Inward & Artward

Inward & Artward We are all creative, and we are all made of stories.

Would you like more Inward & Artward in your life? Sign up for our free twice-monthly newsletter!  It's full of creative...
09/04/2026

Would you like more Inward & Artward in your life? Sign up for our free twice-monthly newsletter! It's full of creative goodness (and a little weirdness), plus mythology, upcoming workshop info, reading lists, creativity prompts, and more!

🔗 https://www.inwardandartward.com/

Meet I&A certified Creative Facilitator Cat Wityk!Cat's goal as a creative facilitator is to embolden others to reclaim ...
09/02/2026

Meet I&A certified Creative Facilitator Cat Wityk!

Cat's goal as a creative facilitator is to embolden others to reclaim their authentic voice, sharpening its iconoclastic edges in resistance to patriarchal systems designed to homogenize us out of our individual power.

Learn more: https://storyparloravl.com/cat-wityk

It feels that we're on a losing streak — losing so many of our elder creative inspirations and guides. But fortunately t...
09/01/2026

It feels that we're on a losing streak — losing so many of our elder creative inspirations and guides. But fortunately they leave behind their work. Their words and songs and ideas continue to serve as wayfinders for we who are still on our own creative paths.

As the poet Wendell Barry wrote, "when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."

Hail the traveler! And hail all who journey inward and artward today and every day!

Choose your fall workshop! 🦋Creative Alchemy: An Enneagram & Writing Lab offered by Ali McGhee is a monthly membership t...
08/31/2026

Choose your fall workshop!

🦋Creative Alchemy: An Enneagram & Writing Lab offered by Ali McGhee is a monthly membership that explores the Head Triad in September.

🖊The Write Routine monthly membership with returns in September.

📕Refining Your Story: How to Elaborate and Refine Narrative is a five-week workshop, led by Bruce Spang, that looks at at different ways to focus your story narrative.

🪶Poetry Primer: The Curious Practice of Paying Attention is perfect for those who are just toe-ing in to poetry, or are looking to reset and refresh their approach. Facilitated by Tikva Kingrea.

🌳Escape to the Page: A Creative Writing Adventure, facilitated by Sondra Hall will focus is on sparking creativity using a variety of generative writing activities.

🌍The Earth Gift Ritual, led by A Rae Stevenson, integrates sensory grounding, symbolic imagination, creative exploration, reverence, somatic awareness, relational witnessing and meaningful ritual. �

🔎Logistics Lab: Planning & Producing Creative Workshops, with Alli Marshall, offers practical skill-based learning such as finding community event space, pitching your creative offering, imposter syndrome and self-promotion.

🤣In Stand-up 101, Becca Steinhoff combines nearly 2 decades of stand up experience with gems from “The Artists’ Way” and “Comedy Joke Writing.”

🎶Songwriting from Scratch, led by Hannah Kaminer, is a chance to develop lyric and melody ideas, tap into beginner's mind, and deal with the inner critic.

💗Writing from the Body, facilitated by Tori Allenspach, invites you to deepen your connection with your body and its instincts , and awaken the story alive within you!

🔗Learn more and sign up today! https://storyparloravl.com/classes

Join us for Fall Prelude this weekend at Story Parlor. Saturday and Sunday are packed with mini-workshops to give you a ...
08/28/2026

Join us for Fall Prelude this weekend at Story Parlor.

Saturday and Sunday are packed with mini-workshops to give you a taste of everything coming this fall via our Inward & Artward school with in-person and online classes for creatives of every kind.

Meet Inward & Artward facilitators Hannah Kaminer, Tikva Kingrea, Faye D'Avanza, A Rae Stevenson, and Tori Allenspach!

Your $45 weekend pass gives you $25 toward any workshop if you sign up at Prelude.
Treat your creative mind to a weekend of opening and exploration!

Link to register: https://storyparloravl.com/calendar/fall-prelude-2026

If you're feeling like there's been *too many losses* from the art world this week ... we're feeling it, too. But we are...
08/27/2026

If you're feeling like there's been *too many losses* from the art world this week ... we're feeling it, too.

But we are glad for a reminder of the brilliance of Yayoi Kusama, who chose to live and create on her own terms. Her story is one of, if not OVERCOMING mental health struggles, then finding a way to express her struggle and her unique perspective through her visionary work.

What problems will you confront with the ax of art?

Meet I&A certified Creative Facilitator Ashley Rae !A Rae's goal as a creative facilitator is to catalyze and nurture de...
08/26/2026

Meet I&A certified Creative Facilitator Ashley Rae !

A Rae's goal as a creative facilitator is to catalyze and nurture deeper connection and transformation through embodied presence & creative expression, awakening enhanced self-awareness of individuals for the ultimate benefit of our collective evolution.

A Rae will be leading a one-day workshop this fall: The Earth Gift Ritual on Saturday, September 26, 11am-3pm —in person at Story Parlor .

Learn more: https://storyparloravl.com/classesandworkshops/earth-gift-ritual-sep2026

How could we look to anyone other than Dolly Parton today for creative inspiration!??!! Bravo on a life well lived, Quee...
08/25/2026

How could we look to anyone other than Dolly Parton today for creative inspiration!??!! Bravo on a life well lived, Queen. And thank you for all the permission in this quote (perhaps another iteration of Mary Oliver's "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?").

👉 Only 2 spaces remain! Starting next week!🌱Story Parlor and Inward & Artward present: an intensive nine-month program o...
08/24/2026

👉 Only 2 spaces remain! Starting next week!

🌱Story Parlor and Inward & Artward present: an intensive nine-month program on how to create and facilitate unique offerings rooted in the intersection of the creative process, personal stories, and the human condition.

Tailored for folks interested in starting a new and fulfilling career path, or simply wanting to deepen and/or refresh their approach to holistic creative facilitation.

Join us for the nine-month Fall-Spring Immersion (September 5, 2026-April 4, 2027).

🔗 Link to register: https://storyparloravl.com/classesandworkshops/facilitator-training-monthly-immersion-2026-27

Sign up now for the September installment of Creative Alchemy: An Enneagram & Writing Workshop. 🦋 Led by Ali McGhee, Dir...
08/20/2026

Sign up now for the September installment of Creative Alchemy: An Enneagram & Writing Workshop.

🦋 Led by Ali McGhee, Director of the The Enneagram School of Awakening, these sessions will will include a teaching portion, lively discussion time, and prompts and activities to get you exploring how the Enneagram can feed your creativity. Each week will be themed.

👉 Held Wednesdays in September, 11am-1pm via Zoom.

🔗 Register: https://www.inwardandartward.com/classes/enneagram-writing-lab-aug-2026

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