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Current Offering: Starting April 2026

Opening What is Closed: Re-Connecting to the Creative Process

This 6 week course for artists, writers and other creatives offers a container to reveal and dismantle what is blocking freedom and joyfulness within one’s art-making process. The course will approach this from two directions: shining a light on unhelpful habits and judgements that one has accumulated, while at the same time supporting connection to what is truly fascinating and meaningful to us.

Meeting your own creative life where it’s at.

There are no specific projects or techniques offered within this course – it’s not taking a break from your chosen medium or themes. Instead, these courses offer a chance to enter into relationship with what you are drawn to, what you love, from new perspectives. The intention is not to have an adventure through going somewhere else, or doing something totally new, but instead to re-enliven the aspects of your own working life from within it.

Meeting your own creative life where it’s at.

There are no specific projects or techniques offered within this course – it’s not taking a break from your chosen medium or themes. Instead, these courses offer a chance to enter into relationship with what you are drawn to, what you love, from new perspectives. The intention is not to have an adventure through going somewhere else, or doing something totally new, but instead to re-enliven the aspects of your own working life from within it.

We will have structured time to work within our chosen medium within each session. This course does not , and time to share about our creative experience during the sessions. Working together but independently allows us to lean on community and feel supported as we explore our own blocks, habits, and deep inspiration.

Keeping yourself in the room

When the creative process closes down it’s most often related to

2026 Dates TBA – Sign up for registration notifications here.

Art as a Path of Practice:

What comes from exploring creative process as a spiritual path.
This 5 week course will lean into the particular beauty and depth of the art-making process that has nothing to do with worldly successes and failures. This offering will include weekly talks that make connections between creative process and spiritual/meditative practice, guided meditations, and a chance to explore the spiritual dimension of our art-process within group work session. All types of creatives welcome.
2026 Dates TBA – Sign up for registration notifications here.

About Creativity Workshops & Courses

A supportive, collective container for opening and deeping one’s creative process

There is something magical that happens when we share the intention to move beyond limiting beliefs and constraints of habit alongside others holding the same intentions. While I will contribute the teaching and structure for the course, I am always left with the impression that the most valuable element is the collective field of support and willingness that comes from participants. As a meditation teacher I’ve seen how powerful it is for people to learn meditation in a group context – to go beyond one’s habits of mind and move into new terrain is just made more “doable” with the silent support of a group. I’ve found the same to be true when doing this work of opening what is blocking possibility within our art process, and so offer this group structure. We don’t share work or have critiques, and speaking or asking questions is optional – the intention is to make as supportive a space as possible to discover for ourselves what is blocking ease, freedom, and dynamism within our creative process.

Who are these courses for?

Anyone who engages in making art or craft of any kind is welcome (painters, dancers, musicians, writers, textile artists, poets, crafters, digital artists, filmmakers, ceramicists and more). In this context, labels like professional vs. hobbyist don’t apply – if you are called to make any kind of art, then you have a creative process that can be opened and explored and loved more fully. People find these courses helpful in reinvigorating one’s connection to art making, or as a basis to explore a new form of art making that feels to be calling them.

What are the sessions like?

These courses/workshops are centered on a weekly group zoom meeting. The main meeting sessions are 2 hours long, and include a period of teaching/talk to inspire reflection around one’s own creative process. There is also time for questions/sharing/reports around creative process. Depending on the course there will usually be a short guided meditation or contemplation that encourages connection to what inspires us.

Each meeting will also include a 45 minute “creative process session” where each participant works within the medium of their choice, with simple guidelines provided + a time to check in about how it went. Most courses will also have optional mid-week optional 1-hour creative process sessions made available during times chosen by participants. Recorded guided meditations + exercises will be made available.

A little about me & my approach…

A few things inform the particular way I teach art process work. The first element is my spiritual/meditation practice and experience as a dharma teacher. I’ve practiced (mostly) Buddhist meditation approaches since 2002, and was authorized to teach dharma by Rob Burbea in 2020. Buddhist wisdom practice involves the cultivation of sensitivity to the activities of mind that fixate our experience in certain ways that hold in place unnecessary suffering, and it offers tools to deconstruct those limiting habits of perception. My approach to working with creative blocks is heavily informed by these teachings. Having a long term meditation practice, and then teaching and supporting other meditators as a teacher, has clarified for me some things about what works for people who wish to deeply transform aspects of their inner life. The structure, elements, and rhythm of the sessions are very related to what I’ve learned in this way. As an artist for more than forty years (BFA in painting Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in film UCLA), I’ve moved through a pretty full range of highs and lows in terms of the ease and beauty available through art making, including a decade of non-painting in the years after attending art school. In my early 30s I was lucky to find my process painting teacher, Barbara Kaufman. She introduced me to process work, and supported me in re-enlivening my own art making process (which remains a source of adventure, wonder, and deep connection for me).