Hi Conscious Writers!

I’m just surfacing from my recent silent retreat and soulful immersion in a consciously chosen creative pause.

The silence and space have enabled me to be fully present and experience the deep clarity and sharpened intuitive perception that is an unmistakable quality of presence.

I feel recharged in a way that reaches well beyond simply taking a break; and now I’m truly ready to engage joyfully in the next phase of the unfolding dream.

Conscious Living

It’s become clear to me from this “time out” that alongside my continued commitment to Conscious Writing, I feel increasingly drawn to sharing all that I’ve discovered about Conscious Living as a focus for teaching, mentoring, retreats… and more!

After all, the principles of becoming conscious that I’ve taught in relation to writing over the last few years are one and the same for creative self-expression in all areas of life.

Essence into Form

I do have some new ideas already about a threefold approach to Conscious Living although the exact forms that the essence of this content will take are still in the process of emerging.

However, I am clear that the shift in focus that has naturally been occurring in my mentoring work will lead to Conscious Living becoming an option for the Individually Guided Retreats I’ll be offering from November to January 2018. More details on all of that to come.

For now, as Mercury goes direct and the new energy of September starts to pour through, I’ll leave you with what I hope will be the inspiration to claim some degree of silence and space in your life, and ideally to spend that time in nature. Read more about that here.

New Email Address

Finally, please remember we have a new email address for all IACCW communications from now on. It is iaccw@juliamccutchen.com

Please update your “allowed” email list to include it so we don’t end up in your Junk folder (or retrieve us from there if we do!)

Have a wonderfully conscious & creative month.

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Hi Conscious Writers!

The month of August is usually associated with summer holidays, and here in the UK it’s no big surprise for it to be distinctly on the cool side and pouring with rain outside!

It’s a far cry from the hot sunny days I remember from childhood.

Nevertheless, it’s still a good moment to take a break of some kind and step off the merry-go-round of endless activity relating to business and personal projects.

The Value of Space

I’ve had my fair share of perpetual busyness over the years and experienced the pendulum swing of extremes from sublime stillness to ridiculous levels of ripping through my perceived priorities at lightning speed.

I learnt the hard way just how damaging that habitual pattern can be and have come to value internal and external space extremely highly.

It’s not just good for my health and well-being; I’ve also discovered from both personal and professional experience just how much difference space makes to the clarity and quality of my creative flow.

A Creative Pause

So right now I’m consciously choosing to take a creative pause and felt inspired to write a blog post about the value of space in the creative cycle – see here.

Wherever you are in relation to the significance of space, I hope this will encourage you to appreciate space and include more of it in your life to honour your creative cycle and your joie de vivre.

Have a wonderfully conscious & creative month.

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Hi Conscious Writers!

What an exceptional retreat experience we all had this year!

It was an utterly amazing group of women, and I feel deeply honoured to have had the opportunity to guide and facilitate their process of creative awakening and authentic self-expression.

Witnessing the emergence of their clarity about who they truly are and their expansion of confidence to share what they’re here to share was like seeing beautiful flowers open from tightly closed buds and come into full bloom.

Comments and Quantum Leaps

Comments such as “my life is changed forever”, “truly transformational”, “beyond amazing”, “a gateway to the authentic me”, “quite honestly, I’m blown away by the results”… say it all (read more feedback here).

It’s confirmed for me beyond any shadow of doubt that experiencing my conscious and creative approach in person at a retreat is one of the most powerful ways for people to take massive quantum leaps!

So this may have been the last retreat at this particular venue, but I remain completely committed to leading retreats going forwards and I’ll be intrigued to see how everything takes shape in the coming months.

Online Retreat

In the meantime, a virtual retreat experience may not equate to what I’ve described above, but it does mean you can participate from wherever you are in the world.

So I’m delighted to share that you can join me and 25 visionaries from around the world for the Art of Spiritual Living Online Retreat which starts on Sunday 23 July.

I’m speaking about what spiritual living means to me and how conscious writing is both an approach to and an expression of what I call conscious living.

I also lead a guided practice with a live writing exercise so I do hope you’ll register for the event to enjoy my session as well as all the others which include intentional creativity, conscious movement and more – read the detail here.

Have a wonderfully conscious & creative month!

PS This “Welcome” note is reproduced from the latest issue of the monthly IACCW Journal. If you’re not receiving our newsletter regularly, register with your name and email address in the Start Here box at the top of this page.