Whatever you are determined to create…

a book?

a business?

a body of work?

a beautiful life?

a revolution?

…you are going to experience exhilarating times of great excitement, possibility, and flow,

AND

you are going to experience moments of fear, confusion, and doubt when you stall out, get stuck, or are tempted to turn back and give up.

Welcome to the Round World: What to Expect When You’re Creating gives you the tools you need to withstand that second set of moments so you can sustain your momentum, advance the projects that matter to you and DO THE THING you are being summoned to do.

What’s in the book?

In 45 beautifully-illustrated pages, Welcome to the Round World demystifies the universal dynamics of the creating process.

Elegant graphics help you visualize key facets of the cycle of creating, providing you with a map that enables you to recognize the patterns underlying your experiences of creative ease, resistance, stuckness, and retreat.

Six pages of Journaling and Reflection prompts help you apply the foundational wisdom of the Round World framework to your own life and work.

“Sara has a gift for clarifying the nebulous, explaining the confusing, and bringing unframed questions to the surface.” - L. Morgan

Why We Need This Guide

Whenever we engage our creativity we enter the Round World, a space that is at once deeply enlivening and deeply terrifying. 

Since most of us were raised in the Square World where families, schools, and workplaces are focused on making us into reliable and efficient producers instead of authentic and empowered creators, most of us come to our encounters with the Round World quite unprepared. 

Without a guide to the Round World, we can easily conclude that there is something wrong with us when we run into challenges that stop us cold or experience crises that test us deeply.  Too many of us give up, telling ourselves that we must lack some talent or genius that others have and we don’t.

Welcome to the Round World: What to Expect When You’re Creating is the map we’ve been missing that helps us recognize that we’re in genuinely difficult terrain with distinct and predictable features, and reminds us we have access to everything we need to help us keep going and see our creative dreams to fruition.

Welcome to the Round World will help you make sense of challenging experiences that come with the territory including:

• Fear and anxiety

• Void times when your creative juices run dry

• Restarting again and again

• Difficulties with commitment, completion, or letting go

• Ambivalence about visibility

You’ll also learn to rise through these challenges of creating using the seven core practices that seasoned creators rely on to fuel their creative drive, deepen their trust in themselves and the process, and keep going.

“Sara and her teachings have had such a profound influence...if I had a bobble-headed Sara I'd put her on my altar AND my car's dashboard.” - M. West

Welcome to the Round World will be enjoyed by:

• Beginning writers, artists, and other creators who feel called to venture into the Round World.

• Intermediate and advanced creators who want to sharpen their understanding of the patterns that shape their relationship to creating, and gain new tools for sustaining momentum.

• Creativity nerds who love a good explanatory framework that supports both reflection and analysis.

• Anyone wanting to move toward creating as a way of life.

• Leaders who want to become more adept at guiding and understanding creative teams.

About the Author

Sara Saltee has been deeply immersed in the study and practice of creativity for nearly thirty years as a creativity coach, artist, teacher, and writer.

In 2020, Sara founded the Saltee Academy for Complex Creators to help wholly original women embrace their distinction, connect to their authentic impulses, and make their highest contributions. Through the Saltee Academy, Sara shares the original tools and frameworks she’s developed over decades of working with artists, writers, leaders, and other creators. She offers one-on-one and group coaching experiences, live programs, self-study courses and other resources to support highly sensitive, gifted, neurodiverse, and other creative women create our work, our lives, and our selves.

Readers who are inspired to work with Sara one-on-one will find a special bonus gift in the E-book - an exclusive discounted coaching package that focuses on working together to apply the insights of the Round World to your creative dreams.