About Intentional Creativity Certification Trainings

Welcome! Are you interested in a deeper study with Intentional Creativity? Would you like to bring the practice of Intentional Creativity into your life, family, circles, teachings, and with your clients?

Our certifications are a potent initiatory journey that guides helping/healing professionals to ...

Bring creativity into your existing offerings
Create new offerings around the practice of Intentional Creativity
Develop and access your own content to shape it into your teachings
Discover language about creativity to add to your offerings
Strengthen your body of work and the story around your work
Develop 'visuals' to share with your clients and marketing

Each of our trainings also invites you to do your own creative practice during the training with paintings and processes to develop your own resiliency and self-care. You can think of these bigger painting processes as the thread that runs through each training.

If you want to study with us and receive certification, perhaps you are wondering where to begin and what training to take. You may be wondering what the difference is between the suite of certification trainings we offer. You are in the right place! On this page, we describe in detail the focus of each training and what is involved so you can make the best decision for your Intentional Creativity path. Should you want to speak with a graduate about their experience, please contact our team at support@musea.org.

MUSEA School has four Certifications; Intentional Creativity Guide, Teacher, Coach, and Practitioner. They do not need to be taken in order, they complement one another and focus on different aspects and materials. These Trainings are ideal for helping healing professionals who want to add Intentional Creativity to work with their clients and groups/circles. While someone just starting out working with others can benefit, we love for our students to practice in real-time with both virtual and when possible, in-person experiences. We offer a 'badge' that indicates you are 'in training'.

All of our certification trainings apply to any healing and teaching professionals e.g., doctors, shamans, nurses, artists, coaches, therapists, counselors, school teachers, bodyworkers, energy workers (Reiki), priestesses, reverends, and counselors. AND the best perk of all - you will become a part of an intentional community you can travel with for the rest of your life, growing, and collaborating together as we move into our own future and the uncertain future of this planet.

You do not have to be an experienced painter, most of our students are not. Many who were professional college-trained artists say they learned more about painting from Shiloh Sophia (a rogue artist) than they did in school! WHA???

Each MUSEA Intentional Creativity Certification Training includes a prerequisite course that must be completed 30 days before the training starts. This allows you to experience some of the methodology and teaching styles that you will receive during the training.

To learn more about our MUSEA global art movement please visit us at MUSEA.org

The differences between each training in a nutshell:

Red Thread Training is a 3-month training focused on a deeper study about The Way of the Red Thread, a book/manual created by Shiloh Sophia, about curating a culture of connection designed to empower women to become leaders and circle facilitators. The intentional Creativity process includes watercolor paper, and acrylic paint and you also do a personal painting that will represent your circles and your beloveds.

Color of Woman is a 9-month training focused on awakened consciousness through self-expression. Create an epic portfolio of 6 archetypal paintings that embody WHO YOU ARE and what you are here to cause and create. You will learn the 13-step Intentional Creativity Painting Method as taught by Shiloh Sophia which you can then go on to teach others through your own painting courses, retreats, workshops, and more! You also learn some teachings on Red Thread Circle and a more simple Intentional Creativity process you can do in a day.

Motherboard is a 9-month training focused on visual technology, a revolutionary approach to the coaching process that is accessible to all professionals in search of high-impact visual methods to meet their client's needs in an entirely new way. The intentional Creativity process includes metacognitive drawing with paper and pens. You also do a personal painting to document your training experience called VOYAGER.

Prisma is a 12-month training focused on the practice of the Intentional Arts along with Science and Somatics. This is ideal for those who already have a client base or plan to within the first three months of the training. The intentional Creativity process includes journaling with watercolor, paper, and pen. You also do a yearlong personal painting to experience the 42 Teachings of Intentional Creativity called ANTHROPAS.

Continue reading for a greater explanation of each one.

