ILLUMINATION ARTS
  • TRACY MASINGTON, M.A. / creativity catalyst - artist - writer
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ILLUMINATION ARTS
catalyzing innate creative genius through transformational and contemplative arts*
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* IN PLAIN ENGLISH . . .
I help people get their creative juices flowing -- to envision new possibilities and thrive.  


CALL WHEN… 
  • your "Next Big Idea" isn't showing up
  • you feel like your brain's been shrink-wrapped
  • you're asking "what's wrong with this picture?" -- and talking about your life
  • you wish you had a muse 

I SPECIALIZE IN WORKING WITH . . . 
artists, writers, designers & beleaguered executives to unleash and revitalize creative energy. 


HOW I WORK . . .
My professional experience spans the fields of clinical psychology, creative and meditative arts (mindfulness meditation), the Hollywood film industry, anthropology, marketing, and journalism.  I blend modalities from each of these fields to help individuals release a sticky grip on artistic, personal or work-related problems -- so creative energy can begin to move again.  My techniques break apart habituated thinking, illuminate untapped, innate potential, and catalyze change.  My clients consider me a quiet authority with a mission to help people thrive.  I work under strict confidentiality.  

Sampling of specific modalities:
  • Narrative & Solution-Focused psychotherapeutic inquiry
  • Mindfulness meditation & Contemplative counseling
  • Transformational Creative Arts & Art Therapy  
  • writer's-block breakthrough protocols
  • Callings Counseling (Discovery & Pursuit of Your Calling ™)
  • intention-purposed free writing, personal mission statements
  • ceremony & ritual to cultivate purpose and launch change​

ILLUMINATION ARTS is about . . .
illuminating, envisioning, revitalizing, creating, changing, healing & celebrating -- 
through skillful dialogue, transformational arts, guided contemplation & ceremony.

OTHER THINGS I DO . . . 

WRITER | EDITOR | PUBLISHER
  • ILLUMINATIONS* newsletter:  finding ease through mindfulness, compassion & creativity  (*subscribe below)
             -- published in conjunction with coursework taught by the San Francisco Zen Center 
  • free the joy! -- a practice newsletter on cultivating insight and delight based on content of the course "Awakening Joy," created by James Baraz
  • co-author:  Weddings, Funerals and Rites of Passage: sample ceremonies for Celebrants, Officiants and Ministers
  • books in the works:  Nutrition for Creatives, Unwrapping Presence: The Bountiful Gift of Mindfulness​

CERTIFIED "JOY" TEACHER
  • AWAKENING JOY:  an internationally recognized course on opening to life with appreciation, resilience and heart.  Rooted in practices of mindfulness meditation, self-reflection and learning to recognize possibilities for insight, change and delight.  Course information here.  Awakening Joy private coaching here.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER / FACILITATOR
  • for insight, compassion, creativity and awakening joy
  • for pain management and coping with chronic illness, including ME/CFS, "Long Covid" (which resembles ME/CFS), and Myasthenia Gravis

CEREMONY CONSULTANT
  • customized, personally meaningful, marriage-sustaining wedding vows for brides & grooms 
  • ceremony design & ideas for life milestones and special occasions

ARTIST
  • transformational arts facilitator 
  • illustration
  • mixed media

FOR FUN & GOOD
  • TED and TEDWomen Conference participant since 2012
  • Curator:  Art + Transformation Salons
  • Philanthropy & Impact Investing:
    • ​Equal Justice Initiative | committed to ending mass incarceration and protecting basic human rights
    • Dream Corps/Justice/#cut50 | a bipartisan effort to cut crime and incarceration in all 50 states
    • Toniic | the global action community for Impact investors
    • Acumen.org | changing the way the world tackles poverty
    • HSUS | farm animal protection
    • Open Medicine Foundation | funding collaborative research to solve ME/CFS  ​
  • Activist: ​Activating awareness about ME/CFS |  watch:  2017 Sundance award-winning documentary: UNREST​ |  learn:   #MEAction, Health Rising ​​

AND THEN THERE'S THIS THING ABOUT A HURRICANE AND SOME ART . . .
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I'm passionate about: 
catalyzing creativity and change
helping people find their muse
​using art and ceremony to transform lives
insight meditation
purposeful gatherings
spirituality & contemplative arts
clean water activism
the poetry of David Whyte, Pádraig Ó Tuama and American Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman
Susan Cain's book Quiet: The Power of Introverts
Japanese aesthetics
​the wisdom in nature and stillness
​awakening joy
​addressing unjust incarceration of human beings & animals

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I'm interested in:
just. about. everything.

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Contact:
tracym@illuminationarts.info
www.illuminationarts.info

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illuminating, revitalizing, envisioning, creating, changing, healing, celebrating
-- through skillful dialogue, transformational arts, guided contemplation, meditation instruction, and ceremony​

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