Looking For your creative spark?
A creativity immersion to cultivate your creative practice.
with daily workshops to work with the muse so your creative practice stays in chaotic yet consistent flow
Creativity is chaotic
YET IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR A JOYFUL LIFE OF FULL EXPRESSION.
CULTIVATING A CONSISTENT PRACTICE IS ALSO ESSENTIAL TO MAINTAIN YOUR CONNECTION TO YOUR CREATIVITY - TO THE MUSE
Do you want to stay connected to your creative flow, even when you're feeling stuck? When Resistance rears it's ugly head on that creative project that's nagging your heart?
Do you want a simple but FUN way to develop a new habit of connecting to your creativity? To create in FLOW! To create like a natural part of your day?
Want a space that you can look forward to come to WITH JOY - amongst the pressures of your life & work?
Do you want to play with exercises & creative ideas that is delivered in an intuitive, spontaneous spirit BUT with a creative PURPOSE?
Want an experience that also gives you the permission to explore your creativity in a FUN way -- amongst the imperfections of your day BUT also opening your eyes to seeing the beauty in the mess?
Are you ready to connect to your Creative Muse?
25 days of Creative Immersion
A Facebook group community to learn from & access the resources
4 video trainings on creativity & the 4 areas to holistically infuse your life with creative flow
Daily prompts to spark your creative Muse & create with joy.
Want more support & guidance from me personally? You can be a VIP!
Access to the full course + additionally
1 x 50min 1:1 calls with me to be used as you wish - to be scheduled within 30 days
25 days Voxer access - in voice & text messaging during the course for in the moment questions & support
Imagine having a set of tools and simple practices that you can use every day to connect with yourself AND a creative practice that fills you with JOY!
Imagine developing a habit and practice that feeds your creativity so you never run out of ideas! Or when you hit Resistance, you KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT - you won't stay stuck for long.
Imagine giving yourself the space & community where you can connect with your self - YOU KNOW that creativity is essential to your self-care!
Where you can connect with like-minded creatives who support and encourage your creativity, gaining new ideas and inspiration.
Where you can connect with God & Spirit so that you gain access to your creativity that feels like flow & full of purpose. Beyond just YOU 'making something with your hands'
JOIN THE CREATIVITY CATALYST CLUB!
In the course, I share daily exercises with simple prompts, videos and worksheets:
4 themes to guide you if you need some structure to explore your own creativity & creative practice - especially when you're feeling overwhelmed with what to do (finding ways to work WITHIN a box also exercises your creativity muscles!)
Over 30+ prompts & ideas to explore your creativity EVERYDAY - this kind of immersion will set up the habit & allow you to see how you can be creative in simple ways as part of your everyday life! (you can ask for personal feedback & share ideas in the private Facebook group!)
Exercises that also explore the deeper concepts of creativity, to nurture and cultivate your artistic voice which brings more confidence into your life & work
Out of the box thinking and ideas to push your creative comfort zone. You'll take these into your creative projects & practice so you can increase your creativity & inspiration flow and dare to experiment with new things. (You'll get an inside look at my chaotic & creative process! But also the method to the madness!)
A place that doesn't feel like YET ANOTHER burden on your to do list. A place of joy and simple prompts to get you going! Somewhere you LOOK FORWARD to entering. The way your creativity should be - a source of joy & rejuvenation!
Learn how to develop your own consistent creative practice
WITH A STRUCTURE THAT CAN HELP YOU DISCOVER INSPIRATION & CLARITY AS YOU CULTIVATE A DEEPER CONNECTION TO YOUR CREATIVITY
MEET BRENDA
WHY WORK WITH ME?
My calling is to be a light & mentor for you to use your creativity as self-expression.
To express your connection to yourself, others and the divine!The courses I create are another form of art for me - they come into being from my connection to creativity and working with the Muse in FLOW
This means you can learn how to ‘be more creative’ in a way that’s about art AND spiritual & soul nourishment
I am also a mama of 2 kids (under 8!). I know the struggle to find time & space in between your responsibilities for work, home, kids AND ALSO to connect with yourself!
Yet you know this self-care is important for your sanity and how you can give your BEST SELF back to your family & community!
I know how to keep in touch with your creative practice in a way that is simple, so you can weave it around your busy life.Creativity Catalyst came into being when I felt the calling to be a lighthouse for other creatives.
(even if you’re not sure you’re a ‘creative’ TRUST ME you are!)
And then I GOT STUCK.
I'm no stranger to losing my connection to my creativity.
I didn't paint for a whole year after I had my first baby, for a professional artist & painter… this felt like a kind of death.
