Movers and Makers Mastermind
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Movers and Makers Mastermind
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UNCORKelevate MAKERS AND MOVERS Mastermind
We are taking this season to process grief specifically, get moving in your body, learn about the nervous system with God and make cool creative handmade stuff (drawing/painting/baskets/etc), join us for the MOVERS and MAKERS MASTERMIND.
We will meet once weekly on a 3 week cycle with a week breather per 4 week cycle — so one week to MOVE with prompts. One week to MAKE STUFF on a prompt. One week to PROCESS AND PRAY, with a rest on the 4th week and then we start over.
MOVING (1.25 hrs) Sessions entail an exercise, a theme, a series of prompts + journaling. Mostly silent w/ music. Chat can be active. Prompts in between. They will have both a movement theme (authentic movement, contact improvisation, contemplative movement, etc.) and a processing theme, with opportunity to journal in between.
MAKING (1.25 hrs) Sessions will have a similar structure. Mostly silent w/ music. Chat can be active. Prompts in between. There will be a making theme with some basic instruction: Watercolor/pen + image-based journaling techniques, soft sculpture, quilting, reclaimed sculpture/wall hanging, nature collage, image collage, sculpture with everyday object (toothpicks, paperclips, napkins, screws, nails, plastic bags, foreign coins, etc.), nature sculpture, reclaimed material sculpture (broken ceramics, broken glasswear, etc.) . Then there will be also be a processing theme: Significant moment of loss in my early childhood, locating a memory, locating a story that my family gave me, etc. Opportunity to process in between with journaling.
PROCESSING and PRAYER (2 hrs) sessions will be sharing the journaling and praying through what people felt, heard, and how they built their “altar to the Lord” through their making and moving.
The start date is Tuesday the 25th at 8pm EST.
(Please sign up early — we need at least 5 to go forward.)
TRANSMUTING GRIEF THROUGH CREATIVITY
People can be jealous of creativity. It’s a vibe you can feel on people. It’s something you know. I’m growing out of cloaking my creativity as a device to “help” others. This is just one of the lies that I thought I needed to uphold to survive.
“Let your light so shine before (wo)men that they may see your good (art) works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.”
IDEA: What if some people are not actually better at creativity than others?
And then there’s lots of creativity out there that doesn’t come from an authentic place. For instance, some creativity is performative. Some is to earn self worth. fit in. stand out. belong. build a false power identity and then dominate others. I actually used my creativity to support many of these ends once upon a time, especially in the false belonging and earning self worth arena.
But then I couldn’t do it anymore. All that lost its sizzle with healing. All that fell off like some dead branches.
ANOTHER IDEA BASED ON THE FIRST
People should not be jealous of creativity but rather of THE ABILITY TO TRANSMUTE GRIEF as a core foundation to authentic creativity.
Did you know that every creative idea that anyone has ever seen come from Zia has come through deep processing of grief, fear, pain, loss, longing, and even violent anger?
Did you know that I’ve learned to transmute grief, shame, fear, pain into creativity better than most other people? And that the reason for most people’s creative blocks is grief, not the lack of creative power itself. Also, one might also conclude that the more grief someone has and transmutes, the more creative they can produce. So, the combination of both having more grief and transmuting it more efficiently become the edge.
Sounds like cross and resurrection to me.
Note: If you want to get more grief to fuel your transmutation, you have to get more courage to go into battle for yourself, your dreams, and your life from a heart level — not surface level only. That’s just performance and more bondage. In this place of battle on the heart level, you will face crushing disappointment by the state of other people’s souls, yourself, and the world, and you will then need heal from it on repeat with ever increasing trust in God and in yourself. In between those cycles of healing you will always face the choice of whether to “get bitter or get better”. Most people are stuck at the “get bitter” spot of the first and last time they tried to fight for themselves.
I’m telling you. Keep going. Keep fighting. It’s worth it.
Also, this is a holy process, not meant to come across like a simple soul hack, but also meant to strip away the “mystery” of creativity, a resource we all have as a gift from God. Also meant to strip away all excuses. We are meant to thrive, but the key is in facing our pain, not avoiding it.
Facing our pain actually holds our glory in its DNA. It gives us the building blocks of becoming. And so, in some kind of weird way, instead of being jealous of creativity, people should rather be jealous of the amount of grief transmuted to arrive at creativity.
