What we say about the Red Thread...

What will you do during the training?

Here are some highlights of what we will do in this training. Within the Red Thread Training curriculum, there are required assignments focused on the weekly themes that are connected to The Way of the Red Thread curriculum. All of which are designed for further self-discovery with the training goals and objectives taken into consideration.

• Create blessing rituals for individuals, groups, and yourself. 
• Create an abstract Intentional Creativity painting to hold the energy of your journey.
• Design your own Self Initiation Ceremony - a rite of passage just for you. 
• Create an 8-page Vision Plan Book around calling your circles through an Intentional Creativity process.  
• Craft a call toward those you wish to gather within Circle and Ceremony.
• Handpaint your drum and learn a basic drum song to include in your circle.
• Work directly with a small peer group to practice.
• Participate in twice-monthly online circle calls with Q&A and support from Intentional Creativity Guide Graduates.  
• Connect with fellow students and graduates through our private online classroom via our iMusea app.
• Students are invited to engage in small peer groups to practice leading Red Thread Circle. This offers a gentle entry point into Red Thread Circle leadership as well as a chance to receive supportive and insightful feedback that will bolster your confidence. Leading this circle with your peers is one of your required assignments for certification, along with a self-evaluation following the experience.
• Once students complete the certification requirements students will have an opportunity to attend a virtual or in-person graduation ceremony at MUSEA Center for Intentional Creativity in Sonoma CA.

"Music is my medicine, my story of healing. My offering to you, on your own journey, to help you find your medicine within your own song, within your own rhythms." ~ Lavender Grace

Experience the Intuitive Drumsong teaching from one of Shiloh Sophia’s dearest friends and collaborators, Lavender Grace Cinnamon. With her powerful song and drum medicine, Lavender will lead you in song, show you how to play your frame drum, and guide you to connect with your true voice. For many women, the first time you hold a drum in your hands or hear your voice returning in your own ears from its resonant center, something visceral and powerful shifts within. It may feel like an ancient connection or a call home. Frame drumming is an ancient art of women and is powerful even in its simplest forms. You can consider using your frame drum (a.k.a. buffalo drum) in your circles to open, guide a journey, or close the container.

As part of your Red Thread Training, you will be encouraged to step into self-initiation practices.

When you say 'yes' to the Red Thread Training, you will enter into a three-month self-initiatory experience into empowered leadership. Something in you is desiring to shift, transform, and grow. As you begin to understand and work with The Way of the Red Thread, transformation is very likely to be experienced! Listening to the voice of your soul and stepping into aligned living and leading is a conscious choice - one that often requires us to be willing to honor our current story and gifts that have led us to this point, and begin to step over the threshold into the next place!

Self-initiation practices can help us to experience this honoring, threshold crossing, and integration that leads us to a new, more empowered place in our lives. We will be providing you with teachings about self-initiation as well as Intentional Creativity processes to support you in creating Self Initiation practices that are personal, intuitive, and meaningful to you.

What will you experience during the training?

Here is a peek into a few rituals that Red Thread Training students will experience in our journey. In the work of Intentional Creativity, we approach everything in a sacred manner. This approach leads to conscious relationships with ourselves and others. One of the ways we do that is through simple rituals, using the basic elements of earth, air, fire, water, and red thread combined with creativity and language. 

• Arrival: Welcoming into the Red Thread Counsel and Intentional Creativity Circle.
• Intention: Claiming your part in the circle and setting the course of your direction.
• Connection: Setting up your altar as sacred space and connecting into the quantum field of our global circle.
• Reclamation: Clearing out past systems/programs to invite expansive space for self, free of pre-existing default settings.
• Integration: Claiming of the Circles, Ceremonies, and Conversations you are called to lead.
• Celebration: Initiation as a carrier of the Red Thread.

The experience we intend for our students goes well beyond the mechanics or logistical knowledge and skills of how to gather and guide women in circle ceremonies. Many of our graduates share that each of our certification training programs brings about a personal transformation and an experience like none other.  You will be exposed to uncommon knowledge, yet is rooted in long-standing ancient traditions from our teachers and cultures around the world. We strive to build deeper more meaningful connections to the material and practices in support of catalyzing your choice of activism to change the world one gathering at a time.

Do you feel called?

What will you get in this training?

• The core curriculum, created by Shiloh Sophia with additional teachings from the Intentional Creativity Guild is delivered via a private site that you'll have access to throughout the training to easily find assignments and an overview of what is needed to complete your certification. Content is delivered via Video, PDF, and Zoom in downloadable format for continued access.
• Our team keeps you on pace with where we are in the training via a weekly email. You get to choose how to complete the assignments based on your own schedule. We suggest reserving 2-4 hours per week.
• Students are encouraged to connect and share their process in our private classroom inside the iMusea App where there is support from Graduates of the Red Thread Training, as well as Intentional Creativity Teachers.
• There are twice-monthly Zoom circles led by the Intentional Creativity Guild and Red Thread Training Graduates which are also recorded.
• Students receive a digital PDF copy of The Way of the Red Thread manual and book by Shiloh Sophia. Over 400 pages of supportive teachings focused on our curriculum. You can also purchase a hard copy.

Additional connection with your Musea Membership: Being a Musea Member is required for all Certification Trainings offered at Musea. Members are a part of our active community who share a common vision of uplifting the voices and art of women around the world. You can learn more about membership here. The cost is $10/month for the Artist level and includes wonderful community benefits such as a monthly 'Artist Circle' where members come together for Intentional Creativity process and Red Thread Circle. There is also a monthly circle for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color members for culturally specific connection and support.

Once you’ve obtained your Intentional Creativity Circle Guide Certification, you will receive …

• A Personalized Certification from Musea: Intentional Creativity® signed by our Founder, Shiloh Sophia.
• A Red Thread Training digital graphic for websites and/or business cards.
• An opportunity to add/update your professional listing on our Intentional Creativity Educator Directory.
• Approval to promote your work to the greater community in the Red Thread Cafe Classroom to gain exposure and support.
• An invitation to join the Intentional Creativity Guild, our community of over 400 Graduates from our core Intentional Creativity Certification Trainings.