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Wednesday nights, 6-8 pm in Solana Beach

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Dr. Lisa Longworth loves to lead groups. She has led over 4000 groups that inspire healing, creativity & growth. Since 1986, her Cocoon to Butterfly™ program integrating psychology, creativity and spirituality has helped more than 15,000 individuals navigate life transitions with more clarity, passion and purpose. Her professional experience is rooted in over 30 years as an artist, counselor, university expressive arts director, art therapist and entrepreneur.A magna cum laude graduate in fine art from the University of California, San Diego, Lisa also holds a masters and doctorate in psychology.

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  1. Renew. Take a retreat – a year, a month, a weekend, a day or an hour. Connect with nature, take a road trip, dive into a book, play      with art materials. Just experience the fun and joy of it. Schedule renewal time now!

 2. Let go. Either use it or lose it. Less is more. Everything has its place. Simplify life by keeping your nest clean.

  3. Take care. Exercise regularly, eat well, get plenty of rest. When sensing stress, stop and breathe. If over weight, eat less and exercise!

  4. Meditate. Take time each day to meditate. 10 minutes morning and evening. Connect more with nature. Sit and simply watch. Be present with your surroundings using all senses. Release attachment to intense mental activity. Relax into the silence.

 5. Simplify. Do less. Don’t be seduced into activity. Focus on the completion of no more than 2 or 3 tasks each day and release the rest.

 6. Play. Build sandcastles. Play with children. Play board games with friends. Laugh, giggle, be silly – have fun!

  7. Give thanks. Make a daily ritual of expressing gratitude (before meals, when arriving and leaving work, at bedtime.) Tell someone you appreciate them. Give thanks everyday. Develop an attitude of gratitude.

To receive your gift of 3 full color 6x 9 postcards with Dr. Lisa’s fine art pictured here, e-mail your mailing address to dr@lisalongworth.com & you will receive 3 free color postcards at no cost. Your mailing address will remain 100% private.

“It took five years to find a language to express it,” Longworth said. That language was art. Art was not new to Longworth. She had designed jewelry since she was in junior high school and ran a successful business selling it.

But when she returned to study art, she had a different goal. “I was lacking that deeper fire within, but then I found that the symbols in art were like a language and I was on fire,” Longworth said. “Art is a language that can help people stay connected with who they are.”

Longworth wanted to pass along what she learned and help others tap into their creativity. After graduating with a degree in fine art from UCSD, she earned a masters and doctorate in psychology and started her career in counseling.

Now 25 years later, Longworth has a private practice in Solana Beach, and has counseled thousands of patients using a program she calls, “Cocoon to Butterfly” that combines psychology, creativity and spirituality.

Longworth will provide a taste of the program at a workshop June 12 at Earthsong Bookstore in Del Mar. The free two-hour mini-workshop, “Reclaiming Creativity in Midlife,” will focus on why it’s important to tap into one’s creativity when going through midlife challenges.

“Midlife is a juicy time-a ripe time,” Longworth said. “Just because our bodies might not be the same as in our 20s, doesn’t mean we are going downhill-this is a time we can stop and pursue a deeper spirituality.” Longworth compares it with getting lost and then figuring out a new way to go. “We sometimes get lost in midlife and ask, “Where am I going?”

Longworth’s cocoon-to-butterfly analogy comes from the idea that one has to shed old ways of looking at things to get a fresh perspective on where one is going. “Sometimes we have to shed the way we’ve done things before and shed things we’ve become attached to,” Longworth said. “We are continually moving from cocoon to butterfly-it’s like an awakening,” Longworth said.

Her goal is to guide people in the process. Longworth tells people to trust their intuition and let that guide them, which is one of the ideas she carries from her conversations with Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine and founded the Salk Institute in LaJolla. Starting in the mid-1980s for five years, Longworth mentored with Salk and talked almost daily by phone with him about creativity and intuition.

“One of the things I’m most passionate about that I’ve taken away from our conversations is the power of creativity in humanity’s survival,” Longworth said.

During the workshop, Longworth will offer exercises so participants can tap into their own creativity and intuition as they interact with some of her small sculptures and Floating Paintings, which combine silk, acrylic and mixed media.

“This will be a way for us to clean our lens of perception and open ourselves to creativity,” Longworth said.

“Listening Talking Sticks” by Lisa Longworth will be incorporated in the talk June 12th

Come and be inspired to rekindle creativity, passion and connection to your creative process to help navigate life changes. In addition to learning about why creativity is essential for authentic midlife change, you will tap into the wellspring of your intuition through fun experiential exercises that include interacting with Lisa’s fine art paintings and her small hand-held sculptures. This free mini-workshop is for professionals or anyone ready to reclaim their passion, purpose and vision to reinvent their lives.
Saturday, June 12th, 1 to 3 pm, Earth Song Bookstore in Del Mar

For over two decades, Dr. Lisa Longworth’s Cocoon to Butterfly-creative midlife change® program-integrating psychology, creativity and spirituality-has helped more than 15,000 individuals transform their lives. In addition Lisa has been a fine artist since 1975, traveling around the world with her Floating Paintings that will be incorporated in the workshop.

These 6 Floating Paintings were a part of the Carlsbad Village Art Walk in May 2009.  Many artists participated in the community event.   My paintings were hung in an unoccupied retail space next to Coyote Bar and Grill.   On the last day the work was hanging, I received a phone call from a cool Polynesian gentleman who had fallen in love with the goddess paintings and wanted one.  He looked over my website gallery and ended up purchasing one goddess painting for his collection in his downtown condo.  Then he decided to also purchase a wild energy painting from the “Bliss” series that I originally created for a conference in India back in 2008.

Over 50 pieces of my art work was shown here in Encinitas, California for the month of March.  My career intentions to connect, inspire and transform in this case space (in my counseling practice it is people) was I believe accomplished.  I felt great about the art show.  I sold paintings and made new friends.  Inspiring me to keep creating and sharing my work.