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Retreat Dharma Talks

Meditation & Creativity (online series)

“An artist expresses great vitality in the front but must have quietness in the back or they burn up.”
~ Natalie Goldberg

What happens when we combine creativity with consciously taking time for ‘non-creativity’, or rather the creative process of contemplative enquiry?

These workshops offer reflections, discussion, and guided meditations, in the service of taking our creativity and our selves more lightly, weathering the inner critic, and the storms of praise, blame, success and failure. Finding ‘quietness in the back’, we explore a longer-term resilience in our creative lives. All are welcome, whether or not you consciously identify as ‘creative’.

2025-11-19 (15 days) Gaia House

  
2025-11-19 Curiosity, Cultivation & Creativity (introduction, guided meditation, reflections). 48:18
River Wolton
The first session of a short course exploring meditation and the creative process, including an overview of the 7 Awakening Factors in relation to the contemplative and creative journey.
2025-11-26 Creativity, Courage & the Inner Critic (talk & guided Mettā meditation). 39:48
River Wolton
2025-12-03 Exploring How We Hold On, & Finding Space to Let Go (talk and guided meditation on steadiness & spaciousness). 30:41
River Wolton
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