An Appreciative Inquiry into how to live life like a festival!

October 18th - 20th at LEAF

To register call 828-68-MUSIC (686-8742) or download PDF Form and send in!

LEAF 2 Go Facilitators (more info)

	James Navé: Director of Artist’s Way Creativity Camps, a certified Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, LEAF Slammaster, MFA from Vermont College…
	Natalie Kinsey: poet, writer, & former teacher at University of Alabama

Lake Eden Arts Festival collaborates with poet James Navé to bring you the LEAF 2 Go Creativity Week. LEAF 2 Go inspires you to live your life like a festival. Over 5 days, you will transform images of your greatest possibilities into actions that will energize your everyday reality. Through a powerful combination of the Appreciative Inquiry process and hands-on creativity workshops, you will learn how to discover, dream and design your creative goals in harmony with your life’s highest ideals.
Join the week’s co-directors, Leaf Slammaster, James Nave and poet, Natalie Kinsey and their magical crew in a deep play appreciative inquiry that will fully engage your creative hopes, dreams, desires, and joys.  

LEAF 2 Go Creativity Week Insight

Over the last ten years at Leaf, we’ve listened to banjos out over an Appalachian sky, warmed our hands over countless fires, shared camp coffee with tribes of small slowly waking families, and danced with so many beautiful strangers our bodies hold the imprints of each neighbor we happily swung. How many parents and children have we witnessed glimpse new sides of each other through the wild magic of festival experience, their relationship instantly deepened?  How many wives with painted faces?  How many husbands out adventuring for flint or live music?  How many spontaneous eruptions of old time songs amongst strangers, acts of profound giving, and how many sights of almost unendurable beauty?  We don't know. Yet, at some point we decided to stop counting and to start asking.  Why is the magic so alive here?  Why does coffee taste better when it’s made over an open fire?  And how do help our everyday lives be illuminated by our festival life?  It is in honor of every woman who offered us a dry towel, for every man who gave us his last match, for every child who tried their first high dive or lit their first real fire at a festival, that we've designed LEAF2Go Creativity Week, a deep-festival and full body appreciative inquiry into what it means to be Alive today and how we can carry the Leaf experience beyond the festival into our personal lives and the lives of our communities.   
Leaf To-Go is a week of deep-festival experience, a full body inquiry into what it means to be Alive and Responsive today, in the forever dance between fill-ups at the Well and the work we do to keep kids in shoes.  

Using 
 deep Play 
 collaborative Adventure
 navigational Writing
 artistic Articulation
 musical Luminosity
 Stillness
Leaf To-Go illuminates and makes portable, the festival life 

Drink deep, drum down
the canyon walls, get wilderness get
fever, get shaking
 out the dew     
         Break upon entering Weave
clear Vision and take 
          your Festival home
LEAF 2 Go   

Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a method for discovering, understanding and fostering innovations in organizations (individuals) through the gathering of positive stories and images and the construction of positive interactions. AI seeks out the very best of "what is" to help ignite the collective imagination of "what could be". The aim is to generate new knowledge, which expands the “realm of the possible”, and helps members of an organization  (individuals) envision a collectively desired future and to carry forth that vision in ways which successfully translates images of possibility into reality and beliefs into practice. www.AppreciativeInquiry.com

To register call 828-68-MUSIC (686-8742) or download PDF Form!

VOLUNTEERS
We will be taking LETTERS OF REQUEST for 5 volunteers in exchange for tuition.  Meals are not included.  We are looking for people who have had previous experience running an event.  Reference suggested.  Mail to: LEAF 2 Go, 377 Lake Eden Rd, Black Mt, NC 28711.

CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY
3 months-out: full refund with cancellation fee $50
2 months-out: 1/2 refund
3 weeks-out: no refund.   

CHILD CARE
Please let us know when you register if you’ll need childcare - available for an additional fee.

LEAF 2 Go Facilitators

James Navé: Director of Artist’s Way Creativity Camps, a certified Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, LEAF Slammaster, MFA from Vermont College

Natalie Kinsey incorporates the power of myth, dance, and art into her teaching and life coaching by helping clients to effectively re frame their own stories and embrace their own myth.  With an MFA from Vermont College, she's taught writing at all levels, including at the University of Alabama.  An experienced dancer, professional builder and mural artist, Natalie brings this windfall of expansive vision and expertise to her work as creativity facilitator.  She lives, writes and dances with her two children, Persephone and Frankie Blue in Manchester, New Hampshire.