WANTED - Group Muse Leader

Jill, I don’t think I’ve ever facilitated or taught a class that was more magical and empowering than last night. I’m so doing what I love. Thank you precious Jill for creating this magnificent course / book!
~Much magic, Janet Whitehead www.musingsandmud.com

MODERN DAY MUSE GROUP TRAINING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Facilitate Modern Day Muse Groups and Workshops(R) in your area for an additional stream of income and joy using the wisdom and magic of the nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard).

Help people move through creative blocks, resistance, and fears to joy and productivity. Be a creative liberator, do what you love and get paid for it.

Three Ways to Become a Modern Day Muse Facilitator:

1. If you have group facilitation experience or feel confident about your abilities in this sphere, purchase the Modern Day Muse Facilitator Manual for comprehensive, step-by-step instructions and a starter kit.
The Muse Facilitator Manual, with everything included, can be purchased for $300 ($250 for KMCC graduates). The Table of Contents to the manual is listed below .

Click here to purchase. If you are a KMCC grad, email: info@themuseisin.com

2. If you would like to experience the journey itself, deepening your own creative process and at the same time learning the facilitation process, watch for the teleconferences by subscribing to the monthly Muse Flash. The next one is October 20, 2009 - January 26, 2010 (time off for holidays). $700 for all 12 weeks, $650 for KMCC trained coaches or those signing up for the August Training.

KMCC Coaches or Students please email me directly.

3. Attend the 4-day intensive in-person training retreat with Jill Badonsky. March 18- 21, 2010 in San Diego. Email info@themuseisin.com for more information.

***Note: If you have purchased the manual and decide to take the teleconference or in-person training, you can deduct the cost of the manual ($300) from the cost of the training.

WHAT IS A MODERN DAY MUSE GROUP?

Modern Day Muse Groups are day, weekly, or monthly workshops based on the book The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence.
Modern Day Muse Groups help participants:

o Reawaken their child-like spirit in an atmosphere of joy, laughter and celebration.
o Break-through creative blocks, reawaken creative interest and discover new ways to express their creative call.
o To connect to their authenticity and unique voice.

o Create focus and momentum for their creative endeavors foiling procrastination, perfectionism, overwhelm, resistance, and difficulty finding time.

o Discover a forum of like-minded individuals with whom to connect, bond with and be supported.

UPCOMING TRAINING DATES

May 20th - August 12, 2009 SORRY, THIS CLASS IS FULL
A Teleconference Journey- takes place from the comfort of your hovel on the phone, through the Jill Badonsky's art emails, and in a festive, internet community exchange.

Next Class Begins: January 13, 2010

The Modern Day Muse Facilitator Teleconference Training Cost is $700 ($650 for KMCC trained coaches) and includes the step-by-step Modern Day Muse Facilitator manual, Muse Journey Travel Pack and inclusion in the Modern Day Muse Membership website. The training takes you through your own Modern Day Muse Journey with the added modality of SoulCollage(R) both of which are powerful ways to reclaim, discover, or expand your creative passions. Augment your coaching practice and/or find new clients by offering creativity coaching groups.

Click here to sign-up (enrollment is still open, but space limited):

Teleconferences take place from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. Pacific Time (8:00-9:30 p.m Eastern Time) and the active community of a Yahoo group keeps the discussion vibrant, fun, supportive, motivating and current..

Please email info@themuseisin.com for questions.

The teleconference training is 12 weeks long and includes one hour and a half phone call each week except for the week of the Fourth of July.
You learn how to take participants through the journey as well as experiencing how the workshops can awaken your own creativity and take you deeper.
You will receive a comprehensive step-by-step manual that provides lesson plans on how to run each class and workshop as well as detailed logistics and marketing information and examples.
You get your own starter kit which includes a Modern Day Muse book, hand-outs, some supplies, Muse cards, and little give aways that make the classes fun.
Each week Jill will present a guided imagery that goes with each Modern Day Muse. You will get a MP3 copy of these.
Additionally you will be introduced to the experience of SoulCollage(R) a system of self-discovery and inner wisdom invented by Seena Frost.
You will receive a license to call yourself a Modern Day Muse Facilitator associated with The Muse is IN.

ABOUT THE TRAINING

Attend this training and gain support to:

Enhance your skills as a creativity group facilitator.
Expand your current practice to include groups that create profound changes for those who love the creative process.
Join a support network of creative like-minded individuals with a one of a kind approach.

Eligibility to attend this training:

This training program is a program available to those who have a passion and a calling to facilitate the creativity of others and who are engaged in a creative process themselves.

Coaches, therapists, practitioners, expressive therapists, and those who are passionate about the creative process are some of the people who would benefit from this training.
Even if you have never run groups, coached or counseled please feel free to discuss with Jill Badonsky about pursuing this path if you have a creative call to run groups and workshops such as this.

MODERN DAY MUSE FACILITATOR MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

HOW TO RUN A MODERN DAY MUSE GROUP
WELCOME TO A NEW PATH
Begin Here
INTRODUCTION
The Calling to Run a Creativity Workshop Series
RUNNING EXERCISES IN CLASS

      Class Suggestions
QUALITIES OF A DYNAMIC MODERN DAY MUSE GROUP LEADER
      Ask Questions
      Facilitating Awareness
      Active Listening & Compassion
      Other Skills
HONORING YOURSELF AS A MUSE GROUP FACILITATOR
      Muse questions for Modern Day Muse Group Facilitators (MDMGF)
WORKING WITH CLIENTS
      Group Dynamics
      The Challenging Population

LESSON PLANS
LESSON PLAN CLASS ONE
• Introducing the Modern Day Muse journey, bonding, enthusiasm unleashed.

