Creative Hope Bootcamp (3 month introductory offer)
Find your inner creative juice.
Learn how to access it for any occasion. (Not just for art or making).
Build your confidence around creative problem solving.
Cultivate confidence even in the most challenging situations.
I've heard it a million times: "I'm not very creative." While many of us were taught this as children, nothing could be further from the truth. We are born with creative genius, all of us, but as we grow up in a society that's geared toward conformity, we slowly lose touch with it. While it's always there, like any muscle, the less we use it, the more challenging it is to engage. The truth is that creativity is an approach, a perspective, an attitude, and it goes far beyond the bounds of art and making.
Like me, you've probably been told all your life the things you can't do, the things you shouldn't do, the things you won't do. Usually by people who've lived their lives that very same way. But somewhere deep down, you have always questioned this. You have always wanted more, even as you took their words to heart and let them push you down deeper into yourself.
I know it's scary. I know it goes against everything you were taught to believe about yourself, but the truth is there is so much more to you, and that power is waiting for you to connect. This is the power of creative hope.
When you are creative and you see the world through that lens, problems look more like challenges. Mistakes look like opportunities. Obstacles are temporary, and every time something goes wrong, you jump into action rather than misery. Living a creative life isn't about making art, it's about cultivating and maintaining hope because you have confidence in your ability to create something better; better than you are given, better than you are allowed, better than what even you yourself thought you could accomplish.
Creative training is a new thing that has been needed for a very long time. Resources for science-backed research on the effects of creativity on the brain:
My article on teaching art to kids
My article on what creative practices teach
Skills learned in an art education
Over the course of this 3 month bootcamp, you will receive:
- Two email "prompts" every week that will give you "practice" toward finding, cultivating, and accessing your personal creative power.
- One Zoom call every week with the boot camp creatives to ask questions, get feedback, and get CHEERED ON!
- A creativity road map created throughout the 3 months for you to refer to after the boot camp is over.
- Determination of direction of new work and road map for the next year.
- Support and encouragement through dark times when doubt inevitably springs up.
- Opportunities to practice using your creative skills in practical real-life ways.
- At the end of the bootcamp, an opportunity to continue or work with me, one-on-one. More about that later......
Each week, you will receive emails on Mondays and Wednesdays with two short lessons and projects to complete by Friday. On Friday of each week, we will all jump on a Zoom call and talk about our progress, cheer each other on, and ask Sara any questions around challenges you have been having.
The bootcamp starts on September 2nd. Sign up ends August 30th at midnight.
Schedule for Creative Hope Boot Camp:
Week One: Define creativity and look for examples of it in the world
Week Two: Look for examples of creative thinking in your own life
Week Three: Pinpoint when you started to see yourself as non-creative
Week Four: Evaluate your environment for creative potential
Week Five: Evaluate your friends/family/colleagues for creative support
Week Six: Deep work on connecting with your unique inner creative
Week Seven: Communicating through your unique creative perspective
Week Eight: Create a creative hope road map
Week Nine: Work on the first of four of the destinations on your road map
Week Ten: Work on the second of four of the destinations on your road map
Week Eleven: Work on the third of four of the destinations on your road map
Week Twelve: Complete your fourth destination on your road map and celebrate!