Is This You?
You’ve always been creative or artistic–maybe you even have a degree in Fine Art–but you have NO Time to make anything anymore.
- You feel like this essential part of you is invisible to other people–friends, co-workers, maybe even your family.
- You yearn to be creating, but you can’t figure out how to get started again.
- You feel most yourself when you’re creating, but somehow, it never seems to happen.
- Perhaps you buy supplies and feel excited about new projects, but then life gets in the way, the project never happens, and the supplies just seem to languish in the corner, making you feel guilty every time you look at them.
This is all so understandable. Most artistic people don’t get to be creative for a living, and between working and taking care of your family, it’s so easy for your creativity, this essential part of yourself, to get sidelined.
After a while, you can start to feel like you don’t have any ideas anyway, that perhaps you just aren’t creative anymore.
But this isn’t true. Your creativity may be hibernating, but it definitely isn’t gone.
At Jackson Street Studios, we’ve got great solutions for getting you back to your creative self.
How it Works
To get yourself creating again, to bring this essential part of you to the foreground of you life, it requires 3 things: structure, support, and commitment to yourself.
Those three things can seem like a tall order, but that’s where we come in.
At Jackson Street Studios (and my blog, makegreatstuff.com) we offer you the structure and support that will help you develop a long term commitment to yourself and your creativity so that you can really weave creativity back into your life, become bolder with the work that you do create, and begin to make things regularly again.
Right now we offer a wonderfully supportive monthly workshop called The Creative Breakthroughs Technique. We spend an evening making collages using a simple technique that provides enough structure to free you from self-censorship while still leaving plenty of room for your own unique creative expression. Learn more about it here: The Creative Breakthroughs Technique.
These classes come with a crucial one-on-one follow up coaching component that provides much needed support and really makes the experience lasting. This one-on-one attention is so helpful for nurturing your reawakened creativity and helps you identify your creative goals and dreams more clearly.
Ongoing coaching programs are available as well to help create personalized strategies designed specifically with your creative needs and desires in mind.
The Creative Breakthroughs Technique Workshop is the cornerstone to getting your creative groove back. Come once or twice to get yourself jump-started, or really make a commitment to yourself and your creativity (and save money in the long run) by signing up every month.
Setting aside this structured time guarantees that you’ll make work every month, gives you a chance to experience the camaraderie of other artistic souls, and develops you artistically as well.
All this without having to buy materials, find space or clean up!
In addition, if you sign up for The Chrysalis Project–Group Creativity Coaching it will reinforce the workshop and really help you define your creative goals and start bringing your creativity to the foreground of your life.
I’ll be offering even more classes at Jackson Street Studios in a variety of techniques that will further spark your creativity.
These include fabulous classes that will help you create family heirloom quality gifts you’ll be proud to give, fun techniques that help you experiment, and a method for developing your personal imagery.
The best way to get yourself started is to sign up for updates from Make Great Stuff and join us at the next Creative Breakthroughs Technique workshop.
If you’re thinking that you should be able to just get yourself creating again on your own, read this article: A Case of the Shoulds.