What will Creative Passage look like? What will the new programs look like? What does your donation make possible?

THREE PHASE PLAN

PHASE ONE ( 9 months – October to July 2014) includes:

• Establish basic infrastructure, web site, teaching webinars, videos, and professional business plan;
• Crowd source social media, and publicity;
• Establish partnerships, funding contacts, relationships with related institutions such as Esalen Institute, Vortex Immersion Media and the American Art Therapy Association, plus other sources of support;
• Planning/brainstorming conference with advisors, teachers and partners;
• Initiating the programs  and projects in Phase Two.

PHASE TWO – Begins during Phase One (2  years) . Examples include:

• DEVELOP and experiment with new innovative nature conscious Workshops in collaboration with experienced teachers in fields such as sculpture, music, theater, dance, creative writing, video and electronic sensory technology. – An example of such a workshop is “The Web of Life Theater” for children or adults. Briefly, each participant connects with and paints an animal or place in nature on large paper, and then speaks, dances and/or sings its truth while witnessed by the group. In the final step, participants connect with each other and  create an impromptu ritual theater piece  which can be documented and posted on our web site and YouTube to inspire others. More details .
• TEACHER TRAININGS for former and new PFTS International Teachers specifically focused on the new innovative nature conscious multi modality workshops. Teachers will work locally and other parts of the world in a variety of venues until (and after) our center is complete.

• PARTNERSHIPS with other visionary groups , some of whom will come under the umbrella and join forces with  Creative Passage. These groups will compliment and enhance the CP mission, such as Alternative Healing (including Yoga and meditation), permaculture, ecology, sustainable building design, virtual entertainment, spiritual cinema, conflict resolution, expressive arts therapy, community problem solving, Shamanism, New World Education.

• WEBINARS and videos linked from our web site filled with dynamic and compelling creative enactments, teaching, training to inspire and unite people world wide to the wonders and needs of nature. Other examples are:  simple rituals people can do, or practical life style changes.  These videos will also reach those who have affluence, connections and influence on making nature friendly choices.

• SCHOLARSHIPS enabling a more DIVERSE and financially challenged population to attend these newly evolving muli-media workshops and Teacher Trainings. This includes people from other disenfranchised cultures who would not ordinarily attend.

• EXPERIMENTAL creativity workshops (for different populations) with co-teachers such as, Preparation for Death and Dying, Connect to Nature Spirits in a wilderness or in a permaculture forest setting, or Calling in Your Personal Sustainability Guide. See details.

• REACHING OUT and Establishing affluent funder angels.
• SEARCHING for donation or purchase of land.

PHASE THREE –  LONG TERM VISION – to overlap with Phase Two  (5 years)

The long term plan includes a sustainably  built workshop center shared with other compatible programs that enhance our mission, surrounded by nature with a core staff/community of about 8 people. This jewel nestled in the Ojai Valley of California, will accommodate 30 participants in a variety of eco-friendly dwellings… and feed all from its lush permaculture gardens and farm.

Activities at our center include teacher trainings, workshops, conferences in which we continue to design, research and hone the application of our creative processes and principals. This is a demonstration project, where all who come can be replenished and inspired by art retreat and the use of sustainable methods and way of life.

Over time Creative Passage  becomes a creativity think-tank,  a resource and consultant contributing to and presenting in venues, such as corporations, science and medical research labs, schools, government, activist ecology organizations, arts organizations, museums, universities, Eco psychology departments,and places of conflict and activism.

THIS IS A PLACE WHERE NEW CULTURAL MYTHS ARE CREATED AND NEW STORIES ARE ENACTED WHICH PUT US BACK IN ACCORD WITH THE WAYS OF THE NATURAL WORLD – a new human emerges learning once again how to live not as ruler over nature but as PART of nature.

Creative Passage is the chrysalis, the cauldron where the technology for replenishment  and transformation cooks and proliferates.

These inspiring programs will become a reality as a result of you generous donation.