April 27 – June 19, 2026
$388 · Free for existing members
8 weeks to sharpen your thinking. Make work that matters. Find the people who need it.
A Mind of
Your Own
The world is being rewritten by people with less to say but more audacity to say it.
CREATIVE LIVING LIVE INTENSIVE NO. 4
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500+
Creatives from all walks of life here to remember why they feel called to create in the first place.
92%
Of testimonials have the words (or sentiment) "lifechanging".
40+
Of our members use the app every day
82%
Countries, all committed to cultivating a space that honours difference, depth and complexity.
Countries, all committed to cultivating a space that honours difference, depth and complexity.
If you’re on it, you’ll get early access + a private discount window before doors open to everyone else.
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The thinkers. The builders and creators. The ones who notice what everyone else is too busy to see.
And historically, most of them hesitate. They question their ideas. They wait for things to “calm down”. They wonder if they're the right person to say it. And they miss the window entirely.
Not us. Not you. Not this time.
The future will be written by a small number of people who kept their heads while everyone else was losing theirs. Your only job is to make sure you're one of them.
Either your fear goes, or this opportunity to stand up does. Your call.
We built a culture that treats thinking like an inconvenience. We outsourced it to machines. We subcontracted it to strangers on podcasts. We stopped reading books and started reading summaries of books. We stopped forming opinions and started borrowing the ones with the most retweets.
Meanwhile, the people who could imagine a different future are editing themselves for “likeability”. Waiting for the fog to lift. Refreshing feeds built by people who want you to stay there.
And imagination, the thing that built the civil rights movement, the Sistine Chapel, antibiotics, every novel that ever dragged someone out of bed at the worst time of their life, the internet back when the internet was still fun, is being treated like a decorative skill. A hobby for the emotionally well-rested. Something you'll get to when the baby sleeps through and the inbox clears and the world calms down.
The world is not going to calm down. That was never on the table.
This is not a drill.
There are moments in history that require
better thinking than average.
This is one of them.
I WANT IN
They want you numb. They want you scrolling. They want you too overwhelmed to organise, too tired to create, too distracted to notice what's been taken.
Every time you write something true, you resist that. Every ounce of time you take back from mindless consumption, you rebel.
The cognitive flexibility
3.
to wrestle with complexity and contradiction without making it mean something's wrong with you.
5.
to back yourself and stay in the room when things get uncomfortable, or when someone disagrees. Because they will.
1.
To examine your own biases, question your own narratives, and figure out what you actually think versus what you've absorbed.
2.
to be wrong in public. To share work that's unfinished. To let people misunderstand you and keep going.
Truly revolutionary creative work demands:
what it actually requires
The intellectual rigour
The emotional capacity
The somatic resilience
The linguistic precision
4.
to say what you mean, not just what sounds radical. To name the problem so clearly that the path forward becomes obvious.
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This isn’t just another space to write more or free your voice: it’s a space where you experience feel creative liberation. Creative Living gave me my tribe, my people, and may be one of the first places I have felt true belonging and where I felt a true belonging of my voice to me.
Creative Living made me not only believe but deeply feel that my voice and my words have weight, even if the only person that ever hears them are me.
KAYLEIGH FELT CREATIVE LIBERATION FOR THE FIRST TIME in her life
I'm not just "more creative" because of it, but I am now open to allowing my creativity to move through me, to shift me, to reveal more possibility.
I came to Creative Living thinking my voice lacked that je ne sais quoi and “left” not just feeling but knowing that my voice, the weird, wild, freaky, strange, raw, real analogies, stories, and words that pour out of me want to be witnessed.
Creative Living fundamentally changed how I am in relationship with my creativity.
you’ll have sharper thinking, braver work,
to every system that profits from your silence.
and the kind of creative momentum that makes you dangerous
what is it?
Creative Living is a community, practice space, library and live experience. 500+ humans across 40+ countries. Poets, nurses, architects, founders, therapists, mothers, writers, artists, and people with no creative title who know they have something to say, create, write, make or build. All here because we share the same stubborn refusal to keep creating from someone else's blueprint.
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the live intensive shift:
you walk into.
movement
The live intensive is 8 weeks. Part excavation. Part nervous system work. Part creative boot camp. A space to bring your wildest and most unfinished ideas without them needing to prove themselves first. To hold each other to a higher standard of thinking. To develop the tools to articulate what you believe with the precision and courage it deserves.
