The Creatives Cocoon
A eight week limited-space digital cocoon with Sierra & Emmie
Where structure meets softness, practicality meets daydreaming and pleasure, play, delusion and fun are just as important as getting shit done.
Starts February 13th. Early Bird Price until January 27th. Price is in AUD.
In the creatives cocoon we approach the practical, day to day running and building of a business / creative practice / self employment from the perspective of both the dawn and the dusk. We place equal importance on what is hard and what is soft, and know this varies from person to person, and the current season you’re in.
Starting, growing & tending a gentle business takes discipline, structure and grit.
The reality is: we need a vessel to hold our precious flower stems. But not every vase is going to suit your home, or the flowers you love. In a world of fail-safe formulas and must-do’s the most important, and equally, the most challenging part of having and holding a business that is both practically and financially successful while allowing us the spaciousness and ease to live a life we adore is developing the courage to look within and get really clear about what it is you need.
The best part is — you don’t have to do this alone.
we’ve got you (we get it).
If you find yourself in one of these loops: we’ve got you:
You’re a floaty dreamer who dances in circles of trying a new structure or routine, only to fall off the bandwagon a week or two in and berate yourself for how it’s all your fault & you’ll never be able to make it work.
You’re a balls-out workhorse who constantly feels unsatisfied, dried out, exhausted, disconnected from your body, never quite keeping up, until you finally take some time off, only to feel as if you’re drowning in guilt for doing nothing at all
Your inconsistency is welcomed, celebrated and not shamed.
There is nothing wrong with inconsistency — unless it is standing in the way of actually getting your work, your voice, and your art out into the world.
Through a series of eight densely packed workshops, we explore how to make things actually work in your business or creative practice — from strategy, to branding to AI - without losing grip of who you truly are.
The Program.
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 Putting yourself out there and allowing your work / voice and self to be seen without falling into the trap of feeling you have to post every single day
𖦹 Balancing the quality over quantity approach to sharing your work online without letting that become another excuse to keep putting off showing up at all
𖦹 The importance of experimentation and disconnecting from immediate feedback / results in finding your voice
𖦹 A notion page for content creation specifically designed for multi-passionates who do not have one set niche (and feel resistance to planned content creation)
𖦹 Releasing the belief you’re ‘adding to the noise’ online
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 This is an icky, sticky topic - we get it. So lets see if we can make it fun, experimental and actually worthwhile
𖦹 Firstly, it’s okay if you have no idea who your ideal client is right now - we’ll teach you how to figure it out through the process of putting your work into the world
𖦹 Secondly, it’s okay if you do know, but you’re not sure how to reach them yet. Let’s release the shame/guilt around selectivity, and finding grace in being different
𖦹 Creating content that speaks to this audience without forcing effort
𖦹 Allowing your ideal client to evolve, grow and change / allowing your work to evolve, grow and change with your people
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 The importance of being identifiable and having cohesion as a brand but also not taking it too seriously and leaving room for fluidity
𖦹 What it means to create a visual identity
𖦹 Creating resonance with your people through your visuals
𖦹 How to start finding more inspiration for your visual identity, even as a ‘non-artist or designer’ (spoiler alert we are all artists!!!)
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 Systems that work for you without being restrictive and how allow them to evolve and shapeshift throughout the month and year
𖦹 A behind the scenes peek into how we run our businesses in the same same but wildly opposite ways
𖦹 Time for all your tech and systems questions !
𖦹 Here’s where the notion support comes in hot !!!
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 Structuring your business day / week / month flow with a balance of discipline and romance.
𖦹 Ensuring we are actually doing what we need to do for our business to bloom while ensuring room for spaciousness to allow for the days where work just isn’t happening at all.
