WORKSHOP SERIES

The Seasonal Creator

Attuning Your Creative Practice to the Energies of the Season

  • Held on Zoom

  • Spring Workshop: Tuesday, March 19, 2024

  • 3:30pm to 5pm PT or 6:30pm to 8pm PT

  • All workshops are pay-what-you-can, $5 to $30 suggested

  • Registration will open on Monday, March 4th

EACH SEASON

Learn to work with the energy of the season in a way that honours your own fluctuating energy levels so that you can pace yourself throughout the year.

The Seasonal Creator is for you if…

  • You want to understand how the current seasonal energy can influence your life and creative practice.

  • You’re interested in working with your own ebbs and flows and fluctuating energy levels.

  • You crave change, but also rhythms (seasonal cycles offer us both).

  • You want to reflect on how the next few months might unfold before you start actually planning your projects and creating your tasks lists for the season.

  • You want to get away from annualized thinking, which is the unspoken belief that there is plenty of time in the year to make things happen (including those new year’s resolutions).

  • You’re interested in the idea of decolonizing time, which means recognizing the ways in which the Gregorian calendar causes harm by insisting on seasonless productivity.

  • You want to be more in tune with the natural world.

  • You’re interested in the ideas behind ‘slow living’, which is ultimately about pacing rather than hustling.

Here’s how the flow of each workshop will go:

BEGINNING

Each workshop will start with brief introductions and a check-in via the chat.

We’ll then do a grounding and breathing exercise to arrive, relax our nervous systems, and co-regulate.

 I’ll give a talk that will cover:

  • Reasons to Attune Your Creative Practice to the Energies of the Season

  • The Energies of the Season and The Season’s Shadow

  • Energetically-Aligned Kinds of Creative Work for the Season

 I’ll read to you from one of Melissa Harrison’s four anthologies for the changing seasons.

 

MIDDLE

There will be twenty minutes of quiet time to work on the reflection prompts in your PDF workbook (which you’ll receive via email the day before the workshop).

We’ll then go into smaller breakout rooms to share some of what came up for us while responding to the prompts.

END

We’ll come back together again to share takeaways and to close the session.

I’ll read another piece from one of Melissa Harrison’s four anthologies for the changing seasons.

You’ll be invited to check-out via the chat before you go.

Those who have questions about The Creative Good are invited to stick around and ask them. That way, anyone who wants to know more about my offerings has given their consent to receive the information. 

WELCOME TO 
THE SEASONAL CREATOR WORKSHOPS

 FAQs

  • This workshop series is for adult creators at all levels (such as writers, visual artists, musicians, and craftsfolks) who, like me, have been most impacted by patriarchy and other oppressive systems.

  • Nope. You can register for as many as you’d like. The introduction for each workshop is similar, but otherwise there’s fresh content each time.

  • Nope! I really want this workshop to feel like self-care, so if that means hiding in your pajamas, that’s a-okay. You can participate via audio and chat only, or you can choose to not participate at all, in which case please just put an “X” in front of your screen name so we know and when you’re invited to a breakout room, just stay put.

  • The day before, you’ll be sent a Zoom link for the workshop that you’ll want to keep handy. You’ll also be sent a PDF workbook with the reflection prompts we’ll be responding to during the workshop. If you can, please print this workbook out. If you don’t have a printer, you can also refer to it on your screen during the workshop and use a separate notebook for responding to the prompts.

    Again, because I want this workshop to feel like self-care, I encourage you to set-up in a cozy way with nods to the season. This might be in the form of a candle, flowers or other natural objects, coloured pens, etc. Don’t forget a nice beverage too!

  • I’m afraid not. However, if you miss the workshop you’ll still get the workbook and can do the reflection prompts independently.

Workshops are pay-what-you-can in order to include folks at all different economic levels (not to get a deal). If having to pay $30 would prohibit you from taking the workshop, please pay less.

$5 to $30 CAD suggested

Registration will open on Monday, March 4th.

Please come back then.