Inward & Onward

INWARD & ONWARD
10 weeks to reclaim focus and rebalance your creative soul

Get straight with yourself about your intentions so you can feel confident about the life and work you’re creating.

Reconnect with your inner wisdom and self-leadership so you feel proud of how you show up for yourself, your career, and your family.

Plug into a routine that gives you energy and hope so you feel empowered to respond instead of react.

Lean into a community that sees and inspires you so you remember your magic, and that you’re part of something bigger.

Cultivate self-love so you can gracefully accept what you cannot control and focus on what you can

Inward & Onward
A LIVE 10-week mindful mentoring program for creative souls ready to set clear intentions, adopt a supportive routine, re-prioritize themselves to experience harmony, purpose, and ease in a time of chaos.

CURRICULUM

The theme of this program is balancing focus with flexibility, so you get to make more time for YOU and be responsive to the flow of life. Every week we gather via Zoom for a share circle, guided mindfulness and teachings. Every week you’re supported with worksheets and tools for managing your time and wellbeing. Here’s what’s on the menu:

Week 1: Orienting
You identify 3 core areas of focus. We transition into community by sharing how we’ve been. We begin our study of Tapas & Ahimsa (discipline & nonviolence) from Yoga philosophy’s yamas & niyamas.

Week 2: Intention Setting
The Wayfinder Deep Seeing Experience uses guided art observation and mindfulness to show you in visual terms what your wisest self is calling for. Then you chart your intentions onto paper.

Week 3: Tapas or Self-Discipline
You’re in your routine and we get to share how it’s going. I offer teachings on self-leadership and discipline.

Week 4: Ahimsa or Self-Compassion
You’re in your routine and we get to share how it’s going. I introduce teachings on self-compassion and nonviolence.

Week 5: Balance and Refine
You’re in your routine and we get to share how it’s going. You are balancing tapas and ahimsa, and refining as you go.

Week 6: Intention Two
By now you’re a pro at Intention One and ready to integrate an additional focus into your routine.

Week 7: Balance & Refine
You’re in your routine with two intentions and you get support and accountability from the group.

Week 8: Intention Three
By now you’re a pro at Intentions One and Two and ready for an additional focus.

Week 9: Balance & Refine
You’re in your routine with three intentions, receiving support and accountability from the group, and getting ready to celebrate your success.

Week 10: Integration
We use mindful art observation as a way to reflect and integrate as we transition out.

TESTIMONIALS

What I loved most about working with India is the way that she re-framed my thinking. Coming into the Inward & Onward course, I knew that I had embedded narratives that prevented me from progressing. I really needed to have conversations and find new ways of looking at the work I do – not just from what I want to get done, but how I want to feel when I approach my work. India helped me re-frame that what drives my work is not actually about completing tasks or projects, it’s about how I yearn to feel when I’m doing my work. India has a unique way of creating space and flowing with the energy that participants are bringing. I got to know the incredible people in my group intimately, without pressure of posturing or acting performatively. What I’ll miss most about working with India is the way she holds space for others to process and share our journeys!

At first, I will admit that I wasn’t sure what I would receive from participating in this course. I thought it might be an interesting learning experience to put some focus on my creative practice. With India’s guidance, I ended up discovering a refreshing, gentle way of approaching my creativity and the work I do. It wasn’t about changing my entire worldview, but rather putting focus on the areas in my life that needed attention. I will be carrying a lot of the conversations I had with India and our amazing group with me for the rest of my life. This course is needed in the world. 2020 has been a challenging year to say the least, and investing in the time and space to nurture myself was invaluable.

I think creatives, in any stage of life or career, could benefit from this course. All creatives struggle with maintaining work/life balance and fear of failure. India’s course taught me about the balance and relationship of self-discipline and non-violence – when to add structure, and when to give compassion. When I struggle with balance, I now have the tools to add structure. When I struggle with fear, I can give myself compassion. It’s honestly so awesome to think about my work in that way and I think every creative should learn this.
– Mel Tiang, Visual Artist

India has such a warm, welcoming and understanding presence. She radiates love and has such a beautiful way of receiving people in the space she creates for us. She sees right to your core and is able to guide you in the way you need it most.

In being a part of Inward and Onward, I have learned techniques and committed to practices that are now a part of my everyday. I have also gained specific insights and clarity related to my struggles that most deeply affect me, and with that, a newfound ability to practice self-compassion and approach myself with an open heart and mind.

I think anyone who is looking for guidance to face the deepest parts of themselves would benefit greatly from working with India. While you may go into it thinking you are going to work on something specific, I think you will most likely leave with a deeper understanding of yourself than you expect. Working with India has allowed me to recognize accept the parts of me that need the most love and attention.
– Noga Cabo, Musical Artist

Working with India was fantastic. She was attentive and sensitive to each member of our group and our individual concerns, challenges, and strengths.

