http://www.art-of-darkness.com

ART OF DARKNESS:
A One Day Journey to the Heart of Your Creativity

Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:30AM to 5:30PM
Private location near Buena Vista Park, San Francisco

***Are you in need of creative renewal? Setting out on a new life path?***
ART OF DARKNESS will show you how to navigate to your desired goal and obtain it.

Successful engagement with any creative pursuit—whether you’re knocking out a book, choreographing a dance, parenting children, starting up a company, inventing a surgical procedure, painting a visual masterpiece, or recreating the internet–demands that you confront and work with your Shadow: that unconscious part of you that can either fire your imagination or leave you stranded.

You can learn how to harness the fire of your own darkness. This journey to the heart of your creativity involves meeting yourself at a deeper level then ever before, acquiring basic new tools to avoid pitfalls, interrogating the purpose of your quest, and gaining the discipline and courage to find and create your vision.

Join us for a day of writing, art, yoga, group exercises and discussions, interactive play, individual consultations, Zazen meditation, and camaraderie to launch yourself on the path of fulfillment and success. Breakfast and lunch will be served. All art and writing supplies will be provided. Just bring yourself, your journal, and a water bottle;=2
0we’ll do the rest within a safe and supportive setting. No writing or art skills or prior experience necessary.

$375 is all inclusive. To register: visit www.art-of-darkness.com, or email meimeifox@gmail.com

About the Guides

Alan Kaufman is a celebrated author and was lay ordained at the San Francisco Zen Center. His books include Matches, a novel (Little, Brown), the critically acclaimed memoir Jew Boy (Fromm/FSG), and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Basic Books). He has taught at the Academy of of Art University and regularly leads retreats and writing classes throughout the United States.

MeiMei Fox is a Well Being Coach (www.meimeifox.com), integrating her passion for total wellness of mind, body, and spirit with her desire to help others achieve their goals. She has a BA and MA in psychology from Stanford University, and is a registered yoga teacher. She has worked for the past 10 years as a professional freelance author and editor.

Elizabeth Rutherfurd, MBA, owner of Buena Vista Consulting for the last nine years, is a business consultant and career coach working with clients in the Bay Area and nationally. She is also the Development Director for The Art of Yoga Project, providing art and yoga instruction to incarcerated girls. Elizabeth lives in San Francisco with her husband of fourteen years and three children.

Alan Kaufman Testimonials:

“Alan Kaufman is an inspiring teacher and a passionate person. He taught me the invaluable lesson of how to get to the heart of my creativity. He showed me how to forever incorporate writing into my life and encouraged me to never stop. His class is magical.”
RACHEL SONTAG, author of ‘House Rules’

“Was it a coincidence that I was published for the very first time the same year that I took Alan Kaufman’s workshop? I think not! Alan helped me find a way through my resistance and fear by providing direction and feedback, community, and a safe environment where I could find my voice, and reveal my truth. I would highly recommend his classes and workshops to anyone!”
WENDY MERRILL, author of ‘Falling Into Manholes’

Alan Kaufman has been compared to such figures as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Jean Genet and Henry Miller. Renowned playwright David Mamet called Kaufman’s recently released novel ‘Matches’, about Israeli soldiers, “an extraordinary war novel.”

Dave Eggers has written of Alan Kaufman’s work that “there is more passion here than you see in twenty other books combined.”

Ruth Prawer has praised Kaufman’s memoir, Jew Boy, as “astonishing… a grand epic,” while the San Francisco Chronicle called it a “classic coming of age story.”

MeiMei Fox Testimonials:

“Those in the fortunate position of working with Mei
Mei Fox will find it to be a very rewarding experience. MeiMei exhibits a rare combination of outstanding qualities – a brilliant, insightful mind combined with a kind heart, a genuine sense of caring and compassion. In addition, her balanced integration of Heart and Mind is tempered by a healthy measure of common sense and a down-to-earth quality that makes her very easy to work with. She has my highest recommendation, without any reservations.”
HOWARD CUTLER, MD, author of 'The Art of Happiness' with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“MeiMei Fox is compassionate, insightful, and efficient. She is a pleasure to work with and a lovely human being.”
ROBERT THURMAN, PhD, professor of Buddhism at Columbia University

“MeiMei Fox is a woman who possesses a keen intellect, a fluid use of language, and the intuitive ability to understand and express the desires of the heart. She is gifted in working collaboratively and helps open doors to the unseen future. Working with MeiMei is a joy.”
CAROLE ISENBERG, producer of Academy-award winning movie 'The Color Purple'

1-415-425-2542 or meimeifox@gmail.com