Reignite: 12 Weeks of Creative Self-Discovery

With all the distractions in our lives, finding the time and space for our creative selves is increasingly challenging. When we lose our connection to our artistic process, our sense of creativity can feel fractured or nearly unrecognizable, and our work runs the risk of becoming thin and inauthentic.

In this course, we’ll use Julia Cameron’s famous creativity text, The Artist’s Way, as a jumping off point and inspiration for finding or renewing our creative selves. Every other week, we’ll meet on Zoom for a discussion about the sections of her book, using the larger topics as the basis for our conversation and pulling both from her text and other texts, like The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, among others, to dig deeper into these concepts. With each section, we’ll explore how what we’re learning applies to our creative process, and how to use these discoveries when we hit roadblocks in our work.

This is a 6-week course that spans 12 weeks, with bi-weekly Zoom meetings. I’ll post writing and creativity prompts online in the weeks between Zoom sessions, and you’ll be able to post your responses to these prompts. Any feedback given on your writing in this course will be positivity-focused, and will not include traditional critique. Throughout, you’ll get support and share ideas with me and your coursemates in the online course platform.

Who This Course is For

Writers and artists of all skill levels would benefit from this class. Whether you’re in the middle of working on a project, starting a new project, or trying to tap back into the parts of your creativity and artistry that have grown distant, this class is for you!

Learning and Writing Goals

Learning Goals

In this course, you will:

• Incorporate creativity more into daily life.
• Build techniques for accessing personal creativity in hard times and throughout writing projects.
• Explore creative blocks and develop personalized strategies for overcoming them.
• Engage in a supportive community of artists and writers, sharing ideas and insights along the way.

Writing Goals

In this course, you will: 

• Develop a consistent journaling or creative writing practice that nurtures your artistic voice.
• Respond to weekly prompts designed to spark creativity and self-discovery.
• Use personal reflection and creative exploration to deepen your understanding of your current or future projects.
• Experiment with different forms of creative expression without the pressure of critique, focusing instead on process and play.
• Generate new ideas for future stories or pieces of writing.

Zoom Schedule

Every other week, we will meet on Zoom for a lecture, discussion and Q & A, and some generative writing exercises. All of the meetings will take place on Wednesdays from 7-8:30pm CST. Our meetings will take place on June 4th, June 18th, July 9th, July 23rd, August 6th and August 20th. 

Course Syllabus

First Class: Safety and Identity

Safety is key to the creative process, so in this week, we’ll focus on what creating a safe environment means to us and how that can support our creative selves. We’ll then explore what it means to do this from an authentic place, beginning to tap into how we define our identity as a creative.

Second Class: Power and Integrity

When we tap into our creative selves and uncover where our values lie, we can create with power and integrity. In this week, we’ll dig into where our power is rooted, how that informs our creative and artistic work, and explore how to create our personal definition of integrity as an artist.

Third Class: Possibility and Abundance

In a world telling us what is not possible and trying to sell us ways to feel abundant, our sense of each can become dulled, which can stymie our artistic work. So, in this week, we’ll explore techniques to shift our perspective in an effort to open ourselves up seeing possibility and abundance around us.

Fourth Class: Connection and Strength

When we lose connection with our creative selves, working on an artistic project can feel like pulling teeth. In this week, we’ll dive into how to trust that deep connection we have with our creativity, and how to find our own inner strength to keep going when we feel disconnected from it.

Fifth Class: Compassion and Self-Protection

In order to freely create, we must have compassion for ourselves and our work, and find a way to set healthy boundaries with the world around us and in the shaping of our work. In this week, we’ll look at our own barriers to finding compassion for ourselves and discuss how and why boundaries are vital to the creative process.

Sixth Class: Autonomy and Belief

In our final week, we’ll explore the importance of writing for ourselves first, and how crucial this is to creating work that is unique and authentic to us. We’ll then dip into what it means to have belief and a sense of faith in the process of creating and in our deeper creative sides.

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