This is not a programme you watch. It's a
Your relationship
is about to
to your own creativity
you why you must.
fundamentally change .
reminds you
You can feel it in your body
when you try to say the real thing. The tightening. The pre-edit. The little voice checking who might read it and what they'll make of it. You're ready to stop letting that voice drive.
You've got something to say.
Maybe several things. A book, a brand, a product, an essay, a perspective, a project you can't stop thinking about. You've been circling it for months or years, and the circling has started to feel like betrayal.
you feel something shifting
You feel something shifting. In the collective, in yourself, in the work you're quietly not making. And you're tired of pretending you don't.
You might not be blocked at all
You might be prolific. You might post every single day. But you know the difference between the work that costs you something and the work that doesn't, and you’ve been playing far too safe.
A writer, an engineer, a nurse
an architect, a founder, a poet, a parent, a multi-hyphenate, a person who isn't entirely sure what's coming next but knows the next version of you has something to say about this decade and wants to be ready for when it gets said.
Something with a backbone and a belly full of fire. You want to be around people who take thinking and art and creativity and language seriously and have the stomach to do the real work.
You don't want another template. You want a practice.
You're done waiting to feel ready. You're done mistaking caution for craft.
You're done editing yourself for likeability.
4 themes. 8 weeks.
Each theme breaks a different part of the pattern you’re currently stuck in and replaces it with a way of thinking, writing, and creating that actually holds under pressure. Each week includes a module-style learning, a writing or somatic practice and a live roundtable discussion where we wrestle over the most complex creative challenges our culture faces, together.
➔ The exact moment your original thinking gets intercepted, and how to stop it happening mid-sentence
➔ Why the opinion you always soften is almost always the most valuable thing you have to say and how to stop censoring yourself
➔ A simple exercise that reveals, in under an hour, how much of your thinking is borrowed, and what’s left when it’s stripped away
➔ The difference between a creative block and a nervous system response (and why confusing the two keeps you stuck)
➔ How to use contradiction as a thinking tool instead of trying to resolve it into something neat
What it actually feels like to own an idea that is fully yours, and why it’s been feeling “dangerous” until now
Stop mistaking absorption for thinking.
You don’t need more ideas. You need to know which ones are yours.
➔ The rewrite practice that turns vague, forgettable work into something precise, sharp, and unmistakably yours, so that people find your ideas and want to support them
➔ The two-word phrase most people say before something true and why it’s the number on thing that weakens your work — and how to remove the habit at the source
➔ The difference between being nuanced and being unclear (most people get this wrong)
➔ How to name what other people feel but haven’t been able to articulate, and why this makes you irreplaceable and essential in the broader collective conversation
➔ The physical shift that happens when you stop qualifying your ideas before they’re even written
➔ Why the person who finds the exact words always ends up shaping the next best thing
Say what you mean. Exactly.
Vagueness doesn’t protect you. It erases you.
➔ The essay structure used by every great thinker who wrote their way into clarity, from Montaigne to Baldwin, and how to use it to move through your most complex, unresolved ideas without flattening them into a take
➔ Why the idea you've been circling for months isn't a sign of being stuck, it's the thing you're actually here to say, and the framework for finally writing it without softening it to the point where nobody can tell what you meant
➔ The five requirements of truly revolutionary creative work, intellectual rigour, emotional capacity, somatic resilience, linguistic precision, cognitive flexibility, and what it looks like to practise all five inside a single piece of writing
➔ The energetic pattern that makes us abandon our most important creative projects at the exact moment before completion, and the practice for staying in the room with the work long enough to finish it
➔ Why writing something unfinished, nuanced and publicly imperfect is one of the most radical things you can do in a culture that rewards certainty, punishes complexity and calls a caption a contribution
Stop waiting. Start entering the conversation.
You don’t need a perfect idea. You need to start thinking where people can see you.
➔ The difference between content that disappears and creative work that accumulates into something the world can use
➔ Why the piece you almost didn’t publish is often the one that matters most and how to rescue ideas you almost threw away
➔ How to find the people who actually need your work and stop creating for the ones who don’t
➔ What it means to contribute to the revolution instead of just reacting to it
➔ Why collective thinking changes faster than individual thinking, and how to be part of that shift
➔ How your creative work becomes the thing you’re known for without you forcing it
➔ Writing a better future for you and everyone around you
This is where it stops being personal.
