Creative Essentials: Week 3 of 6 | Virtual
A 6-week workshop to reclaim your power to create and experience joy with essential tools to nourish yourself when things fall apart.
Thursdays, October 16 - November 20 from 6:30 to 8:30pm with BONUS Creative Coworking on Mondays, October 20-November 17 from 1 to 2pm.
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
—Pema Chödron, When Things Fall Apart
About the Workshop
What are your creative essentials? When life feels like it’s one crisis after another, and just as you gain some ground, it falls away again, it can leave you feeling exhausted, unsure, and afraid to take the next step. Creative Essentials are practices and tools that help you reclaim your power to create and experience joy—not only during good times, but when things fall apart.
Creativity is born from chaos. It asks us to take risks to grow. And being a human is hard, especially when the world is on fire.
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the thought of caring for your creativity (Wait! Another relationship to tend?!) when you are already caring for so much, you might ask why even bother, it’s just my creativity.
Your creativity is your power.
Reclaim your power to create and experience joy with essential tools for grounding your nervous system, connecting with your heart, and nourishing your body, mind, and soul in this 6-week workshop to support resiliency and growth for creative seekers who are rebuilding after life has fallen apart.
Who Is This For
Anyone experiencing groundlessness or anxiety about the energy they have or don’t have to give to their creative practice.
Anyone looking to get unstuck and improve their decision making skills in a fun, creative, and joyful way.
Anyone who is prone to overthinking what they “should” do (in their job, business, relationships, etc.) and wants to cultivate more personal autonomy.
Anyone who wants to use the creative process to cultivate a personal toolkit to support healing and growth.
Anyone looking to connect with other creative seekers in a recovery or reclamation phase of their life.
How to Register
Registration and payment is made through the Inward & Artward School of Creativity.
Sliding scale pricing is available!
Reserve your space in the class HERE.
Supplies Needed
Supplies needed: Journal, pen/pencil, index cards, and optional various art supplies such as colored pencils, markers, watercolors, collage—anything you might use to doodle or decorate paper (more ideas and suggestions will be given in class).
Optional books to further your experience: The Artist’s Way Toolkit and The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödron, The Burnout Workbook by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski, Keep Moving by Maggie Smith, and The Artist’s Deck by Beth Pickens.
About the Facilitator
J. Faye D’Avanza is an artist, writer, editor, holistic librarian, yogi, and creative guide who nurtures creative joy—at work, at home, in the community, and everywhere in-between. She finds her purpose in sharing stories and tools to help you reignite, keep, and offer your creative spark to others in her indie newsletter KEEPING CREATIVE TIME, and through her work as the founder and creative guide of Library of Care, a resilient, resourceful, a re-imagined space to help people and organizations transform the way they care about creativity, move beyond burnout, and reconnect with what they love.