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Creative Social Change Funding Strategy

5‑Day Kickstarter

In about 30 minutes each day, you’ll learn and create a real workable strategy to fund your creative social change idea! Plus, there is a bonus next steps workshop built in.

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The Space to Create

5‑Day Challenge

Discover the space, time, and motivation to create every day. In about 30 minutes a day, this challenge offers strategies to help you activate and enjoy your creative work.

Create Your Year Virtual Event

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Step into a clear, creative and compelling 2017 with practical and fun processes to:
-Map out your income (in new innovative and simpler ways)
-Enjoy time and energy for your creative practice, your income-producing work AND your family
-Prioritize your projects


In short, the perfect place to plan a creative life that you love for 2017. Walk away from this event with clarity, confidence and plans in hand.

 

Create Your Year Virtual Event

Saturday, January 14th, 2017

10 AM- 3 PM Pacific Time / 1 PM – 6 PM Eastern Time

(Recording available for registered participants only)

Register Here 

 

Only $37 if you Register BEFORE 5 PM Pacific Time / 8 PM Eastern on Friday, January 6th PLUS receive a private jumpstart session with Patricia to get your year off on the right foot.

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“Since working with Patricia Morrison, I have found more than clarity. I have found a way to work through my anxieties and sense of overwhelm, and also have learned tools to help keep me organized, focused and on purpose. I have thoroughly enjoyed our working together!”
-Marci Geller, Singer/Songwriter
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“Meeting Patricia was like chocolate meeting peanut butter—I already brought creativity and commitment to my craft, but she brought the big-picture strategies and business sensibilities to synergize my work into something successfully shared with the world. She has helped me shift my mentality from that of a starving amateur to a respected professional.”
-Nancy Stohlman, author and lead singer of Kinky Mink
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Also includes prep work and suggested materials, with the opportunity for spotlight coaching focused on your particular situation!

Vote For Your Own Creative Vision

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No matter what happens in our national and local elections, the most important vote you may make will be a vote of confidence in your own creative vision.  One way to make that is to attend an event in your area where you get support, structure, and sustenance for moving your creative ideas forward so you:

  • Earn More
  • Stress Less
  • Make A Bigger Difference In The World
  • Gain Focus & Clarity
  • Reboot Your Inner Enthusiasm

 

Here are a couple of options:

 

Denver, Colorado

Saturday, November 12th

Creative Entrepreneur Roundtable

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Portland, Oregon

Saturday, November 19th

Secret Knowledge Conference

Inner Fire, Outer Light will be offering a workshop on walking the dual path of creative career and creative business

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Los Angeles, California

Saturday, December 3rd

VIP Mastermind Day

Where Is Love Leading You In 2015?

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Join us to delve into where love, passion, creativity, and/or spirit are leading you in 2015 and how best to follow.

Led By Love 2015 is the VIRTUAL mini-retreat accessible anywhere and also a live 1-day retreat in Ashland, Oregon.

Tuesday, January 27th (anywhere online and recorded, if you can’t join us live online)
Saturday, January 31st, Live in Ashland, Oregon

REGISTER HERE: https://form.jotform.us/form/50047077898163

YOU:

-Are discerning the focus of your next phase in life
-Want to be led by love in your life
-Know where are you being called, but don’t have any idea how to get there
-Are led to share your vision and voice as your livelihood
-Have a dozen great ideas a day, but aren’t sure how to bring them to life
-Are straddling the need to earn income with your desire to follow your heart

In This Retreat You Will:

-Discern where love is leading you
-Develop a map of best next steps to follow that pull
-Prioritize your ideas and plans so you can focus
-Discover where income and your leading/vision intersect, so you CAN follow your heart
-Meet heart-centered friends who will accompany you on the journey

It will be chock full of engaging creative hands-on activities and deepening reflections that will help you gain clarity, focus, direction, and a clear sense of how to go about faithfully following the lead of love towards a life that serves both you and the hungry world.

Includes BONUS participation in the AM Adventures online program for 2 months! Boost your creativity, focus, energy, and fitness within a safe fun group of fellow creatives.

REGISTER HERE: https://form.jotform.us/form/50047077898163

Prepare To Relax While Your Creative Projects & Dreams Prepare To Leap Forward!

Prepare To Relax While Your Creative Projects & Dreams Prepare To Leap Forward!

