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Intuitive Drawing

2 July 2016 to 09 July 2016

The Chisholme Institute

 

This course is new for Chisholme, but has been given very successfully for many years in Holland by Elly Deutschman who will now lead it here. It is an opportunity to learn to see and understand knowledge through images rather than through words.

The course will combine practising drawing and painting under Elly’s guidance. There will be time for meditation, short periods of work in house or garden and opportunities for study and conversation.

The drawing and painting periods will be around 90 minutes long. Each session will begin by coming together as a group with a short invocation for help and guidance.  Then we will start drawing (or painting) in silence, with some music (CD) in the background.

What is important is listening, listening with an inner ear. You can ask and await answers to questions such as: What material do I want to use? What colour? What ‘form’? What is it in me that wants or even loves to be expressed? 

This does not need to have anything to do with making a beautiful drawing (or painting). It is an image language, and therefore a different language. The love of what it is that wants to be expressed in you might need time and practice to become apparent. The understanding of what is drawn requires interpretation and this needs to be learned.

The invitation is to draw from the heart, not from the mind. In practising to draw, you will experience that the mind always wants to interfere.  It is important to distinguish what the heart is trying to say from what the mind is trying to determine. Once this is learned, you will be able to apply this skill in everyday life.

After about 90 minutes everyone will be asked to show their drawing to the group, one after the other, and to talk about the experience of drawing. It is important that every member of the group says what he or she 'sees'  or 'feels' in looking at the drawing of someone else, because in this course togetherness is all important.

To repeat: this image-language is a language we are not familiar with and coming to an understanding of it will be only possible with His help; this needs practice and requires patience.

In practising this we have to put aside what we have learned and understood. The knowledge we share is simply knowledge from experience.

When talking about the drawings there will be references to wisdom texts, which can be studied together and discussed later during the afternoon period (after meditation, lunch and work).

The course is fully residential. However, if anyone living locally would like to attend on a daily basis, then please write to the secretary to apply. If there is space left, then you will be very welcome. For cost see below.

Location:
The location is Chisholme House, set on a beautiful estate in the moors of the Scottish Borders, an hour from Edinburgh, Newcastle and Carlisle. The site has no mobile phone reception and limited internet access.

Cost:

Single room £375
Shared room £295
This includes accommodation, meals and all materials. A non-refundable deposit of £60 should be paid when booking. 

£150 for non-residential attendence, to include meals, tea, coffee and all materials.

Note on course fees: There are no standard concessions offered.  However, we try to ensure the course is accessible to those on low incomes. So if you would find the cost prohibitive please write to secretary@chisholme.org to enquire about reduced course fees or bursary possibilities.

For details of accommodation and student facilities, see here...

Meals: 
The Chisholme kitchen is set up to provide food in keeping with the spiritual and material aims of its education, including menus specifically designed for intensive retreat situations. Special diets can only be catered for where there is a medical reason. 

Booking: 
Click on the orange 'Book your place' box at the top of this page, or write to secretary@chisholme.org, or ring the secretary on 01450 880215

 

 Book your place 

 

This course is new for Chisholme, but has been given very successfully for many years in Holland by Elly Deutschman who will now lead it here. It is an opportunity to learn to see and understand knowledge through images rather than through words.

The course will combine practising drawing and painting under Elly’s guidance. There will be time for meditation, short periods of work in house or garden and opportunities for study and conversation.

The drawing and painting periods will be around 90 minutes long. Each session will begin by coming together as a group with a short invocation for help and guidance.  Then we will start drawing (or painting) in silence, with some music (CD) in the background.

What is important is listening, listening with an inner ear. You can ask and await answers to questions such as: What material do I want to use? What colour? What ‘form’? What is it in me that wants or even loves to be expressed? 

This does not need to have anything to do with making a beautiful drawing (or painting). It is an image language, and therefore a different language. The love of what it is that wants to be expressed in you might need time and practice to become apparent. The understanding of what is drawn requires interpretation and this needs to be learned.

The invitation is to draw from the heart, not from the mind. In practising to draw, you will experience that the mind always wants to interfere.  It is important to distinguish what the heart is trying to say from what the mind is trying to determine. Once this is learned, you will be able to apply this skill in everyday life.

After about 90 minutes everyone will be asked to show their drawing to the group, one after the other, and to talk about the experience of drawing. It is important that every member of the group says what he or she 'sees'  or 'feels' in looking at the drawing of someone else, because in this course togetherness is all important.

To repeat: this image-language is a language we are not familiar with and coming to an understanding of it will be only possible with His help; this needs practice and requires patience.

In practising this we have to put aside what we have learned and understood. The knowledge we share is simply knowledge from experience.

When talking about the drawings there will be references to wisdom texts, which can be studied together and discussed later during the afternoon period (after meditation, lunch and work).

The course is fully residential. However, if anyone living locally would like to attend on a daily basis, then please write to the secretary to apply. If there is space left, then you will be very welcome. For cost see below.

Location:
The location is Chisholme House, set on a beautiful estate in the moors of the Scottish Borders, an hour from Edinburgh, Newcastle and Carlisle. The site has no mobile phone reception and limited internet access.

Cost:

Single room £375
Shared room £295
This includes accommodation, meals and all materials. A non-refundable deposit of £60 should be paid when booking. 

£150 for non-residential attendence, to include meals, tea, coffee and all materials.

Note on course fees: There are no standard concessions offered.  However, we try to ensure the course is accessible to those on low incomes. So if you would find the cost prohibitive please write to secretary@chisholme.org to enquire about reduced course fees or bursary possibilities.

For details of accommodation and student facilities, see here...

Meals: 
The Chisholme kitchen is set up to provide food in keeping with the spiritual and material aims of its education, including menus specifically designed for intensive retreat situations. Special diets can only be catered for where there is a medical reason. 

Booking: 
Click on the orange 'Book your place' box at the top of this page, or write to secretary@chisholme.org, or ring the secretary on 01450 880215

 

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