HOW TO BE A GOOD STUDENT
Suzanne Jacquot
I get excited once I have chosen a workshop to take. Usually I am taking a workshop as a personal retreat, a gift to myself, where I refresh and renew myself creatively and inspirationally.
To that end, I make sure that I take time to visualize myself expanding joyfully and creatively. I plan the trip and gather all the tools and supplies I will need. I do all of this with great lead time, so I can arrive fresh and feeling preesent.
I get excited to meet the instructor and to be open to whatever transpires. I like letting the workshop unfold with no expectations other than curiosity, good energy, eagerness, and feeling like a sponge ready to absorb it all.
By giving myself fully to the experience I feel like I am a vessel that is ready to be filled up, hold all the lessons, and even get ready to trade the old vessel for a new one. It is always going into the unknown. I love meeting new like-minded people who are just as excited and eager to learn and share as I am. But, I also keep my distance so that I can fully immerse myself into my own process of exploration feeling attuned to my own body rhythm and intuition where ever it may lead me. I suspend any kind of judgment and open only to what is it that I like and where does it lead me, a form of discernment which is different from analytical thinking.
In the end, I relish feeling supported in a safe and nurturing environment where I can let go and play in that infinite field of creativity with my senses wide open, following my heart and where my intuition and its expression get wild! My feelings and discernment are the real skills that I am cultivating in a workshop.
Of course, I show up on time, work hard, am cooperative, courteous and self-sufficient, part of the experience of group oneness.
How are you a good student?
We hope you look at our list of abstract art workshops and find one that is right for you!
Suzanne and Grant
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain
an artist when we grow up.”