Welcome. I hope you'll find this website helpful and interesting. My name is Pamela Yates and I sponsor this site. As a professional coach I try to help individuals identify, organize and focus on their important dreams and goals in the areas of meaning and creativity. As an artist and painter my work is focused on nature and the human journey, exploring these topics in ways that I hope nurture meaning, hope and balance in our lives. Using holistic language and methods I work with individuals and groups. My online art portfolio is located here.
Four things
Four things provide the relationship and focus for this website. I'm passionate about each one and they are
the creative process
teaching and sharing to support those who provide us with their beautiful creative work
helping nurture a worldwide Renaissance-like respect for artists and the arts
the ancient indigenous Circle process which restores balance in communities, families and nations
heartLinks for creativity and wellness
If you live near us in the Twin Cities check out therapeutic massage for relaxation and rehabilitation from Richard Watson at Heart Life Massage. Rich is my husband and I highly recommend him because he's kind, talented, intuitive, a skilled massage therapist and a really great guy
Read about creativity from writers around the world at Eric Maisel's Creativity Central
the Circle
Honor and acceptance for the diversity of life and belief amongst us is expressed by the universal symbol of the earth circle displayed in my studio. All people are honored and welcome: children, elders, veterans, people of all gifts and abilities, gender orientations, nations, ethnic and ancestral origins, colors, creeds, economic circumstances, people of any faith or none at all. The sacred hoop is mended when all voices are heard in the Circle.
walking the circle Home
I live with my husband Richard Watson a talented and kind licensed massage therapist. Our home is near the convergence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. We enjoy being here in the embrace of these two beautiful rivers, surrounded by floodplains and wetlands, suspended between the Northern Woodlands and the Prairies. We share this place with the people of many different Nations as well the plants, animals and birds who also make their home here.