Intentional Creativity® Guide Certification Training is a 3-month program designed to prepare students to design, curate, and lead their own circles and rituals of any size. It will guide you through a personal journey of self-discovery, starting with your own sense of connection and belonging, then writing your own story of where you are from and the kinds of circles and experiences you are called to hold. The training concludes with The Heroine’s journey, in which you honor your commitment to yourself by completing your certification requirements to become an Intentional Creativity Guide.

Red Thread Training Start & Finish Date: March 1 - May 31, 2023

Painting Process/Practice: Sacred Circles painting is an emergent image of a sacred circle gathering that accesses the heart of your intention for the circles you will lead and supports you in your continued emergence into circle leadership through connection within the message of your painting.

The painting process is for you, the student. In this training, you are not teaching others how to paint. Rather, you will learn a more simple Intentional Creativity process using watercolor paper and acrylic paint that you can use to create your own offerings and share with your beloveds.

Transform stories of trauma into tools for empowerment
Illuminate and reveal the hidden self within for you and your circles
Teach how to look inward for your own information
Access to a new way of working with PTSD
Integrate right and left brain for maximum access to consciousness
Inspire action through liberating stuck energy
Bring movement into the body and the field of space around the body
Illuminate the gifts of the individual with image and language
Increase self-awareness and intuition
Create connection during times of isolation

Red Thread Prerequisites:

Each of our Intentional Creativity Certification Trainings requires that students take a 'primer' course that provides the basic foundation for what we teach at MUSEA. This is important so that you have a good understanding of our methodology, teaching style, and delivery format before you commit to taking long-term training with us. There are many classes that serve as a pre-requisite for Red Thread. Let us know when you apply whether you have taken a course with us and we will custom design your prerequisite experience.

Facilitate red thread circles with peer students and anyone outside of the course.
Incorporate Intentional Creativity into your Circle processes
Create blessing rituals for individuals, groups, and yourself.
Create an abstract Intentional Creativity painting to hold the energy of your journey. Sacred Circles Painting
Design your own Self Initiation Ceremony - a rite of passage just for you.
Create an 8-page Vision Plan Book/Red Thread Training Book around calling your circles through an Intentional Creativity process.
Craft a call toward those you wish to gather within Circle and Ceremony.
Hand Paint your drum and learn basic drum songs to include in your circle.
Participate in twice-monthly online circle calls with Q&A and support from Intentional Creativity Guide Graduates.

You will experience Arrival: Welcoming into the Red Thread Counsel and Intentional Creativity Circle. Intention: Claiming your part in the circle and setting the course of your direction. Connection: Setting up your altar as a sacred space and connecting into the quantum field of our global circle. Reclamation: Clearing out past systems/programs to invite expansive space for self, free of pre-existing default settings. Integration: Claiming of the Circles, Ceremonies, and Conversations you are called to lead. Celebration: Initiation as a carrier of the Red Thread.

Intentional Creativity® Certification Teacher Training is a 9-month intensive painting designed to be a Quest to the Heart of your Soul Work and Revitalization of Creative Self Expression. It is sourced from a lineage passed from hand to hand and heart to heart for hundreds of years. The coursework is rooted in the exploration of personal archetypes that move you through terrains of exploration and hidden worlds to discover your content. This training catalyzes personal transformation, activates innate creativity and self-expression, leads to empowered leadership aligned with your soul work, and calls upon you to access and unlock your sacred information, how you wish to serve, and who you wish to work with.

Color of Woman Training Start & Finish Date: October 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024

Teach Intentional Creativity and apply this approach to your clients, circles, and any existing theme you work with e.g., trauma, grief, breakthrough to breakdown, this works.
Open internal hidden doors and offer access to consciousness, possibility, aligned entrepreneurship to a community of creatives.
Access your internal wisdom to develop a body of work and know-how to share your gifts with others.
Integrate whole systems practice that includes your heart, body, mind, field, and soul.
Be a part of a weave of circles with women who are doing their own work in the world in kinship and activism.
Have access to alternative teaching approaches and paradigms.
Assist others in restoring their sense of purpose, connecting to personal and collective power through creativity and community.