The number of times I’ve had to choose not to sit inside of grief, shame, fear, and pain in the hidden moments to arrive at the place of creativity in the long run is something to envy. Or maybe the number of times I’ve been betrayed and consciously chose, with the help of Holy Spirit, to transmute that into seeing the gift inside the betrayal.
Be jealous of the courage it took to choose me when others were choosing everything but mutuality. Or even better, be jealous of how much grit it took to love myself in spite of others wanted me to not love myself. Or even more incredible, when they wanted to hold the gavel and be the judge and jury on how I feel about myself at any given time. When they wanted me to give them a blank check on how I should feel about myself at any given time. Where their resentment, jealousy, self-rejection was saying that I should allow them to determine my self worth daily. Be jealous of the strength it took to resist that.
People should be jealous of the number of times someone chose not to be numb, not to run away from their own truth, not to mask, not to hide, not to act like everything was ok when it wasn't. The number of times someone had the strength to resist projected shame and stand in their own image of God. It is an effort but the opportunity is priceless.
The start date is Tuesday the 25th at 8pm EST.
(Please sign up early — we need at least 5 to go forward.)
BETRAYAL, GRIEF, JEALOUSY, ENVY as TEACHERS
A cheat sheet to transmutation of grief is understanding how pain can teach.
For instance, betrayal teaches you what kind of person you can/cannot trust, where you are betraying yourself, the limitations of others, where your boundaries should be, where you are helping others beyond what they can receive, and a whole host of other lessons that you can actually USE.
An incredible gift from God.
Grief teaches you who you are. It teaches you your own larger capacity to love than the situation you are in can hold. Give it to God to heal, and then redirect it into a larger reservoir of grace. It teaches you that you and your capacity to love ARE the inheritance you’ve been waiting to be given! Sounds crazy right?! No, but I’m actually quite serious about this. I sincerely believe this is something anyone can learn and should, as a basic life skill. Especially if you tend toward jealousy, which is just a form of poverty + entitlement because “I’m so victimized”.
Jealousy is the natural result of not following the desires of your heart, usually due to people pleasing and not having a developed self concept. Letting God develop your self concept feels risky in a world full of copies and clones. It’s easier to echo what’s around you. It’s safer. Also, it’s less work with quicker payoff and crowd appeal. You don’t GO FOR IT WITH GOD because you're afraid what you’re going to look like in front of others, or even false standards within yourself, and then get mad when someone else does go for it and doesn’t care what YOU think about THEM. ;) Don’t they owe at least that to you!
NO. THEY. DON’T.
Jealousy teaches you where you have been sleeping on yourself through avoidance, low self worth, self hatred, perfectionism, judgmentalism, projection, short cutting your own potential, focusing on another’s lane instead of your own, etc.
Envy is even worse but is still just poverty that holds a lot of information about your desires and what you’re capable of. If you stop blindly following it and rather started learning from it, you’ll go far.
Envy and Jealousy are just your heart desires in putrid form trying to destroy good stuff for others rather than build your own. Ha! Not to mention how much you are self sabotaging yourself when you lean into these feelings with action. Basically, take notes on your envy! It’s a great teacher, just like betrayal. The more you learn from it, the less it is envy. The more it becomes courageous desire and empowered motivation.
You can also learn from other people’s jealousy and envy.
For instance, I’m someone who doesn’t really struggle with envy and jealousy toward other people. I never really have, but I have had lots of people envious and jealous of me. I also didn’t believe in other people’s jealousy, and that allowed them to destroy a lot before I got around to stopping them. I thought: Who would be jealous of me? It seemed unbelievable. I didn’t think much of myself at the time, and they were hoping to keep it that way.
Btw, that’s not a compliment to me, that I had a lot of jealous people around me. It shows where I was playing small, where I was not living inside my own God-given greatness, where I attracted people who benefit from my smallness rather than those who call me forth in celebration. It showed where I was going against my conscience to fulfill other people’s putrid desires and “needs”. This happened in areas I had failed to celebrate and cherish my own potential, where I let others make themselves the star in the show of my life. Where I let them take over rooms of my house and failed to live inside my own story. Where I overly worshipped the opinions of others and wanted to keep the peace by not letting my light so shine. That’s my battle and my inheritance to take back that land.
Note: Wanting to discourage those who have a vibrancy you don’t have never did anyone any good. You can get some of your own. That’s the only way to do it anyway. You can only have what’s meant for you.
