Future Teacher Visioning

When interviewed for this program by Shiloh Sophia, she asked me to close my eyes and imagine in the future a class I would be teaching from Color of Woman. I closed my eyes, and I felt myself walk out of the back porch of my home, and it was beautiful out: flowers and plants and bees in the yard … a beautiful, late summer day. And I felt at peace with myself, a knowing I was where I needed to be and grateful for the journey I had been on to get to this point and rather amazed and yet my heart was still within just present to what is. I saw the garden in back flourishing, and I breathed in deeply, and then I got in the car to go to Alliant Energy Center.
As I approached the building and came in, I saw rows and rows of people facing the stage area where I was going to speak. It was for a conference of some kind, and I was I was excited and a little sad that this wasn’t more common, that this was so unique as the process of Intentional Creativity(R) belonged to everyone. I went up on the stage, and I spoke easily to this large crowd, speaking about authenticity, the right each of us has to nourish our authentic self, to make space for it, and to know ourselves and advocate for this. That self-expression was one route to discover what was within and bring it forward, using art and paint to manifest who we truly are and yearn to be. I said that the real purpose of my workshop was for what happens after people participate: that we can be our real selves and do the work we came here to do. This was a speaking engagement with art supplies. I remember looking at the crowd and how beautiful they were, and how simple my message was for them.
I felt confident and good.