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This course is a guide to starting when you don't know how to begin; a peek into the framework I use to build my life and projects. And a reminder that you already have everything you need.
We’ll use various mediums, media, and practices including (but not limited to) tarot, enneagram, poetry, your nervous system, sensuality, and embodiment, case studies, and more.
Week 1: Where are you?
wake up / notice / observe / pay attention
We are taking this week to orient ourselves in space and contextualize exactly where we are and who we are. This week is about waking up to what you already have and seeing it with new eyes.
Week 2: What do you have?
inventory / gratitude / archive / directory
This week is all about taking stock of what you already have at your disposal from a grounded, realistic perspective.
Week 3: What do you need?
identify / acknowledge / ask / receive / stop suffering
This week is about facing the hard stuff, mapping out where you need help, naming what feels impossible, and asking yourself how you can build in ease.
Week 4: What do you want?
desire / pleasure / curiosity / whimsey / delight / abundance
This week is about dreaming, world building, and play. Anything is possible (leave your inner critic at home!)
Week 5: How do these fit together?
cross reference / trickster energy / stubborn gladness
And finally, we will cross reference all the data you’ve gathered for the past four weeks and see what can be made of all the pieces of your life. Where your needs and desires can nourish each other. What you have to give, and where you need support.
We will meet LIVE throughout the month of January, 2024
Tuesday's from 6-8pm central
Classes will be recorded and uploaded within 24hrs
This is not a course to take one time, this is a guide to return to over and over again. You can apply it to teeny tiny bite sized practices, or it can support bigger projects like starting a business or completely re-ordering your life. I don't have a magic potion and I hope you finish this course asking more questions than when you begin. The magic is you, I'm just offering up the trellis I use, for you to modify and use, to grow along at your own rate.
This is the system I use in my Brain Orgies, It's the way I build my personal practice around joy, how I started The 4A Project and Saturday Morning Carton, and the way I evaluate my life and start again and again – and I'm finally writing it all down. It's scrappy, realistic, and dreamy. We will toggle between sustaining yourself on what you already have, while absolutely positively romanticizing your life, letting anything be possible, and making it all ritual.
I will be answering all the questions for myself; I promise to be honest, and not polish up the rough bits. I'll share my responses through video and audio recordings, drawings, and photos. I'll also offer up worksheets, and other downloadable resources for you to reference and integrate into your life.
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This course is me creating the thing I need. With what I have. It's literally an illustration of what I'm going to be teaching you to do. ✨ So meta. ✨
I need a container, framework, and reference to hold me - I need a reminder that I'm a badbitch and can do this. I need to pause, return to gratitude, take stock of everything I have, cross reference it with what I need, and build a symbiotic relationship between the two. And I'm just cocky enough to believe that this lens of abundance/joy/creativity will bubble over and spill out into my community and make the world a little bit softer.
Join me it you too are in a similar place.
Frequently Asked Questions
I started this little sales page with the statement that you already have everything you need. And I really believe that. It's perhaps a terrible marketing plan, but you don't need to spend a penny to build your creative practice, shift your life, or dream up endless possibilities.
But if you want a partner in this adventure, if my strange rambling and irreverent ways call to you, if this feels nourishing and exciting, then join! But there is no rush. When and if the time is right for us to work together it'll happen. <3
Your Instructor
Artist / Designer / Educator / Author / Creative Coach
Hi, hello! Welcome to yet another pocket of the internet that I am using as a portal into my brain, and container for my emotions. Here I'm organizing my thoughts and feels into the format of online classes. You can also find me on Patreon and Instagram sharing similar things in various formats, or peep one of my two books, My Body, My Home and Feel Something Make Something.
I'm an illustrator and designer, cloud watching feeler, new poetry convert, wayward design professor, and a queer gentle parent. I'm irreverent, silly, and deeply romantic about what art-making and feeling your feels can do for you and the world.