I lost that connection because I lost touch with myself. I've learnt from that experience — in order to tap into a continuous flow of inspiration and creativity, I need my creative practice a daily AND FUN part of my life.This means, I'm sharing my process & creative connection with you from a place of deep personal experience. I understand your struggles and dreams.
"Creatively I was working on improving my skills but also trying to learn to loosen up my drawing and to enjoy the process regardless of the outcome.
I originally just wanted to support you Brenda! But realising that it wouldn't take hours and could be easily slotted into my week was the deciding factor though.
The work you gave us, has given me the confidence to play with things, to explore things even if they seem unpromising at first, and to discard the things that don't work.
I don't need everything to always work out any more and I'm confident that this will allow me to experiment and grow much more in my artwork.
I loved the interaction with you and the other students in the Facebook group. It was so good to have a place to share our work and get feedback.
And your gentle suggestions and questions were always helpful in helping us to overcome our creative blocks."
- Lovely words from Deliberate Doodles alum Cat Doyle
WHAT WE WILL COVER
We will begin on Day 1 with a welcome & intention setting workshop.
Then we follow each of the 4 themes loosely - with 5 prompts a week with plenty of time for you to ‘catch up’.
On the last day we will close with a review & what’s next workshop
There is a lot of intuition and waiting on inspired guidance from God & Spirit.
It’s up to your flavours of spiritual connection.
This is about an immersive experience with daily exercises - which means you’ll NEED some space for new ideas to drop in
You will practice the process of trust & surrender and allow space for spontaneity.
My Type A personality would LOVE to have it all clearly stepped out with exact to do lists to actions & tasks - Control freak anyone?
But just like my abstract paintings - I only have a loose structure of the intentions I feel, the boundaries of the canvas & colours I choose... The rest is just trust & surrender and ALLOWING space for the artwork to evolve and be nurtured into reality.
I want to gift you this experience of faith in your process & seeing the magic unveil itself in your art
You are creating & curating your life as a CONTAINER to allow inspired ideas and art to flow.
Which means it might be messy - but that allows you to be imperfect & to play with the chaos that life can bring. It will always feel like a work in progress…that’s why it’s called a PRACTICE!
You don't need to create a painting for this - but the creative process is the same!
Chaotic Play with Creative Purpose.
The trick is learning how to walk that tension and balance in a way that suits YOU and your creative practice.
There is also a structure that you can loosely follow if you’re use to having overwhelm & your Resistance shows up as indecision & overplanning - Don’t let it WIN!
There is also room for you to use your creative license, take longer on exercises that resonate with you AND skip exercises if you're called to spend the day daydreaming instead of creating.
The goal is to have JUST ENOUGH pressure to make sure you actually DO THE WORK but not so much that you AVOID THE WORK and feel like your creativity is another burden on your shoulders & long LONG To Do list.
You are going to practice & experiment — to find YOUR flavour of balance with chaos & structure. To flow with your day, your schedule & unexpected interruptions. This is how you find YOUR dance to weave your ‘ME TIME’ with creativity & duties of life
1 - START with your HEART
We begin by COLLECTING the 'dots' of inspiration, ideas and opening your hearts to new ways of seeing and being
This is a habit that will helps you nurture your idea garden AND never run out of ideas!
Exploring your beliefs around creativity and your own creative practice - So you recognise the blocks and old beliefs that get you STUCK and how to get back into flow
2 - SOUL Connection
The connection to self AND others around you & to the divine (whatever flavour that is for you!)
Because when you KNOW this connection & learn how to keep those relationships healthy; you'll be able to maintain your connection to creativity, to the Muse in your daily life.
This will also be GRATITUDE week, where we use gratitude as a springboard for exploring that week's exercises. Gratitude is the one mindset that we KNOW is so POWERFUL to shift our inner worlds and take action from a place of power & love. Not stuck in fear and doubts. As Tony Robbins says: You can't be grateful AND fearful at the same time.
3 - MIND cultivation
Here we CULTIVATE all the creative ideas and dots from the previous exercises.
Exploring the thoughts and words we use to speak to ourselves and to others. This is also where we can explore how RESISTANCE shows up for us and how we can handle it and work with it.
Sometimes it seems so easy and we do actually get an inspired idea - then we overthink it. We slip back into old habits of letting our inner critic talk us out of it.
Investing this time to reflect on our thoughts, our beliefs and cultivating our connection to our creativity (with simple journalling prompts!) will help you to shift that from fear to inspired action.
4 - Creative BODY
Creativity is about bringing the intangible into the tangible, sensory world.
So we will explore creative prompts based on our senses AND also how we EMBODY our feelings. Using our bodies to tap into our intuition instead of always relying on our minds.
