Co-Working with the Creative Otherworld
Gathering for Members this Thursday
This week, Thursday 21st at 1PM Irish Time, we will have our first Co-Working with the Creative Otherworld session. It will be available for one month until our next session so if you can’t make it live, you can still feel like you’re participating in the energy of a co-working cohort.
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What is Co-Working with the Creative Otherworld?
When I’m in creation mode, I always set the intention to work in a co-creative spirit with the Otherworld, what I’ve called here, the Creative Otherworld. Some of the reasons I do this, include,
Creative Ancestors: I love to feel the ancestors around me as I create, and often I’ll infuse their energy into my creations. A simple example of this is the recent story I shared of Fedelm the Prophetess. I created this story by inviting Fedelm to speak through me i.e. I engaged in an active imagination with her archetypal image and the myths she originates from. There are many ways to do this regardless of what we’re working on. For me, working in this way helps me to foster a sense of belonging to my creative heritage and builds trust in my creative process.
Imaginal World: The imaginal is a living space, a bridge within our psyche that offers us a way to relate to the Collective Unconscious (where the Otherworld emerges from along with the land). When I drop into this space, it allows for a depth of creativity that includes the conscious ego but moves beyond it.
The Body: The body is a beautiful ally who is often neglected on the creative journey. Sometimes when I’m creating, I forget that I even have a body, despite my body being my vessel for creation. I type these words with fingers belonging to hands, belonging to arms, belonging to a torso, belonging to a body. Dropping into the body allows us to access a subterranean cave of creative treasures. The body speaks the same language as mythology and dreams—and the Unconscious from which they emerge—through image and symbol. As James Hillman said, “Our dreams are prior to our thinking”, image comes before thought. Psyche/Soul and Soma/Body are twin flames.
For The Celtic Creatives, I thought we may benefit from coming along to a co-working session like you would do with any co-working cohort, but making it magic by infusing it with the energy of our Creative Ancestors.
What to Expect:
Bring along whatever you are working on to this 1 hour-long co-working space. This can be related to your work or for pleasure (craft away!)
In the first 10-15 minutes, I will guide you through a practice to drop into your body and what I call, the Creative Ancestor Imagination to inspire your work. It will be a simple exercise to ground and open up the space
After this, you will have 40-45 minutes to work away on your own but in the energy of our collective field on whatever it is that you bring with you
Five minutes before the hour, we will close down the energy