A Wildfire Community Collaboration Workshop
Harvesting Clarity
Cultivating Self-Acceptance & Purpose Heading into 2025
an Art & Writing Virtual Workshop | January 11th, 2025
Join us on for a guided art and writing workshop where we reflect on the lessons of the past year(s) and intentionally identify what we wish to carry forward. Through transformative exercises, we'll focus on self-acceptance, gaining clarity, and setting purposeful intentions for the new year.
January 11, 2025
1:00-3:15 pm PST, Zoom
Through art and writing prompts, we will:
Reflect on personal growth and challenges
Choose a "Word of the Year" that embodies your hopes and direction for 2025
Explore what actions and mindset shifts will help you reach your vision
This unique twist on traditional vision boarding will not only focus on the images and ideas of what you desire but emphasize how you want to feel and the steps needed to manifest those feelings into tangible outcomes. Prepare to leave with a renewed sense of groundedness, clarity, and purpose as we step into the new year with aligned intentions.
Who is this for?
This workshop is for people who identify as women who want to use art and writing as tools for setting intentions.
April & Stephanie have unique skills in supporting people who’ve experienced breast cancer, therefore, this workshop is open to those with cancer experience but not a requirement. We also love supporting the supporters, which is why this workshop is open to your favorite female identifying companion. So invite your best friend, mother, sister, aunt, and so forth to register, too!
No writing or art experience necessary. All skill and experience levels are welcome because the purpose of this workshop is to discover new ways of dialoguing with yourself for vision and clarity moving forward.
This workshop is for you…
Identify as female.
Even if you’re not a writer, artist, or sure of what you want for 2025.
If you’re eager to explore art and writing as tools for manifesting intentions.
If you enjoy interactive, hands-on experiences that focus on emotional and spiritual well-being.
Are ready to embrace a grounded, purposeful mindset for 2025.
If you have experienced a cancer diagnosis or you are comfortable being in settings where people have a lived experience with cancer.
This workshop may not be for you…
If you already have a strong plan for 2025.
If you already have a ritual for how you like to kick off the new year what we’re teaching might not be for you, and that’s OK!
Or, if money’s tight right now, please attend our freebie on December 31st, sign up for our newsletters, or listen to Stephanie’s radio show and April’s podcast; there’s a lot that we offer for free on a regular basis that will benefit you.
Materials Needed
Sketchbook and basic art supplies (paper, paints, markers, etc.), collage materials, etc. Detailed supply list to be sent with confirmation email.
Whatever writing tool you prefer for long form writing, like journal, laptop, etc. for reflections and notes.
Join us!
Meet Your Workshop Co-Hosts
April Stearns
April Stearns is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wildfire Magazine & Writing Community. Since 2016, April has guided hundreds of writers through the Wildfire expressive and memoir-focused writing workshops and published more than 50 issues of Wildfire Magazine. Wildfire came to be following April’s diagnosis of breast cancer at 35. While struggling to “go back to normal” and find others who could relate to a younger breast cancer experience, she launched the magazine as beacon of light and hope. April believes strongly that helping others tell their stories has the dramatic effect of turning a traumatic cancer experience into an empowering one. She lives with her husband and teen daughter in Santa Cruz, California.
Stephanie McLeod-Estevez
Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC is an art therapist and BRCA2+, TNBC breast cancer survivor who hosts a weekly radio show that can be live-streamed called Live Radiantly on WMPG. She was diagnosed at 40, when her boys were 5 & 7. Stephanie was initiated into the world of breast cancer at 26 as a caregiver for her mom, who died from MBC. Now, she works with the breast cancer community, so that we can move from surviving to thriving through the healing power of art therapy. Stephanie’s passionate about helping women live life boldly, no matter what kinds of obstacles they face. To learn more, visit www.stephaniemcleodestevez.com and sign up for her art therapy Substack: Spark Curiosity, Live Radiantly.