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My recent journey has been beyond anything I thought I was capable of - thanks to the power of Visioning®. Since completing the training, my inner marketer has lit a fire under me. The first step was to create a new blog. In an attempt to keep things as simple as possible, most of my posting will be done from there. It's good stuff...click here to get there.

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Double click on image for a larger view of our Fall workshop lineup.

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(Iiris Bjornberg, Dr. Lucia Capacchione, Amanda Joy Wells, Raimoda Pironti, Dr. Marsha Nelson) Last week, I returned from Cambria, California as a certified Visioning ® facilitator! I began this training process six months ago, which prepared me to offer this AMAZING authentic vision- setting method. During the final training at Dr. Capacchione's home (creator of the Visioning® method) I

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Double click on the poster for a larger view. Register here

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As Creative Director of Sublime Signs LLC - I have been integrating Creative Journal Expressive Arts and my mural creation and supervision expertise into a type of creative collaboration program. Here are a few pictures of some projects I've done this fall:The above mural was envisioned by a group of parishioners from Capitol Hill Nazarene in OKC. This is a segment of a large mural that was

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I JUST GOT MY PLANE TICKET TO MISSION TEXAS! I graduated from the year long Creative Journal Expressive Arts program 2 1/2 years ago and I am cashing in my free intensive at the end of October....I AM SO EXCITED! Now that I am integrating CJEA into my role as an A+ facilitator as well as Creative Director for Sublime Signs, where I have been mainly facilitating groups in the collaborative

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When I was an Americorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) with Learn and Serve Oklahoma, the school I was posted at became an A Plus school. I was able to attend their first week long summer institute and I became fascinated with the process. In a nutshell, Oklahoma A Plus is a research-based whole school network with a mission of nurturing creativity in every learner by training teachers

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I am excited to announce the first OFFICIAL workshop with Sublime Signs Creative. I have presented this workshop before and I am VERY excited about offering it now. School is about to start which leads right into the holiday chaos...why not learn some great centering tools through process oriented art exploration and creative journaling exercises. Sign up at www.sublimesignscreative.com/rsvp

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I've been busy! Sublime Signs Creative is beginning to get off the ground. At the moment I am facilitating a group of teenagers in creating a series of murals for the Shawnee Library. I think the thing that has been most enriching about this process is hearing the kiddos say that they can't believe that they created something so awesome! I LOVE IT!

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Many of my friends and former bosses are husband/wife teams. During the time I was imagining what kind of partnership I envisioned being a part of THIS was high on my list. My favorite couple to see in action was Dan and Marsha Nelson, who own El Rocio Retreat - where the Creative Journal Expressive Arts intensives are held. I used their personal and professional relationship as a template for

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Jason and I have been nesting. Click here to visit our home blog, the Wellstead.

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The wedding was AMAZING!!! After raining for two solid weeks and everyone (except for those who know me particularly well) was sure that the wedding would get rained out. "It's not going to rain, but bring an umbrella if it will make you feel better" I would say. Whadya know, it didn't rain...for the wedding. It rained before the wedding and after the wedding but the wedding (save for the

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I found out this morning that my dear friend, Diana Bacher, suddenly passed away in the night. It has not fully settled within me that she is gone...come wedding day I will feel her absence poignantly.When I entered the Creative Journal Expressive Arts program, Diana seemed more excited than anyone that I was embarking on this adventure and as soon as I returned from the first intensive she

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I've been having trouble sleeping with all that's been going on and still yet to happen...at about 3 am the other night I decided to make the best of my awakeness to write out my vows. I'M TOTALLY GOING TO MAKE JASON CRY. Also, he's got his outfit as well as his son's - the ring bearer...it's just like a man to wait till the week before the wedding to get it done:).It has rained every day for the

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It's nine days till the wedding and I'm feeling that a clone or a robot would really be helpful. Besides the full time job of getting ready for the BIG DAY, I'm wrapping up the McFarland mural project, preparing for the unveiling ceremony, working out details for the McFarland summer mural project - which is a HUGE project to be done in a fraction of the time - and the fundraiser to gather

