New: Year, Website, Non-profit and Workshops!

Happy New Year Friends!

New year, new beginnings, new non-profit, new workshops and a new website!

My New Non-Profit: The Blue Dome Creative and Healing Arts Haven

I applied for 501c3 non-profit status for the Blue Dome Creative and Healing Arts Haven, and should know by February 15th. Once it’s official, I will begin fundraising to build a Healing Center where we will host annual healing conferences / conferences on healing, and offer creative and healing arts retreats in a sustainable, off-grid facility. This all begins with the first step. 501c3 status. Do send good energy our way.

New Artful Transcendence Workshops

Join me for Artful Transcendence bookbinding and creative healing workshops at the Center for Spiritual Living Dallas.

Location: Center for Spiritual Living, International Place, 4801 Spring Valley, Suite 115, Dallas, Texas 75244 972.866.9988

1.  Tuesdays, January 22 – March 19, 7 pm-10 pm (Level One: Nine week series) $200 including supplies SIGN UP HERE
2. Saturdays, April 6 – June 1, 7 pm-10 pm (Nine week series) $200 including supplies
3. Tuesdays, July 23 – September 17, 7 pm-10 pm (Nine week series) $200 including supplies

New Website: shawndelfraser.com

I created the new website shawndelfraser.com website to share the news about Artful Transcendence workshops, The Blue Dome, and to discuss survivorship in a focused way. It is a site about healing for people who need to heal. Please note that I will be scaling back on think. Feel Grow! so there will be few to no new blog posts, and I will delete some of the pages because shawndelfraser.com contains more updated information.

If you subscribe to think. Feel. Grow!, you may opt to subscribe to shawndelfraser.com as well.

See you on shawndelfraser.com!

Cool Runnings!

Dear Thinking, Feeling Friends:

I know I have been away for a long while, and the world has changed greatly since my last blog. The shoreline and cultural and physical landscapes of my hometown New York has changed forever, we’ve re-elected a president, Big Tex ominously caught fire during the last days of the Texas State Fair, and I’ve started a new phase of my professional career to much ado, support, and fanfare (more in a future post).

So, I write today to check-in, to let you know that I have not disappeared, I’ve just simply been on a blogging sabbatical. I am in my chrysalis, preparing to emerge with rainbow wings that will carry me to and through the next stage of my professional and personal development. 

Even philosophers, writers, artists and innovators need time to rest and recharge. I will return after mercury retrograde ends on November 26, and will begin to share news of new developments with my coaching practice, workshops, and alternative fundraisers; I also plan to present a series of activity-based blog entries during the coming year. 

So, read and mull over your monthly astrology report from Susan Miller (for your sun and rising signs), and journal to track of your emotions, thoughts, and your heart’s desires. Stock-up on basic necessities (water, canned goods, fire-makers, warm and waterproof gear, make emergency plans, just in case your city has an unexpected shortfall of goods and services like my hometown New York has endured. Despite the challenges of post-weather events, recognize that Hurricane Sandy has helped usher in the beginning of our new American society; a society where  grassroots is dynamic, effective and responsive, the educated and ”unemployed” (but not idle) serve others (99%-ers organize the relief effort) to get real supplies in the hands of real people on the ground for the people, and where the technological creativity of teenagers provides information and access for those without gasoline. Every challenge holds a lesson, and New York is showing us that innovation in the face of adversity can create alternate pathways to providence and community.

At this time, I invite you to join me in virtual companionship, to take advantage of what mercury retrograde has to offer us individually an collectively. Now is the time to practice self-reflection, and clear our lives of detritus to make space for future opportunity. Tun inward and revel in your own chrysalis. Practice your art, craft or trade; examine the landscape of your life and ferret out things that no longer work for you (relationships, jobs, agreements, activities, habits), and release them, Simply step away from old agreements that no longer serve you; step away with appreciation for what you’ve learned from those situations or people, for they were your teachers, and turn toward your next lessons. There is no bad or good, only experience. It is only by letting go that you can receive future gifts, and these few weeks are the time cosmically given to us to clear our celestial cupboards for future goodies.

I bid you adieu for now, but will check in each week with any thoughts or observations, and will return in full force at the end of November.

In compassionate companionship,

Shawndel 

by Gabrielle Castaneda Pruitt