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I’m grateful for you!
Yes, YOU, with all your brilliant ideas and half-finished projects.  Your big plans, mad skills, and sensitive soul.  Your inner critic who yells a little too loudly and much too often.  Your deeply rooted desire to make the world a better place, to empower, inspire, and educate.
And, I’m ready to see you succeed boldly, confidently, wildly!
To that end, check out this 3 video series about preparing your creative projects, dreams, business, and/or vision to take a big leap forward, so you can RELAX (for a change) and enjoy the holidays knowing you’ve got this handled and your family will be proud and you’ll be proud and you’ll finally be doing what you’re here on this planet to do.
Wouldn’t that be relaxing?
Who else needs to relax among your brilliant creative friends?  Share these videos with them, too, OK?
Everyday Adventure

Everyday Adventure


I had such fun adventuring, taking these photos and making this video for you, thanks for taking 4 and a half minutes to watch and share it with someone who needs some everyday adventure in their life.

 

AM Adventures will launch soon!  To get all the details, including a special early-bird offer with some of my favorite goodies added, be sure you’ve clicked here and said, YES. 

Vacation or Retreat?  What restoration do you need?

Vacation or Retreat? What restoration do you need?

Winslow Homer painting, "In The Hammock"

Now is a great time to discover what kind of restoration you really need before summer is over. Use this simple guide to choose between 3 options and let me know how it goes, OK?

 

1. Vacation

 

If you feel:

  • Content with the direction of your life
  • Sleepy, tired, worn out
  • Ready to reconnect with people you care about

When:

 

Plan ahead, since much of the joy of a vacation is in the anticipation, although even a last-minute weekend getaway can do the trick
What to do:

  • Focus on rest and enjoying being with the people you are vacationing with, rather than packing a full schedule.
  • Hint: you can certainly vacation alone, but if you really want solitude, one of the other two options may be a better fit.
  • Reading, sleeping, walking/hiking, talking, eating, doing puzzles are all great options.
  • If you are going someplace with great sites to see, focus on one or two highlights and then let the rest be based on what you feel like doing each day. Leave to-do lists at home.

 

Where to go:
It’s up to you, but make sure the amount of travel time/ travel hassle is worth it for the time you’ll be away. Strive to have as much time just being there as possible.

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2.  Retreat
If you feel:

  • Discouraged, stuck, uninspired, or like you forgot how to care
  • Prickly, fragile, overwhelmed, or on the verge of depression
  • Lost in transition, unclear about what’s next, in need of perspective
  • Detached from your true self, soul, spiritual life, nature
  • Disorganized, unfocused, or ineffective

 

When:

  • Most retreat centers and guided retreats have their best rates well in advance and planning ahead will give you a sense of calm right away, but even a couple of weeks or a month ahead, you can often find a retreat with space and reasonable rates.
  • Retreats don’t have to be long to provide a real recharge.  If you can’t get away for a week, an extended weekend will work well.  Even a Friday night and Saturday can do wonders.

 

What to do:

  • If you are attending a facilitated retreat, there will be activities planned and meals provided.  Always use your own best judgement about what you need.  You can certainly attend some things and keep to yourself when needed.  Some retreats even have solo time built in.
  • The outcomes of a retreat can be powerful and they are almost always internal.  Instead of going with a goal to finish a project, open yourself to making inward leaps and bounds so you can go home and have everything work better.

 

Where to go:

  • For an unguided solo experience, camping, a friend’s unoccupied house or cabin, or a religious retreat center can be a great way to have quiet time at a reasonable cost
  • For a guided and supported experience, reach out to facilitators, guides, and mentors you trust.  Many of them may already lead retreats and would be happy for you to attend.
  • Delaine Due, art therapist & founder of People’s Art & I lead two Creativity Now! retreats each year, the fall one in Southern OR, September 25th-28th and the spring one in Santa Fe, NM, April 16th-19th, 2015.

