The Seattle Artist's Way Center

Your Right to Write - Fall Quarter 2023 - Online via ZOOM 

We start with the desire: “I want to write.” Then any number of blocks can pop up to make the task of writing seem like a herculean one to accomplish. Led by Creativity Instructor, Kate Gavigan this 12 week writing class will take you through the chapters in creativity writer Julia Cameron’s book “The Right to Write.” In this book, Julia explores the “why” of why we write or are called to write. Using that as a foundation, we will take the next small steps from “why” we write to “let’s go ahead and write!”

Over the course of the 12 weeks, we will utilize several transformative Artist’s Way creativity tools (morning pages, artist’s dates) to help ground us in our creativity and in our writing practice. We will have FUN playing around with words and experimenting and exploring a wide variety of writing genres. Students will also engage with some gentle tasks to help identify and miniaturize your critic/censor, address past blocking artistic injuries and write in a low pressure, relaxed and encouraging atmosphere. To quote Julia Cameron, “I want to let everybody in. I want us all to write … we all have the right to write.”

We look forward to offering a class that makes room for us ALL to write!

Absolute beginners welcome as well as long time writers and everyone in between.
Maximum 10 students.

Students will also get to meet with the instructor for 30 minutes prior to the first class for a 1 on 1 chat as well as a closing 30 minute individual session.

Section V: September 17 - December 10
Sundays, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
$395 (12 weeks)
Instructor: Kate Gavigan

Note: No class November 26

To Register for this class: go to Register for Classes Page  

A $75 tuition nontransferable nonrefundable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance due a week before the first class. Please Note: It's not unusual for students to have to miss 1 or 2 classes over the course of the 12 weeks and Kate will write detailed notes so that you stay connected to the material and to your fellow students.

Kate Gavigan has been facilitating Artist’s Way Classes since 2009 and has a passion for helping students discover or rediscover their gifts and talents. Kate rediscovered her fondness for writing at about the same time she began offering Artist’s Way Classes. She has loved the power of words since the very first time a book was read to her (“I am a Bunny” by Richard Scarry) and her love for the power, the majesty, the wonder of words has grown exponentially since then. She has a particular calling for helping all students realize they have a unique voice that only they can share and is excited to offer this class that helps them do just that.

NEW CLASS FOR Seattle Artist's Way Alums - Monthly Drop-in ZOOM Artist's Way Class!
Ever since we started running classes in 2009, our Artist's Way students have been asking for a way to stay connected to our instructors and each other. While we do offer an Artist's Way Class exclusively for alums, we wanted to offer also a more flexible monthly one hour drop-in Artist's Way check-in class for alums. So HERE IT IS:
the last Thursday of each month for ONE hour online via ZOOM, Artist's Way Instructor Kate Gavigan will offer a drop-in check-in/class which will allow for students to check-in re: morning pages and artist's dates, ask some questions, do a creative exercise with Kate, do some creative goal planning/intentions for the coming month and finish up with a short meditation.

You can attend just 1 of the sessions, a few of them OR ALL of them. The registration page with the dates for the sessions will be updated on the website monthly so you can register for sessions monthly.

Section VI: the LAST THURSDAY of EACH MONTH for ONE hour 
6:00 - 7:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Thursday, June 29, 2023 (next session!)
$30 (each monthly session)
Instructor: Kate Gavigan
To register: go to our "Register for Classes" Page
Maximum Number of Students/alums for Drop in class only: 30 students maximum

Here are the 2023 Artist's Way Alumni Drop-in ZOOM class dates:
THURSDAYS:

January 26
February 23
March 30
April 27
May 18 (doing May's class a week early due to the holiday at the end of the month)
June 29 
July 27
August 31
September 28
October 26
November 30
December 28

Kate Gavigan is passionate about The Artist's Way having personally experienced the benefits of the materials. Kate worked in social services as a trainer for over 10 years when she was drawn to the tools outlined in The Artist's Way, which helped her uncover a passion for the arts and creativity in all forms. She credits her mid-life career change (now working at her dream jobs as an Artist's Way Instructor and Speaker, a Creativity Coach, a Home Organizer and Actor) to having gone through The Artist's Way.

We're excited to announce the return of our ALUMNI Artist's Way ZOOM (online) Class for students who have attended the 12 week Artist's Way Class through The Seattle Artist's Way Center!

Students participating in this Winter Quarter 2023 weekly online Zoom class will get the opportunity to go deeper with their creative practice and their understanding and use of The Artist's Way tools. The 12 week class will take students through the 12 chapters in The Artist's Way but with a specific focus on the key concepts. Students will also be guided to utilize the idea of baby steps to move forward on their specific goals and creative ideas (whatever those are and they could change week to week!). Students will also have an individual 1 on 1 Zoom 30 minute meeting with Kate prior to the first class to share about their creative process and to explore their goals and/or hopes for the class. Kate will also offer a closing one on one 30 minute Zoom chat with each student to review their experience and hopes for the future. To quote Julia at the end of Chapter 12: "Reread this book. Share it with a friend. Remember that the miracle is one artist sharing with another." Here's our opportunity to do just that!

Section IV: 

Sundays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Pacific Standard Time)

$395

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

Maximum number of students: 10

Note to be scheduled: Individual 1 on 1 - 30 minute sessions with students and Kate prior to first class and at week 11, prior to the last week 12.

To Register: go to Register for Classes. 

What creative moments from your childhood jump out at you? Maybe it was building a fort, learning a musical instrument or just having fun with play doh. Or perhaps you look back at your childhood and wish you’d been afforded with more chances to be creative. It’s not too late to delight in your creativity and those of your child(ren)! We are excited to support parents by sharing with them creativity tools that can help them enhance the creativity in their children and enhance the creativity in their OWN lives. Over the course of 12 weeks, Creativity Instructor Kate Gavigan will take parents through the 12 chapters of Julia Cameron’s latest book on creativity called “The Artist’s Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children” (specifically designed for parents of children newborn through age 12). Students will learn some gentle and powerful creativity and life enhancing tools and as a result will have the opportunity to more fully know themselves and their kids, discover or rediscover their creativity, have more fun and joy in their lives and get support from other parents throughout it all. We can’t wait to share this material with you to help you as you guide your children on a healthy creative path toward their future and yours!

Section V: Will return Fall 2023
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Pacific Standard time) Online via Zoom
$395 (12 weeks)
Instructor: Kate Gavigan
Students are responsible for purchasing a copy of Julia Cameron's book "The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children"

To Register for this class, go to: Register for Classes

Notes: To be scheduled: Individual 1 on 1 - 30 minute sessions with students and Kate prior to first class and at week 11, prior to the last week 12. A $75 nonrefundable/nontransferable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance of the class tuition due a week before the class starts. Please note: It's not unusual for students to have to miss a class or two over the 12 weeks. However, we will provide detailed notes if you have to miss a class.

Kate Gavigan is passionate about The Artist's Way having personally experienced the benefits of the materials. Kate worked in social services as a trainer for over 10 years when she was drawn to the tools outlined in The Artist's Way, which helped her uncover a passion for the arts and creativity in all forms. She credits her mid-life career change (now working at her dream jobs as an Artist's Way Instructor and Speaker, a Creativity Coach, a Home Organizer, Actor, Musician) to having gone through The Artist's Way. She's particularly delighted to be facilitating a class using Julia Cameron's latest creativity book "The Artist's Way for Parents" having seen the transformative power of sharing your creativity with your children and developing and pursuing your own creative passions.