Listening with Bestselling Author Julia Cameron
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Bestselling Author of The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron has published a follow-up book, The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention.
Julia Cameron has inspired millions of people, from Eat, Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert to Alicia Keyes and Pete Townsend, to Dancing With the Stars’ Julianne Hough and Brandy, to famed photographer Helmut Newton. The consensus is that without her, there would be no renewed craze for journaling, no adult coloring books…
Julia’s new book The Listening Path showcases how deeper, more profound listening can open a path to creative and personal transformation. Outlined as a six-week course, she offers the tools to become better listeners—to our environment, the people around us, and to ourselves.
She stresses that the reward of truly listening is immense, heightening our attention and opening up pathways for insight, clarity and healing. Above all, the book shows how listening creates connections and ignites a creativity that will resonate through every aspect of our lives.
“Listening is something we all do—and something we can all do more of,” says Julia. “Every life can be improved by improving our listening.”
While The Artist’s Way brought creativity into the mainstream conversation, in business, and in everyday life, The Listening Path outlines new tools for that can lead to dep. The tools are organized into weekly exercises, challenging readers to expand their ability to listen in a new way, beginning by listening to their environment and culminating in learning to listen to silence.
About Julia Cameron
Hailed by the New York Times as “The Queen of Change,” Julia Cameron is the best-selling author of more than forty books, fiction and nonfiction and a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. What makes her tools so effective are that they are based in practice, not theory, and she considers herself “the floor sample of her own toolkit.” An article in The New York Times cited an instance where Julia did her ‘Morning Pages’ - a daily exercise from The Artist’s Way - that resulted in a relocation from New York City to Santa Fe.
Ultimately, the success of The Artist’s Way is in the simplicity of its message; focus on yourself, respond to your desires, and face your inner critic. It’s a message that has resonated so much that she’s been written about in numerous publications including the Atlantic and The New Yorker. She has also taught everywhere from The Smithsonian to Esalen, The New York Times to the Omega Institute.
Her in-person interviews are plenty including an appearance on Russell Brand’s podcast.
For so many reasons, Julia is credited with founding a movement that has enabled millions to realize their creative dreams. The Artist’s Way has been translated into forty languages and sold over five million copies to date.
Tune in to the talk with Julia Cameron and her long time editor Joel Fotinos on February 17 at 6 PM, hosted in collaboration with our friends from Books & Books.