This is not just about your voice anymore. It’s about what happens when hundreds of people stop filtering theirs at the same time.
OK LET ME IN!
Between sessions, this is where the real practise happens. Share breakthroughs, blocks, unfinished thoughts, new work. Practise being yourself out loud. Get witnessed by people who are doing the same.
the community
These aren't lectures. They're writing circles, collective discussions, guided meditations, and real-time creative practice with Lois and Maia. You'll share work, challenge each other, ask the questions you've been sitting on, and practise thinking out loud in a room that can hold it. The energy of these calls is the thing people talk about most.
Weekly calls and roundtables
Support from Lois and Maia
Dropped weekly. Bite-size videos, each with a practical element and an energetic component. Work through them at your own pace. No rush. Just depth.
Self-study lessons.
Safe, easy invitations back into the body and onto the page. Morning rituals to anchor you in creative intention before the world pulls you elsewhere. Evening rituals to close the day with reflection and make space for yourself.
AM/PM RITUALS
Longer, immersive experiences designed for deeper exploration once or twice a month. These are the ones that rewire how you relate to your creativity, your voice, and your work.
KEY PRACTICES
We're in the community with you. We respond to posts, we read your work, we show up in the calls. You’ll have a full team of people and hundreds of writers all over the world in your corner.
Full access to the entire Creative Living app throughout the 10 weeks. Hundreds of energetics practices, writing prompts, and expression exercises, alongside longer key practices for when you want to go deeper, all available on your phone so you can integrate your practice into your daily life.
App access
Your Expression Library and Energetic Library live inside the app for the duration of the round and a full year after. Somatic practices, creative writing prompts, tapping, meditations, visualisations, frameworks, AM/PM practices, and all self-study lessons. Everything in one place, available whenever you need it.
The Creative Living libraries.
COMMUNITY CIRCLES
Between calls, community writing pods run throughout the week. Cameras optional. Show up with whatever you're working on, or just show up. Thirty minutes of writing alongside other humans. No feedback required, no performance. Just the discipline of doing it together.
i want all of this
➔ Catch the exact somatic moment an original thought gets intercepted, and clear the interference before your best idea disappears
➔ Practise writing from a regulated body instead of a panicked one, which changes everything about what ends up on the page
➔ Build the nervous system capacity to be misunderstood in public without collapsing or hardening
➔ Work with your body as a collaborator in the creative process, not a machine you keep failing to optimise
➔ Develop the energetic stamina for the long project, the book, the business, the practice, that your current operating mode can't sustain
➔ Rebuild the physical capacity for visibility with your own ideas, because the work this era demands cannot come from a dysregulated body.
For the last ten years, I've been working at the exact point where the nervous system meets creative expression. Beyond wellness hacks and gimmicks. As the actual infrastructure underneath whether or not a person can think clearly, create freely, write honestly, and stay in the room when it gets uncomfortable.
Most people aren't creatively blocked. They're just living life outside of their body. From the head up. Frozen in survival, chasing safety through perfection or invisibility, and wondering why the good idea never arrives. My job inside Creative Living is to rebuild the physical conditions that make original thinking possible, so feeling becomes safe again. That's where the work you're actually here to do lives.
Latina. Writer. Neuro-somatic practitioner. Global brand designer. Kundalini teacher by night. Student of what the body knows before the mind catches up.
➔ Work on something built for the long arc, not the 24 hour cycle and spend more time with the ideas that matter to you
➔ Practise telling your own thoughts apart from the ambient noise of everyone else's
➔ Work with the writing techniques that give raw, honest thought a shape on the page
➔ Experiment with publishing work before it feels finished, and stay with your ideas for what happens next
➔ Treat contradiction as raw material rather than a problem to solve
➔ Look closely at the difference between caution and craft, and find the version of precision that's actually useful
I have a first-class journalism degree. I’ve ghostwritten bestselling books. I’ve written for major publications. Worked behind the scenes with global brands and some of the biggest names in the online space, turning raw ideas into movements that actually moved things for almost two decades.
But the work I'm proudest of isn't the stuff that went viral. It's the writing I've done at my kitchen table with a sleeping baby in the next room and a lump in my throat, still deciding whether to say the thing or bury it.
My job inside Creative Living is to give you the thinking frameworks, the writing practice and the strategic rigour to get the work out of your head and into the hands of the people who need it. I don’t teach you how to "use your voice" (you don’t need me to do that). But think of me as a guide to simply help you trust it, and build a body of work around it that outlasts every algorithm you've ever been afraid of.
