Choosing the Freedom to Create
Choosing the Freedom to Create
Come get inspired by wildly divergent models of creative freedom, explore the edges of your own freedom, and find new inner permissions to break free!
This 1944 image of Georgia O’Keefe gleefully riding off into the desert in her goggles and dungarees embodies an iconic, inspirational freedom of spirit. Yet, for most of us, exiting the bounds of family and society is not an available or desirable route to the freedom we seek.
In this 90-minute online workshop, we’ll explore what freedom looks and feels like for you and chart ways you can expand the territory in which you are truly free to follow your authentic creative impulses and honor your innate intelligence.
We’ll share some of the wildly divergent strategies that women creators have used to claim the inner and outer space their creative spirits demand.
And, we’ll explore the dynamics that lead us restrict our own freedom in conscious and unconscious ways: the tensions between freedom and belonging, the powerful cultural and familial pressures that work to keep women domesticated and tame, and the subtle ways we may still be waiting for others to grant us permission to follow our creative life force.
Ready to bust some taboos in the messy, awkward space of freedom? This one’s for you!
This workshop is part of the six-month Saltee + West series. To learn more about the series and subscribe to all six workshops, please visit www.salteeacademy.com/salteewest
BONUS MATERIALS:
When you register, you'll receive:
A two-page summary of the foundational ideas about Neurodiversity and Creativity that underpin this workshop series.
Access to a video of a foundational workshop on Neurodiversity and Creativity led by Melissa and Sara in 2024.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Melissa West brings heart, humor, and an extraordinary range of perspectives to this conversation. As a neurospicy/highly sensitive artist, author, and depth psychotherapist/coach, she offers compassion and insight into the challenges of living and creating as an “other,” and powerful tools for finding deep acceptance and honoring of ourselves and our creative processes.
Sara Saltee is a fiercely gentle advocate for human creativity and the humans who create. As an artist, writer, and Founder of the Saltee Academy for Complex Creators, she teaches and coaches wholly original women seeking to explore and express their creativity. With deep intuitive knowledge and unending curiosity about the creating process, Sara helps creative people honor and express the fullness of their gifts.