More intimate than workshops, I have two offerings for individuals and collaborators who are seeking a new relationship with their creative processes or a specific creative project. If you are feeling blocked, uninspired, afraid, unable to discern your gut impulses, or disconnected from pleasure and playfulness in your creative process, I’m here to support you.
Through these personalized offerings, I will guide you through the shadow feelings of making art, so you can reinvent your process in ways that make you feel enlivened, safe and present. I can support you in bringing a creative project into the world, helping you stay connected to its heartbeat, while ensuring you are creating in ways that are holistically supportive to you. In both of these offerings, we will consider how an expansive view of embodiment might help ground you in your bodymind and in your creative process.
All that I offer is through an anti-ableist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, queer-positive, neurodivergent and disability supporting lens. These offerings are guided by my own creativity, history and studies (both in/outside of academia) as a maker. I offer creative, generative prompts, while also pulling from healing modalities like meditation, mindfulness, parts work, breathwork, and somatics/embodiment. I am not a therapist, and don’t approach this work from that positionality. Instead, I tie therapeutic ideas to creative prompts, and use resources by trained practitioners, when needed, to further support those that I work with.
I work with artists in all disciplines and love multi-disciplinary projects. I have experience working with writers, filmmakers, dancers, musicians, and visual artists.
How I’ll support you
During our first session, we will establish safety together, ground into the present moment as a way to access your deepest creative dreams and examine your current creative process or project. Each session will build upon the last while also offering new seedlings that you can nourish as part of your practice.
After each session, I will provide you with guided creative experiences that you can play with between sessions.
If you’d like to work with me, begin by choosing if you’d like to work with me on your creative process generally, or on a specific creative project. Both types of support are available for individuals and collaborators. If you are planning to attend your sessions with me with your collaborators, please consider paying the higher end of the sliding scale or each collaborator paying the lower/middle rates individually.
After you sign up by filling out the form (linked to below), I will email you with information about scheduling, payment, and follow-up questions to allow me to better guide our first session. Sessions are provided virtually via zoom. Each session will be 1 hour.
If you would like to continue working together after the number of sessions included in the offering you select, you will be able to add additional sessions with me. Individual sessions are offered on a sliding scale of $80-180.
Creative Process Guide
If you are curious about shaking up and reinventing your creative process, I can support you as a Creative Process Guide. We’ll take a close look at your current process to identify new ways of relating to your art-making practice. We will consider how access needs, creative fear and doubt, internalized capitalism/colonialism, and disconnection from playfulness and pleasure might be creative prompts within themselves. We will focus on how you create your art in ways that are more accessible, more embodied, more playful, and safer. We will begin with 5 sessions together, with the option to add more sessions as needed.
5 sessions: sliding scale $375-875
Creative Project Guide
As a Creative Project Guide, I work with artists who are feeling blocked, overwhelmed or fearful about a current creative project. We’ll discuss the project in depth and your process up until this point. Then, we’ll open to the current of your creativity, seeking ways to allow flow, playfulness and pleasure to guide your project. I will work with you directly on your project, helping you to both keep the project’s heartbeat in mind while reminding you that projects must evolve and shift as they are born. For this offering, we will begin with 5 sessions together, with the option to add more sessions as needed. I will read/view your project twice within these five sessions – once prior to the first session to help guide our conversations, and once after the fourth session. In the fifth session, I will offer feedback, questions, and notes to help support you and the project as you continue creating it.
5 sessions + 2 rounds of feedback on your project from lauren: sliding scale $400-900*
*Please note, the slightly higher price for creative consulting is to factor in the 2 rounds of feedback lauren will provide you on your current creative project.
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