India gave us a space to connect when the quarantine threatened isolation. She created a safe space and structured environment to help us work through and process challenges that we experienced in our daily life or specific issues that arose because of the quarantine. Even though it may seem simple, two of the most helpful aspects of our time together was the constant reminder that 1) we were not alone and 2) many of the challenges we think are individual to oneself are in fact universal. I was surprised and relived to find that many of our group members were struggling with similar challenges.

A good deal of what I struggle with is self-imposed challenges stemming from a lack of confidence. I also, because of a variety of childhood and past trauma, was working on developing routines and activities that I could use to soothe and comfort myself—so I don’t look to exterior things (people, tv, alcohol) for comfort. I was amazed that I had gotten to adulthood and lacked healthy coping and comforting mechanisms that could channel my anxiousness. This might seem like a very small step to some, but for me being able to articulate and participate in simple exercises where I truly take time for myself has been a huge benefit. India reminded/instilled in me that we deserve to treat ourselves with kindness, and that I don’t need permission to relax and take time for myself

India helps ground you and pinpoint what/where you are actually struggling.Anyone can benefit from India’s coaching. I would suggest that you think about how much you are willing to commit. Like with any relationship, this work is two-sided. The results depends on the “client” and the work they are willing to put in.
– Anonymous

“The work India Clark is doing right now is vital. The facilitation and holding of space India was able to create through an online platform didn’t make me feel like I was alone with my computer in my room; I felt connected to something larger. India weaves mindfulness, visual art, and self reflection into an experience that mirrors the warming of a blanket while watching a fire burn. She facilitates from a place of honesty and presence which translates even through the distance of a computer screen. The world is experiencing a major shift (with this pandemic) and the isolation people are going through, whether by force or for self-preservation, is affecting us now and will in the long run. Her ability to reach past the computer screen and inhabit the space with you is a reminder that compassion, empathy, and presence can be embodied and emulated when presented from a genuine source. After every interaction I have with India, I feel a call to be better. To examine the intersections I hold and listen to how they beg to be unified, and then unify them. 

I have never experienced something like what India does. It is a revolution to arts education and to the health and wellness field. Experiencing Wayfinding changed how I look at art and facilitating….”
– Anthony Febo, Poet, Artist, Actor, Educator

“What a great portable fortitude India’s program gave me for the year! I signed up for Conscious Choice – last minute and on a whim – and it connected me back into myself in a charted yet adventurous way. I could ask myself new questions and was able to draw conclusions about my focus by using the tools of visual content, somatics, breathwork and written exercises. It gave me a method to direct the mast of choice through my year and ways of engaging that I take with me in iterative ways daily. It set me up to feel the agency of choice as I fell into the current health crisis with the rest of the world. India’s work in facilitation of the practices she has created is a true art form.”
– Meg Debrito, Executive Director, Greensgrow, Philadelphia

“Working with India has allowed me to have a true and deep perspective shift – I am now much more focused and intentional in my everyday life and have a deeper understanding of what I want to achieve this year! As a facilitator, India’s calm strength, genuine care, and innovative knowledge of creative wellness, guided me to deep inner and outer experiences of my true Self. In addition, she is a masterful curator of beautiful, meaningful, and diverse artworks in the service of creating a safe space where these external artworks are able to shine light on our own inner wisdom and experience. I come out of her deep seeing meditations feeling renewed, reconnected, and at peace. I also had the amazing opportunity to participate in her 5 week Wayfinder program, Conscious Choice in the New Year, and was amazed at the clarity and new vision I was able to create in my life with the help of the online community and India’s creative guidance and exercises. She is a gift – thank you India!”
– Steven Hosking, Holistic Artist and Therapeutic Guide.

“Not only did I walk away from our time together with increased self- trust, confidence, increased passion, and more comfort with discomfort, but also with improved communication skills and less anxiety around communication. I have more ease with exploring ideas and specific language to describe these explorations. I have a deeper understanding of what it is that I need to explore and what relationships I need to develop currently to get to the phase of manifesting my long term vision of starting an art residency.

My favorite part about working with India is her present presence and openness to receive and share back what is being shared. She models flexibility and ability to flow and give space for ideas, and ability to help process and integrate into a framework that makes sense for the direction of the work. I felt that whatever I shared was welcome in the container she created and we could extract usefulness out of whatever came up.

I would recommend India to folks who lack clarity and focus on how to go about developing and exploring their vision. India helps to give space for inquiry, breaking apart the bigger picture into smaller parts that can be fine tuned and reassembled to give the exploration energy and sense of purpose.” 

— Carolyn Lewenberg, Arts and Culture Innovator