Joy Facilitator's Discover the Joy of 'Letting It Rip'

There's a wonderful wave of energy these days on our Joy Facilitator's yahoo group. (That's where people who've taken my Joy Facilitator's Training can confer, offer support, ideas, etceteras about the process of setting up their own creativity workshop.)

Recently, a Facilitator wrote about how she 'let it rip' while leading her first workshop - and more specifically, about facing the great white canvas of the unknown and both how liberating and how scary that is.

It's my humble opinion that nothing truly great can happen without a starting point of blankness or unknown. It's as if we have to set the creative ergometer back to zero and just start with literally nothing … nada … zip. No preconceptions of what our ultimate creation will be, nor any idea of where it will lead us or even if it will fulfill our dreams and hopes.

If we can actually let go enough to do that, we're left with fertile stuff - sort of like an old weed bed that's entirely dug up and cleaned out, and fertilized with just enough manure, compost and peat moss to create an entirely new garden of possibilities.

Yet, we're afraid to know nothing and let go. We think we'll lose something valuable. In fact, all we're losing is our preconceptions of how our projects will turn out, and even how we'll be perceived.

I invite you back to that fertile place of blankness. Dig in! The growing's great.

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