Welcome to the Center for Creative Intelligence. Founded by Gayle Van Gils and Deborah Vetter, it is our mission to provide innovative educational programs that demonstrate how to journey beyond self-created boundaries. We facilitate this process through highly creative workshops called The Essential Path, contemplative tools for deepening awareness and joy, and individual coaching at a personal or business level. 

Please join our evolving Global Community of support. Together we can create a more awakened world. We offer gratitude to the lineage of wisdom, the cumulative Human Experience that has brought us to this point, and especially to those who have guided us.  Explore the site and sign-up for an upcoming workshop or design a workshop to experience this new form of education for all ages!

The Essential Path Workshops

The Essential Path is comprised of six educational programs designed to introduce you to the full spectrum of your human potential. The simple and profound practices you will be offered in these programs will develop the six facets of your being (as described below) in order to awaken your creative intelligence and bring balance to your life.  They also will empower you to be a catalyst for creating a more awakened world.  In our work as the Center for Creative Intelligence we draw on the wisdom of human experience to offer an essential path to finding solutions to the problems that face us individually and as a global society.

We offer the following workshops from The Essential Path.  We can also create customized workshops to fit the specific needs of your group or organization.

All of our programs include:
Leadership by experts in their field
Creative activities
Meditative and contemplative exercises
Small group and individual interaction
Relevant and cutting edge information

  • Mental Clarity
    We all know the feeling of an undisciplined mind that pulls our attention from one thing to another.  In this workshop we will explore ancient and modern techniques that tame the mind and harness its energy so that we can see clearly what needs to be done, and how to do it. 

  • Intuitive Insight

    In this free-flowing workshop we will learn how to connect with and trust what life is showing us.  We will explore the magic of being in the moment and the meaning of coincidence.  We will learn to “trust the process” as we listen to the voice within. 

  • Self Expression
    A meaningful life reflects that which is unique in each of us.  Sometimes what that gift is may not be apparent to us, or we have learned to push it deep inside of ourselves and not to let it out.  In this workshop we will identify our obstacles to self-expression and transform them, in order to explore our passion and invite it to dance with us.   Then we will explore how to develop a practice of self-expression that connects us with our genuine self. 

  • Open Heart
    Fear causes us to close our hearts, both to ourselves and to others.  In this workshop we will begin to discover how this mechanism works in our life, and how to trust our tender hearts.  We will explore our obstacles to an open heart and learn how to increase compassion toward ourselves and others. We will see how gentleness to ourselves can profoundly affect all who are a part of our lives.

  • Body and Mind   

  • In this workshop we offer tools for synchronizing body and mind to develop a practice of self-care that includes generating compassion toward oneself and healing for one’s body. We will learn to tap into a natural energy and wisdom that allows us to let go of the limited stress of today's world.

    Emotional Wisdom
    In this workshop we will identify and explore the emotional energies that we all commonly experience.  We will begin to understand which energies dominate in our personal and work lives, and how to use this knowledge to transform that energy so that it enhances our life.

  • Special Workshops

    Authentic Communication

    This workshop combines the Open Heart and Mental Clarity modules.  An open heart and mind lead directly to interest in and curiosity about our world and others.  Genuine interest is the key to authentic communication.  Tools to improve how you interact with others are the heart of this workshop.

  • Creative Intelligence at Work

    This workshop using material from the Mental Clarity module is directly applicable to your work and daily life.  It is a unique interactive seminar that will inspire you to question and go beyond your current ways of thinking, shine light on your hidden creativity, gain insight into shifting habits that hold you back, and  make the changes you desire.

The Three Foundations

What we offer at the Center for Creative Intelligence is based on these foundational principles:

 

Human Experience
Cumulative wisdom that we inherit from our predecessors.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.  It is not complicated but it takes courage.  It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
                      ~ Pablo Casals

 

The Essential Path
Education to cultivate one's inner wisdom and balance.

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
                      ~ Bertrand Russell

 

Global Community
The wisdom and support of all of us on the planet.

The human being of the West has abandoned being human and has turned himself into an individual....community has died in them.
   ~ Nicolas Aguilar Sayritupac, Aymara Indian, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
 

More infornation on The Three Foundations is available here.