About the session
- How to understand creative seasons and honor your natural creative rhythms. Discover why forcing constant productivity blocks your creativity, and how recognizing whether you're in spring, summer, autumn, or winter of your creative practice can free you from burnout and self-judgment.
- A radical new approach to working with creative blocks that transforms resistance into wisdom. Instead of fighting or dismissing what seems to be in your way, you'll learn how to honor these patterns with curiosity and discover what they're protecting, allowing them to naturally release their grip.
- The practice of keeping the channel open for inspiration to flow through you. Understand that creativity doesn't originate from you but moves through you, and learn a technique for clearing space and staying receptive to what wants to emerge.
- The difference between creative exploration and exploitation, and why wandering matters. Discover how slowing down and allowing yourself to explore without agenda strengthens your creative capacity and leads to more authentic, joyful expression than efficiency-focused production ever could.
Day guides you through a simple but profound practice of allowing space in the threshold moments of your day—those in-between times when you finish one activity and move to the next. By lingering for just 3-5 seconds in these transitions (after closing your computer, before starting your car, between brushing your teeth and getting into bed), you'll learn to keep your creative channel open and discover the fertile mystery that lives in the pauses we usually rush through.
About the speaker
Day Schildkret is an award-winning queer author, artist, ritualist, teacher and is internationally known for Morning Altars, which BuzzFeed calls, “a celebration of nature and life.” With nearly 100k followers on social media, Day has worked for close to two decades with thousands of individuals, communities and organizations to help heal the culture through a meaningful and creative response to marking personal and collective change. Day is the author of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change (Simon Element/Simon & Schuster) which hit Amazon’s #1 book in three categories, as well as, Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual (The Countryman Press/W.W. Norton). He is also the founder and principal instructor of the Morning Altars Practitioner & Teacher Training. More about Day at morningaltars.com and dayschildkret.com and @morningaltars on Instagram / Facebook.