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Welcome - a new look!
As you can see, Living a Purposeful Life Newsletterhas undergone a transformation! The presentation of ideas and focus looks different, but the
message is still the same: When the life you're living reflects your
inner vision, values and strengths, then you are living an authentic
and balanced life. And my commitment remains the same: inspiring and supporting you to show up authentically in your life. You can read about the hows and the whys of this transition in the article below.
Over at the new website, The Celtic Muse, you'll find a couple of freebies, an inspiring resource page and all the information you need about current retreats and workshops, including a special guest and workshop here in Dublin next month.
On the 28th of March, Beverly Down, President & CEO of the Creativity Coaching Association will be co-presenting a workshop with me entitled, Inspiring Creativity: Ten Keys to Unlock & Unleash Your Creative Potential. This workshop is the launch of outreach program and initiative by the CCA to provide support and visibility to creativity coaches world-wide, and the CCA itself.
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Wishing you all the best,
Maggie
Maggie Butler
The Celtic Muse Creative Writing Retreats,
Workshops & Coaching for Women
Inspiration for bringing creativity to life
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How the Muse Arrived (and some really good coaching questions, too!) Aware of an inner restlessness over the last couple of years, I started asking myself the same straight, tough coaching questions I've asked so many of you:
- So, what is it that you really want?
- What is it that, when you're engaged with it, you lose all sense of time? How do you experience "flow"?
- How do you want to show up in your life? In this world? What gives you a wonderful and guiding sense of purpose?
- How can you use your gifts and abilities, building on your strengths, to help others create fulfilling & meaningful lives?
- What do you want to say "Yes" to?
- Who's on your "team"? Who will support and encourage you through this transition?
The Celtic Muse Creative Writing Retreats & Workshops for Women is
the fruit of a powerful personal and professional journey of deeper self-discovery. Some parts were scary, others offered wonderful "Ahhh...yes" experiences, when I knew beyond any doubt I was on the right track.
For as long as I can remember, writing has been a constant companion - a source of comfort, surprise, challenge, insight, personal development and a deeply gratifying creative expression. This, coupled with the fact that I thoroughly enjoy and am inspired by leading retreats and workshops (that have always included some form of creative wrting) made this narrowing of focus to creativity the natural, next right step for me.
For now, I'll leave you with one of my favourite affirming and inspiring quotes:
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open." Martha Graham
Til next month then,
Maggie
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Gift of the Sea 2009
Inspire Creativity & Meet Your Muse
 This year's program has some exciting and fun elements added to the weekend. With a focus on encouraging and supporting creativity, we'll also invite your Muse out to play!
- Walks by the ocean
- creative writing
- mandalas
- coaching circles &
- mask-making
are just some of the fun and inspiring things we'll do on this weekend designed specifically with your creativity and Muse in mind!
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Recognizing Crea tive EnergyHave you ever felt the urge to
"do" something, or felt a desire to manifest something and you didn't know what? Have you experienced an inner restlessness that isn't
satisfied by the things you usually do? Consider this: those feelings may very well be your creativity
aroused.
Or, maybe
you've already come to recognize what your creative energy feels like - you
take the time to dance with it and follow your Muse. Ah...what bliss!
Either way, the question is: how does that energy want to be expressed?
So what does it for you? What do you do that makes you lose all track of time? What is it that draws you
in so fully that you become one with it, stepping outside of time and
space, feeling an enormous sense of well-being when you're done?
Whatever
it is that draws you (hmm...did a pun just slip in?), whatever
invites you, the important thing is to give it your time. Do something
creative...open yourself up to seeing creativity beyond the narrow realm of the "arts". Get creative with the concept of "creativity"!
It
may very well be writing. Or painting. Or it could also be gardening or
photography, arranging flowers or decoupage, choosing colours for your
home, or your wardrobe; throwing a pot or planning a workshop. It could
be knitting or quilting, designing a room or a house; cooking or
sculpture or seeing a solution to a problem or dilemma that seemed to come
from thin air (when you weren't even trying!).
It could be choosing the next right step for the life you're creating.
Creative energy is opportunity knocking at your door...can you imagine what's on the other side?
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What's Going On...
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Creative Writing Workshops
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