This is a 6 week on-line course available from Catherine Ann Jones. We will email you when your new lesson is available and you will be able to login and read each lesson on-line or print as they become available. Your first lesson will be available immediately after you enroll.
Are you merely surviving or are you living creatively?

Survival has become a dominant theme in today’s world – both personally and collectively.

One of the down sides of being locked into survival mode is that surviving sometimes takes over altogether – and the quality of living lessens or even ends. In order to live, and not merely survive, a sense of creative living must return. Creativity tends the mind and soul while survival focuses only on the body. Both are necessary for a full life.

Can one expand and no longer live solely a linear existence yet also embrace a creative journey? If so, how to step back from literal life and its daily demands, and see beyond? Can one view relationships not as possessions, but as life markers on the journey, as opportunities for the growth of the soul?

Might we discover alternative ways of creating and sustaining new forms of community which nurture our essential humanity? What are some ways of connecting us to ourselves, to each other, to the earth, and to the greater mysterious reality that is the source of all we know?

Exercises are designed to serve as catalysts in re-discovering a creative life beyond survival. This course invites you to explore within and discover a creative solution for the often overpowering problems of today. Beyond Survival is a way to return home, an invitation to the muse, a bridge back to creativity and to Self. For more info www.wayofstory.com

TOPICS COVERED
• Survival versus Living
• Letting Go Conditioned Patterns – both inherited and learned
• Accepting Dharma: Your Inner Calling
• The Many Names of Wealth
• Life as Relationship
• Create Your Life at Each Moment

“Beyond Survival is a gem! You seemed really in the flow, and the flow carries us into effortless inspiration. You took the time to give us many fascinating exercises, each one a doorway for the soul”.
- Dianne Skafte, Ph.D, Listening to the Oracle

“Catherine showed me how to write my way out of the darkness and into the Light”.
- Beth T., Athens, GA

“A spiritual experience as well as practical.”
- Gard J., Boulder City, NV

ABOUT CATHERINE ANN JONES
Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. After playing major roles in over fifty plays, she wrote a play about Virginia Woolf (On the Edge) about her struggle with madness in a world gone mad, i.e., WWII. The play won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Ten of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical) and The Women of Cedar Creek, have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards & Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel.

A Fulbright Research Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught at The New School University, University of Southern California, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and the Esalen and the Omega Institutes. Her book, The Way of Story: the craft & soul of writing, is used in many schools, including New York University writing programs. Ms. Jones lives in Ojai, California, and leads The Way of Story and Heal Yourself with Writing workshops throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Beyond Survival is her third online course for www.dailyom.com. Or go to www.wayofstory.com

Catherine will be a speaker at GATE 2 this weekend.

So great design is essential to products and services and their visual language promotes brand affinity and loyalty assuming the product or service is of a high quality and thus informs consumer buying decisions. In short, given a well designed product or service, the logo becomes visual shorthand for the brand and buying decision wither for or against. Poor design can insure an underwhelming desire to purchase. So selecting a designer is a critical part of the business development decision tree.

In a world of commodification of everything, its not surprising that you can find websites offering $29 logos. At the opposite end of the spectrum are world-class designers like Santa Barbara based Benjamin Cziller who, for the past 20+ years, has worked with clients including The Skirball Center (Los Angeles), Technicolor, Capital Records, Guess?/George Marciano, CBS, Marriott, Richard Gere (Tibet House), International Medical Corps, UCLA, Virgin Records, The Sculpture Foundation and Season for Non-Violence. Amplifyd’s services include Launch Campaigns, Brand Identities and Applications, Book and CD covers, Film Posters, Product Packaging, and Web Site Design and Development.

Ben recently launched his new updated website, www.amplifyd.com

John Raatz, a Public Relations and Marketing professional and founder of GATE (Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) has this to say about Ben:

“For nearly 20 years, the art direction and graphics work for The Visioneering Group and our clients has been provided by Benjamin Cziller. Ben is a world-class creative director and designer and has worked on projects that span both the commerce sector, as well as social/humanitarian foundations and organizations.”

“Ben is committed to creating clear, effective and memorable graphic impressions for clients and projects that address the humanitarian, social and spiritual issues he finds most meaningful, the kinds of projects that Visioneering has embraced for almost 25 years.”

“Ben is not only a world-class designer, he¹s a world-class human being.”

- John Raatz

If you or anyone you know is in need of a distinct visual identity for your product or service on which to build a brand, you should consider a conversation with Ben. I have known him for over 20 years and never hesitate to recommended his services to friends and associates looking for memorable world class design. Ben delivers exceptional work on time and budget and reflects the highest business integrity in all his dealings.

Over the course of the first year of business the team designed and produced half a dozen new products including The Recycled Wallet, made of newspapers and plastic bags collected off the streets of India; The People Pendant, made of recycled acrylic scraps from a Chicago-area sign maker, and their Upcycled line of t-shirts which highlight the lasting value of apparel.

In the summer of 2010, Holstee launched a new area of their site, Curated x Holstee. Following the mantra “Curating with a Conscience” the Holstee team seeks some of the most beautiful and innovative sustainable designs and shares them with their community though their video reviews, newsletter and shop.

If you like this Holstee Manifesto poster, you can hang one in your space or give it as a gift in the form of a t-shirt or greeting cards by clicking here.

Nelson Mandela didn’t always look like a visionary. For 27 years, he simply looked like a prisoner, locked up for antiapartheid activism. What seemed like a long exercise in futility is now legend: after his release, he became his country’s president, and today is an icon of commitment and compassion. Fortunately, visionary thinkers aren’t always imprisoned, but they are often ridiculed, marginalized, or just plain dismissed for proposing big ideas that sound outlandish to others. To prove that dreams are possible, Utne Reader highlights a few of the lofty, laudable, and reachable goals of 25 visionaries.

For more, click here.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~ R Buckminster Fuller

Australia’s Your Healthy Planet.com is doing just that based on many of ‘Bucky’s’ philosophies and prediction of having everyone on-board planet Earth living at a very high standard of living and enjoying fully our beautiful planet.

What’s fascinating about Neil and his blog is that it became the number one blog on the internet and spawned two books and its all about noticing the many blessings we have even in the face of personal and world upsets. A worthwhile reminder for all of us.