As much as we love to live in our heads, hearts and creative spaces - our bodies also has an abundance of wisdom and feedback to give to us.
Using our senses is an EASY way to follow a theme to explore different perspectives & ideas that you can use EVERYDAY. It's so easy to go back to what feels comfortable, to do what we've always done - We’re going to end the cycle of being stuck in a rut & generate a continuous flow of inspired ideas
We will find new ways to step out of that procrastination & frustration.
Let’s get back into YOUR inspired space! In Heart, Mind, Soul AND Body!
This is more than just some fun creative exercises and new ideas
It's a wholistic immersion & cultivation of a deeper connection with your creativity in ALL areas of your life!
Are you ready to commit to your creativity?
Are you ready to create a deeper connection to your creative practice?
"It had been a long time since I did anything arty. I wanted to do something relaxing and your process seemed like a perfect fit.
Even though I went into the experience of learning from you with an open mind - I knew that I'll get what I put in!
I got MORE than just a new project to dive into.
You helped me to actually think and reflect on the message I wanted to convey with the marks I wanted to go for.
Plus I loved the unexpected connection with some really artistic people, who are now part of my journey into something new. It's good!
I liked the casual vibe of your workshops. There's no pressure to prove I'm up to it. You are available, encouraging, sharing; and so is the community of participants with their feedback, I like that.
I'm just absorbing all the feedback I got from you and the community. Looking at how others have approached it - it's already made me look at my drawing with different eyes."
- Lovely words from Deliberate Doodles alum Swee Bee
Maybe you're feeling a call within you to do something MORE with your creativity.
Maybe you're feeling a little burnt out, stuck in a rut with your creative practice. Or just sick of getting excited over an idea, only to get stuck in Resistance and have to struggle to find your creativity again.
Are you tired of sounding like a broken record, saying you want to DO more with your creativity ... only to still find yourself talking?
Do you want to finally do the ACTUAL DOING instead of talking about all the creative things you want to do.
Maybe you're starting to doubt you ARE creative, it's feeling scary and overwhelming and you miss the simple FUN you use to have?
Creativity Catalyst was created because I know & understand that feeling!
I had a calling…
I had a calling to create a course... I knew the general idea of topic - creativity cultivation. But I couldn't get clear on what it actually was!
The fact was - I was a little burnt out.
I was trying to FORCE the creativity. I had lost touch with my connection to my creativity, which meant I also lost FAITH in the process.
I was actually on a family holiday in Fiji at the time. I thought all that Space & Sand & Sunshine would be PERFECT to nurture this calling to life.
But nothing came out. Nothing 'worthy'. Nothing that felt like a match to this vision I couldn't articulate in me.
So I almost came home disappointed.
Until I realised... I had to surrender.
I had to Let it go...(as my daughter kept singing...OMG Disney!)
I had to trust the process - which meant connecting to creativity for the FUN. To remember that creativity is CHAOTIC.
There needs to be connection and PLAY. Resistance doesn't go away the more you push it!
And being disconnected from myself and my creative practice of daily creativity?
I had lost some creativity muscles and had to work them back into health again.
So I did.
I came home and dabbled in some fun watercolours. Just to connect with the Muse.
I made some paintings JUST FOR FUN!
I journaled ALOT and spent the time connecting with my creativity.
Slowly but surely, the vision and dream for this course grew clearer.
The fog was lifting.
and I realised I knew what the next step was... I just didn't know the next one after that.
Which SCARED ME SH*TLESS.
Because spontaneity and chaos ARE SCARY!
But once I trusted. Took that step forward.. the next one was revealed to me. ONLY AFTER I TOOK THAT STEP IN FAITH!
With that step, the spirit and vision of this course became clearer - I know the ideas and calling I have to share with you.
To connect and reconnect with the Muse.
With yourself and your creative practice.
To tap into your creativity in daily, ordinary & spontaneous ways.
To bring a sense of wonder, curiosity and FUN back to your everyday.
But the exact details of what it will be like for you through the 25 days?
I have no F*cking clue... I am trusting the Muse.
I am trusting the creative process…& holding the space for you to do the same
I am trusting in the vision of this container…a live round brings a magnetic energy every time and when you add your creative intentions, it results in the magic you’re looking for. Even if you’re just watching the replay.
To grow your creative muscles, nurture your creative practices & cultivate a strong flow of creativity in your life and work
This is a sacred circle of trusting in the steps you CAN see…and stepping forward in faith that the rest will be revealed AFTER you step forward.
This is a safe container to experiment and grow the courage to do this in your daily life — to experience & learn that the best and most MAGICAL catalyst can occur for ALL creative practices.
