Creativity is more than making art. As a spiritual practice, creativity is also soul care, creation care, and culture care. As image bearers of God we labor as co-creators with God, healing self and others while transforming the world around us. He makes all things new.
​About
Innovare is Latin for "Innovation". When most people hear the word innovation they think of some novel invention, or original creation that no one has ever thought of or created before. But there really isn't anything new under the sun. However, to innovate is to renew, to restore, or to change some thing or some process in such a way that in it's transformation it is restored to it's original purpose, but even better than before, more beautiful and more effective.
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As image bearers of God we labor as co-creators with God, healing self and others while transforming the world around us. Creativity is more than making art. As a spiritual practice, creativity is also soul care, creation care, and culture care.
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God makes all things new. To that end Innovaré exists to assist others in their walk with God, to awaken their creativity, and to help them experience renewal through transformative retreats, spiritual direction, and imaginative workshops.
Ron McClelland
SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR WORKSHOP & RETREAT LEADER
About Me
​I'm a spiritual director, and workshop/retreat leader with a unique background as a theater practitioner, professor, and pastor, which gives me a unique perspective and ability to work with diverse people in various vocations and environments.
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I’m dedicated to the spiritual nurture & care of artists and creative people from all walks of life. By offering spiritual direction and creative workshops and classes, I create environments where people of diverse backgrounds and vocations can deepen their faith, nurture their creativity, and find rest and renewal through retreat.
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Bio: Ron McClelland (BFA, MA, CSD) is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (BFA Acting), and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology where he earned a Masters in Christian Studies (Theology and Culture), and a Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction.