 

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3.  Engage
If you feel:

  • Antsy, anxious, or impatient
  • You have an urgent need that needs to be addressed (professional, income, relationship, health, or other vital need)
  • You know where you are headed, but aren’t sure how to get there
When:

  • Don’t let the anxiety build.  Reach out.  Assess several programs to see what is the best fit for you and then step bravely into a commitment that will support long-term growth and change.
What to do:

  • If you have multiple urgent needs and goals, look to see which one might put you back on stable footing to deal with the rest, if it got attention right away.
Where to go:

  • Again, this is about relationship and trust.  Begin within.  Commit to yourself that you are ready to make a change and that you will stick with that commitment by investing time, belief and money (wisely, of course).
  • Instead of surfing the web randomly, start with those mentors, guides, and trusted advisors you know.  If they don’t offer what you need, they will guide you in the right direction.
  • Click here to claim a Creative Clarity Jumpstart with me, if you’d like some direction.
Upcoming Events- Summer 2014

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Creatives Making Income & Impact:Workshop & Networking Series

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Your Hidden Wealth

Where is income hiding in the work you’ve already created and the skills you already have? Dig into your gifts to discover the treasure of a creative and profitable life hidden there.

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What Spring Flowers Teach Us

What Spring Flowers Teach Us

Lanterns & Spring Flowers

It has turned to a wildly flowering spring here in Southern Oregon. At the same time, some very dear people in my universe have passed on.

 

Taken together, these events are a reminder of why we are here and inspire me to follow the example of the spring flowers.

 

Bloom Now!

 

What if you bloomed like crazy now, before you’re certain you have it figured out, before it is perfect, before you have the credentials, time, money?

 

What if you were forsythia and cherry?

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What if you shared and sold and valued the gifts you have, your passions, your art now, in the springtime, without worrying about what summer and fall will bring?

 

Because, sometimes there is an early frost and we don’t get the luxury of bearing full fruit. Wouldn’t it be better to be remembered for your flowers than to pass away without any glimpse of your true beauty reaching the world?

 

“The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short”
-Gretchen Rubin

 

So, don’t delay in getting started.  Another thing to remember is that, while people often overestimate what can be done in a short time, they also underestimate what can be done over a long time. This is the power of beginning and spending some time each day, week, or month on a project.

 

Everyday people have amassed fortunes, art collections, bodies of artwork, gorgeous gardens, cookbooks full of recipes, albums of photographs, basements full of canned goods, thousands of songs, and other kinds of wealth, simply by building it and working on it a little at a time.

 

What do you want to create?

 

Start now and set aside time each day, week, or month for the next year.

 

Let me know how it goes!

 

Please share this with a friend who might be stuck in tight bud stage and needs a nudge to open up and bloom!

 

If you know you would be more courageous, focused, & effective with some structure and support, click here to be in touch, so we can schedule some time to help you determine your best next steps.

You Have The Key To Creative Success

You Have The Key To Creative Success

I Am An Artist

You already have the key to creative success!

 

Remember when you were a child, or a young adult, or even a mature adult, that moment in which you declared, decided, and announced that you ARE an artist?

 

You might have said it differently. You might have said, writer, actor, painter, poet, singer, chef, healer, or something else, but the key is that you declared it to yourself and to the world, quite likely BEFORE you had incontrovertable proof to offer that world.

 

Your were brave and bold and audacious.

 

And, you never looked back.

 

That doesn’t mean you never had doubts. We all have doubts, even after incredible, incontrovertable success, about our abilities, or our direction, our genre of expression or a particular project. But, it’s likely you’ve never once considered giving up your creativity, not really. And, you’ve never truly lost your faith that your creativity will be there for you, that it is enough to carry you through. You might have feared that it would go away, you may have had moments of despair that it was dissappearing, but you’ve never totally lost the belief in its presence and sufficiency, despite everything.

 

Oh sure, you may have taken a full-time job doing something else, raised kids, subverted your creative dreams for yourself or others, but deep down, you’ve never let go of that identity, of your core belief in yourself as an artist, right?

 

I want you to pause and realize how absolutely amazing that is! Seriously. Everyone else waits until they have a degree or a job or some kind of outward stamp of approval before they claim their vocational identity. It’s true. Ever seen a child declare that they are a doctor? Not that they want to be a doctor or will be a doctor, but that they are, already, deep inside, a doctor? Doesn’t happen.

 

You are amazing!

 

OK, soaked that one in?

 

Now, here’s the thing. This very act, this declaration and faith and life of following through to make good on that promise to yourself.

 

This is your greatest and most unusual strength.