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I decided to serve a second year as an Americorps*VISTA in the Learn and Serve program. My function has been to help students and teachers implement service learning projects into their curriculum. Since I bring 12 years of muraling experience with me into this position, it seemed only natural to create murals as our service. THIS IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE. Most of my first year in service was

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Last Christmas I was able to make gifts for my loved ones. I usually pic one person per year do do a BIG gift for. This last year my Dad was the BIG gift recipient. I had been promising that I'd create a painting for him and his wife for years...I'm glad I waited. This is the first painting (above) that I have done with my dominant hand since I'd gone through CJEA training. It is amazing how

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This picture represents, at least symbolically, a typical day in my new life... chaotic and colorful. That sounds just about right. I've heard people say over the years about getting married: they mourn their old life. I always thought that when I finally found my partner I'd be SO DAMN READY that I would gratefully and easily surrender my old, single life to the past. It didn't exactly work

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(Creative Journal drawing of my vision of my relationshipwith Jason, done during the ice storm back in December)I'M ENGAGED! Jason proposed to me last Friday evening and I, without hesitation, said YES. I'm spending the week at my apartment, sorting through the eight years of stuff I've accumulated... at least half of which will be sold off. Now that I'm in the midst of this process, I'm

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I just counted the number of web pages I have:11 blogspot pages:1 official website4 Myspace pages1 Facebook pageMost of them are scattered throughout this blog or in JOY ENTERPISES.Since 17 pages is CLEARLY not enough, I added another to the pile. I created a place to put my Creative Journal art, which has been previously spread out over all my other pages. Click here to get there.

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Well, life is smoothing out. The last year has been full of so many changes that I could not find my center. The journaling has helped. I realize that I've been searching for a center that doesn't exist anymore, so I'm seeking a new center.... and it seems to be constantly shifting, like a top. The "Where am I at?" exercise in The Creative Journal has been particularly helpful in uncovering

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I can hardly believe it, but I GRADUATED!!! I've never completed something so huge before... it makes me wonder what else I can do. Marsha highly recommended that I continue this blog for another year, so I can see and share all of the changes that are yet to happen as a result of learning and applying the Creative Journal method. It was not hard to talk me into it. So here is my first

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On the very day that I posted my last blog entry, love swept into my life... although I did not know it at the time. LOVE is a scary word for me, but it is something I have been journaling about quite a bit. CJEA has certainly opened me up to dreaming bigger than I ever had before, but now that my dreams are coming true I don't really know what to do with them. I very rarely hear this side of

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Welp... as I suspected, after I returned from the CJEA training, all of the lovely little seeds I had been tending to have begun sprouting..... FAST. My first art exhibit was a total success. Three paintings already sold before the opening, and another four sold by the end of the night!While I was at the training, my friend Lauren called to let me know that she met a woman who is wanting to

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WHEN: Friday, Nov. 16th @ 7pmWHERE: Sauced on Paseo Dr.THIS IS MY VERY FIRST ART EXHIBIT!!!!!Every piece of art in this exhibit was created (at least in part) with my non-dominant hand, which is a major aspect of Creative Journal Expressive Arts. As a result of doing the CJEA method and going through the training program, my creativity has exploded and my style has completely changed. Until I

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ARE YOU FEELING A SHIFT?Do you want to learn sometools to identify and utilizethese intangible stirrings?Go from FUNK TO FUNTIONAL withCreative Journal Expressive ArtsDate: Sunday, November 25thUnited Life Spiritual Center3332 N. Meridian Ave. OKC, OKLove Offering recommendedR.S.V.P at amandajoy74@hotmail.com

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I'm heading off to Mission tomorrow morning and I am about to jump out of my skin with excitement! I remember my last walk around the grounds at El Rocio soaking in all of the lovely little details... thinking how far away October 27th seemed. Although time flew, the Spring Intensive seems quite distant... so many changes have happened in the space between then and now. I feel like a different

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You know, donations are a wonderful thing... but it occures to me that I can offer a service in exchange. I am a painter/muralist, after all (visit my work website here). The art that you see on this page is only one creative style. If you are interested in commissioning a painting, pop me over an e-mail! I must also let you know that I am having an art opening on November 16th at "Sauced"

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My friend John came out and videoed a recent ALTARED BOOK CLUB meet-up and we spent the next few weekends editing it down... and here it is, above.I've been crazy busy lately trying to get funds together for the upcoming intensive at the end of October that I'll be assisting at. As if I don't have enough to to, I went through crisis training at the YWCA last week to: 1. Do art with the mothers

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The OPEN BOOK I've been working on has stirred up the interest of some of folks that have looked through its pages... so, I started a club for anyone interested in creating their own altered book. Click here for more information on the ALTARED BOOK CLUB.

