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Summary of the art workshop ‘Journey’ 25.10.08 with Shirley Kelly,

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People arrived gradually and after the formalities we sat down and really introduced ourselves. Shirley asked us to sit in a circle and to share our names and the journey we had had that morning and what we wanted out of the day. Some people shared that they believed fervently that everyone was creative and that not having an outcome would free them up to get more in touch with their inner creativity. One person shared how she wanted to access her creative side having felt so far in her life too confined in the logical deductive processes of the mind. Our morning incorporated working with clay. Shirley made it clear that the objects madewere not important in the sense of their final outcome. In fact as I sat there I felt drawn inside myself, strangely in touch with a vulnerability I had not anticipated feeling. The clay seemed to direct my hands as I found the shapes, rather than seeming to make them. Continuing on the theme of ‘Journey’, using creative imagination, we visualised an in