Whether you're a professional creative or not! Creating from this space of flow and connection is where the best creative masterpieces are done!
I want you to experience this with a deeper knowing. To receive & create more joy, more ease in your creative projects, more flow and FUN!
You KNOW that creativity is a part of you and this immersion will guide you to create, to cultivate ideas and to just simply play - yes! - but play with PURPOSE.
To connect deeper with yourself AND help you nurture a practice that will find you getting back into creative FLOW as quickly as possible…even when life brings unexpected interruptions
NOT SURE IF YOU'LL HAVE TIME?
I get it! I really do! - I'm a full time mama, juggling an art business, painting collections, clients and also all the other life stuff like relationships, fitness, cooking, cleaning - not to mention the never ending laundry!
The thing is - I KNOW that it is a combination of Commitment, Community and Connection that will help you nurture your creativity. Even though I 'HAVE TO' create and use my creativity in my work
The best way to tap into my creativity? To work in flow and ease? Without burning out?I HAVE TO BE DISCIPLINED IN CONNECTING WITH MY CREATIVITY. WITH THE MUSE!
If you'll gift this commitment to YOURSELF, to be part of this community? If you invest the time & attention?
You will find a space to prioritise yourself & your self expression
You will find connection to inner parts of yourself you may have long forgotten
Plus you will also have a personal cheerleader in ME! (not to mention a little compassionate ass-kicking if that's what you need!)
The daily prompts and exercises are also designed to be simple & quick - it's up to you how much time you can or WANT to dedicate to it.
There may be homework that involves self-reflection, spending the day being mindful & aware. Writing in your journal.
I like to say: spend a reasonable time with it. You decide what is reasonable for you & for the day or for what you want to get out of it. Because like anything in life, you get what you put in.
There will also be ideas to do an activity that taps into your creativity - BUT IT'S OPTIONAL! (I won't be 'grading' you and no one is going to point you out!)
-- That kind of pressure is NO GOOD for creativity --but even if you only put in 5-10mins? You WILL get the benefits of tapping into your creativity!
Some of those prompts may inspire you to explore further and maybe even give you new ideas to begin a new big creative project! OR ideas for the project you’re currently working on in life or business
You get lifetime access to the content - meaning that you always have access to all the training and resources that's released during the LIVE round.
Lifetime access also means - you can go at your own pace if that is what you need. Being a LIVE round - you get the benefits of tapping into the collective energy of a group doing the activities with you LIVE. To keep you going, to get new ideas and to have FUN!
There are 4 Implementation days + 2 bonus days strategically scheduled to give you space to explore ideas further, or to catch up! While also keeping you accountable to tap back into your creativity
"As a creative, Brenda’s support and wisdom has been invaluable to me. She has gotten me moving when stuck, she’s helped me understand the mechanics behind the creative process. Her deep knowing of art, artists and artistic expression is awe-inspiring. Highly recommend you work with her"
- Lovely words from Carlie Maree - Author of Soul Modes
Details:
TIMELINE & SCHEDULES
Creativity Catalyst is a self-study container to immerse yourself into a practice of cultivating your creative flow. It is designed as a daily prompt & exercise course for 25 days for a deep holistic immersion & focus. However, you can do it as it fits your timeline and schedule. There are no ‘rules’ with creative flow!
A LIVE round means that Brenda will be going LIVE inside the Facebook group and available for answering questions, brainstorming and generally being immerse in the Creative Catalyst container with you
HOW LONG DO I HAVE ACCESS TO THE COURSE CONTENT - VIDEOS, WORKSHEETS & FACEBOOK GROUP?
You have lifetime access to the video trainings, prompts & worksheet downloads as they are yours to keep. So that means you can take your time to go through the content.
WHAT TOOLS WILL I NEED?
You'll just need a pen, & a journal / sketchbook. Some post-it notes will be good too!
If you want to explore an artwork, medium or new creative work — prepare what you need for that too! (very optional!)
A smart phone or ability to take simple photos of your work to share in the Facebook group. (optional!)
Plus the commitment to do the exercises & invest in some time and attention to this course & community, will help you get the most out of this course.
A way to open the PDF worksheets I will have for you. I recommend Adobe Reader
And whatever tools you ALREADY have to work on YOUR creative project that you want to work on. (You will get totally inspired and motivated to get back into it!)
Are you ready to be your own Creativity Catalyst?
Want more support & guidance from me personally? You can be a VIP!
1 x 50min 1:1 calls with me to be used as you wish - to be scheduled within 30 days
25 days Voxer access - in voice & text messaging during the course for in the moment questions & support