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I'm having difficulty finding words... all of this journaling has facilitated a HUGE shift. I was able to spend three weeks holed up in my home, trying to make sense of these stirrings. Yesterday was the first day I've been able to put some shape and texture to it in my OPEN BOOK:I'm going to start having regular "Altared Book Club" (yes, ALTAR-ED) get-togethers, where we will do a creative

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My friend Lauren invited me to be a part of "Here and Now", a wonderful gathering she is getting off the ground with a handful of other like minded folks at "United Life" church on N.W. 33rd and Meridian in OKC. I am really looking forward to seeing how this gathering evolves. Anyway, I was able to share my experience with Creative Journal Expressive Arts. I invited anyone who was interested

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Okay... lots to say.First off, I will be having a second Creative Journal workshop on July 29th... and the location has changed for both workshops. The Blue Moon has closed its doors, so Lynda Toney-Bahr has offered her "Art of E-Motion " studio located at 4309 N. Western ave. Next... doing all of this Creative Journal work has caused a HUGE shift. I feel completely transformed. I tried to sum

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I've been working on a proposal on doing a traveling workshop for young teenagers (hopefully through the OKC Public School System) incorporating CJEA with the journaling style and personal idealogy of Dan Eldon, who's legacy has had a major imact on my life. Click here to see Dan's journals and learn more about this amazing person. Anyway, I thought I should start a journal of my own as an

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It looks like all the spaces are filled for my first workshop! If you are interested in attending one then contact me at amandajoy74@hotmail.com and I'll get another one scheduled. To those of you who have tentatively confirmed, let me know if you are able to attend and I will make space.

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These paintings feel like prayers. I painted this one as I pondered all the space that opened up since my job at the library ended. If you look closely some of the words pop through.

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Well, my creative job at the library is done and I'm moving on to unknown adventures. It's really hit me what a wonderful opportunity I had to get to learn how to apply CJEA into a large scale application AND see it in action... and I was able to be a part of a two day staff training program with 40 people that was filled with Creative Journal exercises. Although I did very little facilitating, I

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As some of you know, I've been working at the library assisting Lynda Toney-Bahr (2003 CJEA graduate) in the COME READ WITH ME summer reading program, (which kicks off Monday morning). I've been helping her incorporate Creative Journal into the curriculum. Until now, it's all been fairly intangible and fragmented for me. One of my personal projects has been developing a large puzzle as part of

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I created a Creative Journal Expressive Arts information page... click here to learn more about CJEA and the workshop I've got scheduled.

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I just painted this yesterday outside on Paseo as people walked by and watched me painting awkwardly with my left hand. It is intended for my cousin's first baby's nursery... I thought the baby would prefer abstract. We'll see what the parents think!

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This came from an exericise in "The Creative Journal"entitled 'I Wish...' "Making up My Future"

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I just received the pictures from ourclosing day photo shoot.Here I am with Dr. Lucia Capacchione, creator of the Creative Journal Expressive Arts method.Here is the CJEA spring class posing with Lucia Capacchione and Marsha Nelson... sans the solo male, Nate.This is the entire group that participated in the spring intensive... as well as Marsha and LuciaNow we are just being SILLY.

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The piece above came out of an exercise in "The Creative Journal" entitled 'Where am I at?' This piece (above) was my first non-dominant hand painting This piece was the beginning of this series...

