A free, virtual retreat for creative humans.
Four live events. Three days.
Coaching. Conversation. Community. Coworking.
May 9, 10, 11
Dear Creative Human,
If you’re like most of us living through the last few years, maybe you’re not feeling like your most creative self lately. You can’t seem to follow the thread of an idea, your to do list is messy and overwhelming, and you’re starting to think you hate everyone.
You don’t hate everyone, your life is not as messy as it feels right now, and all those threads of ideas and projects and thoughts will feel easier to follow once you start creating again.
You need creativity in your life. You know that. You’ve probably tried a few ways back in, and the pieces don’t seem to be lining up for that to happen.
You decided to do Morning Pages, but it turns out you might not be a morning person. You never know what to write, or whether you should make coffee or get dressed before you start writing. It seemed such a simple ritual, but it’s not working.
You took out an old set of watercolors. What could be easier?! But you don’t know what to paint or where to start and now you’re convinced that the paint is silently judging you from the corner of the room where you left it.
You signed up for a writing class. You enjoyed the class, you wrote every day, you created a piece of work you loved. Now it’s been a while and you haven’t touched your writing since.
You have lots of ideas, you feel the pull of a creative life, you’re just itching to make something. It’s just…not happening.
None of this means you’re not creative.
It probably just means you’re missing one - or all! - of the three most important things you need to live your most creative life.
You need to be intentional about the time and space you’re making for your creativity.
You don’t need a lot of time. You don’t need a lot of space. You don’t need a lot of energy.
You are invited to be honest about your capacity around these resources. Maybe you can’t write a book this season, but you can commit to writing a few times a week.
You are invited to say no more often. Maybe it’s time to quit the PTA.
You are invited to set up systems that shore up energy leaks in your life. Please stop writing the same thing on your to do list every day.
You need a system of gentle accountability around your creative practice.
You don’t need boot-camp-drill-sargeant type accountability. You don’t need to set goals for the sake of it. You don’t need anyone to be mean to you, especially yourself.
You are invited to spend time regularly with other creative humans.
You are invited to show up to dates with your creative practice.
You are invited to have at least one other person in the world know and care about your creative life.
You need to grant yourself radical permission to create.
You don’t need to act on every creative whim, or spend all your time in a dreamy artist headspace, or run away to a cabin in the woods to paint all day.
But you are invited to argue with the voices, internal or external, telling you that creating is silly.
You are invited to question your feelings of guilt around creative time.
You are invited to name the systems in our culture that devalue the time you spend creating what you find yourself called to create.
You are invited to Spring Creatrix Retreat where we’ll engage with all three of these areas over the course of three days.
Tuesday, May 9 at 4pm EST: Intentional Space Making
Wednesday, May 10 at 12pm EST: Creatrix Circle Open House
Wednesday, May 10 at 4pm EST: Radical Permission Granting
Thursday, May 11 at 4pm EST: Gentle Accountabillity
Each day at 4pm EST, we’ll gather virtually to explore a practice to help you ground into one of these ideas. We’ll have time each day for questions and conversation around the idea and the practice. On Wednesday at 12pm EST, be sure to join us for a Creatrix Circle Open House. Creatrix Circle is a two-hour creative coworking space. Come for the whole session or pop in as it works for your schedule.
I can’t wait to see what you’re creating!