Carolyn Siegel

I teach others how to go within to get to know, accept, and love themselves as the amazing and unique people they are. I do this by guiding them to access portals to their own inner knowledge, held in nurtured safekeeping by their deepest selves until they are ready to listen to, reclaim, and embrace the sacred wisdom of their own souls. Through shifts in perspective they have in my workshops, participants often experience more clarity and a deeper belief in their own value as human beings, leaving with a lighter spirit and a heart that’s more open, confident, and hopeful.

While I have been practicing Inside Out Art for over 30 years, it wasn’t until I became a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher that I learned from Shiloh Sophia, the founder of the Intentional Creativity® movement, how to teach others the process I had intuitively developed to make my own art. I was absolutely taken with the step-by-step process of going within to find meaning and story and expressing that outwardly in color and shape.

My motivation for making art has always been self-expression. I don’t paint or sculpt what I see outside, but rather I create to give voice to what I feel within. I love to use acrylic paints and malleable sculptural media, e.g., clay hand-building and variform mesh, because the materials allow for flexibility and “oops” moments—acrylics can be painted over, and clay and mesh can be re-shaped. What a freeing experience it is to make a “mistake” and be able to accept, forgive and move on to create an art expression with even more depth and meaning—when we can do this with our art, we can do this with ourselves!

I love to develop curricula and to teach and guide others to express themselves artistically. I taught sculptural arts in a Waldorf high school for fifteen years (clay sculpture, stone carving, and basketry). In addition to having a master’s degree in teaching art in Waldorf secondary schools, I have a master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology (a mix of Western psychology and Eastern spirituality) and am a (retired) licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

I care deeply about others learning to listen to and trust their own inner voice and intuition, to respect what and how they feel, and to grow in their confidence in expressing themselves.

–Carolyn