Joan Rose Staffen will share her intuitive tools that have inspired and helped her through twenty years of writing and painting practice. These tools and practices will add meaning and zest to your writing life, plus help you go deeper as an artist. Yes, we must have discipline and structure, but when we ignite passion our work becomes much more pleasurable and illumined.

Joan Rose is a writer, artist, and creative coach dedicated to assisting others rediscover their purpose, stay on their life path, and complete their creative projects. A facilitator of the Julia Cameron’s ArtistWay for fifteen years, she helps her clients recover, visualize, plan, and actualize their dreams.  She is the author of Swimming the Inner Ocean (memoir and story) and Catching You, Catching Me, CatchingFire, (a book of poetry), and more recently the Book of Pendulum Healing, published in 2019 by Red Wheel/Weiser. For more information please see her website at www.joanrosestaffen.com and her video trailer, “Swimming the Inner Ocean.” Currently, she lives and works in an intentional artist community, the Tannery Arts Lofts in Santa Cruz, CA where she helps with marketing, events, and classes for the “Catamaran LiteraryReader” and is the facilitator for the “Retreat” at the Catamaran WritersConference.

Creative clusters, where we gather as peers to develop our strength, are best regarded as tribal gatherings, where creative beings raise, celebrate, and actualize the creative power, which runs through us all. —Julia Cameron, author of the Artist Way

The Writers Journey - Spark and Sustain Your Creativity with Joan Staffen - Catamaran Writing Conference