Heidi Parkes: Habits as a Maker
Mon, Sep 18
|Zoom Presentation
How can we observe our habits and how do we create change? This VIDEO lecture investigates habits around creativity, bodily movements, and more. Program is free for current MCQ members. Not a member yet? Click "Join MCQ" button above.


Time & Location
Sep 18, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Zoom Presentation
About the Event
How can we observe our habits and how do we create change? This VIDEO lecture investigates habits around creativity, bodily movements, and more. Heidi approaches this with background knowledge in hand quilting, art education, and yoga therapy. This lecture will not tell you which habits are good or bad, but will instead pose questions for self-reflection so that you might be better able to see and understand your own habits. Then, it will offer practical techniques for creating change. This change can help to break through limiting beliefs, and can help in areas where willpower is not enough.
Before Heidi was born in Chicago, IL in 1982, her grandmother organized a collaborative family quilt to commemorate her birth. This set the tone for a life centered on the handmade, where sewing, mending, cooking, canning, woodworking, photography, ceramics, painting, and plasterwork were the norm.
Now based in Milwaukee, her quilting and…