Drawing Meditation Workshop: Mindful Creativity

An immersive week of mindful creativity with Maureen O’Neill

Set in the stunning landscape of the high desert, Ghost Ranch offers a beautiful and sacred space to slow down, breathe, and encounter both ourselves and the natural world around us. The Drawing Meditation Workshop is a weeklong immersive experience that combines guided meditation, breath awareness, intuitive mark-making, and slow-seeing. Through creative investigations using pastel, charcoal, and graphite, participants will explore drawing as a meditative, healing, and transformative practice.

Each session begins with guided meditation, breathing, or mantra repetition to center attention and release expectations. From this state of awareness, we’ll move into a variety of drawing approaches— observation, abstraction, and memory—using charcoal, graphite, and soft pastel. Writing reflections and group discussions will deepen understanding and help integrate the experience.

Designed for all levels of experience, this workshop emphasizes process over product—the now rather than the later—inviting participants to reconnect with their intuitive spirit and the living landscape of Ghost Ranch.

All levels of experience are welcome.