Writer. Strategist. Reluctant poet. Creative instigator.
This is a table.
This is not a platform, or a course or a programme.
Pull up a chair.
There are no perfect answers to the world’s most complex creative problems.
I WANT IN
While we both bring different expertise to our community, we have found ourselves deeply connected by a common vision:
NATALIA RECONNECTED WITH HER JOY FOR CREATING
What Creative Living has meant for me is a way of reconnecting with myself in many different ways.
They key for my experience has been the beautiful balance of mental and philosophical exploration and the body/soul explorations.
It has helped me be more fully myself. Recognizing the censorship, the masks, the shadows that were hiding around creativity and also equipping me with tools that help me show up as the version of myself I am aiming for. It has helped me be more brave and tender at the same time.
@CBMEDITATES REACHED 300K FOLLOWERS WITH HIS POETRY
1. If I didn't take this program, I wouldn't have a Substack.
2. Flight Plan (group program) wouldn't exist (at least in the way it does).
3. The concept for my Mentorship, Homecoming, wouldn't exist.
4. I'd still feel like a boring/dulled down version of myself (this part killed me because IRL my humour/wit is one of my most-cherished attributes).
5. I'd still feel like creating and showing up from a place of deep lack "and that's for other people, not for me."
6. I'd still be following all these random rules and strategies because "it worked for them."
7. I'd still say "I'm not a writer."
The cost of not taking CL would have been endless.
what people say about the live experience
Before Creative Living, I'd never consider myself "a writer." Now I am writing a memoir.
I'm not just writing more, but dancing, cooking, and just exploring life with more creativity and pleasure, with more intention and openness.
I’ve been a part of many groups and communities before, but never before has my heart cracked open quite like this.
Never before have I felt this rawness, this embrace of vulnerability. A few transformations have unfolded since joining this space, and I wanted to share them with you.
I’ve begun writing more deeply and embracing my raw, authentic voice. I used to shy away from sharing about Tantra because of its often misunderstood reputation. But I’ve started writing consistently, and many of my recent posts have gone viral, and I’m connecting with incredible souls daily.
When I decided to intertwine Tantra with creativity a year ago, I lost followers rapidly, and my Instagram engagement plummeted. But now, sharing unapologetically has brought life and connection back to my work.
I feel more excited than ever to explore and write about the wild feminine sensuality and rooted masculine courage - these two ideas are breaking the walls on my IG! :))
edila wrote the first pages of her memoir
EARLY PRICING ENDS 04.22
Monthly guest panel discussions
Challenges, new collections, and exclusive content in between live intensives
10-week access
Weekly live calls with Lois and Maia during the live intensives
Global community
TWO live 8-week intensives (Spring + Fall) included
The Creative Living Workbook Volume II (available now)
to The Somatic Vault + Expression Library
8-week intensive, april-june
or $597 a year, best value
Monthly guest panel discussions
Instant access to the app, all collections, practices, libraries, and every single resource, year-round
Weekly live calls with Lois and Maia during the live intensive
Global community with live meetups and feedback
TWO live 8-week intensives (Spring + Fall) included
The Creative Living Workbook Volume II (available now) and Volume III in September with the Fall live round
On Demand all year access to The Somatic Vault + Expression Library
12-month membership
access to the app, all collections, practices, libraries, and every single resource.
available for membership only
April 27th - June 26th
for 10 weeks
(and self-organized meetups)
all other Volumes
Creative Living is built as an ongoing practice: a 12-month membership. We’re about to host one of our biannual 8-week intensive, where you can join us for 8 weeks (April 27th - June 26th) and step into the work.
If you join the membership, you get both live intensives included.
Challenges, new collections, and exclusive content in between live intensives
(or x3 monthly installment of $129)
EXPLORE THE LIVE INTENSIVE
explore the membership
WE CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO PRINT YOURS.
the internet
broke
→ How to write without sounding like the algorithm is holding a knife to your throat.
→ The difference between content and creative expression, and why you feel dead inside when you confuse the two.
→ How to build a creative rhythm that doesn't collapse every time life does.
→ How to explore new ideas without immediately trying to monetise, explain, or justify them.
→ How to cultivate taste, not just productivity, and create work with depth, texture and your own flavour.
→Why play is not optional.
