The Artist’s Way: A 12-Week Creative Discovery Journey

The Artist’s Way: A 12-Week Creative Discovery Journey
With Facilitator Vera V. Chapman
Mondays Jan 12 – Apr 6 | 1-2:30 PM
Offered in partnership with the Lewiston Arts Council

Event Description

Are you hungry to reconnect with your creative self — beyond monotonous conversation and into lived experience? The Artist’s Way: A 12-Week Creative Discovery Journey is a weekly guided program based on Julia Cameron’s celebrated book that invites you to explore creativity as an essential part of your life, identity, and holistic well-being.

This offering is more than a discussion group; it is a structured weekly process of insight, reflection, and creative growth. Over 12 weeks, we’ll move through the book’s chapters in order, engaging in the foundational practices of:

• Morning Pages — daily stream-of-consciousness writing that clears inner noise and invites inner truth to surface
• Artist Dates — weekly intentional solo time dedicated to play, exploration, and inspiration

These tools are the core of the program and are done alongside weekly reflection in a supportive group setting.

Each session includes gentle group sharing (no artistic performance required), discussion of the week’s theme, guided reflection, and supportive structure to help you take the work off the page and into your life. You are not required to produce creative output — this journey is about your relationship with creativity, not performance.

Participants of all creative backgrounds — writers, makers, dreamers, thinkers, and explorers — are welcome. You don’t need to identify as an “artist” to benefit.

This program is made possible in partnership with the Lewiston Arts Council and has been partially sponsored to help keep the experience accessible.

Program Details

• Timing: Mondays, January 12 – April 6
• Time: 1-2:30 PM (90 minutes)
• Location: Lewiston Council on the Arts, Red Brick School, Lewiston, Third Floor, Room #3
• Cost: $200 per participant (with partial sponsorship by the Lewiston Arts Council)
• Facilitator: Vera V. Chapman - National Certified Counselor, Reiki Master Teacher, and Mindfulness Coach
• Capacity: Limited spots to ensure a supportive, intimate circle

What You’ll Experience

• A weekly rhythm of creative inquiry, support, and accountability
• Practices designed to reduce inner blocks and build reflective creative habits
• A community of peers committed to deep listening, compassion, and presence
• Focus on process over product — creativity as life work, not output
• An embodied approach that meets you where you are, whether you’re exploring creativity for the first time or returning to a lost practice

What You’re Not Signing Up For

• Art critique or performance evaluation
• Creative output demands
• A “guru” voice telling you how to be creative. Instead, you’ll be invited into a circle of witness, reflection, and shared discovery — recognizing that creativity thrives in safe, respectful, non-hierarchical, and nonjudgmental spaces.

Registration

Spaces are limited to ensure a meaningful circle experience.