Creativity is Spirituality

Creativity is Spirituality

By Rev April Kling MeyerReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality
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Creativity is Spirituality episodes

  • Harness the Power of Silence with Jude-Martin, Mindfulness and Wellbeing Practitioner and Coach

    Jude-Martin is a people and organisational development professional with 15+ years’ specialism in Leadership, Culture Change, and Personal Development. He has worked with public, private & not-for-profit organisations in education, insurance, transport, healthcare, professional services, and consulting sectors in the UK and Australia. His mission is to use social media to bring mindfulness practices to as many as possible, particularly those in the workplace, so they can be at their best and move with confidence by applying simple mindfulness practices, including learning to harness the power of silence.

    Connect with Jude-Martin here:

    • Website: www.jude-martin.com
    • Instagram: @judemartinetuka
    • Twitter: Jude_MEtuka
    • Visit https://jude-martin.groovepages.com/corporatemeditation for more info on how to book Jude-Martin for yourself or your organization.

      Look out for: Jude’s new online Masterclass – Total Self Transformation, currently in production and scheduled for release December 2021.

      32 min
    • Storytelling and the (Super) Hero's Journey with James Prescott, Author and Podcaster

      James Prescott has hosted the Poema Podcast since 2015, where he curates conversations with international authors, speakers and advocates on topics of spirituality, faith, mental health, grief and identity. He’s contributed to Huffington Post, Thrive Global and many other publications. You can find James online at jamesprescott.co.uk and follow him on Twitter & Instagram at @JamesPrescott7.

      53 min
    • The Negotiation Process of Peace Building, with Cassandra Lawrence, Racial Justice Community Organizer and Interfaith Dialogue Facilitator

      Cassandra Lawrence works engaging faith communities to address anti-Muslim discrimination. She is a trained mediator, dialogue facilitator, and interfaith and racial justice community organizer. She also teaches negotiation and conflict transformation primarily to faith communities. She has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in comparative ethnic conflict from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2021 she completed a master of divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary with honors, specializing in Public Theology, and received the Excellence in Public Theology Award.

      She can be found on Twitter at @casslawrence.

      57 min
    • An Intimate Spiritual Relationship to Nature with Sophie Strand, Author and Visionary
      Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Sacred Planet Books (Inner Traditions). She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan) Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. 
      And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: @cosmogyny.
      31 min
    • Having Faith in Good Humor with Brooke Preston, Humorist, Storyteller, and Writer
      Brooke Preston is an Ohio-based comedy writer, satirist, teacher, and storyteller. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Cut, Real Simple, McSweeney’s, Reductress, Men's Health, and other fine outlets and crumpled napkins. She is a co-founder and editor of online satire publication The Belladonna; she and her fellow editors co-wrote New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust and Equal Pay. She has taught for The Second City, Thurber House and more, and was head writer for this year’s Thurber Prize ceremony. 
      Follow her on Twitter at @bigu.
      51 min
    • The Connective Tissue of the Spirit with Johanna Bell, Yoga Instructor and Spiritual Counselor

      Johanna is the director of Illumina Yoga and is known as a teacher of teachers and an inspiration fairy who mentors countless yoga instructors on their ever expanding journeys. She is a sequencing specialist devoted to the infinite creative and connective stream of each individual’s truth and is the founder of the Full Spectrum Sequencing Approach. Her classes incorporate poetry, moving metaphor and music in a rich orchestral way that guides the student on a soulful, sweaty journey into the heart of what it means to be human. As a spiritual counselor, she is recognized for her ability to see the light, wholeness and infinite potential within everyone she meets.

      www.Illuminayoga.com

      Instagram: @johannagbell

      48 min
    • The Appreciation and Archival of Beauty with Cheryl O'Meara, Owner of Print Pattern Archive

      Cheryl O’Meara is a designer and owner of an antique textile and wallpaper archive. Cheryl and her archive are resident at The Monastery, Manchester where she is creative consultant as well as studying (with April!) to be a OneSpirit Interfaith Minister.

      As a designer she works with many well known brands from high street to haute couture, as well as creating magical interiors for hotels, homes and now a Monastery!

      Her constant creativity is grounded in daily spiritual practice and a love of nature.

      IG: @print_pattern_archive

      www.printpatternarchive.com

      54 min
    • Ecological Grief and Activist Burnout with Melanie O'Driscoll, Founder of Green Step

      Melanie is a facilitator, empowerment coach and founder of the Green Step. Always guided by love of animals and the natural world, she studied Zoology in Cork, Ireland and went on to become a facilitator with a focus on ecological grief and activist burnout. She is currently training as an interfaith minister with a particular interest in Jungian shadow work techniques and sound healing to help heal and enhance our relationship with the more-than-human world. She wonders; 'How do we co-create a post capitalist reality where we embody love and truly cherish one another and our earth mother?'

      For more of her work you can visit www.thegreenstep.org

      www.melanieodriscoll.com

      Or find her on Instagram @awaywiththefairies_3

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      55 min
    • You Are What You Pretend to Be with Eileen Keller, Social Physicist, and Media Investment Strategist

      "Eileen is a Social Physicist and Media Investment Strategist with an empathetic heart centered in a casing of imagination and the Founder/CEO of ideality.com and Blitz Media Labs. In the 1980's Eileen authored a college text book on advertising called, Blitz: You Are What You Pretend To Be, a hands-on book to help students become proficient in media buying. She taught classes at Southwest Texas State University and has instructed many advertising professionals around the country with Media Buying Academy. She has been the visionary force in presidential campaigns, global advertising campaigns, internet strategies, and creating reality platforms. Eileen is a past president of the Austin Advertising Federation. In 1995-96 she was awarded The American Advertising Federation's District's Member of the Year for her work." (from her website, www.ideality.com)

      Her work at ideality.com has earned the UK's prestigious Content Creation Award, along with earning her a Best of the Best award and placement in 2020's Who's Who in the US.

      53 min
    • Repurposing and Real Purpose with Maria Jordan O’Reilly, Artist and Community Leader
      Maria Jordan O'Reilly lives in rural County Cavan, Ireland where she actively explores her creative side and, through several community based groups, flourishes in her profession as an artist. Maria dabbled in creative pursuits all her life, but as an emerging artist, has only just begun to put work into the public domain in the past 3 years. She is an active member of Bailieborough Creative Hub with a with pieces in a exhibitions across Ireland. Maria brings a wealth of experience of life, a full gamut of emotions that tell the tale of her trials that resonate with many experiences across her fanbase. She promotes inclusion and diversity in her community and participates in providing amplification to voices of rural youth, immigrants, and people of color throughout Cavan in the ‘Next Chapter’ program, and was instrumental in developing and directing a series of video interviews to document their stories. Maria is passionate about mental health issues and "the constant struggle many have to move from the darkness into the light." She also works with the theme of environmental diversity and sustainability, often "repurposing rubbish to create multimedia pieces that speak to our ‘wasted earth’ and the need for care to sustain our planet." Learn more about Maria at https://mariajordanoreilly.com/
      55 min

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    Your creativity is your spirituality, and vice versa. They are one and the same! April Kling Meyer creates an inclusive open space to dialog one on one with creators and creatives of all kinds, as…

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