“There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because 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 valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”
~ Martha Graham
Color of Woman 2018: Dreamwalking Graduation & Guild Gathering, Maui HI
I am delighted to bring colorful news to the world! It is an honor to announce the Color of Woman Graduating Class of 2018 – the NEW Intentional Creativity Teachers! YAHOOOOO! These women have journeyed together on a 9 month Vision Quest. These creative souls have been diving into the depth of their being to discover, articulate and reveal what lay hidden in their deepest soul and bring it forth in living color!
I am here in Maui, with Graduates and Guild who were able to come in person, to gather and have our graduation celebration. The rest of our sisters have had a gathering online in the cosmos to celebrate.
Each woman created a body of work in the form of paintings and writings featuring the articulation of her own personal content and teachings. She taught classes when she was afraid, she became bold as she discovered what she already knew. Through sharing, she learned more of who she was as a teacher and a wild feminine soul. She now knows how the power of creativity can heal and transform! She has gathered others into her Red Thread Circle and will continue to do so as a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher.
She explored 5 primary archetypes to prepare herself for guiding others in transformational intentional creating. She became her own oracle, realizing what she already knew, but in a new image informed way. She shed previous archetypes and stepped into a new one – a design of her own making!
As the founder of Color of Woman Intentional Creativity Teacher Training, I am beyond amazed at the gift of serving through this work for over 25 years. The rigor in the training connects directly with calling forth what each woman is here to cause and create. The commitment to forge one’s self into being a teacher is a great and mighty work. KAPOW! Each woman has initiated herself into the lineage of Intentional Creativity and her own lineage.
May these women be a ‘danger’ to the establishments they wish to transform. May they be mighty in the creation of the curriculum of the future. May they be audacious in the creation of their work in the world of form. May they deepen into their primary relationships with loved ones, family and their Beloveds. May they, with all of us in our circles, bring images of wholeness, beauty, transformation and revelation to the places that need it the most.
WE TOGETHER ARE TRANSFORMING the IMAGE and EXPERIENCE of the feminine on the earth. Starting with our own image – and calling other women to create their own images. A restoration of much sacred information that has been lost, has been brought current and forges the path to the future.
Intentional Creativity is one of the mighty tools in the medicine basket that they have agreed to carry. Most of these women were already solidly on their path – but knew that their own creativity was needed to bring their work to the next place – and in that – desired to bring that creativity to the world. When women enter COLOR of WOMAN it is a weaving of bringing all the parts that once seemed separate into wholeness. This is healing. This is action. This is now. We give thanks to our teachers and the Intentional Creativity lineage who made this possible – went before us and forged a path where we understand what it means to ‘bow to the stone’.
Past Intentional Creativity Teachers join our ongoing conversation and community called the GUILD. These women teach in homes, hospitals, schools, shelters, clinics, corporate, social work settings as well as in cruise ships, at retreats, art centers, colleges and museums.
I am so proud to announce these Intentional Creativity teachers to you and to the world! Together let us cheer them on and support their work! WOMEN’S leadership is so needed, especially as it can be guided by women who are awakened and dedicated to loving service.
How does reading this, seeing this, knowing this, make you feel? Tune into THAT. Let’s be that joy together. Here we come world!!!
With great love and gratitude, tears, and BLISS within my heart at the pleasure of your company,
I want to acknowledge and extend so much gratitude to my husband, Jonathan McCloud, the Color of Woman Team and the Intentional Creativity Guild for your commitment and service to our students and the work of Intentional Creativity.
COME CELEBRATE OUR COLOR OF WOMAN 2018 GRADUATES!
Ally Markotich
Amanda Abreu
Barbara Daughter (2017)
Becki DeBont
Cheryl Gallagher (aka Madhavi Devi)
Christina Mercy
Clare Cassity (2017)
Cynthia Iris Hymowitz Stephens
Danie May (2017)
Deanna Marie Gibson
Desiree Julie Margaret Green
Erin E. King
Ellison James (2017)
Francesca Dell’Acqua (2017)
Jamie Mahoney
Jan Sara Jorgensen
Jane Celeste Sanguinetti
Janet Lynn Higley
Jeannine Luke
Jillian Marie McGill
Joan Jakel
Julie Durrett
Julie O’Glee
Julie E Steelman
Karen A. Schweitzer
Kimberly Millstone
Laurie Morse
Lezli Shawbones Palmer
Lisa Adriana
Maggie Oman Shannon
Maree Anne Pilling
Margaret Trost
Margie O’Connor
Margo Helene van Strien – Sonneveld
Maria Perry
Marisela Rodriguez
Dr. Neesa Ginger Mills
Petra Rosenthal
Rosamaría Polidura Cárdenas
Sandy Green
Sara J Morgan
Sarah Sutton
Sherry Rueger Banaka
Sue Bayley
Dr. Sue Boardman
Shelli L Duarte (2016)
Susan Marie Mason, MBA
Tara E Browne, DTM
Tricia Ballad
Virginia Masson
Yvonne Werkmann
LEARN MORE ABOUT COLOR OF WOMAN 2019
A share from 2018 Graduate Dr. Neesa Ginger Mills:
Another educational journey has come to a close and a new beginning opened yesterday with this beautiful graduation ceremony in the Maui sunshine rich with Aloha spirit. What an incredible honor it has been to be immersed in learning with this amazing group of waking women.
I am now an official teacher of Intentional Creativity, a lineage of women artists who are committed to using the tools of creativity to support gentle and real transformation, connection to self and nature, and community building that returns us to our original nature as creative beings woven into a fabric that honors the unique piece of the life thread we each carry.
These tools are deeply self-nourishing with an eye for cultivating the radiance and wholeness in all beings. With the “shit” getting real out there in the world, I see these ways of creative expression as critical for me to stay afloat and to hold others along the rocky path of modern living.
I’ve spent the last few years mostly inward. I am now ready to reemerge as the magical practitioner and teacher that I am, holding a strong space of joy inside to inspire and support with my overflowing medicine basket of witchy goodies.
A deep bow and gratitude to the entire Color of Woman team and our recent graduates.
Graduation Ceremony at Palace of the Palms.
Thank you to Guild member Elizabeth Gibbons for opening your home to us!
Thank you to Jonathan for filming the video.
We also want to thank these Guild members for their onsite support: Amber Bonnici, Dominique Peters, Shelley Duarte, Semerit Strachan, Mary MacDonald, Jassy Watson, Tina Greene, Ellison James and Trish O’Malley.