 

It is the key to:

 

  • having enough income
  • building the fanbase you need and want
  • gaining the recognition that will make it all worthwhile
  • making the impact in the world you long to make.

 

And, you’ve had this key since you were young, hanging in a locket around your heart of hearts.

 

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“Well, that’s just dandy,” you may be thinking. “If I’ve had that key all along, why don’t I have those things in abundance in my life already?”

 

Think about keys for a minute. Have you ever, when you’ve been doing some deep cleaning, come across and old key and wondered what the heck it opens?

 

Having the key isn’t everything, but it is a great start!

 

Knowing what it unlocks is the next step. See that list above? That is just the beginning of what this key can unlock in your life.

 

What is it you need to unlock?

 

Then, finding the doors and using it to unlock them, open them, and walk through to that fulfilled life of creative success.

 

This the part we do together. Through my programs, retreats, and workshops, I remind you of what’s on your keychain, help you choose what you need to unlock and create a path to get to those doors, plus the courage to open them and walk through once you get there.

 

If you’re already working with me, be sure to engage fully, so we can do as much of this for you as you are ready for right now.

 

If you aren’t, I would invite you to open the locket, give yourself some love for having such a powerful key and get the support you need to unlock what your life needs so your gifts can shine brightly and sustainably for a world in need of your light!

What Clients Are Saying…

Kiki Ebsen, Singer/Songwriter

"She helped me navigate the bumps and kept me on target until I reached my goals."
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"She helped me navigate the bumps and kept me on target until I reached my goals."

Deb Van Poolen, Fine Artist

"It's been quite a year. It's been amazing! I feel so fortunate right now.  A year ago, I was just...
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2018-08-23T17:52:29-07:00
"It's been quite a year. It's been amazing! I feel so fortunate right now.  A year ago, I was just starting to earn from my art and stretching to buy a car. Now I am trading in my car for a minivan to carry my art, have stable income from art sales, teaching, and sponsorships; will likely meet my financial goal for the year and am enjoying how my work is filling a gap of knowledge about the biodiversity of the region.  At first, I didn't think the coaching would be that helpful, but I have found it invaluable." — Deb Van Poolen, Artist & Teacher

Steve Eulberg, Musician & Teacher

"I especially appreciate your overall focus on my musical life and business and the orientation to streamlining my lesson-booking and...
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2018-08-16T21:34:55-07:00
"I especially appreciate your overall focus on my musical life and business and the orientation to streamlining my lesson-booking and payment system so my focus could be on the educational needs and focus of my students.  My brain and schedule are much-less cluttered with the "to-dos" of scheduling and payment, and clearer for providing avenues, feedback and support for my student's goals. I developed My Student Self-Assessment Tool, which is very helpful in communicating a student's desires and goals at the outset and to which I often refer during our time together."   -Steve Eulberg Owl Mountain Music

Meg Hayertz, Author & Creative Block Remover

In just a few months, Patricia helped me turn my part-time gig into a profitable business. Patricia is accessible, pragmatic,...
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2016-10-19T20:50:47-07:00
In just a few months, Patricia helped me turn my part-time gig into a profitable business. Patricia is accessible, pragmatic, and supportive. Best of all, she understands the way my artist mind works, and has helped me build a life that affirms my creativity. I'm very grateful to have participated in the Love Your Livelihood program! --Meg Hayertz Author & Founder Of Creative Momentum Unlock Creative Blocks, Connect Deeply with Inspiration, & Finish Your Project!

Briget Boyle, Musician

"I had the pleasure of working with Patricia in the Dream-to-Done program and I am happy to report that I...
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2016-08-17T20:39:25-07:00
"I had the pleasure of working with Patricia in the Dream-to-Done program and I am happy to report that I have officially launched my first program, Unleash Your Voice. I was able to enroll 16 people in the first series and I could not be happier about it. "Patricia helped me see the value in the work I do, offered my guidance in shaking off negative self talk, and helped me shape the vision for my workshops and teaching. The elements in the Dream-to-Done program, including the group-calls and one-on-one sessions were golden and made me feel like I am not alone on this professional development journey. Patricia is smart, level-headed, and has the ability to think big, while being realistic. She helped me see that I can shape my professional life and that I no longer have to be stuck." -Briget Boyle, Musician brigetboyle.com truelifetrio.com
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