CREATIVE FACILITATION
Some things don’t need another conversation.
Creative facilitation gives us another way into ideas, questions, decisions, and projects that are no longer responding to more analysis.
You can explain the idea for an hour.
Make another list.
Analyze the problem.
Journal about it.
Ask six people what they think.
And still know you haven’t reached the thing underneath it.
Instead of relying entirely on language and conscious analysis, we work through creativity, image, movement, sensation, association, mark-making, writing, and guided inquiry.
Not to make art for the wall.
To make something visible.
What creative facilitation is.
Creative facilitation creates structured experiences where people can explore an idea, question, decision, project, or pattern through creative practice.
That can include:
- Drawing
- Painting
- Movement
- Non-dominant writing
- Image work
- Sensory exploration
- Symbol and association
- Guided inquiry
- Somatic awareness
- Conversation and reflection
The practice changes the conditions around the question.
When we stop asking the verbal mind to do all the work, different information can become available.
- A connection you hadn’t made.
- A feeling you hadn’t named.
- A shape you could sense but couldn’t explain.
- A direction that becomes easier to recognize once you can see it in
front of you.
My approach.
I come to facilitation through more than one doorway.
I studied studio art and ceramics.
I spent twenty years in creative direction, helping ideas become visible before they were fully formed.
I work with Human Design and transformational practice.
And I’m trained in Marina Kurkhina’s Creative Subconscious™ method, which uses creative and embodied practices to access information beyond ordinary verbal analysis.
Those disciplines meet in the room.
I’m not interested in telling you what your drawing means. I’m interested in helping you notice what you see.
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE
Work directly with the thing you’re trying to make.
Creative Intelligence is my core creative facilitation experience.
You bring something that has your attention.
- An idea.
- A project.
- A decision.
- A piece of writing.
- A business shift.
- A body of work.
- A question you keep circling.
Then we use creative practice to work with it from somewhere other than the place that has already been thinking about it for six months.
What happens.
You won’t spend the workshop sitting in a circle talking about creativity.
You’ll make things. Move. Write. Notice. Respond.
Depending on the format, we may use:
- Drawing and mark-making
- Non-dominant writing
- Guided visual inquiry
- Movement
- Image and association
- Sensory awareness
- Partner exploration
- Individual reflection
- Facilitated group conversation
- Time to work directly with the idea you brought
You do not need to consider yourself creative.
You do not need to know how to draw.
The point is not artistic skill.
The point is access.
What you can bring into the room.
Creative facilitation works particularly well when you’re:
- Developing an idea
- Writing or creating something
- Making a decision
- Trying to understand a project that feels stuck
- Developing a methodology or body of work
- In the middle of a business shift
- Overthinking something you already know a lot about
- Trying to hear your own perspective underneath everyone else’s
- Working with a question that has stopped responding to language
Bring the unfinished thing.
That’s enough.
Formats.
Public workshops
Join an upcoming Creative Intelligence session or other facilitated experience.
Private groups
Bring Creative Intelligence into your membership, mastermind, community, team, or retreat.
Inquire about a private workshop →
1:1 facilitation
For ideas and questions that need more focused space, private facilitated sessions are also available.
You don’t have to think harder.
Sometimes the useful question is not:
What do I think about this?
It’s:
What else do I know?
Creative facilitation gives us a way to find out.