Roots and Branches

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Roots + Branches

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  • Take 60% off my 9-month creativity group coaching program

    Hello friends! As some of you know, next month Symbiosis starts: it’s 9 months of creative expansion, grounding, energy work and intuition. It’s like a coaching program, MFA, artist’s residency, energy work space, science lab, and mystery school all rolled into one. Each month, we engage in expansion activities, grounding, practical nuts-and-bolts creative coaching, and…

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  • two quick practices for wayfinding with your desires and dreams

    It’s wild out there. For those of you know who me personally or have followed my work closely for a while, you know it’s wild in my own world too: A time of transition for myself, alongside pretty much everyone else on the planet, alongside all our systems and structures we’re used to (for better…

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  • Increasing our capacity for wonder: Or things we learn in dreams

    Digital collage, Julia Skinner, 2025 (scroll down for why I chose Mugwort) A decade or so ago, I used to write about things you learn in dreams. Inspired by Gary Burnett, one of my professors and dissertation committee members, who regularly wrote Facebook posts sharing the wild and wonderful lessons from his own dreamscape (and…

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  • Imagination and capacity: Some practices to meet the moment in all your creative possibilities, rage, and joy

    In the past few days, we as Americans (and as members of our interconnected world, wherever you’re reading from) have moved into a new stage of our collective experience. As a historian, I know this is all part of a continuum. An evolution of groundwork laid over years, decades, and centuries aimed at oppression and…

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  • January is for daydreams and foundations

    January is a time when the larger culture is telling us to go go go! To make resolutions, and to start hustling hard. But historically and biologically, it’s a time when we feel called to rest.  And in that rest period we can focus our attention on dreaming, so we can begin to build during…

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  • Hello friends! As some of you know, next month Symbiosis starts: it’s 9 months of creative expansion, grounding, energy work and intuition. It’s like a coaching program, MFA, artist’s residency, energy work space, science lab, and mystery school all rolled into one. Each month, we engage in expansion activities, grounding, practical nuts-and-bolts creative coaching, and…

    Keep reading…

  • It’s wild out there. For those of you know who me personally or have followed my work closely for a while, you know it’s wild in my own world too: A time of transition for myself, alongside pretty much everyone else on the planet, alongside all our systems and structures we’re used to (for better…

    Keep reading…

  • Digital collage, Julia Skinner, 2025 (scroll down for why I chose Mugwort) A decade or so ago, I used to write about things you learn in dreams. Inspired by Gary Burnett, one of my professors and dissertation committee members, who regularly wrote Facebook posts sharing the wild and wonderful lessons from his own dreamscape (and…

    Keep reading…