All Are Welcome

Join us! https://ascension.zoom.us/j/93104450499

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This group may be for you if you are:

  • seeking a creative community
  • interested in creative expression
  • working on a project and need a “brain dump”
  • looking for a spiritual self-care practice outside of traditional "sitting in silence" practices


You are free to:

  • Turn off your camera
  • Listen to music on your own
  • Write, draw, play an instrument, etc
  • Do whatever it is that you need to do


Making a Case for Creativity

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. - Mary Oliver


Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it.  Don’t cheat us of your contribution.  Give us what you’ve got. - Steven Pressfield


The only hope Mother Earth has for survival is our recovering creativity—which is, of course, our divine power. Creativity is so satisfying, so important, not because it produces something but because the process is cosmological. There’s joy and delight in giving birth. - Matthew Fox


Your way of looking at the world needs to be ever more fertile and original. The world is changing. The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can’t help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct—they are extinct. - Erich Fromm


This is the root of the creative work we do: the desire to intimately touch and share the truth of our lives and our world, to penetrate the heart and spirit of our lives and our world; to see and share what only the soul can see. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Facilitated by

Will Boesl

Facilitator

Will Boesl, MA serves as a Formation Manager at Ascension. With certification and education in the Enneagram, meditation, prayer, labyrinth, and spiritual direction, they enjoy working with a wide variety of individuals and groups seeking to deepen their spirituality. Integrating their vocation of deep listening, Will is passionate about the connection between spirituality and creative expression. They have a Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation with a focus in Spiritual Direction and creativity from Seminary of the Southwest and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Business minor from Texas A&M University.