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Shelley Klammer
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Expressive Art Inspirations

Online Collage Classes

Online Collage Class on Daily Om

This is a 12 week on-line course available from Shelley Klammer on Daily Om. We will email you when your new lesson is available and you will be able to log in and read each lesson on-line or print as they become available. Your first lesson will be available immediately after you enroll.

Spontaneous collage, free form writing, and intuitive doodling, and drawing, are modalities of creative self-mirroring that will help you understand yourself more profoundly. Working spontaneously with imagery bypasses your regular thinking mind, and reveals more of what your deeper self wants you to express in your life. Spontaneous art is often "wider" than words, and it can invite your intuitive wisdom to pour forth into your everyday world.

This creative journaling course is accessible to everyone. No previous art experience or special talent is required. Expressive art therapy provides a visual window to the daily mystery of your vast inner world. Your daily art journal becomes a daily showing up on the page with a most wondrous question, "Who am I today?"

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Discover your unique creative vision, and surprise yourself with your inner truths through spontaneous art.
  • -Open up to your intuition, and learn to understand what the signs and metaphors of your experience are revealing to you.
  • -Let go of who you think you should be, and learn to fall deeply in love with who you really are.
  • -Learn how to express all of your feelings, and discover the gifts and strengths in your shadow parts of self.
  • -Discover ways to heal shame, and understand who you are creatively and passionately.
  • -Learn how to move out of passivity and express yourself honestly in your relationships.
  • -Uncover your self-worth, and get off of the treadmill of trying to build self-esteem
  • -Learn how to increase inspired and ecstatic creative feelings in your life.
  • -Overcome the fear of your own magnitude, and discover the steps you need to take each day to live into your authentic life.

    WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE COURSE:

    "Taking Shelley's course has been very enlightening. I think I've learned more about myself in the last 8 weeks than I have in many years. It truly is an amazing process!"

    "I now feel so connected to my creativity. Empowered by developing a way of 'tuning in' every day through your guidance. My collages are 'me' and are taking me where I need to go!"

    "Funny but mysterious too. I love collage for this. Stuff just comes out and no matter how peculiar, it just feels right. I feel so much happier in myself. "My collage time clears stuff out of my head and through a creative channel. Spontaneous, simple, easy, done!"

    "I have so found a new language and it just grows and grows."

    "I knew straight away that collage was the medium for me: I can respond spontaneously, and 'feel' my way through ready-made images, colors, textures and forms. Your guidance through the weekly lessons has been invaluable - a well developed and thoughtful process of careful nurture and encouragement."

    "One of the things I love the most about all of this is your stories as you present the pages for each week. You speak so openly about your life and with so much heart that it is impossible not to be inspired to let my own understanding come forth… I realize that I hold the key to my own success and even though it's great to have outside inspiration or praise or encouragement, being inspired from the inside is worth everything."

    ABOUT SHELLEY KLAMMER

    Shelley is a Registered Psychotherapist, and Expressive Art Facilitator with a strength for counseling women to express their deeper feelings and life visions through art therapy and creative practices. She specializes in inspiring women to find their way into authenticity, self-reliance and passionate, purposeful living through honest and creative self-expression.

    Shelley teaches online creative and spiritual practices worldwide. She has created hundreds of expressive art journals, collages, paintings, and drawings, and has developed many simple and profound healing processes for creative self-discovery, life visioning, and spiritual healing.

    The compassion, warmth, and depth of understanding she offers as a therapist, comes from living, embodying, and moving through the process of spiritual awakening and creative visioning in her own life. Shelley shares her profound, personal journey of creative awakening with you in this course, as a lived illustration of how psychological problems can be healed through spiritual and creative practices.

    • You can sign up for the Course Here.

    Spontaneous Collage

    • Two Horses
      Spontaneous Collage is a form of daily play. Easy. Picking a few images that strike you as fascinating in some way and gluing them in your journal. Spontaneous imagery reveals you like a dream and lets you know what your unconscious mind is thinking and feeling.

    Stream of Consciousness Drawings - Doodling

    • Free form doodling can become an eloquent form of expressive art that just gets more and more refined over time. Doodling allows the subconscious mind to express itself. Much about the inner life can be revealed though doodling.

    Intuitive Drawing

    • Letting Go
      Intuitive drawing is an immediate way to tap into the mystery of your life below the everyday happenings. It is helpful to take time to quiet your mind and go into your body before you draw. Allow your pen to move without giving it much thought. Ask questions. Listen for messages. They are always surprising and just below your conscious thought.

    Collage Journal

    • Fortress
      Collage journaling is vivid and magical. It never takes long to gather a pile of images and words. Journals are a place to gather insights and inner directions on what to do next. Collage journal pages playfully sneak under your limited and conditioned ways of seeing my life and lead you to a higher vision for yourself.

    Self-Discovery Cards

    • Finding Our Way Home
      Each Self-Discovery card is an exploration into what you do not clearly see about yourself. Every collage card reveals an aspect of your soul and psyche. By visually seeing the masks that you wear and the patterns of thinking and feeling that help and hinder you, you become able to integrate all the fragmented aspects of yourself so that you can be more effective in life.

    Mini Collages

    • Truth
      These are small playful collages. 4"x6". The aim is to experiment and play and to work quickly with color, composition, shape and pattern. These are an exploration of what you might find beautiful, joyful and delightful using paint and collage. A contemplation on beauty to carry through your day.

    Art Journals

    • Spreading Wings
      Art journals are a form of devotion. They are experimental and a great place to explore new materials and techniques. An excellent way to record a creative and immediate life.

    Spontaneous Painting

    • Inspirations on Facebook
      True creativity requires great honesty if it is to be transformative. Paint what you feel, not what you think! The conscious mind has no part in this process. "Still mind. I don't know." is a mantra that you can repeat while painting. Venturing into the unknown parts of yourself, pulls forth all of those feelings that have been locked up and tranquilized. A new freedom floods in. There is energy and passion in the unexpected.

    Spontaneous Pastels

    • Out of the Box
      This is a series of mark making with pastel crayons. An innocent, intuitive exploration of color and spontaneity. A playing with crayons, much like a child, these drawings are a visual meditation which can draw you into mystery. Ask your drawings what they have to tell you and they speak back through your intuition...guiding you.