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a tiny community
to help nurture & hold
your creative practice.
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what is creative circle?
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creative circle is an
8 week container for your creative practice or project.
join with a creative intention, project, or subject you’d like to commit to for the next 8 weeks. we’ll form small groups of 3-4 people as holding spaces for each other. I’ll provide guidance, facilitation, and accountability as you dive into the work.
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how does it work?
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what you’ll get:
a container of support
& accountability
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the focus will be on you doing the work, rather than keeping up with messages. we’ll keep a leisurely rhythm of 1 voice update a week, and 1 live call every other week.
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you can use this space as a structured container for a specific project, or as an open ended exploratory/discovery experiment through a specific (or multiple) art forms.
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8 weeks is long enough to make significant progress on a project, but not too long that you lose momentum.
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we’ll use whatsapp to send texts and voice message updates weekly.
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we’ll organize 2 live video calls a month to connect in real time with each other.
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I’ll respond to your questions, work, and messages with my thoughts & feedback.
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choose your medium(s)
writing:
writing is more than about finding words. it's about deep psychic untangling, and diving - to get to the truth. it is both emotional and intellectual - investigating, imagining, grappling, clarifying, distilling, finding meaning. when I don't write, I feel dazed, confused, and existentially clogged - weighed down by the incomprehensibility of this world.
visual creation:
creating images creates my way of seeing the world. this can be any form -- (drawing, painting, collage, photography, still lifes). it sharpens observation, perception, and as a result, understanding. when i don't draw, I feel like I'm walking through the world half-blind.
sound:
music, audio art, moving vibrations of the world. I've always felt like playing music is the most concentrated form of meditation in the intensity of focus it requires. when I was in Japan, I started playing piano again after 14 years. in this practice group, I wrote "sound" because I also want to include audio art, in all its forms.
web & digital creation:
this is a form that can hold and intertwine all the others. over these last years, I've discovered how to create on the internet; how to think of the internet as its own canvas, vessel, house, art-form. how to balance the need to express -- with the fear of being seen. how to nourish and embody your digital presence as a deep and true part of you.
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feedback from past participants
“The creative circle allows you to shape your own routines at your own pace, with a gentle hand guiding you. There's always the warmth of support to fall back on I needed to reorient or when I wanted to gush about a new idea. It's structured but the possibilites for exploration are endless.”
— Sushmita
“Kening’s gentle blend of support, coaching and creative inspiration was wonderful for this Creative Circle. It's the ideal container if you're seeking accountability and support in your creative project and journey!”
-Clarissa
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sign ups are currently closed.
check back this summer!
the spring circle runs
March 31st-May 19 2023
fees are pay what you wish:
$185 - support the circle
$250 - support my work
$330 - support others