creative energy can be pleasurable and playful, however our creative practices sometimes become anxiety-provoking, disembodying, fear-inducing, stagnant, and overly serious.

in this five-part experiential workshop, we’ll explore why our creative practices move away from pleasure and how to re-engage pleasure as both a creative act itself and as a means of grounding our other creative practices.

through meditation and mindfulness, and movement and writing exercises, we’ll spend our time together:

arriving in the present moment by scanning our emotions, thoughts, bodily sensations and surroundings
discovering what yes, no and maybe feel like in our bodies and minds, so we can notice when these feelings arise while creating
finding and nourishing sensations of pleasure in our bodies and minds
slowing down our creative practices so that we are aware of any pleasure (and displeasure) in our bodies and minds
cataloguing pleasure between workshop sessions so we learn to notice pleasure in our daily lives
exploring displeasure in our creative practices together and supporting one another’s efforts to recreate our creative practices so they hold more room for pleasure.

this workshop will have no more than 10 people in it. workshop sessions will take place on the following sundays: 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6 from 4-5:45p MST (3-4:45p PST, 6-7:45p EST)

the fee for all five workshops is on a sliding scale of $80-125, though no one will be turned away if this fee is unrealistic for their budget.

please register for the workshop on eventbrite. registering will sign you up for all five workshop sessions. you can pay the sliding scale fee through venmo @Lauren-Samblanet or you can email me at lsamblanet8@gmail.com if the fee is unrealistic for you.

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lauren samblanet is a poet and hybrid writer who cross-pollinates with other forms of making & other makers of forms. along with poetry, hybrid forms and fiction, she is a visual artist, performer and frequent explorer of different forms.

some of her poems and hybrid writings have been published in FENCE, a shadow map: an anthology by survivors of sexual assault, dreginald, entropy, bedfellows, the tiny, crab fat magazine, and aglimpseof. she is a graduate of temple university's mfa program.

lauren is a budding teaching and facilitator, specializing in interdisciplinary and hybrid writing classes, and experiential writing workshops that pull from somatic, mindfulness, and other healing modalities as a means of creating more embodied, pleasurable, and emotionally safe creative practices.

for more information about her visit www.laurensamblanet.com

finding & nourishing pleasure in your creative practices