Michelle James

Latest mandala. Acrylic paint pens on canvas, hand painted art (no AI) #mandalapainting #handpainted #originaldesign

Latest mandala, acrylic paints and acrylic paint pens, 16 x 20 (no AI) #originalart #handpainted #acrylics

Enjoyed being on The Wilderness of Creativity podcast and talking about improv, resilience, and creativity. open.spotify.com/episode/39k…

Latest abstract art on canvas. Hand drawn with acrylic paints pens (no AI) #handdrawn #abstractart #acrylics

Free Brain Games session in 2 hours! 9am EDT Our brains need regular workouts just like our bodies. In a time of constant passive consumption and increasing AI use, it’s especially important to keep the brain flexible, integrated, and actively engaged. Research consistently show that cross-lateral movements and bilateral exercises can help create new neural pathways, making it easier to shift out of habitual patterns and respond with greater creativity and adaptability. This is not what I normally offer, but I do them myself and shared some with my mastermind group. They enjoyed them, so I thought I would share a few with anyone interested. In this free 20-minute session, you'll learn a few quick, energizing exercises that can be used anytime you need a mental reset, a creativity boost, or a fresh perspective. If this resonates, come join us! lp.constantcontactpages.com/…

Thursday, June 18 • 3:00pm-5:30pm EDT Details & Registration at creativeemergence.com/recept… For leaders, facilitators, and practitioners who have to stay steady in unsteady times... In an constantly chaotic world, it's easy to let our well run dry, but many of us still have to show up fully resourced for those we serve. Receptivity for Resilience is a 2.5-hour experiential workshop for cultivating a more alive, resourced, and responsive way of being to meet the unpredictability of life from a place of greater clarity, alignment, and embodied choice. Receptivity is an often overlooked, yet essential, leadership capacity that strengthens discernment, creativity, and wise action. It's the foundation of resilient leading, living, and creating. I took the juiciest and most impactful dimensions and practices from my spring 3.5-month R for R Program, and condensed the "best of" into this 2.5 hour transformative workshop. This workshop is less about doing, and more about being. The "doing" is more of a spacious receiving: yielding instead of forging ahead, listening instead of asserting, feeling into instead of figuring out, savoring instead of rushing, and making space for knowings to emerge. Experience and exploration are at the heart of this workshop...beyond theory into embodied experiences you can do beyond workshop setting. In this whole-brain, engaging, experiential workshop, we'll explore the core vital dimensions of receptivity with a variety of creative experiences to enhance your relationship with receptivity.

We're not meant to be talking heads. A recent workshop participant shared in that she was so used to be a “talking head” in her role as a leader that she forgot how fun it was to be in the body after a somatic practice we did. Something in her unraveled. What she said felt most surprising to her was how much more mentally free she felt (to think differently) when she felt more in her body, and felt energy in her whole body, not just her head. I had my own realization about that in my 20's after a car accident. It took several years w many approaches (and a 5-year body-centered certification program), to regain my natural movement. In that process, I came to appreciate how all of the movement I was doing to heal myself was helping me go beyond just getting back to normal, and into new movement territory for me that was also helping me think differently about everything…so I always include body-centered practices in my programs because I experience the body as an essential creative resource. Modern culture, especially conventional education and work, trains us to become talking heads. We sit still and suppress free-flowing movement. There are a lot of exercise systems are still about the body following the mind's direction, and less about the mind following the movement impulses from the body. We are designed to be fully embodied, yet we’ve been socialized to live from the neck up. Humans are designed to move, feel, sense, and think with our whole bodies and whole brains, not just the narrow channel of the left brain only. We reward speed, certainty, and linear thinking, while dismissing somatic intelligence and the subtle signals of our inner world. When we live only in our heads, we’re cut off from our own resourcefulness and multi-dimensionality. But when we inhabit our bodies differently, we access more non-linear thinking and information not available thru linear thinking alone. Long before we spoke in words, we spoke in rhythm, image, gesture, and sound, so it is ingrained in us. When thinking, sensing, feeling, and perceiving are all online we experience more of ourselves, and can imagine more possibilities. Somatic intelligence is one of the dimensions of multidimensional creativity. Getting people into their bodies in a workshop or coaching session helps break stuck patterns, and move creative energy and ideas more fluidly. #creativeemergencecoaching #creativebody

The CREATIVE ENERGY EXPERIENCE. Where Your Creative Energy Is Blocked and Getting It Moving Again lp.constantcontactpages.com/… A 75-minute guided experience of state change, perception shift, and renewed creative aliveness in a time of unsteadiness and uncertainty Free! May 28 • 4:00pm EDT • On Zoom Have you been feeling blocked, stuck, or uninspired? Or feeling like you are in a perpetual inhale waiting for that out-breath? Or feeling hesitant about how to move forward? We are living in a time of uncertainty, transition, and rapid change. This can show up as: • scattered or stagnant creative energy • not moving forward due to so many unknowns • too many ideas with no sense of which to engage • a sense of being “between chapters” or between identities or roles (Who am I now? What do I have to offer now and next? What do I want to express?) • something new trying to emerge, but not yet taking form We never lose our creative self, but we can feel disconnected from our access to it, and the life-giving creative energy it carries. Our creative energy can become constricted, especially when we try to navigate uncertainty through thinking, efforting, or analyzing alone. We've been socialized to forget we are multi-dimensional beings, and have a living, flowing, creative energy source within us. The good new is that creative energy is always available to us. We just need to give it some space and engagement to get it flowing again. This experience is designed to start moving energy. This is not a workshop, seminar, or training. It is a state-change experience. This is a 75-minute live, experiential field where you will be creatively guided through: • awareness of your creative energy • perception shifts that reveal what has been “stuck” • engaging embodied practices that start moving your creative energy though you This experience may be for you if: • you want your work or life to feel more alive and aligned • you want to reconnect to your natural creative intelligence • you are a soulful leader, guide, creator, or entrepreneur who is navigating how you/your work is evolving in a changing and uncertain world...sensing something new is trying to take shape through you, and want to free up more of your creative energy This experience offers a small taste of moving energy so something new can come through. This session can stand alone, or serve as doorway to deeper creative emergence work. There is no charge for this experience. Register at: lp.constantcontactpages.com/…