Intentional Creativity is making with mindfulness in any medium. Painting. Music. Language. Cuisine. Culture. Architecture. Poetry. Theater. Pottery. Drawing. Sculpting. Dance. All mediums, when made with a sacred intent, tell a story.

Our Intentional Creativity Movement with roots going back close to 100 years invites each person to step into the role of Artist.

Art tells the story of the artist, and the time they were living in, as well as what they wanted us to know about who we were as a people at that point in history. Intentional Creativity is a talismanic tool for our times, creating a link between brain, body, heart, energy and intention.  

Intentional Creativity is a Talismanic Tool. When we work with Intentional Creativity we can have exponential impact through focusing our awareness and being metacognitive. What we are working with becomes a talisman. Talisman is a word about consecration, charging up form. 

Bringing your intention into what you make changes what you make, which then changes you. It is a path of reciprocity between you and the creation. Your energy passes into form, then is returned to you in the field. Flow is happening. This is happening whether you know it or not, but if you know it, the impact is exponentially amplified (or raises the vibration). You are the curator of your experience as a creative.

Impact is amplified even more so if you send your experience to all beings (as appropriate). As an example, imagine that you are working on healing something specific. That healing LITERALLY goes into what you make, then comes back to you energetically and through the field. Then, if you send that healing out to all beings who need it, even more so. All of this amplifies the impact intention can bring into the creative process.

Intentional Creativity is an integrative approach to making art that invites mindfulness, as well as inquiry into the work. Our Ancestors created this way, and in recent times we have not given enough focus to being intentional about what we make. When we are not intention about what we make and do not create with an eye towards sustainability, culture and the future, this leads to peril and waste.

Creating with intentional symbolism to communicate and tell story is ancient and threaded throughout the world. From the Red Hand Cave paintings of Aboriginal peoples of Australia, the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Egyptian glyphs and myths, Russian icons coded with story and symbol, Shaman drums painted with personal medicine, sacred theater in Ancient Greece, Black Madonna rituals like the Sous Terre in Chartres Cathedral, skin story tattoos of the Hawaiian Islands, Native American beadwork, baskets and garments, Taize Musical Worship from France, African dances for birth and death, to the modern movement of intuitive art being globally practiced – the references are truly ever-present and endless and in every culture in the world.

The common red thread of telling stories across cultures weaves us together.

Our organization is guided by the vision of our founder and curator, Shiloh Sophia McCloud. She is an Artist, Writer, Teacher & Storyteller. She has been curating physical spaces to support women and their families in the creative arts since 2000.  

Our community is a quantum and sacred gathering. With members all over the world we have been 'practicing' feeling connected no matter what. Each one of us choosing to belong, to do our own work and discover our piece of the red thread.