Calendar
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Past Programs
January 25 You can enjoy a daily creative practice! All you need are the tools and community support provided by this monthlong challenge, offered in collaboration with San Francisco Zen Center. More about Liberate Your Creativity: 30-Day Art & Meditation Challenge.
September 28 Discover the three essential principles that can dissolve your blocks against making art, plumb the depths of your creative making as a spiritual practice, and ignite the joy of your free expression. More about The 3 Keys to Total Creative Freedom.
August 8 Discover the three most important elements in finding and cultivating your strongest authentic artistic voice. These key pieces can turn on your confidence, freedom, and truly let your unique experience of life shine. More about The 3 Keys to Your Strong Creative Voice.
July 16 Discover the three secrets to living the consistently creative life, without getting up at 5am. Most time management systems are unsustainable, don’t take into account the creative mind, and are fundamentally flawed in that they don’t respond to our dynamic lives. As creative, we need something different, something deeper. More about Making Time for Making Art.
May 22 Discover the three essential principles that can dissolve your blocks against making art, plumb the depths of your creative making as a spiritual practice, and ignite the joy of your free expression. More about The 3 Keys to Total Creative Freedom.
Feb 3-May 14 Create or replenish an unshakeable daily art practice, build your creative confidence, and connect with a like-spirited artmonk sangha. Join Art Monastery Abbess Suiko for this 100 Day online program. More about 100 Day Artmonk Challenge
January 27 Why is it so hard to maintain a daily creative practice? Join Art Monastery Abbess Suiko for this free, one-hour workshop that will lead you step-by-step in honing a daily goal that is both inspiring and sustainable. View a recording of the workshop on YouTube.
Nov 29-Dec 3 Connect with the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine within and around you through embodied movement, meditation, and drawing. Join Art Monastery Abbess Suiko, Green Gulch Farm Abiding Abbess Fu Schroeder and acupuncturist & herbalist Jiling Lin for a 4-night retreat. More about Elemental Creativity
Dec 10 Access a deeper creativity and sense of freedom with movement, meditation, and drawing. Join Art Monastery Abbess Suiko for a 3-hour workshop in Berkeley, CA. More about Awakening Creativity
Dec 15 Experience the large inky abstractions of Art Monastery Founder & Abbess Suiko McCall in the Artist Reception of her solo show at San Francisco Zen Center. More about Sky of the Present Moment.
Sep 23-Jan 1 Create or replenish an unshakeable daily art practice, build your creative confidence, and connect with a like-spirited artmonk sangha. Join Art Monastery Abbess Suiko for this 100 Day online program. More about 100 Day Artmonk Challenge
June 4, 6, or 7 Learn practical empowerment techniques you can put into practice right away. Incorporate them into your own life and use them to facilitate the empowerment of your students, clients, or patients. Also, attend the workshop live to receive access to a beautiful 72-page workbook for free! This workshop is offered three times. There will be no recording. More about Empower Hour
Apr 1-22 Practice meditation. Practice artmaking. Practice being together. Weekly on Saturdays in April with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall in collaboration with San Francisco Zen Center. More about Art & Zazen
Feb 26 Bridge your creative and spiritual practices through meditation, movement, and mark-making at this 3-hour IN PERSON workshop at the Berkeley Alembic. More about Awakening Creativity: Artmonk Practice
Jan 17-Feb 7 Rejuvenate your meditation practice or start a new one. Art Monastery Abbess leads this four-part series for deeply meaningful Mindfulness Meditation. More about Meditation: Back to Basics
Jan 7 Start the year with intention, with beauty, and with your hand touching the earth. Join Abbess Suiko for an earth art ritual the moves the soul. More about New Year Earth Altars Workshop
Sep 7-28 Bridge your contemplative and creative practices by studying meditation techniques and then applying them directly to drawing. More about Meditation & Drawing
August 18-21, 2022 Explore the connection between art & Zen with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall and Artmonk Poet-Activist Qayyum Johnson in this in-person retreat at the Shrine of St Theres, Juneau, Alaska. More about HeartMind: Zen & Art Alaska
July 10, 2022 Explore the connection between art & Zen with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall and Artmonk Poet-Activist Qayyum Johnson in this online workshop. More about HeartMind: Zen & Art online
Saturdays, February 19 – March 26, 2022 Learn or return to mindfulness and how to apply it to your creativity. More about Mindfulness for Creative Types
Saturdays, January 8-29, 2022 Practice meditation. Practice artmaking. Practice being together. Weekly on Saturdays with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall in collaboration with San Francisco Zen Center. More about Art & Zazen
Tuesdays, January 4 – February 1, 2022 Learn or return to mindfulness and (re)establish your practice. More about Foundations of Mindfulness
October 8-10, 2021 Explore the connection between art & Zen with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall and Artmonk Poet-Activist Qayyum Johnson in this online weekend retreat. More about HeartMind: Zen & Art
Saturdays in May 2021 Practice meditation. Practice artmaking. Practice being together. Weekly on Saturdays with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall in collaboration with San Francisco Zen Center. More about Art & Zazen
January 29-31, 2021 Explore the connection between art & Zen with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall and San Francisco Zen Center Abbess Fu Schroeder in this online weekend retreat. More about HeartMind: Zen & Art
October 20 Hosting the Muse — A 2-hour online workshop with Founder & Abbess Suiko McCall as part of the free conference Deep Flow. More about the Deep Flow and Hosting the Muse.
September 25-27 Artmonk Retreat: Art to Fuel the Revolution — It is time to meet what is happening, acknowledge the pain and channel it into art. Be part of an outpouring of beauty. More about the Artmonk Retreat
August 28-30 Explore the connection between art & Zen with Art Monastery Abbess Suiko McCall and San Francisco Zen Center Abbess Fu Schroeder in this online weekend retreat. More about HeartMind: Art & Zen
Enliven your body with 3-hour Catalyst Training in the morning, the rest of your day is energized for your creative practice, optional shares in the evening. More about The Embodied Artist
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Come and see Co-Founder Betsy’s latest paintings & drawings in San Francisco
Opening Reception — January 4 — Facebook event.
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Start the year off right with fun and fulfilling movement classes
$60 for the series
January 3 – February 3, various locations in Vermont
More about Contemporary Dance and Catalyst Training, registration info and Facebook events
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Connect with the earth and learn a revolutionary form of drawing
FREE
Registration Deadline — January 1, 2019 — Register here.
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Immersive exhibition and workshop in London, UK
FREE
A collaboration amongst the Art Monastery, Royal College of Art, and Goldsmiths, University of London
Explore the connection between art & Zen with Art Monastery Abbess Betsy McCall and Abiding Abbess of Zen Center Fu Shroeder at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California
August 12-16
$300-360
More about HeartMind: Art & Zen