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"Contemplating Intangible Things, Like 'Love' and 'Spirit'"from 'Key Word' exercise in "The Creative Journal"I had a wonderful conversation with Marsha Nelson (head CJEA supervisor) today... discussing, in part, my need to put the journal down for a bit. I was feeling very conflicted about this, feeling that I was copping out of breaking through this

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I'm sure Freud would have plenty to say about this series... It feels, to me, that these pieces are about birthing. That is TOTALLY how I am feeling right now. This new sense of... something. It's too new for words. I find myself really missing the safe bubble of the CJEA intensive... all my classmates and the retreat. I feel like I've been pushed out of the womb where my senses were protected

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"Convergence"I'm not sure what it means or if it's done or if I even like it... I like the idea, though.

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I had to put the journal down for a week... I'd been journaling so extensively that I really stirred the funk up. It's been interesting just sitting with it. It's not in my nature to do this... I need to examine my funk, dissect it, extract its meaning. I keep going back to the "cracking the egg before its time" analogy I wrote about in "My Random Musings". I don't want to try to 'figure it out

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I've never created a series before... thanks left hand!

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"Look Up, Look In""Rising Up Through 18 Layers of Flux""Reaching Out Towards a Strange New Sense of Self"Let's see, since I've been back alot has happened.1. I grew. I feel grown. Grown-up? I don't know, but I definitely feel different.2. I've started doing one-on one work with a handful of people. I'm working with one person on a consistent weekly basis and I am VERY pleased with the whole

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"Labyrinth at El Rocio"Dancing on paper to Joni Mitchell's "Turbulent Indigo""Secret Treasure""Moving Towards Our Destinies""Reaching Out on Faith, Not Facts"I'm still soaking in everything I learned... I've been journaling and drawing like never before... so much so that I have scheduled my VERY FIRST ART EXHIBIT for October's First Friday Paseo Gallery Walk at Blue Moon on Paseo!!! Here are

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My brain is too full to start trying to share the experience yet,but here is a sketch from my train ride from San Antonio...(added 5/29/07) If a memory gets too far away before I recount it, chances are that I'll let it slip away... and the trip home was too AMAZING not to share. If you click here you can read my account of the odd and amazing encounters in the space between Mission, TX and

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... I'll be in Mission, Texas. My bags are packed. All of my tickets are bought. My alarm is set for dark-thirty. I have been so busy getting jobs wrapped up and checking off the next thing on my list that I have not had time to get too wrapped up in anticipation. I can only hope that I get what I need out of this experience. So far, I've gotten EVERYTHING I need. I am financially covered, with a

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Well, I mailed off the first installment for the beginning of the training program. As of two weeks ago, the amount of money I needed to send seemed impossible to save and collect... but I've been watching "The Secret" ALOT lately and it occurs to me that I just needed a reminder that I ALWAYS GET WHAT I NEED. It is true. Why do I forget so easily? As a result of remembering and applying

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Nothing much has happened since getting my plane tickets. I have, however, been applying what I know of the Creative Journal method in my own journaling... and WHOAH, this is some pretty amazing stuff. I am getting more and more exited about going through and completing the training so I can begin to share these tools.Most people (myself included) just don't know how to weed through the mess

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I just bought my airline tickets. My friend Lynda just bought hers. This will be the first time since I was eight years old that I haven't flown alone. I remember being handed off from one flight attendant to the next when I was six, flying alone down to Florida to visit my father. I felt independent and scared and exited... much like I do now.

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I've been trying to figure out my itinerary, which is more challenging than I thought it would be. I've come to learn that I'm not the type of person who just books a flight. I'll search for weeks and spend endless hours looking for the best deal. I think I found it. Although it is by no means efficient and is only a few bucks cheaper than the best deal I could find for the simple route, the

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I've spent the day working on my sponsorship letter, which has been a challenge. I'm grateful that I've been raised to be self-supporting but the flip side is that I have a difficult time asking for help... especially financial help. A recent conversation with my father helped me accept the idea of receiving support. He has been raising money for the art gallery/museum he's affiliated with in his

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I found out this morning that I've been accepted into the Creative Journal Expressive Arts training program today. I am INCREDIBLY exited. I feel like this is about to change the course of my life. Up to this point I've just been going with the flow of life, and now I've been given oars to steer with. I have no idea where this experience will be leading me... and although I am exited, I'm also a

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Amanda Joy Hogue

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