Why is it important to build and practice Resilience in your work and life?

… as an artist?
… as a visual practitioner?
… as a person?

As a human in our current society, we are bombarded every day with news, images, demands from others, and complex circumstances we find ourselves in—often outside of our control. It can be devastating, crippling, of not simply overwhelming. And certainly never-ending. And we all share this.

I have found the Appreciative Resilience ALIVE model to be: 

•  Investigative
•  Enlightening
•  Empowering

And I’ve been taking small groups through the model so they may learn from themselves and each other how to build resilience to manage the everyday, AND when life hits us with something new.

Because as we get inundated by the world around us, we need to take as many opportunities to connect with ourselves in deep and meaningful ways so we can:

•  Focus our time and energy wisely
•  Make better decisions
•  Live a fulfilling life
  

Come ALIVE and Build Resilience
Thursday, December 12

10am PST/11am MST/Noon EST/1pm EST/7pm CET 

This interactive session will NOT be recorded. You will be given a worksheet prior to the call to reflect on or simply show up on time as who you are.

Because when our paths cross, I want to check in and see how I can support you, as a whole person. And I would like to be witnessed as the same.

And leave just a little more resilient than when we stepped into one another’s space.

Questions?
Email Heather

Why is the price $15 or more?
Free for those who attended or purchased
Sweethearts of Lettering Give Back, this session is $15 for drop-ins. Your generous contribution over $15 will go towards paying the medical bills for Heather and Ray Martinez.

About Your Guide

Heather Leavitt Martinez (she/her/they) started her work as a visual Appreciative Inquiry (AI) facilitator in 2011 while working at KornFerry, a leadership development company. She quickly realized that she wanted to create a team of visual facilitators so she pitched her idea to a systems engineering start-up in Washington, DC. She became a co-founder, art director, and scrum master of the Visioneering team and trained several teams how to leverage AI in their work. As a senior consultant for the intelligence community, Heather worked closely with organizational change managers to write facilitation guides and support multi-day offsites for directors of agencies.

Shortly after the administration change in 2016, Heather left DC and took a gap year to travel across North America in a 1947 teardrop trailer. In this time she kept a blog, wrote a book, created a platform to train other visual practitioners, and attended three, month-long artist residencies to focus on her fine art.

Heather is Grove trained, has arts administration training from the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), and received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and CCI to expand her art career coaching model. Heather received her Appreciative Resilience certification in 2023 and is the director at Tech Host Academy. She spends her free time teaching lettering in her studio space at The ArtRoom at the Smiley building in Durango, Colorado.

And she uses the 5 steps of the Appreciative Resilience ALIVE model everyday.