If you resent other people’s creativity and simultaneously remain frozen in your own patterns, consider learning how to transmute grief in a big way. We would all be better off for it. You especially. Us if we know you. You do have vibrancy of your own, but you have to do the work to drill into it, to tap into the water table of your emotional depths.
But no one else can do it for you. Which brings me to this — the other people should help me fallacy.
OTHERS SHOULD HELP ME FALLACY
Consider feeling your own feelings instead of projecting onto “those who should help you”. Consider asking where your judgment of “what they should do” comes from. Ask Holy Spirit why you’ve concluded that “someone else owes you something they are not giving and that’s why you’re stuck.”
That’s a story you tell yourself to keep you from feeling your original grief.
Your grief at not having parents who love you the way you needed it.
Of not having support when you needed it at 5 years old.
Of being lonely and having that ignored as a teen ….
The list goes on and on. Start by feeling that. Deeply. Until you’re done.
It may take many days. Weeks. Waves. Months of waves. Years. And cycles within years.
Btw, it’s not good for your current loved ones, friends or coaches to give you extended compassion or help on the outside beyond what you have extended internally to yourself. You would just rebuff them with projected self hatred. That’s how it works. They can only help you do what you are already willing to take on for yourself with God.
It’s actually self abuse of themselves for people to help you where you are not available in parallel to also help yourself.
9/10 times, maybe 10/10 all this pain comes from an ungrieved and unexpressed childhood wound that you’ve yet to act in the opposite spirit of. That you’re unwilling to walk through the intricacies of. Because this kind of old wounding is intricate and probably mostly unseen by you. You think it’s your circumstances.
The world is against me! Why am I in so much pain? Gawwwwd. ;-) Somebody DO SOMETHING.
Nope. Maybe you’ve even prayed and prayed through it. Maybe even UNCORKgenius prayers.
The start date is Tuesday the 25th at 8pm EST.
(Please sign up early — we need at least 5 to go forward.)
BUT HAVE WE FELT IT?
Have we then prophetically (creatively) acted into it?
Have we received the opposite spirit of that thing? And then have we acted into expressing that thing in the opposite way of the past?
Have we created a memorial in the opposite spirit of the old thing? Have we claimed the new ground with opposite action and attitude? Have you done this day in and day out, all while processing the deep grief as it comes up. Have we built an altar that stands in protest to the old reality?
And you guessed it!
Often claiming that new ground in the opposite spirit takes CREATIVITY and courage 🔥AND self compassion. It feels terrible at first, but in some ways, because it’s the natural next step from expelling the old, it is the easiest creativity you will ever engage. It will feel good if you don’t get caught up in self flagellation, self pity, regret, shame, fear. Just feel. Don’t judge. Then there are also flashes of great relief. And unimaginable triumph, joy, even love. It does often feel terrible at first. Make no mistake.
And this is where you go gentle on yourself. Don’t go gentle on the lies. Don’t go gentle on looking everything in the face for what it is. Your part in it too. That’s not where you give yourself a pass. No. Don’t judge yourself, but admit what happened and see how you could grow to get better. Admit you’re wounded and aren’t facing your wound. Admit you’re busy projecting onto others rather than healing your wound. No shame. No condemnation. Only truth.
It’s where you’ve faced your grief that you give yourself grace. It’s where you’ve relived it and you’ve taken some steps of faith to feel it and transmute it — to walk in the opposite spirit. That’s where you take a luscious nap to reward yourself after you’re done. Eat some cake. Give yourself a celebration dinner. Make hot tea. Sit in the sun. Roll in the grass. Play with your dog. Get a dog if you can. Play with your friend’s dog if you don’t have a dog. Stop hating people who are happy with their dogs.
Because it’s here is where you’re doing the work. And the doing of it transforms you into a different person.
TELL THE TRUTH
The path toward transmuting grief into creative empowerment is ruthlessly, consistently and compassionately truth telling to YOURSELF.
Who cares what I think of you.
Seriously. You honestly don’t even care anyway. How do I know? Because I have learned my lesson showering too much love on people who could only spit back hatred because they hate themselves.
You can only disrespect people who love you more than you love yourself. That’s how human nature works. I had to stop stretching for people beyond how they were willing to stretch for themselves. It’s bad for my health and yours, if anyone wants to know the outcome.
Anyway, tell the truth to yourself. Learn to love yourself. It’s hard. You think you don’t have time. You think you can’t afford it.
But you can’t afford not to. Rooted and grounded in love is the only foundation that will stand. You don’t have time not to. It may be the hardest thing you ever learn to do.
