Fall 2025 Classes
"The Artist’s Way for Gay Men" class is an effective way to integrate valuable learning over time in a community format that promotes connection, honesty and risk-taking. Zoom calls each week allow the group to bond through the book, themselves, and the weekly tasks. Checking in regularly with others provides support and inspiration that will enhance the journey of self-discovery which the book lays out so beautifully.
The cost of the class is (payable by six monthly payments of $250 or one amount, $1500) You must purchase your own copy of the book. Please call or email me if you have any questions or want to know more about the class.
GAY SOUL - Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature with Sixteen Writers, Healers, Teachers, and Visionaries interviewed by Mark Thompson
Body Electric Facilitator Collin Brown will guide you through the revelatory book Gay Soul, Mark Thompson’s interviews of sixteen gay men who are writers, healers, teachers, and visionaries. The class also includes many videos to learn more about these gay men’s lives.
Each week you will be asked three questions to share about your thoughts, feelings, and ideas related to the chapter. This process will allow you to get to know a small group of men during these four months. You will share your ideas and feelings with them about the gay soul, gay spirit, nature, our bodies, our psyches, and the erotic. Over this time, you will know more about your own journey as a gay man, creating community, and enjoying your growth as a soulful elder.
Connect with other like-minded gay men in a supportive community. Deepen your experience of yourself as a gay man through sharing and learning from others.
Due to the length and structure of the workshop, missing one or two classes is not an issue.
About the book Gay Soul: Gay spirituality and sensibility come to light in these pages of striking portraits and interviews. Thompson brings out the unique contributions of esteemed gay men – including James Broughton, Paul Monette, Andrew Harvey, Harry Hay, Joseph Kramer, Malcolm Boyd, Ram Dass, and Clyde Hall – who have led interesting and valuable lives as gay men. Thompson elicits vivid musings on such provocative issues as third gender, S&M, ritual as ‘holy fire’, and spirituality in the age of AIDS. His interviews call out the deepest emotions of each of these vibrant leaders who reveal, as never before, the spirit and the soul of gay life.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please connect with Collin Brown at collinbrown@olympus.net.
Testimonials from past participants
"I am taking risks, I am taking a fresh outlook on creativity and the fears that often hold me back. I’m working at integrating the Morning Pages and at living one, continuous Artist’s Date – looking for new inspiration and being conscious of myself looking." Mark
"I’m trying to dive into things, both things I know I need to be do and things I’ve never done before, but would like to learn, try or to create." James
"I’m trying to step right into fear and hopefully through it. So often it’s based on faulty assumptions and it’s not so scary after all. I’m also trying to care less about what others think or how they may judge me and my creations." Daniel
"I'm looking within for what I know and what I may never know and trying to express both in my artwork. If I have something unique to contribute, I’d like to “do it my way.” Miguel
"I read the “Artist’s Way” several years ago. I think I did get significant benefit from it. But this was much more intense and had much greater depth because of doing it slowly and with a group." Bruce
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