At the Saltee Academy for Complex Creators, we are provisioning ??? for a post-productivity world.

The ethos of productivity that has dominated American life since the Industrial Age is crashing.

Everywhere you look, people are opting out of the soul-crushing value systems that teach us to derive our sense of worth from our busyness, our exhaustion, our achievement of narrowly-conceived goals, and our endless to-do lists.

We are not only seeking new ways of working and living and new definitions of success, we are seeking to re-center our lives so that they speak of our deeper values: caring and connection, learning and growth, and making a creative contribution to the world.

We want to take back our experience of time, honor our authentic wholeness, and offer the best of who we are to the collective project of evolving the world.

The Saltee Academy for Complex Creators is a place for anyone ready to claim your whole constellation of creativities and set a direction for your life, work, art, and activism that feels authentic, meaningful, and soul-satisfying.

You’ll find online courses, individual and small-group coaching, and beautifully designed tools all designed to help you get out of your own way, find the power in your wholeness, and take your place within the vast community of creators determined to bring to life a renaissance of beauty, justice, caring, and truth.

Established in 2020, the Saltee Academy is based on the original frameworks, tools and teachings of artist and creativity coach Sara Saltee.  

Our Philosophy

The teachings of the Saltee Academy are grounded in a holistic, systems view of creativity. Here, we believe that creativity is not a trait or a luxury but a primary, universal human drive that is central to how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. We also believe that creativity takes many forms, that most of us are creative in a combination of different ways, and that our task as creators is to honor our own inner callings and offer our vital gifts to the world. 

Learn more about our Vision and Values.

Our Programs

The courses, retreats, and workshops we offer are all designed to guide deep exploration of four interlocking dimensions of life as a creator: