The Artist's Way Workshop Coming January 2025
“Mindy knows my work intimately and brings to it her own considerable creativity.” - Julia Cameron
In 1987 I was part of a small group of students that met in Julia Cameron’s tiny Victorian living room in Chicago, IL.
(See image Below)
The Artist’s Way, at that time called Healing The Artist Within, in order to figure out what to do with the rest of my life as I had dramatically quit acting about six weeks prior. One of Julia’s early students, those twelve weeks dramatically altered how I approached my life; my entire life, not just my creative life. In many ways, though I didn’t fully understand this for years, the tools in The Artist’s Way have ultimately taught me how to come home to myself.
I still practice the principles daily nearly thirty-five years later and have my copy of the first draft (printed by Julia at Kinko's) of what became the phenomenon known as The Artist's Way. (See the above photo)
I began facilitating the work in 1992 at Julia Cameron's suggestion.
After The Artist’s Way I found myself more open to actively pursuing my dreams, (ironically the very dreams I had given up on prior to the workshop) but at the time I never imagined that Julia would encourage me to facilitate the workshop. For most of the 90's, I internationally facilitated the workshop that the book is based upon. At one point I had a class of students that just rolled into another class, one right after the other, because they felt it kept them on track and grounded. One student actually said it was cheaper than therapy and more effective. Another was that it was like I had given them a key that unlocked something that had been hidden within.
I have evolved and grown over the years but can promise you that you have done the workshop before, either on your own or by working through the book, the practices behind the class and your relationship to it deepen over time. And each time you cycle through you enter it from a new place.
The workshop basically teaches you a new way of showing up for yourself, and helps you get past the barriers that you have unconsciously erected for any number of reasons but can no longer see. It helps you get out of the labyrinth of creating the same patterns again and again and provides you with tools that help you stay on the path that you wish to set for yourself.
Beginning Mid-January 2025, I will be facilitating the original workshop that the acclaimed book “The Artist Way; A Path to Higher Creativity” is based upon. It is a different experience than working through the book on your own. While it has a similar structure to the book, the workshop has a very personal tone containing both exercises that are in the book as well as exercises that are designed specifically to address the needs of each individual as well the particular needs of the group as a whole.
You do not need to be an artist (actor, writer, musician, dancer, etc), I have worked with people from all walks of life from elementary school teachers, those in college, retired individuals to corporate CEOs. The workshop always is a place of discovery and opens something for each individual.
Class size is extremely limited to provide an intimate one-on-one experience for participants. I have found, that small groups tend to be most effective as they allow for more time to process within the group. This is a small group of ten participants and two spaces are already taken.
This is a Zoom workshop
The cost for the twelve-week workshop is $400.
Dates TBD
For more detailed information, to ask any questions, or to register please text or call me directly at: 213-268-0641 or you can directly email me at [email protected]
"Taking The Artist's Way Workshop from Mindy Mendelsohn gave me the tools to get my first photography book published. Her guidance and encouragement in following the program kept me writing on a regular basis with the daily Morning Pages. From that practice, I grew more confident in my writing. Becoming a published author and photographer of the award-winning book Secret Sedona: Sacred Moments in the Landscape comes directly from her leadership in the Artist's Way workshop. I highly recommend Mindy as a workshop teacher."
- Acclaimed landscape photographer Larry Lindahl
In 1987 I was part of a small group of students that met in Julia Cameron’s tiny Victorian living room in Chicago, IL.
(See image Below)
The Artist’s Way, at that time called Healing The Artist Within, in order to figure out what to do with the rest of my life as I had dramatically quit acting about six weeks prior. One of Julia’s early students, those twelve weeks dramatically altered how I approached my life; my entire life, not just my creative life. In many ways, though I didn’t fully understand this for years, the tools in The Artist’s Way have ultimately taught me how to come home to myself.
I still practice the principles daily nearly thirty-five years later and have my copy of the first draft (printed by Julia at Kinko's) of what became the phenomenon known as The Artist's Way. (See the above photo)
I began facilitating the work in 1992 at Julia Cameron's suggestion.
After The Artist’s Way I found myself more open to actively pursuing my dreams, (ironically the very dreams I had given up on prior to the workshop) but at the time I never imagined that Julia would encourage me to facilitate the workshop. For most of the 90's, I internationally facilitated the workshop that the book is based upon. At one point I had a class of students that just rolled into another class, one right after the other, because they felt it kept them on track and grounded. One student actually said it was cheaper than therapy and more effective. Another was that it was like I had given them a key that unlocked something that had been hidden within.
I have evolved and grown over the years but can promise you that you have done the workshop before, either on your own or by working through the book, the practices behind the class and your relationship to it deepen over time. And each time you cycle through you enter it from a new place.
The workshop basically teaches you a new way of showing up for yourself, and helps you get past the barriers that you have unconsciously erected for any number of reasons but can no longer see. It helps you get out of the labyrinth of creating the same patterns again and again and provides you with tools that help you stay on the path that you wish to set for yourself.
Beginning Mid-January 2025, I will be facilitating the original workshop that the acclaimed book “The Artist Way; A Path to Higher Creativity” is based upon. It is a different experience than working through the book on your own. While it has a similar structure to the book, the workshop has a very personal tone containing both exercises that are in the book as well as exercises that are designed specifically to address the needs of each individual as well the particular needs of the group as a whole.
You do not need to be an artist (actor, writer, musician, dancer, etc), I have worked with people from all walks of life from elementary school teachers, those in college, retired individuals to corporate CEOs. The workshop always is a place of discovery and opens something for each individual.
Class size is extremely limited to provide an intimate one-on-one experience for participants. I have found, that small groups tend to be most effective as they allow for more time to process within the group. This is a small group of ten participants and two spaces are already taken.
This is a Zoom workshop
The cost for the twelve-week workshop is $400.
Dates TBD
For more detailed information, to ask any questions, or to register please text or call me directly at: 213-268-0641 or you can directly email me at [email protected]
"Taking The Artist's Way Workshop from Mindy Mendelsohn gave me the tools to get my first photography book published. Her guidance and encouragement in following the program kept me writing on a regular basis with the daily Morning Pages. From that practice, I grew more confident in my writing. Becoming a published author and photographer of the award-winning book Secret Sedona: Sacred Moments in the Landscape comes directly from her leadership in the Artist's Way workshop. I highly recommend Mindy as a workshop teacher."
- Acclaimed landscape photographer Larry Lindahl