Ask me how I know …
It’s here that you lose people pleasing, the fear of (wo)man, being terrified of what harm people can bring to your reality and realize the tangible power (gravity) of self love. “The fear of (wo)man will prove to be a snare.” Prov. 29:25.
And then you start to memorialize it. And then celebrate 🙌🏼 it. Also, your soul knows what’s true.
OTHER PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BALONEY
Nobody needs to tell you. Also, other people are probably tired of your BS, i.e. they don’t believe you even though they may coddle you and support your non growth to protect their own comfort. You probably forced them into this if they wanted to keep relationship with you, although it’s probably eroding the energy and self esteem of you both.
It causes them pain if they love you, because you are hella annoying when you lie to yourself and to those closest to you. This is the first lie we can safely stop telling ourselves — that our lies do not affect those closest to us. For instance, if we believe in grace on paper but hate ourselves in practice, the people around us generally reflect that back to us, especially those who have a hard time with lies — for instance, teens, kids, young adults, the spiritually sensitive.
Self-judgment absolutely corrupts every relationship and makes us the hardest to deal with, especially to the people who actually love us.
As for those who don’t want the best for us, those people will build a whole world with us on lies and even watch us setting ourselves on fire and not saying a word. It’s no big deal to that kind of person. So, if you hide from that angry hidden grief that you’re storing in your body and soul, you’ll be sick, depressed, resentful, and enraged with no one to tell, especially if the people around you have good boundaries and aren’t interested in absorbing your bad relationship to yourself.
And of course you’re lying to yourself the most, more than anyone else.
You’ll also probably ruin your relationships with those lies. But you’ll probably ruin other relationships with authenticity when you start to go the other way. And part of you knows that too. We always lose the people who aren’t aligned with our chosen frequency. 🔥We can either lose the good ones or the toxic ones. I had to come to the point that I was willing to lose anyone over losing myself. So choose wisely on that one.
Ask the Holy Spirit today: What am I lying about that’s keeping me from processing my grief?
UNCORKelevate MAKERS AND MOVERS Mastermind
If you’d like to take a season to process this, get moving in your body, learn about the nervous system with God and make cool creative handmade stuff (drawing/painting/baskets/etc), join us for the MOVERS and MAKERS MASTERMIND.
We will meet once weekly on a 3 week cycle with a week breather per 4 week cycle — so one week to MOVE with prompts. One week to MAKE STUFF on a prompt. One week to PROCESS AND PRAY, with a rest on the 4th week and then we start over.
This will culminate in an in-person popup gallery show in San Diego for people to showcase what they’ve made and tell the transformative story of what lies they got rid of and grief they transmuted to make it most authentically.
How they got here by becoming more themselves. Concurrent to this pop-up gallery, we will be doing a Retreat in San Diego in Spring of 2026. You don’t have to attend the live events to participate in the mastermind. You may ship and show your work without being present, but we would love to have you attend everything.
WHAT YOU GET
Zoom meetings 3x month with nine months of sessions.
Interpersonal feedback, instruction and regular sharing of creativity.
Integration between outward creative process and inward processing.
WIDENING creative vocabulary to support your own processing practice.
Private Facebook group, private Messenger chat.
A healthy boost in the Spirit!
Ready?
The start date is Tuesday the 25th at 8pm EST.
(Please sign up early — we need at least 5 to go forward.)
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NOTE: ALL MASTERMINDS REQUIRE SEPARATE REGISTRATION TO THE
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Contact us for anything you need:
znevins@uncorkgenius.com
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CREATIVE HEALING
Never be lulled into the notion that too little is occurring in your life. I am a creative God, who is lovingly orchestrating an infinite number of events that comprise your existence. In this you play a large part—a much greater role than you realize. Give yourself space for your own creativity, and avoid drifting into distracted routines. The devil is a sly enemy who desires to lull each one into a mundane, powerless Christian life. But trust Me: that is not you, My beloved.
I have equipped you with the greatness of My being. Therefore, you have an important say in the workings of the world, and even more importantly, in the spirit realms that directly impact your time and place.
Look how far you have come! Whether you are resting or vigilant, draw what you need directly from Me, for it is through mutual love that I impart premium living. Remember, the Spirit always resides within, ready to serve. Every day offers fresh vitality from Heaven.
”For we are God’s handiwork, created with Christ to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. “Eph 2:10
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God loves the whole you.
