Following are descriptions of seminars and workshops I’m teaching around the country.
If you would like a class to be offered in your area, please contact me.
I’d love to guide you and your friends, teens, and associates through the experience of the “Inner Path of Photography.”
Below:
1. “The Inner Path of Photography”
2. “You are the Artist of Your Life: Exploring Life Direction Through Photography” (Teens and adults)
3. “Personal Guide/Mentor/Muse”
4. “Project Coaching – Group”
5. “I’m Finally Doing Something With These Photos!”
6. “Envision Your Life: Create a Vision Board and Watch Your Life Unfold”
1. “THE INNER PATH OF PHOTOGRAPHY”
“Each artist going in his own direction at some time walks on water.”
- Minor White, Photographer
What is the inner experience of photography? Deep, spiritual, rarely discussed…it is what seduces us and send us out to shoot again and again. We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.
This class is for those who want to explore more deeply the intuitive, mystical part of their photography practice, work with personal blocks to full creative expression, as well as learn more about themselves and life challenges and choices.
Drawing on the tradition of the photographer Minor White, and using techniques and philosophies from Zen, psychology, and other contemplative and healing practices, we’ll come to understand more fully this silent experience, apply it to our art, and enhance the quality of both our photography and life.
Attention, resonance, the “still point”…choices, perfectionism, the “click,”…openness to experience, making art vs. being in the flow, embracing the creative process: these are some of the tools that we’ll explore as you build your inner photography practice and improve your outer resulting images.
As you more deeply understand and work with your inner artistic process, you’ll also see how life parallels art, and through this increased awareness, learn how to more easily dance with your own life challenges and decisions.
Class includes lecture, exposure to diverse photographic expressions & philosophy, meditative and other experiential, outside applications (homework), shooting and sharing of photographs.
Currently taught in these formats:
* 4 sessions, 2.5 hours each session
* Weekend and 5-day retreat format.
Can be customized to location and group.
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1A. “Introduction to the Inner Path of Photography” -
Saturday Seminar
A 3-hour short course. Can be taught on any other day, not only Saturdays, of course!
For photographers as well as spiritual seekers, this afternoon seminar gives participants a “taste” of the 4 week intensive “Inner Path of Photography” seminar, and introduces them to the basics of Inner Path Photography.
In the tradition of the famous photographer Minor White, this class is for those who want to explore more deeply the intuitive, mystical part of photography, and through this process, improve their photography as well as discover more about themselves.
Instead of worrying about aperture, using the right lens, or having correct composition, you’ll begin to learn about resonance, inner knowing, how you make choices, and what keeps you from “taking the shot”…in photography and in life.
Apply what you learn to your photographic process and become a better photographer; apply it to your life process and create a better life. All that is required for this intro class is your curiosity, openness, and a camera.
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2. A Special Class for Teens:
“YOU ARE THE ARTIST OF YOUR LIFE:
EXPLORING LIFE DIRECTION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY”
Did you ever think of your life as a work of art, with you as the artist painting the picture? Did you know that you can learn photography, and at the same time discover and start creating the life you want?…
Welcome to “You are the Artist of Your Life”, a new adventure in photography and living. This class is for teens only, who want to express themselves as photographers, as well as express who they really are each day. If you’re excited and curious about how to create your own unique photographs, as well as create an awesome life, this class is for you.
You’ll do a lot of things in this class: learn secret techniques (that even many professional photographers don’t know about), explore different ways to shoot all kinds of photos, talk about artistic and life heroes, and have fun seeing the amazing, different ways that each person experiences and expresses their world.
I’ll teach you the magic of the creative process, and how to use it, in photography and each day of your life. And to top it all off, I’ve included a chance for you to take a professional career/life direction inventory, which we’ll use to start your exploration of who and what’s important to you, how many choices there are out there for work and play, and what things, now and in future, you really want to do in your own life.
Your life can be fun and have substance. Let yourself call on the magic of photography and the possibilities of the world so you can be the artist of your life.
INCLUDED IN CLASS FEE:
“I am the Artist of My Life” Workbook
Career Interest Inventory (per group request)
PARTICIPANT AGE: 13 – 17 years of age
Taught in 3 formats:
* 4 – 2.5 hour sessions
* Weekend retreat over one weekend
* Weekend course, over two weekends
Adult version also available.
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3. Personal Muse and Project Coach
Let me meet with you and help inspire your photography practice! Whether you’re working on a project and want some feedback, wish you could focus on a project, or just know you want to shoot, shoot, shoot, but keep on lounging around on the couch…I can help you find that joy within that is why we are photographers. (Will share muse secrets…) More detail about personal coaching here.
4. Photo Project Coaching – Group
Do you have a photography project or goal that you keep on intending to reach, but you’re having trouble moving it along? Over three meetings with a group of kindred spirits, I’ll help you start or move your project along. Your goal can be anything from conceptualizing your project, entering a competition, promoting your work, gallery placement, photo book, website projects, a class you want to teach…anything that has a definable, tangible result. The entire project does not need to be completed in this time period, but steps that you choose to move you along will be the goal.
This group may continue to be an ongoing group, depending on the wishes of it’s members.
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5. I’M FINALLY DOING SOMETHING WITH THESE PICTURES!
The Family Album, Photo Book, Dream Project Workshop
3-hour workshop
How long have you been intending to organize your photos into something tangible, instead of having them hanging in your computer folders, or on a photo website? Spend a fun Saturday afternoon and you’ll walk out with a the beginnings and a plan for completing a photo book or project of your choosing that you can have for your own pleasure, or make copies to send to family and friends.
For all photographers, serious or weekend players; class includes how to choose what photos to use, grouping, sequencing, making them look good, ideas for writing to include, and how to finally do it instead of just thinking about it!
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6. “Envision Your Life: Create a Vision Board and Watch Your Life Unfold”
3 hour workshop
Vision boards are a physical reflection of what your inner self desires. Through the use of images, you become aware of what you want in your life and what is possible.
You’ll do some yoga, meditate, connect with your inner knowing, and then let your intuition lead you to the images that you resonate with. You’ll have fun arranging and gluing the images onto poster board (artfully or not, it doesn’t matter!) and then be amazed to see what inspires, surprises, and makes you happy.
Class ends with techniques of how to use your vision board to remind you of what’s important, and next steps to bring that into your life. This Saturday morning workshop is fun and light, while bringing you powerful results. No artistic experience required 
(For more transformational life coaching, see my website for Heidi Straube, M.Ed., LPC)
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