My concept of WIND (Women In New Directions) was to energize and expand the inner landscape; in order to grow confident into new choices. Choices that will change your life to reflect more and more your true essence.
This week, I experienced three different meetings...based on WIND.
Women of WIND helped to facilitate a collage workshop at Northern Lights Clubhouse. I was able to witness the engaged energies and creative force from each individual. The intense focus transported them into the project at hand...taking them into a space where expression is expressed via art...and it was more about being themselves, than it was about having to be something else to fit in.
I am not sure I will adequately be able to encapsulate the moving force that seems to be self energized when you bring yourself into the space of free creating...where no rules are present.
The energy comes from inside.
Busting through the gates society has placed on 'normal' or 'good enough' and to allow the Art to silence the familiar blocks.
My second meeting was WIND itself...where we are comfortable with each other and at trying new things together. Within the group I have seen personalities expand as we meet twice monthly and have lost lots of the insecurities while creating. We have come to learn to be secure as beginners.
The third meeting was my Art Quilt Meeting, which was the impetus for creating WIND...it was the model I have aspired to re-create.
I entered that meeting tired...empty and wasn't even sure if I was going to attend, until 20 minutes before it started.
What I experienced was the way you are literally changed by being around creativity and folks who are daring to express themselves in Art.
It isn't about perfect art form.
It isn't about the end results.
It is about the space that is open for self expression; minus all rules.
It is about seeing something from nothing.
Meaning art that comes without a pattern.
There is hope, inspiration and generalized courage to be different, unique and yourself!
In the aftermath of the Art Quilt Group, I was so UP and energized I did not sleep well. My mind was running with ideas...
What I know to be true, in my experience...is that creative expression changes your inner world. It takes the vacuum like space and fills it with wild multifaceted colorful energy that begs to be expressed.
It takes you out of routine and dares you to dance with new confidence and courage, to throw caution to the wind and take new chances...perhaps finding a new direction!
Not only was I part of a new group to WIND, but WIND and then the Original group which inspired WIND and I felt personally the lift in my inner energy. WIND will take you to places you have never been before!
