TAP YOUR TRUTH
My mission is to honor your creative well-spring, to encourage you to believe that it is sacred, to help you experience it as your best resource, and to then provide you with toolsĀ to share the gifts that will rise forth as a result.
Advent Dark Journal
DECEMBER 1, 2024 - JANUARY 6, 2025
Push back on the pressure to perform the holidays in picture perfect ways by sprinkling your days with creative gestures designed to inspire and comfort.
Backyard Art Camp
AUGUST 2025
Dive into the artful experience in my backyard in Great Barrington, MA!
100 Day Project Community
Watch this space for news about Suziā€™s 100 Day Project Community.
Registration opens in early 2025.
Advent Dark Journal
DECEMBER 1, 2024 - JANUARY 6, 2025
Online and in your home
An online and at home workshop rippling with poetry, prompts, and book arts explorations designed to stoke your inner flames during the holiday season.
What you get
A luscious package of art materials mailed to your home with secret treasures packed in beautiful envelopes that correspond with 6 weeks of lessons, a centering meditation, and provocations on the Kajabi learning platform along with 4 optional live meetups with Suzi and the Advent Dark Journal community. The live sessions will be recorded and available to you through March 31, 2025.
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With each weekly lesson in our online learning platform, Suzi urges us to reflect on the journal page, to be outdoors and watch the moon, and to venture into art with collage and a diminutive book form.
In Advent Dark Journal there is room to be messy, intuitive, and metaphorical, but accountable to a group of others.
To be part of a collective engaged in artistic behaviors regardless of organized religion or other affiliations brews empathy and growth in our ordinary lives. We feel threaded to one another in a new way. We are not alone in a season when we are often expected to be cheerful no matter what is going on in our inner life.
A Note about this course
Once you are registered for this course there are no refunds issued.
There are limited spaces available for this course which is conducted on the Kajabi learning platform and supported by a handmade package of art supplies.
Please honor the creation of this course by not sharing access to Kajabi or the prompts with people who are not registered for this course.
Suzi reserves the right to expel anyone who does not comply with this request or who does not conduct themselves by the Kajabi community agreements about hate speech.
What People Are Saying
ADJ was my faithful companion during the dark weeks and such an enjoyable and engrossing one!
JUDITH THOMAS
Dearest Suzi,
Thank you thank you thank you. Advent Dark Journal gave me permission, in a sense, to pause more deeply. To lean into the artist of my soul.
Sometimes my mind needs to catch up with my soul - writing, breathing, creating - simply listening to my deep inner knowing AND acting from that place. That action is divine action, and it feeds every layer of my being.
I am so deeply grateful for you. For your wisdom, for your warmth, for the fierceness of your soul, for your devotion, for all the ways you share your light.
Thank you so very much for Advent Dark Journal.
Love and gratitude,
CHARLYN
Dearest Suzi,
Advent Dark Journal was such a grounding focus during the holiday season. I loved making daily collages and writing.
The weekly envelopes were treasures shared!
I have continued a daily art practice since the end of the class.
Thank you for the guidance, generosity of spirit and joy that you provided all of us.
May you have a blessed new year.
DIANA MILLER
Choosing ADJ during this time of year is like giving yourself the coziest holiday gift of *YOURSELF. * What if you actually could make space amidst the chaos and hustle to get still and uncover the parts of you that have something to share? This is the gift of Advent Dark Journal. With tenderness, inspiration, and skill, Suzi will guide you through six weeks of radical creation, connection, and self-care. A yes to ADJ is an act of self-love.
KRISTIN GRIPPO
Enroll to Advent Dark Journal
Watch the Moon. Notice where it rises and when it sets.
- Preparatory Meet Up on Zoom Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 11 AM EST
- First Live Meet Up on Kajabi Sunday December 1, 2024, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST
- Second Live Meet Up on Kajabi Sunday December 15, 2024, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST
- Optional Rising Forth Community Gather on Zoom in preparation for the Winter Solstice Thursday December 19th at 7 PM EST
- Third Live Meet Up on Kajabi Sunday December 29, 2024, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST
- Final Live Meet Up on Kajabi Sunday January 5, 2024, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST
BACKYARD ART CAMP
AUGUST 2025
My backyard in Great Barrington, MA!
Backyard Art Camp is an outdoor book art & ritual workshop in the Berkshires
Backyard Art Camp will take place in August 2025. The first session will be a book arts intensive from August 20-27th with one rest day. The second session will be three full days of colorful book art August 29/30/31. Please join Suziā€™s mailing list for news of enrollment.
Link to frequently asked questions is here.
Backyard Art Camp September 2024
Photo credit to Pearl Elsbach
BYAC SBB LJ Session
BYAC Session Puzzling Eco
BYAC Brece and Caitlin
BYAC Caroline and Laura
BYAC Caroline andĀ Mary
BYAC Karlee
BYACĀ Laura and Sarah
BYAC LJ SBB Cyanotype
BYAC LJ SBB Cyanotype
BYAC SBB Altar Session
BYAC SBB Helen Eco
BYAC Session Amy Maricle
BYAC Session Brece Focus
BYAC Session Group
BYAC Session Jeanine hand
BYAC Session Jeanine and Julia PE
BYAC Session Julia and Karlee PE
BYAC Session SBB Listening PE
BYAC Session Studio Susan and Karlee PE
BYAC Session Unbundling
BYAC Session 2 Altar Table
BYAC Session 2 Cyanotype PE
BYAC Session 2 Group
BYAC Session 2 Raul and Ginny
BYAC Susan and Caitlin Paste PE
"Camp is sacred, essential, delightful, expansive, generative, meaningful, and such a messy-in-the-paint good time! This was a return to a familiar place, both in the magic that is Hollenbeck, and the familiarity of sisterhood, mudra flow, process, and celebrations with alumni sisterhood. Camp plants seeds in my heart - they root while I make paste paper - then they bloom all year long as I return to what we've created here in my daily practice." ā€¨
KARLEE FAIN
All supplies & printed instructions included in Camp fee. Also includes libations and bug juice.
You cover housing & travel & lunch. Look for rentals/hotels in the Great Barrington, MA area. Closest airports: Albany, NY & Hartford, CT.
Public transportation from the New York City & Boston area is convenient. My home is three blocks from Main Street, Route 7.
This program is for you if you...
- comfortable working outdoors in all weather
- want to nourish your attention and work with your hands-totally no tech situation here
- want to replace the nasty messages you got about how messy or wrong your art making is
- are an established artist seeking to fine tune your skills
- want to explore mixed media techniques, learn about inhabiting a journal, and are willing to play at the intersection of literary and book art.
- yearn for creative community and sanctuary where your creative expression will be valued above all else.