Is called to gather others into Circle to share your deepest knowing and gifts.
Wants to share a process that has been practiced by tens of thousands of women around the world to step into the calling, self-agency, and life work that you love?
Is looking to experience a self-initiation that will call you into the heart of your soul work.
Leads individuals, groups, classes, and painting-specific workshops for those seeking transformation.
Is looking for creative healing practices or alternative healing practices.

Intentional Creativity® Coach Certification Training is a 12-month program rooted in the basics of neuroscience, visual language, design thinking, energy psychology, storytelling, metacognitive drawing/process, and the intelligence of the heart. This work identifies, catalyzes, and organizes your ‘motherboard.’ Motherboard refers to the set of conditions, beliefs, concepts, and values that inform your identity and how you live in the world. Through this course, you will gain the knowledge to develop a powerful, unique, and integrated metacognitive consciousness toolkit that you can use with coaching clients. You will develop visual language skills like symbols and metaphors and expand your repertoire of illustrative communication of powerful ideas in a coaching setting.

Motherboard Training Start & Finish Date: To be determined for 2023.

Incorporate creative modalities into your coaching protocols and practice.
Transform stuck stories into stories of possibility / from stories of trauma into tools for empowerment
Show clients how to access that which is hidden (subconscious) and ready to be revealed
Develop or rework existing coaching programs to include intentional Creativity
Amplifying the impact of your spoken and written words using analog and/or digital means to draw with color as you lead a coaching process.
Work with images as we grow our clients' capacity to see and gain access to what may have been out of reach before.
Equip yourself and your clients with a set of reusable tools to gain greater self-knowledge, creativity, agency, and resilience.

Wants to up-level their impact, offerings, and results using the emergent and ancient technology of working visually.
Imagines taking those you serve on an empowering creative voyage to amplify, illuminate, and manifest an extraordinary future.
Spends your life energy growing your own self-awareness and that of others.
Resonates with the soul-level experience of another’s breakthrough.
Sees the world HEALED through raising the consciousness of the planet.
Is looking for more impactful, unique, and fun while simultaneously deepening your client’s ability to access their truth and step fully into their beingness.

View all ten modules and complete the accompanying practices
Watch the Sacred Scribe Stream and complete one graphic recording board
Complete four Intentional Creativity Coaching Sessions using the IC Coaching Pattern for approx 1 hour each session.
6 total coaching practice sessions minimum
Watch ‘IC Coaching’ sample team videos
Complete the Intentional Creativity Coach Exam demonstrating your awareness of core teachings from the course modules.
Come to Bountiful or Watch the Stream and complete the process.
Submit a Motherboard Book of your materials in the form of an uploaded PDF
Complete your Voyager painting process - no painting experience required Intentional Creativity is about the process, not your level of artistic talent.

Everything about this Motherboard Intentional Creativity Coaching work is exciting to me. As I take the next steps, I take them without fear as I now have a coaching pattern to work with in order to guide people toward both self-expression and in living the life that they most deeply desire to live and to do so in abundant and transformational ways. I am excited about sharing my gifts of witnessing others, about doing the creative and intentional tools that I have to share, and about being a part of this amazing community of women! I claim my life, my freedom from social and cultural constraints, the whole and complete love of myself, the curation of my consciousness, and the ability to love and relate with others again from an aligned inner and outer self. I AM GRATEFUL and I FEEL GOOD! Thank all goodness!!! ~ Annie Maria Melzer

Painting Process/Practice: ANTHROPAS a yearlong Rite of Passage in Paint for soul and body to come together for a creative spiritual voyage.

In your painting you are going to be invited to explore your own soul space. The place your light body and your physical body come together. Your 'sack of stardust' knowings and your way of integrating the two.

Through metacognitive consciousness we will be stepping out of pre-existing pardigmatic default experiences. You will be painting your own SELF as the invisible becomes visible at the end of your brush.

Your painting will be intuitive, daring, dangerous to your current understanding and and a proper blast!

