Most of us don’t lack effort. What we lack is orientation. We try harder, work longer, consume better tools, but without a clear inner map, effort often turns into exhaustion. Over the coming year, everything I’m building inside The Art of Creative Practice is oriented around one simple question: what changes when you finally understand how your inner world is structured, and how to work with it consciously?
Not just for myself, but for the nearly 1000 members who now make up the Art of Creative Practice community.
I wrote a few weeks ago about the philosophy behind the events I run. This coming year marks a significant evolution in how I’m structuring my offerings, which are more cohesive, more intentional, and more clearly mapped as a pathway you can move through in your own way, at your own pace.
In an industry where year-long coaching programmes can cost as much as a small car, it’s easy to slip into the idea that depth must be expensive to be meaningful. I understand how that logic emerged—good coaching is labour-intensive, relational, and built on years of training and personal work. I also sit comfortably in the bracket of practitioners who could charge premium fees.
And yet, my work has always been for creatives: the writers, thinkers, makers, explorers, and the quietly ambitious who feel their inner life calling.
The Rhythm of the Year Ahead
From 2026 onwards, Art of Creative Practice will move in a clear, repeating rhythm. Here’s the structure:
Weekly
These are your anchoring practices: nervous system regulation, creative companionship, and gentle momentum. The Art of Creative Practice is all about building and fostering community and these regular sessions are you can show up in community and regularly grow and develop alongside other inspiring creatives.
Monthly
- Experiential Workshops (£10)
Each month we’ll explore one focused theme designed to unlock a specific dimension of creative and psychological life.
Upcoming workshops include:
- Quiet Strengths: The Gifts of Introverts, Empaths & Highly Sensitive People
- Creative Flow Systems: Rituals for Focus & Inspiration
- Magnetism & Authentic Influence
- Minimalist Productivity: Doing Less, Creating More
Quarterly
- Immersive Challenges (£19)
These are short, potent containers for reset, clarity, and decisive action. And the first of these begins next week, the Five-Day Soul Map Challenge. Over five days, you’ll be guided to:
- Map your inner landscape
- Identify the key sub-personalities shaping your decisions
- Locate where you are over-identified, blocked, or fragmented
- Begin the process of conscious realignment
This is the kind of work that gives you language for what you already sense, but haven’t yet fully articulated. If you’ve been feeling the quiet pressure of “something needing to shift” as the year turns—this is the place to start.
Biannual
- 12-Week Circles (£99)
These are the deepest containers I offer: slow, relational, cumulative transformation across a full season.
Upcoming circles:
- The Writer’s Flow Circle — Spring 2026
- The Artist’s Way Circle — Autumn 2026
These spaces are where patterns don’t just change intellectually, they change somatically, relationally, and creatively.
One of the things that gives me the most joy right now is seeing how this community has begun to self-organise. There are already conversations unfolding about peer-led meetups, people re-doing The Artist’s Way together, and collaborative creative projects emerging organically.
That tells me something important:
This is no longer just a programme of events.
It is becoming a creative culture.
And that is exactly what I hoped for when this all began.
You are welcome here whether you:
- Join one free coworking session a month
- Drop into a single workshop when the topic speaks to you
- Or commit deeply to a 12-week transformation container
If the turn of the year is stirring something in you—restlessness, longing, curiosity, or quiet resolve—I would love to welcome you into the Five-Day Soul Map Challenge next week as the first step of this new cycle.
Let’s begin again. Carefully. Courageously. Together.
Upcoming Events:
The Five-Day Soul Map Challenge | 8-12 December | 8-9 AM GMT | £19
Creative Flow Coworking Session | 8 December | 11AM-1PM GMT | free
Reflect & Reset: Quarterly Planning Workshop | 5 January | 7.30-9.00 PM GMT | £10
Integrative Meditation | 12 January | 7.30-8.30 PM GMT | £4
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