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Facilitated Practice

Free and open to all!

$10 Suggested Donation

New to the practice? A facilitated session provides the structure, support, and guidance to help you get started.

🌎 America’s: Sat Mar 23 & Mar 30 • 4PM EST

🌍 Europe: Sat Mar 23 & Mar 30 • 12PM CET

Can't make these? New sessions every 4-6 weeks.

Community Practice

Free! Donations Appreciated

Already experienced a facilitated practice? Continue and build your practice with the community. Find times that work, make friends, and make creative engagement a habit.

Expanding Awareness Together

Expanding Awareness Together

Relate and Renew Through Art

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About the Practice

Throughout history, art expanded humanity's awareness, transforming and connecting us.
Art was communal. Everyone participated. People were connected by and through art. Today many of us are disconnected: from art, from our bodies, and from each other. We're disconnected from our creativity and artistic voice.
Our connections have been severed by a culture that values critique over meaningful experience.
Our awareness has been hijacked and diluted. Art fellowship is an opportunity to reconnect. Through communitas, ritual, and intentional practice, we can open back up to wonder and insight

How It Works

The practice takes place over the course of a full week. Split into two sessions a week apart. In the week between the two sessions, you’re reflecting on round one and responding with your own creative effort.

Round 1

~2½ Hours

Explore an artwork by an outside artist and discover Dialogos

Week Between

As much or little time as needed

Respond genuinely by creating your own work of art

Round 2

~2½ Hours

Share your art and engage deeply with each other’s work.

Currently all practice is facilitated virtually on zoom logo Zoom. Want to start a local group?

Practice facilitated on zoom logo Zoom.

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Creativity is a birthright.

The commodification of everything has turned us into consumers. We view art passively, rather than participate in it. Here, we value the process of creation over the product that results. Don't worry about being "good" or feel like you're not a "real" artist. Creativity belongs to everyone

Based on the work of cognitive psychologist John Vervaeke, we aim to enter 'dialogos' to bring artwork alive and enter into it deeply.

Centering Meditation

Check-In

Embodied Meditation

Art Viewings 3

Embodied Check-In's 2

Short Speech

Engaged Speech

“Dialogos” Open Discussion

We begin by letting go and becoming present. We become aware of our bodies and our sensations to help ground the discussion.

The artwork is viewed silently with curiosity and wonder. Then we check in with our bodies and share our sensations. We repeat this again, sharing our emotional changes the second time.

Through structured response, we try to bring the art alive and bring the artist into the space with us. Focus on what's felt and what's alive, not concepts and propositions.

A Community of ❤️

Alexandra Zachary is the musician, educator, & psychologist who developed Art Fellowship with experience running creative programs for over four decades –Australia

Jonas Søevik –Sweeden

Jake Go loved the practice and is helping to share the practice by creating this site. He is a regular participant and occasional facilitator –USA

Ebenezer Kaisha You looked into the art and found my soul resting within –England

Open yourself, your awareness, and your creativity.

Open yourself,
your awareness,
and your creativity.

Ditch the inner critic. Reconnect to something deeper.

Reconnect to something deeper.

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Practice Design & Resources

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The Four P's of Knowing

There are multiple ways of 'knowing' Propositional Knowing is the kind we're very familiar with, this is the knowing of facts. There's belief Participatory Knowing For a more complete and academic

Dialogos

“No man is an island”—John Donne. Contemporary cognitive science is proving this to be true. Humans are deeply social creatures, both for survival and wellbeing. Our inner private experience, our

Ecology of Practices

The ecology of practice is

Meditation for Creativity

Sample

To Be Determined

Sample

Evolve the Practice

Art Fellowship is an 'Open Source' practice, made available for free. The practice was conceived of and developed by Alexandra Zachary, an educator and psychologist, and it's grown into a global