Increase cognition, reduce stress, induce flow, initiate healing, inspire self-regulation, soothe systems, and create patterns of resiliency.
Amplify your clients healing by knowing and seeing how the basic science of the body and the field influences the healing experience.
Create conditions where your clients can do their own connection with consciousness and healing work.
Work with your clients to create an emergent form of aliveness, working on/within the realm of dreams and manifestation.
Curate your own unique approach to healing through the arts and design a potent framework for quantum possibilities.
Lead simple yet profound ceremonies for life transitions rooted in the natural elements (air, water, fire, earth).
Incorporate medicine painting with watercolors, watercolor paper, and natural earth pigments including Sumi-e into your practice.
Creating a living business plan where you explore how to create a return on investment in real-time based on your client work.

Who wants to amplify their healing offerings through the practice of intentional arts through the sciences, somatics, and self-expression.
Looking to leverage creativity as a modality for healing.
Looking to gain access to their own solutions and sensations so they can navigate their own consciousness, energy, body, and heart.
Who wants to discover and deepen how to improve your own healing methods, practices, and coursework and how it weaves with your deepest sense of innate creativity.
Wanting freedom from 'doing all the work' and getting only minimal results and recovery from 'guru-syndrome' effect of needing to provide the magic pill or bullet.
Who desires consultation to create a step-by-step plan to language, image, price, and reveal marketing materials that showcase your new skillset and invite existing clients as well as new clients to experience your work.

This is currently our first training in which MUSEA Co-founders, Shiloh Sophia and Jonathan McCloud will teach together in a big way, focusing on the study of Intentional Healing Arts with Science and Somatics.

Are you ready for a new model and revolution in healing? In our Practitioner Certification Training, we teach you to be in a co-creative relationship with your clients where they can learn to self-regulate, guiding them to access their own transformation rather than expecting you to have all the answers.

We teach you to develop your own experience of direct 'gnosis' through the teachings of clairconsciousness available through alignment of internal and external systems of your identity, energy, and framework. Then you will learn to teach your clients to do the same.

We are excited to share that our fourth Intentional Creativity Practitioner Certification Training, 2022 PRISMA, is the first step into our transition to officially becoming MUSEA University! This means students will be able to earn a college-level Intentional Creativity degree after completion of all five Intentional Creativity courses; the four listed on this page + one more on the way, called Curate!

One of the greatest gifts of being part of our Intentional Creativity Trainings and completing your certification is to be invited to continue the connection with fellow graduates from your class year and those who have come before you through the Intentional Creativity® Guild.

Our Guild is over 500 strong with women educated in Intentional Creativity® who have a common vision to serve their communities, school system, hospitals, prisons, mental health and social services, and institutions that need our work. Our Guild has worked collaboratively to bring Intentional Creativity® to workshops, classes, retreats, cruise ships, and luxury destinations, as well as teaching online. We are all about women creating their own content and bringing their work into the world.

Due to the growth of our global MUSEA membership Guild community, In 2021 we created region-based groups called Regional Guild Constellations. These groups provide our graduates another layer of opportunity for connection, collaboration, structure, and support for localized Intentional Creativity® offerings and events.

Each Constellation has co-guides who work with members to create a container that serves that regional group best. Within these containers, our Constellations are providing training, mentorship, brainstorming, and collaboration. We consider our Constellations clusters of shining stars that revolve around a center-point (The Greater Guild) and, together tell a story all their own.

Note: Constellation membership is for active Guild members.

Each Intentional Creativity Certification Training has a required $250 certification fee due at the end of the course, which covers the following:

Intentional Creativity Guide, Teacher, Coach or Practitioner Certificate
Branded Certification Badge/Logo for use on your websites, business cards, email signatures, business materials, etc.
Personal Profile added to our Intentional Creativity Educator Directory.
Invitation to join the MUSEA Guild Membership - a circle for our graduate community and co-curators.

By the end of 2021, we will have well over 500 people already certified to offer Intentional Creativity as a tool of transformation, consciousness curation, healing trauma, and guiding circles of connection both virtual and in-person globally.

