Week 1:
Embracing Mystery
Live Podcast
A Community Conversation Exploring Creativity and Spirituality through a Live Podcast, Food, and Table Talk.
Our reflections together after the recording help shape future podcast topics and exploration as a community.
Weeks 2 &Â 4:
Practices & Prompts
We gather as a community through Zoom to companion one another in the cultivation of our creative and spiritual lives/selves.
We do this through creative prompts & contemplative practices with space for deep listening and sharing of our own experiences and responses.
Week 3:
Mindful Art Share
We gather to cultivate compassionate, creative, connected lives through mindful sharing of art and spirituality.
Two opportunities: the Pasadena Art Share is in person, and the Asia Share meets through Zoom on the Friday before the third Sunday.
stay connected!
TABLE COLLECTIVE
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Signing up subscribes you to our email list. You may unsubscribe any time.
Each newsletter includes:
- Reflections and practices to help you cultivate a compassionate, creative, and connected life
- Monthly creativity prompts to inspire your next artistic work
- Featured art from others in the Table Collective community
- Updates about upcoming events
In addition, you get access to our free online community! Learn more here.
FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE!
Embracing Mystery:
Finding Ourselves in Compassionate, Creative Interconnection
LIVE RECORDING FIRST SUNDAYS OF THE MONTH
3PM @ FLINTRIDGE CENTER, SUITE 117
Listen, Subscribe, and add your Comments to the conversation on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Youtube.
Explore the depths of your creativity & spiritual life.
UPCOMING ART SHARE + OPEN MIC
JULY 18TH -Â ASIA ONLINE
9pm Bangladesh on Zoom.Â
Meetup link is in our online community.Â
JULY 20TH - PASADENA
3-5:30pm at the Flintridge Center, Suite 117.
Room entrance is on Banbury Alley.Â
Creative people, offering their creative “self” to others frequently hear things or read things like:
   “That is a beautiful painting”
   “I loved your song”
   “That was a powerful poem”
   “That was delicious”
Or, maybe even more commonly, nothing.Â
We put our work, our very “selves”, in front of others. But is anyone paying attention, seeing, hearing, tasting? Is anyone experiencing anything? And if so, what?
Here's how it works:
Â
Step 1: Receive Monthly Art Prompts
Each month you receive a new creative prompt. These will be connected to our monthly art share event themes as an opportunity to further connect. We share them in the monthly newsletter and in the Art Prompts section of the online community.Â
Step 2: GET INSPIRED!
Find fresh inspiration as you engage with the monthly prompt. Then create something new! It may be a new song, painting, poem, dance, food dish, or other project.Â
Step 3: Share your creativity
Next, share your creative work in the online community where everyone else is also responding to the same prompts. You can always share other work too!
Step 4: Reflect Compassionately
Take a moment to experience the creative work others are sharing. Reflect on what is happening in you.Â
Step 5: Connect in Community
Receive feedback and encourage others by sharing your reflections. Connect around the deeper meaning and themes your creative work is exploring.Â
Â
Do you want to:
Develop your creative self, with regular creative prompts to inspire your work
Go beyond likes, to get real interaction and feedback on how your work impacts other people.
Join in a global community of artists and contemplatives to deepen your compassionate connection with your truest self, with others, the world, and Source.
join now!
TABLE ONLINE COMMUNITY
+ MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Signing up will subscribe you to our email list. You may unsubscribe at any time.
Each newsletter includes:
- Reflections and practices to help you cultivate a compassionate, creative, and connected life
- Monthly creativity prompts to inspire your next artistic work
- Featured art from others in the Table Collective community
- Updates about upcoming events
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST!
Â
The Cow Behind
the Barn with
Kevin Caldwell:
An Artist’s Way of Seeing Life, Humanity, the Universe, and the Divine
Â
Listen and Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Youtube.
In this course we’re asking, what wisdom might some of the world’s religious heritages have for us to grow as creative, spiritual, and relational people?
The focus is on surfacing insights from each tradition that help you live a creative life and engage in your creative process in whatever walk of life you express that (not just “the arts” as we normally think of them), and in whatever ways you might choose to describe our interconnection with each other and with Source, God, Mystery, the universe, collective consciousness, etc.
So, why take this course?
To experience transformation and growth
Wisdom from the six religious heritages inspires transformation as we reflect on what makes us who we are, the raw material of life:Â families of origin, inner doubts, self critics, ways of relating to our creative work, and our hopes and aspirations.
To experience fresh springs of creativity
As we draw insights from religious wisdom and reflect on our own lives, we experience new inspiration for our creative work. Each new piece we create is in turn a way to further process, capture, and reflect on our inner lives, relationships, and our ways of relating to and sharing our creative work in community. All of this furthers our healing and transformation.
Our Starting Assumption:
Human beings are essentially Creative, Spiritual, and RelationalÂ
Creativity and Spirituality come from the same place in our experience of being human. They both bring us into awareness of our own deepest selves, connect us to intuition and consciousness beyond our egos. And they are also deeply Relational because they are experienced most meaningfully in community.
We are creative
It is in our very nature to express who we are and our experiences
We are spiritual
Human beings experience more than ourselves. We are connected to the source of inspiration, however we might conceive of that “More”— Mystery, the universe, God, Spirit, collective consciousness, etc.
We are relational
We are deeply connected to the collective whole of our communities and world. What we create is completed in and with and by community; it is a meeting ground for people of diverse backgrounds, and it connects us with one another, fostering shared experiences and empathy.
Keeping Table Collective
Accessible and Sustainable
We want Table Collective to be accessible to as many people as possible, no matter their income, and to be sustainable for as long as possible (which of course, also means it will continue to be accessible!)Â
Spiritual communities from every religious heritage depend on some form of charitable giving to be able to offer their teachings, gatherings, and resources to the public. As a non-profit interspiritual and creative community, we also depend primarily upon gifts and grants as a source of income.
Give