The Finding Voice workshop series will:

+ Help you develop a sustainable and prosperous approach to art and art-making.

+ Give you access to a lifetime community of radical creatives on the same path (and constant support on your journey).

+ Provide mentorship and practical tools (from an elder, professional artist) to help you easily access your creative power, heal yourself and transform your life and that of those around you.

+Give you a safe community space to share your work-in-progress and get feedback.

+Allow you to develop your own voice and aesthetic so that your stories can be heard/seen by those you are meant to  inspire and lead.

Eight 2-hour live master classes with LIVE Q&A sessions

...where Sharon will walk you through the exercises and answer questions that may arise. Live program runs from November 2015 - March 2016. NOTE: all of these classes will also be recorded and available for later viewing.

Eight pre-recorded sessions

...where Sharon shares her story and provides personal insights on her finding voice journey. This is a virtual, old-school walk with your teacher!

Seven sets of exercises (toolkits)

...that you can use during the workshop and at anytime to reconnect to your creative self.

A community forum of other radical creatives

...to help you on your path. You won’t go through this program alone. We would like for you to share your questions, challenges, thoughts and work with others and develop your creative process in community.

An opportunity to develop & share your work-in-progress

...and get feedback from like-minded creatives and one of our favorite mentors: Sharon Bridgforth.

If you consider yourself and artist > READ THIS SECTION.

If you don't consider yourself an Artist > skip to the next section!

As radical artists, our creativity is the blueprint to accessing prosperity… but we’re often made to believe otherwise. We associate our creative path with emotional struggle, severed relations (familial, communal), false idealism or financial limitations (lack of employment, limited resources). These sometimes conscious and subconscious associations can prohibit us from truly committing to our radical creative power and our most authentic artistic voice -- the kind of commitment that ensures radical prosperity. You think you’ve committed? Most of us think we have… but the wise know it’s a daily struggle.

It’s hard to commit to our path due to lack of support from our families, our communities, the institutions that don’t fund us, a system that ensures our work is overlooked/undervalued, and that we’re pitted against each other to fight for crumbs…

Most of us still live in the romantic yet tired story of the starving artist-visionary-messenger (no matter how hard we try). One that often expects,  accepts or can’t seem to evade poverty as a way of life. As people of color, we’re often told that choosing to be artists is choosing poverty, struggle, loneliness, financial ruin, pain etc. But some of us know that is BS, yet we don’t always know how to counteract that BS. In this class, we want to reframe the artist as key to prosperity. Choosing to develop our creative power (really committing to that fully) is the only way to prosperity -- not just for us, but for our communities as well. Choosing to develop our creative power is choosing to heal, not only personal but communal wounds, to undergo tremendous personal transformation -- the kind that transforms our communities. And choosing creativity also means choosing a sustainable, radical path to wealth and prosperity -- that kind we have long deserved.

Are you ready to (re)commit to your creative path with a prosperous perspective? Join the Finding Voice series!

So you don’t consider yourself an Artist? Then READ THIS.

You are either a closet-artist (afraid to claim the identity because it comes with complicated associations), or you’re someone who’s wanted to explore their creative power but has not had or taken the opportunity to…

Well, you may not be an “artist” by profession or practice, but you are one by birth.

Creativity may be more consciously pronounced in people who identify as artists. But, creativity,  -- our ability to remember the stories that make us, understand ourselves and the world around us, metabolize our experiences into embodied wisdom, resolve unsurmountable challenges, imagine what does not yet exist, and access radical prosperity -- is inherent in all of us. And if you’ve looked around lately, you know we’re in desperate need of some more free-flowing creativity (for our sake and the sake of those we want to support).

It is creativity that heals us, that grows us and deepens our relationships to the people and environments we need to live prosperous lives.

If you’re on the road to reclaiming that kind of personal power, go ahead and join us for this workshop series with Sharon, and recommit to being the artist-by-birth.