Performance artist, poet, and creativity facilitator, Elizabeth Welles is a change-agent who loves the art of storytelling in any form and playing with the Word, be it on the stage or the page. She is an expert in the field of journaling, storytelling, and relaxation meditations and has worked in the corporate and theatrical worlds traveling, performing, studying and teaching both in this country and abroad.

As an actor, writer and naturally gifted speaker, her performance programs entertain, educate, and have inspired people to move away from unhappy job situations, journey cross-country, finish old projects and start new ones. Watching her you experience laughter that heals and tears that bring relief that leave you smiling in that feel-good kind of way.

An accomplished wordsmith, she edited and compiled the book, Women Celebrate, and composed the CD, Meditation for Relaxation. The author of wacky and dramatic monologues, screenplays, articles, novels, poetry and song, she wrote and performed Speak the Lands of My Heart, about one woman’s cross-cultural journey into the heart of India, and she co-wrote Visions of America, a film by Joe Sohm. As an actor she performs her own works on the New York and Los Angeles stage and at a variety of venues. She has also performed in television and film productions, and reads her works on the radio.

Elizabeth enhances creativity, reduces stress, and deepens peace in clients and groups who work with her and have heard her speak. She brings an eclectic background to her work as creativity facilitator, consultant, and coach. She founded The Isis Method for Stress Reduction in 1992 and The Four Wisdoms of Creativity in 1999. She regularly lectures on writing and the creative process and has taught journal writing, storytelling, meditation, yoga, guided imagery and stress reduction encouraging people the world over to explore their unique creative abilities, adding joy, lightness and spice to their lives. Her private clients artfully move with the transitions in their lives to explore and fulfill personal dreams and goals, while learning to follow the current of their own intuitive voices.

Elizabeth swings from branch to branch, taking risks and going where no one has gone before in terms of transition and change. She leaps off the cliff and lands on her feet. If you’d like to hear and learn how to go with the flow, navigating the sometimes rocky and enthusiastic joy of change, then she is the speaker and performer for you. As a creativity jump-starter, as artist, consultant, and communicator, she enhances the Creative Spirit. Whether standing in front of an audience of business executives or a crowd of theatre patrons, magic happens. Her mastery of language reframes, uplifts, inspires and renews while her quirky compassionate humor and warmth endear her to audiences around the world.

A Personal Note from Elizabeth

The Hand of Grace and Fate has played a wondrous role in my life. The peace movement and the creative braided in a mystical way to continually move me, dance me, and wake me into unknown territory. One of my earliest memories is marching in Washington DC at the age of five. The offspring of peace activists, and a mother who was a community organizer for Women Strike for Peace, this early influence coupled with the inherent creativity I find in people and in all life, and continues to have a profound effect on my life’s direction.

I especially gravitated to the Word and writing as the hub of my wheel. It’s where I began at age seven. With a small black book, on the family’s way to Europe, my mother said, “This is your diary to write and draw in.” I often wondered what insight made her gift me that book. Without the restrictions of grammar and syntax, not knowing how to spell or keep words on the line, I was free. The blank page is like God for me, that compassionate, open space where everything can be heard, witnessed, revealed. I can’t stop writing, it’s like the words want me, write me. It’s the one thing I do consistently. It’s like eating, breathing, drinking, peeing. When I’m on a roll, the muse talks at all times of day and night. If anything it would be nice to tame her and give her hours, but she won’t have any of that.

When I first envisioned Peace Communications, I saw it as a loosely knit network of people, groups and organizations in a world where the creative gifts, talents and heart’s desires of all people from all walks of life are nurtured and supported.

I saw Peace Communications creating a Peace Camp for children of war-torn countries, sanctuaries for healing and celebration, where people from diverse regions of the world, children, their families, and soldiers who have fought in war, would gather in a new kind of camaraderie to relax and engage in the art of play, laughter, creativity, and peace.

As for my writing, I am currently finishing manual turned book, Journaling for Well-Being and Peace: From Catharsis to Creativity to Writing as Social Action and another book, The Four Wisdoms of Creativity, honing material for a play on women in war and peace, and finding the time to color and paint as I can. Then I will return to my novels!!!

Please join Peace Communications and myself in envisioning Universal Peace. It is my deepest joy.

In Gratitude,

Elizabeth Welles