calls to share and appreciate one another’s insights and good works!

Past Eco-Practices have included:

• Soul work – “Developing a New Sense of Ourselves”
• Reconnecting with the natural world – “Lightening Up”
• Rethinking Trash – “Discovering There is NO Away!”
• “For the love of water”

This third season for the Eco-Practice begins in February 2012 and includes four conference calls – a launch call in early February and then one later in February, at the end of March, and end of April to debrief after each month’s practice. Group determines convenient conference call day/times.

Fee: $35.

Contact Us to register.

Facilitated by Carol Hohle. Carol is the Founder & Executive Director of Inspiration House. She is an educator, environmentalist & spiritual activist. She speaks, lead workshops & retreats on spiritual practices and eco-spirituality.

Click on any of the three briefly-described programs listed below to learn more:

1. Introduction to The Artist’s Way – a two-hour workshop designed to get a taste of The Artist’s Way creative journey, Sunday, February 12, 2012 at The Awakening Center in Chicago, IL.
2. Sparking Creativity – a six-week course following the creative experience outlined in The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, February 26 – April 15, 2012, offered at both The Awakening Center in Chicago, IL and via long distance conference call.
3. Reconnecting with The Artist’s Way – a three-week long distance course designed for alums of The Artist’s Way, February 9 – March 1, 2012 via conference call.

Get a taste of the creative journey that Julia Cameron recommends in The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. In this introductory workshop, engage with several exercises from this best selling book that will inspire you to discover, reflect, and imagine possibilities.  Come to the workshop with your writing journal, pen, and sense of adventure. (See full course description for more information.)

This single-session workshop is being offered in Chicago at The Awakening Center, Sunday, February 12, 2012 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.

Fee:  $35.

To register, visit The Awakening Center’s website.  The Awakening Center is located at 3523 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL.

For more information about this workshop, CLICK HERE to contact Carol.

Offered in two locations — Long Distance and now in Chicago!!!

Come. Participate from wherever you live – long distance or in Chicago. Reflect. Treasure. Envision. Imagine. Play. Poke. Explore. Discover. Refresh. Cherish. Listen. Ponder.

This six-week intensive course will refresh your creativity, heighten your self-awareness, and nurture your inner voice. Recommended especially for anyone in transition or wanting a fresh outlook, “Sparking Creativity” will hone your spiritual intuition and spark your creativity.

You don’t need to be an artist per se, or a writer. It is about creative expression – feeling creative, confident and whole – and relies primarily on writing as a means of facilitating self-discovery. Over the course of the six weeks participants will read The Artist’s Way together, engage in daily journal writing, and experience creative exercises such as artist’s dates, recalling nurturing experiences and buried dreams, creating sacred space for retreat and reflection, and generating lists of possibilities.

Classes meet weekly between February 26 — April 15, 2012.  Sparking Creativity will be offered in both Chicago at The Awakening Center and via long distance/conference call:

Sunday evenings, February 26; March 4, 11, 18 & 25; April 1 & 15 (no class on Easter, April 8th) at The Awakening Center, 3523 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago.  Fee: $250.

Monday evenings, February 27; March 5, 12, 19 & 26; April 2 & 9 via conference call. (Dial-in information provided at time of registration.)  Fee: $250.

Visit The Awakening Center’s website to register for the Chicago course.  The Awakening Center is located at 3523 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL.

CONTACT Carol to register for the long distance course and to answer questions about both classes.

NOTE: If interested but can’t devote six weeks to the course this fall, or you’d like to get a taste of the experience before you sign up for the full course, see An Introduction to The Artist’s Way. AND, if you’ve read/experienced The Artist’s Way and would like to reconnect with some of the practices in a group setting, learn more about the three-week course, Reconnecting with The Artist’s Way.

Experiencing The Artist’s Way in a group setting has proven to be especially meaningful. Here are some comments from past participants about the benefits they have received:

“I highly recommend the Artist’s Way course taught by Carol Hohle. The course really helped me to get back in touch with my inner artist. It increased my powers of observation of the creativity surrounding me every where I go. Carol facilitated the course in a way that supported a warm, welcoming and gentle environment for the child artist in each of us which helped my inner artist to grow and flourish. I thoroughly enjoyed the process!” — MB Saldivar, Marengo, IL

“Like many other classmates, I had purchased this book and browsed through the chapters but not done any serious (playful) work with the chapters. I believe this book needs to be experienced with a group of people and a facilitator. The class itself was immensely beneficial for me. I loved going through the book with others and sharing our experiences whether they were challenges or an exciting awareness. Carol held space for all of these. Carol was very skilled at listening, asking questions, flowing with and redirecting conversations with a very diverse group of people. She created a space that allowed the sacred circle rules of The Artist’s Way to be ever present. I found this class invaluable on my path of self-discovery.” – S. Kindt, Newton, MA

“The Artist’s Way helped me take time to stop and look, really look, at the world around me–something I’d felt slipping away in all the busy-ness. I feel like I unlocked channels of creative expression that had been straining to emerge to little avail. The course material is great. Carol’s ability to facilitate is even greater.” – L. Grob, Weston, MA

“I have just completed The Artist’s Way course. The course was not all about one’s self, it was about the progress of the entire class, the other students, our overcoming the barriers to our creativity. Students varied from commercial artists, writers, painters and poets, like myself. (I didn’t realize I was a poet until I took this course.) As a result of this course, I have created a few poems and am working on many more. Equally important, I see my interaction with the world as an opportunity to create on its landscape.” – T. Van Duyne, Sudbury, MA

“The Artist’s Way helped me admit and allow myself to view my self, life and work as creative and honor that in others as well. I loved participating with Carol in The Artist Way workshops these past two summers because the exercises were fun, fresh, achievable and naturally stretching. Carol is open, welcoming, non-judgmental, and compassionate. She meets you were you are and is able to pace the group and shift activities, take a break, nature walk etc. She is listening in the moment and discerning about what each next step feels right for the group. The exercises fed me and helped me stretch forth mentally and practically during and after the workshop.” – S. Perkins, Bath, ME

For three weeks this February, you’ll re-engage with the Artist’s Way practices of morning pages & artist’s dates and explore a few new practices taken from Cameron’s books, Walking in This World and The Vein of Gold. Whether you’ve just finished The Artist’s Way course or it’s been years since you’ve written morning pages, our group will embrace and encourage one another to continue our practice of living from an authentic and creative place.

Class convenes during weekly conference calls between February 9 – March 1, 2012.  Conference Call Schedule:  Thursday evenings, 7:30 – 8:30 CT — February 9, 16, 23, & March 1.  Fee: $45.

CONTACT Carol from more information and to register.

Carol Hohle, facilitator, has taught creativity courses based on The Artist’s Way for six years – ever since she completed taking the course herself!  She’s taught at women’s wellness centers, church adult education programs, family camp settings, in her home, and via long distant conference calls.  To read a few endorsements from past participants, click here and scroll to the bottom of the Sparking Creativity course description.

Thank you Louie Schwartzberg for creating this presentation, and thanks to Margaret Imrie for sharing it with Inspiration House.

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs
of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”