“Instead of making up excuses for why something is impossible, it’s far better to come up with reasons why it could be possible. One reason why is more powerful than all the reasons why not.”
-Jackson Kiddard
I have been interviewing candidates for The 2012 Creative Catalyst Training program –it’s revolutionary. It is extraordinarily unique in the market place…where else can you get high-level training to become and expressive arts facilitator, self-empowerment coach, master teacher of the creative process AND learn how to create a profitable business doing what you love while making a powerful impact in the world?
I have had some moving, intimate conversations with many amazing people who have incredible visions for making an impact in the world using creativity as a channel and guide. I feel so honored and humbly grateful for the opportunity to hear their stories and to support them in any way that I am able.
The application process to the program is self-selecting. The curriculum is transparent… intensive, powerfully transformative, robust and collaborative. The investment requires a prioritization and commitment that you are willing to become accountable to your vision. The program’s success–your success requires that you do ‘the work’, face your fears and birth your dream by rebirthing yourself and your next level of growth and potential.
It is the clients that are doing the work, consistently showing up for themselves…utilizing the coaching tools of The Fire Tree Method and as they unearth their fears– to shift into opportunities. I new consciousness and experience of Self is born. This creates a whole new mindset of success, of personal identity, potential, confidence and esteem that then allows any individual to set up and into their highest expression of themselves.
And as true to any program that catalyzes self-empowerment it requires that you take responsibility for your own experience. Willingness to put your ‘ego on the line’ and give up conditioned beliefs around safety and where you are currently invested in illusions of security. Willingness to surrender all of your current attachments and the illusory sources where you give your power away, relationships, money, status, identity, food, additctions…the list goes on.
Are you willing to risk it all for your dream?
This is where our livelihood rests. This is when you get a sense of your true capacity for abundance, when you are willing to risk everything you have created at your current level of self-awareness to experience your truth in a grander expression.
I have done this time and time again and it has been the key to success for me. I have followed my heart, Spirit and acted on my intuition even when most people thought I was nuts. I took action. I invested in my education, training and personal mastery as a priority to manifesting my dreams. I took out loans for graduate school, invested in countless training programs and apprenticeships and left what seemed like a potentially safe and financially secure marriage–where I felt suffocated— to take responsibility for my own happiness in order to live my dream. I started my business with little savings and a big appetite for my vision. I had no idea how I was going to pay my rent after the first six months and I did… It happened, one step at a time. And I have done it time and time again. It has brought me to the edge of myself every time and the one thing I can say is that each risk, each edge has brought me to the center of my greatest aliveness and and deepened my trust in the Creative Source within me.
So my question for you is….are you willing to risk it all to open up to something greater than you can currently imagine?
Are you willing to let go of what is in your hand to discover the opportunity that surrounds you for insurmountable joy, contribution and fulfillment?
p.s I interviewed Seth Godin this week on the intersection between creativity and business AND the first episode of Fire Tree TV! Join me in a new interview series with these leading mentors that have inspired me to stretch in my creative expansion on a discussion of The Art of Entrepreneurship. Check out more info below… the time is NOW for taking inspired action. What lights your fire?
Happy stretching!
with peace + love + creativity,
dialogues on the intersection between creativity+ business: join the conversation.
Transform Your Passion Into Prosperity. Curious about what makes the most maverick of all entrepreneurs tick? What inspires their vision or gives fuel to their passion and mission? Join me in in February and March for a series of interviews with my most favorite creatives, entrepreneurial mentors and innovators like Seth Godin, Joe McCambley, Danielle LaPorte, Dorothy Divack (Master Coach and my mentor of 13 years!) and others…
Register now and we will update you when new video conversations are released.
–>I had the incredible opportunity of interviewing Seth Godin this week! WOW an opportunity of a lifetime. WATCH our conversation about creativity and business and find out his suggestion to me for sharing this series, growing this conversation and expanding to a global tribe! Watch the un-edited test recording here, where I ask Seth about strategies for growing the global tribe!
SETH GODIN has written thirteen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything.
As an entrepreneur, he has founded dozens of companies, most of which failed. Yoyodyne, his first internet company, was funded by Flatiron and Softbank and acquired by Yahoo! in 1998. It pioneered the use of ethical direct mail online, something Seth calls Permission Marketing. He was VP of Direct Marketing at Yahoo! for a year.
You can find Seth on www.SethGodin.com
Next up! Joe McCambley of The Wonder Factory in New York City. Joe was my favorite ‘boss’ ever when I worked in my previous career in online marketing. He has been a friend and mentor since I was 24! Sign up now to join this discussion and be the first to know when we release this video conversation and watch us discuss how trials and tribulations of the entrepreneurial journey…can become opportunities for wild success.
Join me. The time is now to claim your power.
The Fire Tree Method Creative Catalyst Training.
The Art of Transformation.
Light the global fire. Learn to use the Creative Source to inspire passion, freedom and abundance!
Are you ready to be guided on a purposeful journey to personal freedom, joy and abundance as you learn to guide others on the same path? Join me, Fire Tree Method® founder Melissa D’Antoni, and a empowered group of extraordinary, creative change agents as we commit to catalyzing immeasurable transformation in the world . . . starting with ourselves.
Invest one year in the revolutionary Creative Catalyst Training and receive the framework, inspiration, guidance, tools, community, experience and expertise to become a facilitator and coach in The Fire Tree Method®. Be inspired to create your own business serving others, doing passionate work in the world and mastering the art of abundance.
Learn more about how you can receive complimentary coaching from Melissa to see if this is the right path for you.
weekend retreats.
winter weekend intuitive painting retreat
This weekend painting immersion is a great way to submerge yourself in your creative process and deepen your relationship to your intuitive voice and dialogue with your most powerful vision. Join other creative explorers in a nurturing and supportive environment that supports the awakening of your inner wisdom and true creative voice
february 24-26th, 2012
$600 investment, includes gourmet organic gluten-free, low-sugar meals by Meg at Spoon and Co, materials and complimentary Hill Country Spring Water + Tea.
This weekend painting immersion is a great way to submerge yourself in your creative process and deepen your relationship to your intuitive voice and dialogue with your most powerful expression. Join other creative explorers in a nurturing and supportive environment that supports the awakening of your inner wisdom and true creative voice.
Come spend a full weekend all for you…to revive, self-nurture and reclaim forgotten vitality and passion! We will begin each morning grounding in movement and waking up the body.
Space is available for 10 painters. For out of town guests, the historic Adam’s House a lovely Hyde Park B&B is located within walking distance of the studio as well as the Hyde Park Inn.
Learn more and register here!
