Declares a devotion of gratitude with patient attention;
to observe, learn of, and celebrate every participants’ individual skills, talents, abilities and unique voice in their creative expression though the art form;
to stay out of the way, in a commitment to honor the freedom that only the art form inculcates;
to help participants recognize that the beauty in the creative act is experienced through their own relationship with the discipline of the art form and is available for a lifetime of joy, perseverance, work, manifestation, and development;
to be sensitive, as this relationship will change over time as they change and grow over time;
to model that fulfillment is in the dedicated work of making, not in success, approval, accolades, or fame;
to live in gratitude for the ability and opportunity to be made in the making of artifacts, as this is the humble source of all genuine artistic expression.
– JC Heisler