The Sophia Institute is proud to bring you a very special event with
Phil Cousineau
Take advantage of Early Bird Rates until February 7.
Join us in person OR virtually. If you can’t make it live, don’t worry–we’ll send you a recording of the event to enjoy at your convenience.
CEUs are available by filling out this form.
FRIDAY EVENING 6:00 – 8:00 PM
STOKING THE CREATIVE FIRES: 9 Ways to Rekindle Your Passion and Imagination
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” – Charles Baudelaire
Wherever you find yourself, this weekend workshop can help move you to the next stage and bring your work to fruition. Consider the marvel: a twenty-one-hundred-year-old Greek sculpture that has long been regarded as one of the greatest works in the history of art, the symbol of beauty, love, desire, and happiness, but also the creative act itself.
On Friday evening we will explore the search for meaning through creative acts, and what it means to simply make things that the world has never seen before. Through discussion, music, and film clips we will show the nine stages of the creative journey in ways designed to help you become unstuck, and able to move forward toward your own sublime self-expression, but also to experience creativity as a means of further experiencing beauty in everyday life.
SATURDAY 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
STOKING THE CREATIVE FIRES: The Workshop: Nine Practices and Exercises to Unlock Your Creativity
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. —Auguste Rodin
This much I know. The creative journey is a search for the deeply real. It is a fiery attempt to make real some idea, some vision that is uncomfortably unreal until it’s created.
The search for inspiration, like the Oregon poet William Stafford’s mythic thread that runs through our lives is neverending. The thread is the force that makes you real—if you don’t let go of it. Your work will never be real—realized—until you are.
MEET PHIL COUSINEAU
Your guide for the workshop has been a writing consultant since the early 1980s, when he taught at the American Film Institute, and later served as an advisor on myth in the movies for Warner Brothers, Twentieth-Century Fox, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and others. Since then, he has worked with thousands of students in book writing, film scripts, stage plays, and even song lyrics.
He is also the author of more than 25 books—including The Art of Pilgrimage, The Hero’s Journey, and Stoking the Creative Fires—and the creator of acclaimed films and PBS series such as Global Spirit and The Hero’s Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell, bringing timeless wisdom to millions through story, myth, and media.
What distinguishes his teaching style is his emphasis on making art not just to express ourselves, but to make our lives more meaningful and conscious.
To paraphrase the great James Baldwin: we think we are alone in our life struggles… and then we read, listen to music, watch a movie, or see a play.
Eventually, we discover that the deep satisfaction of stoking our creative fires is that, in doing so, we make beautiful order out of often painful chaos—and then share it with others. Through our art, we build and sustain community, and we feed the soul.
Hourly Schedule
Friday
- 6PM - 8PM
- Friday Evening
- Eastern Stanbdard Time
Saturday
- 10AM - 4:30PM
- Saturday Day
- Eastern Standard Time
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Tuition
Full $295
Early Bird $250 – Until Feb 7
Virtual $235
Tuition
Price Price price
Location
- (in-person in Charleston SC and live via Zoom)
Other Locations
- 150 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401, United States