OR contact Wendy Fedan directly:  wfedan@earthlink.net

Claudia Taller is the creator of the Word Lover’s retreats and a facilitator for Sharing Our Gifts retreats. Igniting Possibilities Events is a conduit for workshops and retreats.  She is a travel and events writer for Cool Cleveland, editor of NewsCAPsule, president of Skyline Writers, and second vice president of the Cleveland Society of Professional Journalists. Claudia’s writing credits include Northern Ohio Live, The Legal Description, The Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, West Shore Magazine, West Shore Live Well, Long Weekends, Minor Trips, Agape, and Wordcrafter’s Muse.  She also has several full-length books in the works.  She attained a B.A. in English Literature and Writing from Kent State University and interned with the Kent State University Press. In her career as a corporate paralegal, she has been the corporate columnist for Legal Assistant Today and Paralegal Today, taught at Notre Dame College of Ohio, and is a past president of the Cleveland Association of Paralegals.

Materials Fee, $10

Cindi & Stella

Cindi Saadi is a certified professional life coach living in Lewes, DE.  She is also a published writer, photographer and artist.  As a certified ARTbundance™ Coach, Cindi weaves joyful creativity & art into her coaching as she helps clients to illuminate insights, develop self-compassion, pursue goals & dreams and navigate life’s mountains and valleys.  As a bold advocate of the power of self-compassion, Cindi’s coaching is warmly infused with helping others to love & be kind to themselves.  She specializes in helping those who are “starting over,” to connect with their inner creative souls and consciously rediscover themselves as they pursue “what’s next.”  Cindi provides individual coaching, group workshops, presentations for professional groups & organizations, and she creates art & inspirational products.  Her background includes a Master of Arts degree in criminal justice and 11 years of federal investigative and case management experience that deepened her interest in helping others to achieve their greatest potential.  Cindi is passionate about animals (especially dogs!) and the Earth and thus, in her personal and professional life she strives to promote an increased awareness of and greater compassion for animals and the environment.  You can find her at the beach or at www.cindisaadi.com.!

Polly will take you through a series of group exercises that will shed that heavy burden (AKA: “chip”) off of your shoulders, and assist you in converting those heavy burdens into positive energy! You will use those new positive energies to venture outdoors with a notepad & pencil and intuitively collect botanicals and look for angels hiding among you in the patterns of nature…. maybe the shape of a cloud looks like an angel, or you see one in the color pattern of a rock, or in the matrix of lines on the trunk of a tree.

Your collections and the angel you find on your hike will be used to create your very own Earth Angel! Your Earth Angels will be mandala’s made from organic materials, which will then serve a healing tool for you. The next time life weighs you down and the pile of “chips” on your shoulders get too heavy to handle… you’ll know just what to do and you’ll have your Earth Angel to lead you in  the right direction!

At the latter end of the workshop you may discover a “Divine Intuition” you never knew you had! The angels have a magical way of  making sure our choices always serve our needs.

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This workshop is a “Part Two”/graduation of the “Signs and Wonders” workshop. In “Signs & Wonders” we learned to recognize God’s signs and messages. In this workshop we will learn how to interpret these messages in a unique and creative way using writing and/or artistic exercises.

Of course, you don’t need to have taken the Signs & Wonders workshop to get something out of this.

This workshop focuses on details you may have collected in your mind over the years or recent months. You will zero-in on these details – these signs and messages from God you have pondered about – and you will use this “Connecting the Signs” technique to explore them privately, and IN-DEPTH. When you collect the signs, you can begin to CONNECT the signs. We will pay special attention to repeated messages/signs you may be receiving, and collect the signs you may not realize could be related to each other. In the end, our goal will be to attempt understanding and interpreting God’s collective and repeated messages to us.

BRING TO CLASS: Your favorite writing materials.

Wendy Fedan is a graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Creative Writing. She has also earned her Advanced Communicator award from Toastmasters International (2008), earned mentor certification by Cleveland’s Community Care Network (2009), and has recently been certified from Artella as an ARTbundance™ Coach, trained by Artella founder, Marney Madridakis. Wendy has been teaching her “Signs and Wonders” workshop for almost a year now, and is extremely excited about following this new avenue in her life which she calls “Creative Ministry.”