withLailey Jenkins and Kelly Pratt

Welcome to Week 1

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

Ideas as money – Money as Ideas

Creativity = Spiritual Electricity

…an energy flow that must be grounded.

Entering the Gate•Blank sheet of paper

•List your fears, angers, hopes regarding the work you are about to do with this book

•Place it in a sealed, dated envelope•Tuck it away until the end of the 12 Weeks

3 Practices common to successful

creatives•Some type of daily reflection

•The ability to leverage their strengths•A way to re-frame failures

Tool:

The Radio Kit

Non-negotiable Tool:

Morning Pages•3 pages EVERY DAY•Written long hand

•In the morning B4 you do anythingyou are allowed to make coffee

Tool:

Creative Colleague

Tool:

Secret Selves

Tool:

Listening to the Chorus

Tool:

Inner Mentor

Tool:

Artist’s Date aka

Time Out

I, ___________________ understand that I am undertaking an intensive guided encounter

with my own creativity.• I commit myself to the twelve-week

duration of the course.• I commit to weekly reading,

daily morning pages, a weekly time-out (artist’s date) and the

fulfillment of each week’s tasks. • I further understand that this course will

raise issues and emotions for me to deal with. • I commit myself to excellent self-care –

adequate sleep, diet, exercise and comfort –for the duration of the course.

The Creativity Contract

Do your reading, morning pages, artist’s date & the exercises in the book. We will do a check-in with each person “talking stick” style

• how did your morning pages go?

• was this tool comfortable?• what was your reaction to morning pages?

what did you do on your artist’s date?•what inspired you?

3 shifts or insights you experienced during the first week• more stuck? less stuck?

• did the morning pages help clarify your priorities?

how did your discussions with your Secret Selves go?• any surprise visitors?

Next Week: The Roar of Awakening

with Certified Martha Beck Coaches

Lailey Jenkins & Kelly PrattLaileyJenkins.com KellyPratt.com

Text: THE ARTIST’S WAY AT WORK

by Julia Cameron, Mark Bryan & Catherine Allen

The Artist’s Way at Work