What people said about Eni's Compass workshop

“Hi Eni- Wow! What a wonderful three days it has been! This has been one of the most valuable classes I've taken in a very long time. I so appreciate you opening up your vault and passing out the treasure of your many years of hard work and insight. I finally feel like I can do something will all the information I've acquired over the last few years since starting Zentangle. Having a systematic way to process what I love about beautiful art is going to be groundbreaking. I'm so excited to try the steps on some of the other art I'm working on, as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this amazing gift!”
-Viveca Chenoweth, Compass August 2022

“Though it takes a lifetime to develop a voice you can call your own as an artist, Eni's Compass workshop provides a promising path to kickstart your own discovery journey. Eni has distilled years of her own journey to develop an eye-opening, clear, simple, actionable and repeatable system that anyone can follow. You can put it to work from day 1, incorporate it into your everyday practice and start getting results from the very beginning. A solid and invaluable first step in a lifetime journey.”
-Marah Villaverde, Compass August 2022

"Thank you Eni for a uniquely valuable course! I've been taking art classes for years, doing wonderful projects, but struggling to ever create my own original work. Your Compass method has unlocked doors for me which will change my approach art for the rest of my life. I am not magically able to churn out original masterpieces every time I create, but now I have the tools to do so if I want to! It is so liberating and empowering to have this Compass Method in my arsenal -- when I am motivated to create original, unique art, I have a roadmap, and when I just want to follow (copy) someone else's example, I won't be disappointed or frustrated with myself that I don't produce anything different. Because now I understand the difference, I can fully enjoy and embrace both paths. So, so, SO valuable, no matter what you do after this course. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!"
-Lisa Goldman, Compass August 2022

“I just finished Eni Oken’s Compass program and I have to tell you that it was invaluable.This intensive program opened up a whole new world for me in respect to being able to make art that is pleasing to my eye and fun for my hand to do.Whenever I let my intuition take the lead in my art it was always a hit or miss scenario. I was always told that great art came from the soul and the hands just followed. Eni taught me that is not always the case and her method of creation that has worked so well for her now can help me improve my skills and my art. I am forever grateful for having had the opportunity to participate in this program.”
-Susan Cohen, Compass August 2022

“Eni Oken's Compass Program created a shift in my Zentangle practice and completely changed the way I see art and how I approach my artwork. I have been a student of Eni's for many years and the Compass Program is the pinnacle of her knowledge and skill as an artist and teacher. I highly recommend the Compass Program, the information is so powerful it goes above and beyond anything I have ever learned in an art class before. My deepest gratitude and appreciation to you Eni, you are a treasure!“
-Michelle Hoerning, Compass August 2022

”Dear Eni, I am so happy and grateful that I could be a part of the Beta Compass program. This workshop has opened up a space of creativity for me beyond my imagination. Even though nothing is original in this world, but to be able to present my take with my flavours in it, not only requires courage but also the efforts. With this workshop, all this becomes easy, step by step and a lucid process. If you are one of those who find creating projects and taking them to the final stage a challenge or bringing in your flavour into your art piece, this is the right place.
If you find yourself needing a recipe book to creating Art and projects, here's the best way possible. It is a beautiful way of imbibing art and making it your own. Owning your art and discovering your style is the basic fundamental of this class.
I can promise you peeps, you'll never regret joining this program or Eni's art club or any of her classes because she make sure it's lucid and fun enough for people to get it. She will take you on a journey, a path, she has already taken with all honesty. The best teacher I could have for my art. Thankyou so much Eni, Love you loads.”
-Shivi Krishna, Compass August 2022

Before Eni’s Compass Workshop, I felt that my art pieces were something that any beginning tangler could do. And when I took classes from Eni and other artists, the pieces I made looked just like the examples done during the classes. Ugh! My art didn’t make me happy. Why couldn’t I draw something unique?
But then I took Eni’s Compass Workshop where she showed the process she uses to make her unique art. Eni was supportive and encouraging as she took us through simple exercises and showed us her own extensive case study demonstrating each step, including the missteps that she, and we, will inevitably go through. We went through the process a few times and had plenty of opportunities to ask questions. The process is simple and works, if we put in the time and the work.
Now I can make my own unique art!
-Joanne Gruchalski, Compass workshop August 2022

Hi, Eni! I am still reeling from the weekend! It's like opening a treasure chest and not knowing where to start. I sense that I am beginning to get the drift of your system and the power of it is dawning on my awareness. You are quite right that it is not a system that everyone will feel comfortable with, and personally I am measuring my needs and interests by the scale of yours. I am naturally intuitive in my art work, and that has been productive and satisfying to me. However, one facet of my creativity disbelieves - where is the expression? it seems to ask. Possibly I have simply been working without an "Idea Seed" or one that belongs to someone else. And, as I have continued to work, I have frequently abdicated my choices. Your system includes both aspects. I look forward with anticipation - and trepidation - to personal expression through these steps.
-Jean Melom, Compass workshop August 2022

“The Compass Level 2 beta program is excellent, achievable, and particularly helpful to Zentangle artists. I believe it would be a great help to beginning artists who are interested in learning how to start or progress in their chosen art arena. My 70 years of casual or controlled art courses never were so filled with suggestions that would assure better creativity, better organizing, better record keeping. You, Eni, are such an excellent teacher that I believe anyone who has a yearning to increase their library of imaginative lines, subjects, moods, colors, could benefit from the Compass procedures. Some artists rely on other sources of inspiration for much of their work.  I believe any artist interested in organizing, recording, and remembering grounded sources for idea suggestion, and processes of artistic attainment would benefit greatly from the artist training procedures you outline and clarify in this Compass program.”
Margaret Wingstedt, Compass Workshop August 2022