MOTHERBOARD: How it Works 1.

Inquiry is what lights up the brain, offering it a fresh place to work with new ideas. But we have to ask in order for this phenomenon to work. At the heart of transformational work, we know that the client beloveds we serve must be willing to do their own work. Yet doing one’s own work can be greatly hampered by not having enough access to ‘their inner world.’

By harnessing the use of image, language, color, and inquiry you will be able to offer your clients access to undiscovered ways of seeing and being.

Developing visual practice gives a sense not just of capacity, but of command. When one gets past the initial "shiny toy" phase of drawing, and through hands-on practice discovers its adaptability and usefulness, one taps into deeper work. ~Brandy Agerbeck

This heightened access allows hidden wisdom, pleasure, and power to emerge.

Our movement founder, Shiloh Sophia says this:

“Many of us have confused happiness with security. The illusive pursuit of it and the ever changing nature of what it means to ‘have it all’ has created a never-ending loop of seeking something that is just out of reach...a paradox.

Happiness often comes from things far different than ideas of security. Feeling at home in your body or in your circle of friends. Knowing how to express what you think and feel and know. Experiencing self expression for the pure pleasure of it. Paradoxically perhaps, these experiences actually create a greater potential for well being, and therefore a capacity to nurture a plan which makes us feel more secure in our lives. The pursuit of feeling secure alone will likely not give us what we seek.

Perhaps we will do better to spend more of our attention creating experiences which lead to a greater sense of place on earth. While happiness itself may also be elusive, I think there are far greater opportunities for it than we allow ourselves. Let’s make ourselves more available to that which truly nourishes us. We may think of these things as optional, not critical, akin to a hobby or recreation. Yet experience and research increasingly show that our internal peace is created by internal sensation paired with external experience. Let’s look for more of that.

In my community, that means making art, making love, dancing, and all manner of creative celebrations!”

As a member, our training will show you HOW to offer this heightened experience to those you serve. In this method, the client is connecting directly with the source of their own information, including their internal patterns and stories. You are the guide for their process, but you don’t have to have all the answers, or all the right questions. You just show them the way in, where that cosmic door is that has been hiding in plain sight!

You will discover powerful new ways to hold space for their emergent knowing to come through, versus needing to ‘solve their problems.’ They create their own results through truly simple hybrid approaches that are amplified by how they are combined. Mediums of inquiry like mindfulness, drawing abstract designs, thinking meditations, and visual journaling are able to yield powerful results.

And here’s the exciting part: while this technology will benefit your clients, you will come first. You will experience first hand the expansion that is possible.

The training will give you experience with one-on-one, group facilitation and workshops. The method works virtually and in person. What we have created is a reliable, replicable process for allowing your internal knowing, presence, and intuition to arise in your awareness.

“The earliest scholars who explored the brain lateralization in relation to creativity emphasized the importance of both hemispheres. Indeed this is what was held to be unique about creativity compared to other highly lateralized psychological functions.” ~ The Neuroscience of Creativity by Anna Abraham

Research is showing us that creativity is a potent tool in our lives.

Plos One from the Cognitive Neuroscience channel and journal says that in a study with an MRI on adults doing visual art during a ten week “art intervention,” they experienced psychological resilience and stress resistance.

“...making visual art can improve connections throughout the brain known as the default mode network...This system is associated with the brain's state during wakeful rest, like daydreaming, but it's also active when we're focusing on internal thoughts or future plans."

Studies are showing that when people are more creative, they are happier, clearer, and more able to navigate their world with a sense of self awareness and self agency.

In January 2019, LinkedIn Learning found that "creativity is the most important skill in the world."

The creativity that is so needed in our world is not the sole property of artists and "creatives" but a skill that anyone can learn, and it begins with access and consciousness. When people have access to their innate creativity, they are able to come up with new, innovative solutions to complex problems - even if they have never encountered that problem before, or if they have tried to solve it in conventional ways and failed.

RESEARCH WITH 500 PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WORKING WITH INTENTIONAL CREATIVITY

PRACTICE AND COMPASSION 93% said they experience creativity as a mindfulness practice

89% said they include creativity as a part of their spiritual practice

86% felt that their creative practice positively impacted those closest to them

92% feel that creativity influences their compassion for themselves

90% said they experienced compassion for others near them through creativity

83% experienced compassion for others they did not know through stories they heard

80% said they would suggest creative process to others who experience depression

SELF EXPRESSION AND WELL BEING 87% consider themselves self expressed as compared to before they were creating

86% said they have experienced breakthroughs and aha’s during creating

77% said they choose painting specifically to work through a chosen breakthrough

90% said they have experienced a shift in their default thinking

88% said they experienced a shift in their personal story through creating with intention

89% said they bring insights into their life discovered while painting

85% said they experienced an expanded sense of self

79% noticed an ease of physical symptoms while creating

93% experience creating as a relief/break that benefits their overall well being

90% have experienced a shift in recurring emotional pain through creative process

90% said that creativity helped them maintain a healthy outlook

Our Intentional Creativity curriculum is always about you accessing your own information. How you 'get in' and know what you know. And how you can do it on command. We will experience this through circle, masterminds, teaching videos, guided process and so much more! Most of the information will be shared using the simple materials of a pen and paper. Yet, since I am a painter and painting is so much fun. And because have learned what I have learned through painting, each member will also create a big ole' painting of their motherboard!! WHOOOOHooo this will be so fun and informative. Because when you paint, you get downloads!!

This is about learning to find your way, in your own way! When we look at the world today, we can see what losing our way can mean for how we design our life. We may make choices that are inconsistent with our values, we can pick relationships that aren't right for us, we say yes to work that doesn't fulfill us, we feel we don't have gifts, or talent, or the secret sauce.

The focus of our work is awakening, 'coming to our senses,' and finding our truest voice and how to share it. MOTHERBOARD: Intentional Creativity Coaching Certification is an invitation to repattern and discover new ways of working, to re-program the motherboard. Our stories are in need of a new narrator! If your clients don’t have access to their truest voice, even what they share with you will be filtered through their walls/fog/blocks. Do you ever feel like you can’t quite get to the heart of what they are saying?

You will be able to tell stories visually, lead your clients on a journey of imagination, demonstrate visual concepts, support them in healing outdated memories, co-create their extraordinary future and have a fantastic time doing it. The act of drawing reduces stress within 5-7 minutes...really! Together we will make a lexicon of your visual knowledge, teach you to think with a pen, create authentic social media graphics, communicate YOUR message in living color!

Set your ideas freeeeee!

Gaining Access to Your 'Source Code' + Research with Intentional Creativity

We have been using the power of Intentional Creativity for 25 years to:

I express thanks to Intentional Creativity for giving me a process to work through my wounds and a way to reclaim fragmented parts of myself. For showing me how to open portals ~ Juniper Mainelis

“I express thanks to Intentional Creativity for giving me a process to work through my wounds and a way to reclaim fragmented parts of myself. For showing me how to open portals" ~ Juniper Mainelis

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