A Wildfire Community Collaboration Workshop
Planting Seeds: A Fun Art & Writing Exercise for Entering 2025 with Clarity
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with April and Stephanie with a free cozy art & writing inspired hands-on workshop! Have you ever wanted to enter the new year with intention and manifestation? This workshop is the perfect place to get your wheels turning and your hands dirty (so to speak) with creating a 2025 vision for yourself.
In this workshop…
April will:
Introduce the concept of choosing a "Word of the Year" for focus and purpose.
Guide you in the process of choosing your word with writing prompts.
Stephanie will:
Introduce you to how art can take an intention and help you bring it to life.
Guide you in the process of using art to embody your chosen word and see if it aligns with your wishes for the new year.
If you’re ready to start planting the seeds of self-acceptance and intentional living, this free workshop is sure to not only inspire you, but give you the tools to dig in!
Materials Needed
Whatever writing tool you prefer for long form writing, like journal, laptop, etc. for reflections and notes.
For art making, keep it simple! Paper, pen, and pencil will do, although don’t forget the color. Grab whatever you have on hand, markers, colored pencils, oil and chalk pastels if you have them… keep it easy but it is recommended that you have at least 2 different kinds of art tools to use.
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*Free* Planting Seeds: A Fun Art & Writing Exercise for Entering 2025 with Clarity
Want to go even deeper?
This workshop is just a taste of our new-year inspired "Harvesting Clarity: Cultivating Self-Acceptance & Purpose" art & writing workshop coming January 11th. With your Word of the Year and foundation for using art to flesh out your intentions, this full workshop will guide you in going even deeper. The January 11th workshop will build on this freebee with practical (and fun!) steps to step into your 2025 journey with clarity and purpose!
Meet Your Workshop Co-Hosts
April Stearns
April Stearns is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wildfire Magazine & Writing Community. Since 2016, April has guided hundreds of writers through the Wildfire expressive and memoir-focused writing workshops and published more than 50 issues of Wildfire Magazine. Wildfire came to be following April’s diagnosis of breast cancer at 35. While struggling to “go back to normal” and find others who could relate to a younger breast cancer experience, she launched the magazine as beacon of light and hope. April believes strongly that helping others tell their stories has the dramatic effect of turning a traumatic cancer experience into an empowering one. She lives with her husband and teen daughter in Santa Cruz, California.
Stephanie McLeod-Estevez
Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC is an art therapist and BRCA2+, TNBC breast cancer survivor who hosts a weekly radio show that can be live-streamed called Live Radiantly on WMPG. She was diagnosed at 40, when her boys were 5 & 7. Stephanie was initiated into the world of breast cancer at 26 as a caregiver for her mom, who died from MBC. Now, she works with the breast cancer community, so that we can move from surviving to thriving through the healing power of art therapy. Stephanie’s passionate about helping women live life boldly, no matter what kinds of obstacles they face. To learn more, visit www.stephaniemcleodestevez.com and sign up for her art therapy Substack: Spark Curiosity, Live Radiantly.