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Studio
for Creative Inquiry
For directions to the studio,
click here
Creative Inquiry is
a process and a practice
to bring us into deeper relation
with our own essential nature.
Transformation arises naturally
in the creative process.
Every one thing is inside
another. Mind, heart and
hands explore these interrelations
with brush, pen, spade, camera
or clay. Art-making or soul-making
is essentially the practice
of deepening the questions.
Who am I? Why am I here?
From where did I come and
to where am I going? What
is my path, my calling-what
is alive in me right now?
What is my deepest intention?
“ Learning
to shed the skin of one's habitual tendencies, conditioning, and negative emotions
- and discover the real nature of your mind - is true creativity.”
Tibetan monk Mathieu Ricard
These questions are often found at the core of our life, at each life transition
and in our art practice.
It is through the state of being in question that discovery and growth arises.
There is a longing and a need in each of us to open to the inner inquiry, to
discover by our own making, the path to self-knowledge and self-awareness.
Cultivating our creative expressions we begin to naturally attune ourselves
to the inner intelligence of our body/mind and to the wise voice of our intuition,
felt-sense, or knowingness.
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The
Intuitive Path - Jan
11th - Feb 15th 2011 *FULL
Contemplative practice,
meditation, is used to support
and strengthen the creative inquiry
of each individual. Sitting still,
bearing witness to wild mind
is the simple practice of bringing
direct awareness to the experience
of each present moment. Practice
brings clarity and calms the
mind, enabling you to see through
projections, interpretations
and concepts and to know the
freedom of a direct experience
of reality. Meditation is the
ground that leads us to the awakened
I as well as to the awakened
eye.
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Field Notes - To
be announced
Field Notes at the River - place space & awareness
Gabryel Harrison and The Studio for Creative Inquiry bring
you this writing workshop to explore your inner and outer words in a unique
natural setting on the edge of the Fraser River. Field Notes combines
felt-sense, imagination, direct observation and contemplation, to awaken, inspire
and connect you to your creative body and body of earth.
For more information please download the following PDF.
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Testimonials
Gabryel’s guidance into
this intuitive writing class
was gentle, caring and profoundly
powerful. It was a writing journey
that took me into my soul. Her
thought provoking questions opened
doors of awareness for me that
I did not know existed. At times
when I read my written words
I actually was wondering who
wrote them. Gabryell is listening
to her intuition and it was a
pure pleasure to be riding this
creative wave with her and to
share it with an amazing group
of women.
With deep gratitude,
Carolyn Temes
The Intuitive Path: Based on a lifetime devoted to the creative process, and
a reverence for the natural world, Gabryel brings a profound passion and presence
to this work. Each evening is structured to include a harmonious blend of body-centred
meditation, discourse, contemplation, reading and writing. Through an exploration
of provocative questions, supported by an extensive collection of writings
from many poets and authors, Gabryel skillfully facilitates a sacred circle
of sharing. Quietly radiant and deeply responsive, Gabryel embodies the shadow
and the light in grace-filled gratitude. Inviting the inner river, full of
feeling and memory and wisdom to flow, The Intuitive Path becomes a soulstream,
awakening trust of one’s inner process. Writing becomes a gateway to
freedom - not necessarily being free of our suffering and negativity, simply
not being bound by it. Gabryel is a gifted teacher, The Intuitive Path is a
transformation. In these times of great instability and destruction, this path
cultivates a connection to what is indestructible.
Sharon Abbondanza
Gabryel is a most talented and perceptive teacher. I love simply being in her
presence, absorbing her wisdom, craft and curiosity, and working with her and
the group to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Gabryel views
the world with artists’ eyes and sensibilities, and as such, little escapes
her acuity and attention to detail. Our work with Gabryel was more about entering
a state of being, of creativity, courage and wakefulness than it was about
simply writing. Gabryel’s grounding meditation at the start of each class
followed by a plethora of literature to launch each evening's writing quest,
set the tone for exploration, discovery, openness and vulnerability, honesty,
compassion and sharing. We worked through the senses, learning to truly listen
and be still. With each week, we would delve a little further into our truths
and walk away knowing that we had shaped another amazing session by which to
ponder and continue our explorations of the unexpressed in each of us. Gabryel’s
classes are a joy and a blessing.
Deborah Roos
Gabryel’s intuitive approach to writing is a gift. Through meditation,
writing examples, images and her sensitivity of spirit, she leads us into the
labyrinth of our own psyches and experience where with pen and paper we discover
lost parts of ourselves, insights and knowledge we might not know is there.
Gems, that make healing possible. The sharing has created a container and community
we all have come to cherish. The work I have done in our two workshops has
coincided with new growth and change that has led me deeper into myself. I
recommend Gabryel’s writing workshop highly. You won’t be disappointed.
Heather Miller
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