Our next step is to innovate education on what we feel is the most relevant and most needed to steward the future together as conscious humans who tend to one another, the earth, all beings, and cultures of love. We are inviting women to a new and ancient culture, calling, and profession, a Curate. To become a Curate is to answer the Call to Cause and Create that which you long for in this lifetime.

What is a Curate? A Curate is a new archetypal pathway for women combining the gifts of being philosophers, storytellers, healers, medicine painters, chaplains, and curators of art, culture, ecology, and history. A Curate is an archaic idea coming from ancient 14th-century Latin meaning to cure, to care, to be a spiritual guide, to provide pastoral care, and the one responsible for the care of souls in their village or area of practice. As well as the second meaning, is to be in charge of a museum, exhibit, or gallery. You could almost think of this role as a Priestess, Sage, Guide, or Creative Midwife carrying Intentional Creativity as one of their primary tools. As a collective body, part of our shared project is to elevate women's voices and images through museum craft.

We are creating a new linguistic archetypal potential with the initiation of the word, Curate. If you pause and tune into this potential - you can likely feel what we are moving towards. To become the medicine we are seeking, and those around us are looking for. Further, many of us who do not have innate gifts of healing or intuition, or clairvoyance still seek to offer ourselves to the service of the community in a more formalized art-based offering. We bring a medicine basket full of modalities from our community.

Intentional Creativity prepares a soul to co-curate the often hidden identity of a person into a lived experience. Most women who truly study and practice Intentional Creativity go through a complete shift in their experience of themselves, their gifts, their capacity to act, sacred activism, their relationship with the earth and their family, and their consciousness. This is a path to wake up, wake others, and call them into Red Thread Circle.

We all know how much women of wisdom are in need worldwide and in our systems, villages, and homes in this era. We all know how many call themselves healers or shamans yet may benefit from initiation, practice, boundaries, practicum, entrepreneurship, and time in the community to be raised up in the context of care and consciousness.

Becoming a "Curate" isn't something people are 'hiring' for in a classic sense. Yet it may be the deepest need we have as a species and a planet right now. Awake women who know what to do in times of crisis, times of deep practice, and times of celebration. A Curate is a modern-day celebrant who is independent of a religious system, yet holds all life as sacred.

We are proceeding with being our own certifying body as we continue to work towards various pathways of accreditation. We will be adjusting year by year.

Courses may be taken in any order at this time. Our Counseling team can work with you to forge a path if you are just starting. Your previous Intentional Creativity coursework will be applied to your collective units. Applications, requirements, and other facets will come in time. For now, consider yourself a part of this movement! We are one of the largest art movements in the world, and that is because of you.

We know you will have lots of questions as time goes on. And we have answers. Pages and pages of answers and ideas to work with you on - because we will create this TOGETHER. This work is the turning of the soil and inviting you to witness this next brave move for our entire team and community.

Below is an overview of some of our courses of study, subject to change and adjustment.

With love,

Shiloh Sophia

The Muse (new) - Intentional Creativity Introduction (2022)
Talisman (new)- Foundation of Medicine Painting (Fall 2021)
Artifact - Archetypal Medicine Painting with the Feminine (2020)
Codex - Intentional Creativity Foundational Framework (2018)
Anthropas - Intentional Creativity 42 Teachings Rites of Passage (2019)
Ritual (new) - Intentional Creativity Practice & Transpersonal Mythology (2021)
Oracle (new) - 12,000 Year Old Woman - Intentional Creativity and Feminine Archeomythology (2023)
Prism - Leadership Course
Mystic - Legend Cosmic Cowgirls (2020)
Curate Ethics and Practice - (2024)
Curate Practicum - Museumcraft (On-going Co-Curators)
Indigenous Practices for the Modern World (2023)
Magi - The Future of Ecomythology (2024)
Inter-generational Stewardship - Cosmic Cowgirls (2024)
Mother Tongue - Intuitive Writing and Speaking

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