Dr. Niama L. Williams

Norristown, PA (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal

Blowing Up Barr

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Location: Norristown
Industry: Arts
Year Founded: 2008
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Description: Blowing Up Barriers Enterprises, true to its name, exists to help, especially stifled writers and artists, “blow up the barriers” keeping them from devoting their lives to their art, or to at least putting time into production of their art and placing it before the public at levels that breed satisfaction and deep contentment. Thus creativity workshops and awareness classes for those who envision another life but stall, repeatedly, at efforts to make that life their current, daily reality. The creativity workshops and awareness classes, entitled “Blowing Up Barriers: Attaining the Fully Imagined Life,” are geared toward "the career-discontented or those afraid to pursue their dreams." Participants focus on 29 weeks of drawing, creative writing, meditation and individual or group support as they envision then make deliberate moves toward "attaining the fully imagined life." A second series of workshops entitled “It’s Okay to Want: Eroticism and Survival of Sexual Trauma” serves a population close to Dr. Williams’ own personal experience and thus remains a significant part of her intuitive counseling ministry. Intuitive counseling, drawing, and creative writing as well as meditative reflection are the linchpins of Dr. Williams’ practice; they fuel and guide all insights, revelations, and breakthroughs. Workshops are only one aspect of the business: Dr. Williams has also published nine manuscripts (in hardback and in paperback) via print-on-demand publisher (URL removed). Intrigued by the speed, ease of upload and lack of initial set-up fees, Dr. Williams decided (URL removed) was the company for her. Finally, Dr. Williams promotes her work and that of her interviewees on her radio show, “Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes with Dr. Ni,” on which she interviews authors about their new books and writing lives. You can find her every first Saturday of the month from 12 – 1:30 p.m. EDT on (URL removed) parrying and thrusting with the new intelligentsia. Blowing Up Barriers Enterprises also has a non-profit wing, The Two-House Project, which exists for the creation and maintenance of The House of Intuitive Counseling (site of all BUB-E activities) and The House of the Discombobulated Writer, offering an 18-month residency for writers in need of financial recovery and a respite from the demands of necessary two-prong artist survival: art and a day job.