Welcome to Dream. Create. Relate.

A 4-week creative attunement program to bring you into authentic engagement with your creative process.

[Listen to me talk about this program in a nine minute audio or read the edited version below.]

Often we have this linear idea of how our creative process should work.

Or we might think about creativity as a cyclical, circular process, like a moon cycle or seasonal cycle: beginning, middle and end, waxing energy, peak energy, waning energy, birth, death, and rebirth. 

As a proponent of creative cycles, I’ve been noticing lately the way in which I can feel stuck within that model.

Here's what I mean—using the name of this program (dream.create.relate.) for example—we dream up an idea, then we create the idea, we make it, it comes into being, and then we share it or show it or tell it.

Here's what I'm deeply excited to explore with this creative attunement program:

What if these could actually be three separate buckets?

The reason that’s so captivating to me is: 

It allows us to be in all three of those buckets simultaneously.

It allows us to dream about what we want to dream about, create what we want to create, and then, relate or connect or reach out where we want to reach out.

Free your flow, creativity, and engagement.

I believe, that when we allow these three buckets—dream, create, relate—to be engaged with separately, releasing the pressure for them to be connected or make sense, we become deeply rooted in what is happening right now.

So let’s start with what we have right now. Let’s begin. Let's build trust in the technology and pleasure of our creativity. 

• Let’s begin by acknowledging the three different buckets of our creative process.

• Let’s fill those up with what we’re currently doing, currently interested in, currently dreaming about, currently wanting to connect with others about.

• Let's engage them as they are and I bet we will see the connections and even if we don’t we will both feed these buckets and be fed by them. 

We need this kind of soul engagement and nourishment and connection to what matters most to us

—in our dream life, in our creative, making life and in our relationships, our community engagement, our closeness with nature, our closeness with ourselves.

A few things i think might happen:

• A healing balm for perfectionism, procrastination, isolation, feeling stuck, feeling overwhelmed, creative confusion, doubts, overthinking, or overacting.

• Letting go of the grind, the perfection, the rules. Reprogramming how you talk to yourself about creativity and about being the best, most productive version of yourself.

• A way to personally cope with and feel like you’re participating in positive change in the world and that you have agency in your life.

• You already have all the knowledge and enough tools. Let yourself attune to your own creative process and timing.

• Ultimately this is about being in dynamic presence.

Meet yourself within your creative process.

Meet others who long to reconnect with their creativity in a fresh, new, gentler way. 

You may be surprised by the strength, peace and connection you find at the creative core of your being.

What to expect:

• Tools to inquire, engage and connect you with YOUR current creative process such as free writing, mind mapping, visualization, imagery (collage, tarot/oracle cards), and stillness.

• Sharing and encouragement among participants.

• Permission to follow your heart.

Details:

• We’ll meet Saturdays (3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22) from 10-11:30am PST.

• You’ll need curiosity, kindness, and a desire to engage with your creative process.

• Cost: $125 for 4 weeks.