process art

Making art or engaging in any creative endeavor requires a certain amount of vulnerability. So does just being ourselves in the world in an open and authentic way, especially when things feel risky or uncertain. In this episode, we address the challenges of “showing up naked” and being seen for who we are in life and how creative expression supports the practice of vulnerability by getting honest and up close with ourselves. Join hosts Jenny Hahn and Stephanie Gray for a raw and revealing conversation!

Resources:

• Brené Brown’s TED talk: The Power of Vulnerability
• Jenny’s deck: Wisdom of the Shadow: Oracle for Self-Discovery, Soul Work & Transformation

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Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

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(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What happens when we engage the creative process to reimagine the past or greet a difficult feeling in the moment with movement and color while creatively giving it what it needs? Transformation can occur when we show up for ourselves willing to co-regulate the tough stuff with the paintbrush or the pen. Join hosts Jenny Hahn and Stephanie Gray as they share thoughts and experiences of their own on this important topic. 

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(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Stepping into the unknown can be scary, but what if there was a way to make it easier? Can we use the creative process to help us trust what we don’t know or understand? Join Jenny and Stephanie as they discuss this possibility and share experiences where their studio experiences have spilled over into their daily lives, bringing magic and mystery to both the journey of creating and to life itself.

Resources:
Steph's blog post about allowing magic
Book: Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff
Book: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence by Jenny Hahn
YouTube video: Taoist concept of Wu Wei

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

To live authentically means to live in alignment with your deepest truth and to express from that place of inner connection and belonging. It goes beyond your social roles, obligations, and the masks we all wear to get by in the day-to-day world. Join Jenny and Stephanie as they share stories, prompts, and creative tools for discovering your truest self and creating space for new identities that are wanting to emerge.

Resources:
Wisdom of the Shadow oracle deck

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What is joy and how can we bring more of it into our lives? How can creativity actually support us in cultivating more happiness and positive experiences, despite our evolutionary tendency to focus on the negative and what could go wrong? Join Steph and Jenny for reflections, personal stories and creative expression practices you can do to cultivate more joy in your own life. 

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Grief can show up at unexpected times and take many forms, from the enduring sadness after a loss or death, to the emptiness of change and endings, to the pain of never having had something in life. Grief is natural, and it’s important to offer it a safe space when it arises. Join Steph and Jenny as they share stories of meeting grief and offer tools for working with it creatively.

Additional Resources:
Stephanie's article: The Big Squeeze, Grief and the Medicine of Now

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

How are you relating to the feeling of anger? What are your beliefs about anger in general, and how are you meeting it in your life? Join Steph and Jenny for a deep dive into anger, creativity and how creativity can not only help us process the feelings in a healthier way, but also how anger can fuel our creative process.

Additional resources:

• How Anger Can Enhance Creativity
• Steph’s Article

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Have you ever missed out on an opportunity (creative or otherwise) or lived life in a smaller way because of fear? What would it be like if you were able to get curious about that fear and in some cases, even befriend it? Join Jenny and Steph as they discuss their own experiences with fear and how they were able to creatively meet it. They’ll also share some tools to help you when you encounter fear in your own life.

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Does the fear of making a mistake or doing it “wrong” ever keep you from trying something new? Creative expression requires risk… It's through our willingness to release attachments to results and see things differently that true creativity flourishes! Join Jenny & Stephanie for tips and practices for moving through perceived “mistakes” into the magic of spontaneity and new creative discoveries.

Additional Resources:
Jenny's new book Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence
Shawn McNiff’s book Trust the Process
Herbie Hancock YouTube video talking about Miles Davis
Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart

Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

How is your relationship with your muse? This episode goes into the creative process and our relationship with creativity. Learn a little about the Process Art Movement and how process is seen in the music of William Basinski. Discover more about the topics and practices discussed at THIS LINK. 

A chat about children's creativity and the "whole book approach" with Courtney Waring, Director of Education and Sara Ottomano, Art Educator from the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
 
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has compiled its online resources onto one page. It includes links to at-home Art Studio projects, storytime videos, their first online exhibition, a Shop blog with booklists and recommendations, exhibition videos, available virtual workshops, and social media platforms.  https://www.carlemuseum.org/content/online-resources

Be sure to visit the Art Studio Blog mentioned in the show here: https://www.carlemuseum.org/blogs/making-art)

Grace Lin's podcast Kids Ask Authors, (https://www.kidsaskauthors.com/) and the Whole Book Approach which is introduced in this book https://shop.carlemuseum.org/reading-picture-books-children-be-autographed-423

The Carle also offers a professional development workshop around the approach as a virtual program https://www.carlemuseum.org/content/professional-development-0

With the current closure due to COVID-19, please visit https://www.carlemuseum.org/content/temporary-closure for the most current information regarding temporary hours.

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Home & Classroom is an interview-style podcast featuring child development experts and Shorties! is a news-style podcast on what's happening at Brightside Up.

Hannah and Rachel chat with Abbe Kovacik, early childhood developmentalist and executive director of the Child Care Council about the benefits of the early childhood art experience. 

• Join us at the Children's Art Experience & Show https://artshow.gr8.com/
• Visit Harvard for research and inspiration, Project Zero: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/who-we-are/about
• The Arts Center in Troy, NY for local art experiences https://www.artscenteronline.org/

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Home & Classroom is an interview-style podcast featuring child development experts and Shorties! is a news-style podcast on what's happening at Brightside Up.