Take yourself on an Artist's Date

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.” — Maya Angelou

Today how about we bunk off the Writing Hour completely?

One of the practices we will be exploring properly when we begin The Artist’s Way in September is Julia Cameron’s Artist Date, which is simply time spent alone doing something that feeds your curiosity.

It does not have to be grand, expensive or remotely impressive. You could wander around a second hand bookshop, walk somewhere without tracking your steps, sit in a gallery with one painting, buy one ridiculous beautiful thing from an art shop, photograph interesting doors or go somewhere your twelve year old self would have thought was brilliant.

The important thing is that you go alone and follow what interests you - no productivity or useful outcome necessary. Just you taking your creative self out for a little adventure and seeing what catches your eye.

Your invitation today:

Where would your curiosity like to take you?

NEWS! I will be facilitating The Artist’s Way from Thursday 3rd September every Thursday for 12 weeks at 7pm.

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way is the legendary 12-week creative reset that has helped millions of people reconnect with the part of themselves they thought they’d lost. And it has some rather famous fans: Reese Witherspoon, Elizabeth Gilbert and Tim Ferriss are among the creatives said to have been inspired by it.

But you absolutely don’t have to think of yourself as “an artist” to do it. This is about curiosity, confidence and giving yourself permission to make things, dream bigger and listen to what you actually want. Through daily Morning Pages, weekly Artist Dates and a series of brilliantly revealing exercises, we’ll spend 12 weeks firing up not just our creativity, but our lives.

I’ll be facilitating the course every Thursday at 7pm. Before we begin, you’ll need to buy your own copy of The Artist’s Way and to have read the introduction and Chapter One.

I’ve done this course before and I don’t use the words “life-changing” lightly. But this one really can be.

Writing hours will also recommence on Monday 24th August.