Winter holds a unique opportunity within an artist's year. It is a time to turn inward, to tend your creative ground - to restore, to dream, to compost the old, and to nurture your creative works and worlds.
Dreamways is a journey into your creative source to contact the wellspring of your inner artistic life. It offers a pathway to return into the roots of yourself, to tend your practice in the dark, and to gestate your creative visions. It is a devoted voyage into a deeper state of expression to allow clarity and energy from within yourself to emerge.
Dreamways is a 3-month programme that bridges the last weeks of the year and the opening of a new year-long cycle. It offers a framework of creative practice that nourishes and empowers this important transition, inviting you to be present to the opportunity of restoration, gestation and creative dreaming.
“The only journey is the one within.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
“We long to discover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find our unique way of belonging to this world, to recover the never-before-seen treasure we were born to bring to our communities."
- Bill Plotkin
DREAMWAYS PROGRAMME
Dreamways follows a 2-part design: The Inward Road & The Upward Road. Each part lasts 6 weeks, with the Christmas holiday as the bridge in-between.
Within the programme, you will engage in a devoted creative practice that supports you to cultivate a time of dreaming. You will follow pathways that lead you into your inner worlds and allow you to connect with your creative visions. Through weekly invitations and dynamic assignments, you will develop approaches that encourage deep listening, active silence and authentic expression. There will be regular group sessions to share and witness practice, and to discuss your creative process, while also benefiting from insights provided by guest artists.
PART 1: THE INWARD ROAD
8TH NOVEMBER - 20TH DECEMBER (6 WEEKS)
The first part of the work focuses on intentionally slowing down from the year, composting the old and beginning to cultivate a deep listening. From here, your creative practice will focus on descent as we begin moving into our winter dreaming time. Creative invitations and assignments will encourage attunement to what stirs and moves within, exploring authentic research pathways to emerge from your own intuition.
You will:
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Explore pathways for creative rest and recovery
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Work with slow movement practices
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Cultivate an authentic and inspiring solo practice
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Navigate into your dreams and visions
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Work with stories across cultures to enrich your inner life
As part of 'The Inward Road', you receive:
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2x one-to-one sessions with bespoke mentorship for your creative practice and work
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3x group meetings to check in with creative tasks and intentions
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3x educational videos offering a framework for your creative practice and explorations
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2x Guest Artist sessions
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Access to 'Dreaming Lab' workshop in London with 50% discount
HOLIDAY BREAK
20TH DECEMBER - 4TH JANUARY (2 WEEKS)
PART 2: THE UPWARD ROAD
4TH JANUARY - 14TH FEBRUARY (6 WEEKS)
The second part of the work continues the dreaming practices established within part 1 with a focus now on the new year. You will begin to articulate your creative visions for the new year, explore and arrive at your artistic intentions, and continue to build a practice that sharpens your work and inner life.
You will:
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Explore & articulate your creative intentions for the new year
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Cultivate a rich artistic practice to empower your work
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Share your discoveries from your solo dreaming process
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Develop approaches that will sustain you beyond the programme
As part of 'The Upward Road', you receive:
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2x one-to-one sessions with bespoke mentorship for your creative practice and work
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3x group meetings to check in with creative tasks and intentions
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3x educational videos offering a framework for your creative practice and explorations
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2x Guest Artist sessions
INSPIRING VIDEOS
Receive educational videos bi-weekly, offering inspiring making frameworks that bring a step-by-step guide to developing your project. Each video offers creative invitations and tasks, allowing you to build your project from its dreaming phase through to manifestation.
COMMUNITY
Opportunity to meet and connect as a community remotely. It is so important that we feel supported and seen by our making community. Group conversations are woven into the fabric of the course as a culture of empowerment.
This 3-month course is a space for you to:
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Explore winter as a time of deep creative dreaming
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Rest and restore from a full creative year
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Join a vibrant community of artists and be supported through conversation and collaboration
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Explore and articulate your new-year creative intentions
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Encounter your inner worlds and develop a rich creative practice
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Develop a solo practice that supports and carries you
Empower your creative world.
INVESTMENT
THE DREAMWAYS PROGRAMME
Includes:
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4 flexible one-to-one sessions worth 3 hours
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5 Group sessions worth 7.5 hours
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3 Guest artist sessions worth 4.5 hours
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4 hours of video content
At the end, you will have:
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Enriched your creative practice
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Developed approaches to investigate and shape your ideas
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Explored ways to empower your process of working alone
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Connected with a group of international artists
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Made links with a growing artistic community
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Received one-to-one mentorship and guidance to encourage your creative way
£495
Deposit of £100 to secure your place
Payment plans available
"It gave me the perfect balance of being creatively held and being free to travel as I wished to travel."
- Stephanie A
"It was my life line. My anchor. My life boat. My oxygen."
Yu T
