Join us in another messy, magical, creative adventure of expressive writing, intuitive collage-making, mixed-media explorations, and spontaneous happenings.
It doesn’t matter whether you dabble with watercolor or decorate cupcakes, write poetry or prose, or can’t draw a stick figure to save your sister — kissing the muse can illuminate your creative path to happiness and help you navigate along the way.
The muse is a mirror of your authentic Self, reflecting your innate wisdom and creative power to manifest positive change. By creatively kissing the muse, you fully embrace this truth: YOU are the artist of your own life.
This course guides you through a process of ARTISTIC REBIRTH, starting with the Hopeful Healing Muse, who sparks an "Enlightening Epiphany." You'll integrate what you've learned on your life's creative adventures (so far!) and emerge transformed at the end of the course, ready to share your unique gifts with the world.
Each week, you'll creatively "kiss" a different archetypal muse to explore a particular phase in the universal cycle of change. Approach each encounter as playfully or seriously as you would any romantic entanglement: FLIRT with Words to find out what makes your muse want to sing; tease an idea with a Mixed-Media TICKLE; rekindle your sparkle on a spontaneous MUSE DATE; and gain insight whenever your life changes course—or needs to—through a KISS & TELL RITUAL.
Whatever your passion or commitment to pursue it, kissing your muse fans the flame. By consciously cultivating a closer relationship through your creative practice, your bold visions, heartfelt values, sacred truths, and wildest dreams will unfold intuitively, organically, and tangibly.
So grab a glue stick, pen, and paintbrush, and pucker up — the magic is about to begin!
Throughout this course, I use the feminine pronouns "she/her/hers" to invoke the muse and suggest the inward-focused “heroine’s” journey often experienced by writers and artists. Please feel free to replace them with your muse-appropriate pronouns and experiment with all the alternatives.
Week 1: Phase: Enlightening Epiphany — Kiss Your Hopeful Healing Muse
"Rejuvenate and illuminate new possibilities."
Week 2: Phase: Determined Return — Kiss Your Cosmic Comeback Muse
“Infuse the mundane with your magic."
Week 3: Phase: Transformative Test — Kiss Your Warrior of Love Muse
"Draw on your heart's strength."
Week 4: Phase: Sharing the Elixir — Kiss Your Luminous Luna Muse
"Shine your light."
Designed for creatives from all walks of life, this course is an inspiring, safe space to explore and express your artistic voice through a variety of mediums. Through an inventive method of self-inquiry, participants embark on a personal journey of transformation and integrate insights into their own creative practice and projects. Open to all arts disciplines, writing skill levels and genres.
We offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color through the Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Fund. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.
This is an online class, hosted on the online teaching platform Wet Ink. The day before class begins, you will receive an email invitation from Wet Ink. There are no browser requirements, and Wet Ink is mobile-friendly. The Wet Ink platform allows you to log in and complete the coursework on your own time. Coursework for each week will be posted by 6:00 AM EDT each Wednesday beginning November 6, 2024.
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Kissing the Muse Creative Adventures Founder, Robbyn Layne is a writer, creative producer, and transformative teaching artist. A copywriter by trade, she moonlights as a messy, magical muse on the side (or vice versa), inspiring and empowering everyone she encounters to embrace and express their authentic creativity through art-making, collaborations and stories.
She's the author of the hybrid memoir/course, "Kissing the Muse: A Messy, Magical Creative Adventure" and the creator of "The Messy, Magical Muse" a colorful, creativity-sparking card deck. Robbyn holds an MFA in New Practices (painting and cinema) from San Francisco State University and an MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. She currently lives in Amsterdam with her British love, a Dutch tuxedo cat, and an Aussie Doodle named Zigy.
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