LESSON PLAN CLASS TWO: ENTERING THE GARDEN
• Establishing a rhythm of weekly rituals.
• Beginning the journey with a feeling of celebration.
• Summoning the Bodyguard.

LESSON PLAN CLASS THREE
• To honor how the Bodyguard manifested during the week.

Encourage participation in the process.
• Summon Aha-phrodite, Muse of Paying Attention and Possibilities.
• Introduce the notion of awakening to the creative process and paying attention to the ever-new possibility of inspiration.

LESSON PLAN CLASS FOUR
• Honor the efforts taken to elicit the energy of Aha-phrodite.
• Introduce the notion of thinking differently, imaginatively and innovatively.
• Summon Albert, the Muse of Imagination and Innovation.

LESSON PLAN CLASS FIVE
• Honor the efforts taken to elicit the energy of Albert.
• Introduce the element of play to the Creative Process.
• Summon Bea Silly, the Muse of Play, Laughter and Dance.

LESSON PLAN CLASS SIX
• Honor the celebration of Bea Silly.
• Introduce the notion of taking good care of one’s self.
• Summon Muse Song the Muse of Nurturing, Pampering and Good Company.
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LESSON PLAN CLASS SEVEN
• Honor the integration efforts made to bring Muse Song into existence.
• Introduce the notion of being process oriented vs. product oriented, of being in the process for discovery, growth and progress, of practice as essential.
• Summon Spills the Imp, Muse of Practice, Process and Imperfection

LESSON PLAN CLASS EIGHT
• Honor efforts made to elicit the energy of Spills the Imp.
• Introduce the notion of being authentic, listening and respecting ones’ own intuitive sense over the opinions of others, being confident
• Summon Audacity, the Muse of Uninhibited Uniqueness and Confidence

LESSON PLAN CLASS NINE 49
• Honor the efforts made to elicit the energy of Audacity
• Introduce the notion of letting go of the process, of gratitude as a conduit of inspiration and of diversion
• Summon Lull, The Muse of Pause, Diversion and Gratitude

LESSON PLAN CLASS TEN
• To honor efforts made to elicit the presence of Lull.
• To introduce the notion of sublimating our darkness into our creativity.
• To learn about accepting the undesirable side of ourselves in order to free up the energy used to suppress it.
• Summon the Shadow Muse, the Muse of the Gifts of the Dark Side
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LESSON PLAN CLASS ELEVEN
• To honor the efforts made to elicit the presence of the Shadow Muse.
• To introduce the notion of overcoming overwhelm, of starting and continuing with the process of realistic expectations.
• To structure and allure the mind into action habits.
• Summoning Marge, The Muse of Okay-Now-Let’s-Get-Started.

LESSON PLAN CLASS TWELVE
• To honor the efforts made to elicit the energy of Marge.
• To introduce the notion of the self as a Modern Day Muse and share how this manifests itself.
• To celebrate the end of the journey and the beginning of using the Modern Day Muses in all endeavors for the rest of their lives.
Logistics & Marketing

SET-UP & LOGISTICS
Set it Up
A MINI BUSINESS PLAN
Details
Marketing Plan
Registration
Billing
Timing
REGISTRATION
Refund Policy

MARKETING YOUR MUSE GROUP
Where to Begin
Continuing Groups
Follow-up Follow-up Follow-up
Creative Marketing Strategies
THE MUSES OF MARKETING MUSE GROUPS
Encouraging Repeat Business
Press Releases
LICENSE
Your License to Teach Muse Groups
TOPICS FOR USE IN CREATIVITY COACHING GROUPS
Handouts
ALBERT-TUDES
Attitudes
Personas
Genres
A SLICE OF PERFORMANCE ART
DREAM FORTIFICATION HANDOUT
ESSENCES INVENTORY
THE LIZZIE WANN EXERCISE
MUSE CIRCLE CODE OF CONSIDERATION
QUESTIONS FROM THE MODERN DAY MUSES
THE ANATOMY OF A SUCCESSFUL MUSE JOURNEYER

THE THREE HOUR WORKSHOP

USING MODERN DAY MUSE GROUPS AS COACHING CIRCLES

TESTIMONIALS ABOUT THE MUSE TRAINING

"The most magical thought provoking weekend of my life . . . I have attended many a workshop over the years but none that dazzled my gray matter more . . . spending three days with Jill, the Muse of all Muses."
—Milane Davidson, Del Mar, Ca.

"The Muse Training was intimate, relaxed, inspiring and filled with lovelight, from the Muses, from our trainer, Jill, and from the participants. I loved the humor that came out of it, and the sharing of insights. It was multifaceted and 100% interesting and engrossing. The mind was led into myriad creative possibilities, forgotten talents, and new vistas of expression. I came away in awe of the human potential. Thanks for a wonderful weekend."
—Linda Lee Evans Monterey, CA

"Wow! This weekend of training was anything but. The learning was creatively inspired by the Muses who I don't believe have the word training in their dictionary! Thank you for sharing them and enabling me to impart their magic to other mortals!"
—Katherine Zimmer, Coach, Workshop Leader Long Beach, CA

"The training was excellent, quite thorough and intense. Really bonded with the other attendees and Jill, Though, she gave us tons of info, about the muses, how to run a workshop, lesson plans, marketing and logistics; I think she thought of everything!!"
—Suzanne Mc Grew San Juan Capistrano, CA

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Modern Day Muse Groups are day, weekly, or monthly workshops based on the book The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence. Modern Day Muse Groups help participants:

Modern Day Muse Groups are day, weekly, or monthly workshops based on the book The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence.
Modern Day Muse Groups help participants: