It’s about ‘fanning-into-flame’ and realizing your full creative potential, through a unique fusion of professionally led training, experimentation, creative adventure, heart-felt expression and ‘play’; all presented and unleashed through a carefully-crafted, specifically-designed, supportive and engaging interactive-workshop event. This special, highly practical, one-day creative active re
treat, fuses selected creative-arts disciplines from one sphere of creative-arts-genre, with the integral depth and passion of another (or many others) blending and including: poetry, prose, music, visual image, drawing, art, music, mixed-media, text and lyrics... to offer a highly inspiring, bespoke and deeply evocative ‘hands-on’ experience! In addition to all of this, the EVOKE – Creative Active Retreat also unwraps and explores some of the essential components of creative Identity; the essence and heartbeat of the individual participant, the written/created project-piece or embryonic concept-idea; respectfully and professionally exploring both evident and latent talent and skill-set potential, which is then given focused encouragement to further reveal, grow and creatively establish itself. Creative Identity is so important because it is totally unique to each individual! Creative identity is all about the individual’s own God-designed uniqueness; identifying it, celebrating it, fanning-it-into-flame and calling it forth into an exciting and practical existence on a radical whole new level. WHAT DOES ‘ACTIVE RETREAT’ MEAN? Yes, it seems a bit of a contradiction, doesn’t it?
‘Active’ means to engage, advance, move forward.
‘Retreat’ means to withdraw, move-back, rest, pause (selāh). It’s all about intention - it’s the best of both! It is a place and time to step back from the crazy pressures of life, to withdraw from the battle, to rest and re-fuel. It is to be re-filled, inspired, passionately ‘spurred-on’ – to be re-energised, equipped, believed-in, mentored and released! It’s not ‘slippers, toast and cocoa’. It’s more ’armour, bread and wine’! We retreat so that we can listen and hear. We are active in obedience to the calling on our lives. We retreat (withdraw into solitude with God) so that we can hear and learn what that specific calling is .