→How to write through contradiction, complexity, and nuance without diluting your message.
→What it means to build a body of work, not just a pile of posts, and create something that lasts.
What you'll learn inside
this year's edition:
When we built Creative Living, our question was simple: How do we take this practice off the screen and into people's actual lives?
The answer became 150+ pages of rituals, prompts, philosophies, frameworks, sensory writing practices, somatic exercises, and questions designed to shake the dust off your creativity and get you telling the truth again on the page and in your life.
The first edition became a reason to write again. Hundreds of creatives printed it, shared it, lived inside it. Now we've written Edition Two. Every year, we release a new version. As long as you're a member, the newest edition is yours.
THE CREATIVE LIVING WORKBOOK
The workbook that
You don't need to be
before you
"better"
"deserve" this.
You just need to be done waiting. Done asking permission to take your own creativity seriously.
Creative Living isn't here to fix you.
You were never broken.
You're just ready. You've always been.
The version of you that exists right now is the one who gets to create and be and do the things you really want to.
You don't need to have written a book. You don't need to call yourself a writer. You don't need to have a creative career or a Substack or a following or a plan.
“Creative Living transformed my relationship with art and self-expression.”
Initially, I struggled with feeling voiceless and hesitant to share my work. Through Creative Living, I've experienced a profound shift– I no longer feel ashamed of my art or pressured to fit and 'artistic persona/ While doubts occasionally surface, I'm embracing my unique creative voice.
It helped me rediscover myself and reignited my passion for writing, leading me to start a Substack. I'm continuing to work through the materials, excited to see my confidence grow further.
— NINA, MEMBER SINCE 2024
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"Creative Living changed everything about how I write and create".
Before this program, I was trapped in self-censorship, constantly watering down my voice to make it palatable. I was creating from strategy instead of soul, afraid to take up too much space with my words. After Creative Living, everything shifted: I write daily without resistance, I've started a Substack, I'm working on my first poetry book, I'm sharing stories I've never dared to voice before.
I found my real voice. Not the polished version. Not the acceptable version. But the raw, powerful, truth-telling voice that was waiting to break free.
— HALLEY, PART OF 3 LIVE ROUNDS
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Creative Living started in 2024 as an 8-week “course” on unedited self-expression, but there's a point where the work you create starts creating you.
Creative Living wanted to be the practice space we never had. The one where there is a seat at the table for everyone. Where you stand tall in your truth. Where the creative process starts in the body, and you learn how to read the somatic intelligence of your expression.
Throughout our lives, we’ve seen how the stories we tell become the worlds we live in. The questions we ask become the conversations we have. The work you make, when it's true, specific, brave, changes what's possible for the people who find it.
But that takes practice. Not inspiration. Practice. The kind of practice most people don't have a space for.
And that’s how Creative Living was born: as the practice space that allows your honest expression to find you again.
We built Creative Living because we believe your creative practice is how you shape reality. Not metaphorically. Literally.
We are actively committed to cultivating a space that honours difference, complexity and identity, not as checkboxes, but as living realities. Our community includes people of many races, genders, sexualities, neurotypes and body experiences. We prioritise safety, nuance, accountability and care. No space is perfect, but we do our utmost to make this one courageous and kind.
During live intensives, yes. You'll have direct access to Lois and Maia for feedback, mentoring, and support. Between rounds, the community itself is remarkably generous with feedback and encouragement.
The practice is designed to meet you where you are. We work with the nervous system, not against it. Many members have joined during some of the hardest seasons of their lives and found that having a creative container made everything more bearable, not less. Go at your own pace. Always. Lois and Maia are also trauma-informed and our curriculum is revised by a somatic therapist.
Everything is recorded and available in the app. The community is global, which means conversations are happening across time zones, all the time. You'll never feel behind.
Yes. We have architects, therapists, coaches, scientists, surfers, photographers, jewellery founders, painters, mothers, executives, and people who have never written a word in their adult lives. Everyone who comes through our doors discovers a writer inside them. This is a human practice, not an industry-specific one.
As little or as much as you want. Some members dip in for five minutes a day with a morning ritual. Others spend hours in the expression library. The app is designed to meet you wherever you are, and the practice builds around your life, not the other way around.
Your drafts folder
has had enough
An 8-week live intensive to rebuild your relationship to creativity, find the ideas that are unmistakably yours, and develop the rigour, depth and courage to share them publicly.
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