𖦹 The importance of making dates with your business and creativity
𖦹 Flirting with accounting & bookkeeping: incorporate more Venusian energy into our reviewing of money to make it sexy and sacred
𖦹 The art of traveling outside your home or place of business to take your work to cafes in order to hit refresh on your ideas
𖦹 A notion page making quarterly goals sensual
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 Infusing more divinity & poetry into our work
𖦹 How we can develop sweeter intentions with who is attracted to what we create (like bees to honey)
𖦹 How to find your aligned way to make creations (honoring your different brainwave style)
𖦹 The art of infusing play, travel, and beauty into the creation process
𖦹 Behind the scenes, show all peeks into how we create offerings
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 Answering the real question: what are you actually doing this for?
𖦹 Detangling the concept of purpose in our work and finding purpose in the intricate moments of existence
𖦹 The dance between paying to live on planet earth and what internally pays us
𖦹 Creating clarity around our personal values (which feeds sweetly into “content” and direction with offering creation
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Key Themes Explored:
𖦹 Our take on Purpose - this is a big one, and a re-frame on the old ‘come back to your why statement’ in business.
𖦹 What are you actually doing this for? (And we don’t mean in three words summed up on your instagram bio)
𖦹 What does your life look like outside of your business? Remembering that this is as telling (if not more) than all the measurable statistics and goals.
𖦹 The importance of celebrating and bathing in your life outside of business: because why else are you on this earth and also because this will be the nutrients or the fuel we need to pour into the systems and structure and bring it all to life, again and again and again
A Lovers Cocoon
Class Dates
꩜ Classes are held weekly on Thursdays at 11am AEDT / (Wednesdays 4pm PST) Starting February 13th.
꩜ All classes are added to the online portal within 24 hours and course content is available for six months from the date of our final class
Are you sure I’m ready?
If you are drawn to this cocoon and want to party with us, we would LOVE to have you! Sometimes you don’t know why you’re pulled toward something until you find yourself in the middle of it. Most importantly: we WANT you to want to be here. This is for you if you feel excited, curious, tempted, maybe a little afraid. We want you to have fun with this, and be a little challenged by it too.
Inclusions
𖦹 Eight In-Depth Masterclasses (each a mini course within itself)
𖦹 Community Chat Space
𖦹 An incredible (!!!!!!!) easy to use, notion template filled with resources and support to help you fall in love with structure, maybe for the first time
𖦹 Regular opportunities for Q&A so you feel well and truly held and supported during this time
𖦹 A small, closed group so we can continue to adjust the course and teachings to the groups needs
Are you sure?
If you are drawn to this cocoon and want to party with us, we would LOVE to have you! Sometimes you don’t know why you’re pulled toward something until you find yourself in the middle of it. Most importantly: we WANT you to want to be here. This is for you if you feel excited, curious, tempted, maybe a little afraid. We want you to have fun with this, and be a little challenged by it too.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Live classes will on be Thursdays, 11AM AEDT.
Our courses always have people from all over the world and many people do take the entire course via the replays. The community chat space is available to connect, discuss course content and submit any questions in advance.
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The beauty of the online world is we can study with and learn from people all over the world - from the comfort of our own homes! Over the years I’ve received wonderful feedback from people who have participated in the whole course from the recordings and benefited greatly! You have access to the recordings for a year, making it a great option if you don’t have a fixed schedule, you’re time poor or simply not sure if you can make it on the assigned days until the time comes!
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You do not need an established business to join this cocoon. The beauty of these courses is there are always people at different levels or stages of business - from dreaming or a decade in, we all have so much to learn from one another.
While we will talk a lot about the practicalities of supporting yourself doing what you love, this is a suitable container for anyone who wants to being more joy and richness into their working world.Ideal for soloprenuers, writers, artists and women in the health / wellness / creative / spirit world
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Not in the exact same way, no! But we will certainly collaborate in future again.
In the Creatives Cocoon, Emmie cradles the yin and Sierra encapsulates the yang. The creative act can not be birthed without one another. The two of us come together as facilitators to show you how artistry is rooted in dual intimacy. Our differences only bring us more congruence. This pairing is the cheese board; we offer a combination of flavours for every taste. You can sample the whole palette and then decide what you want to take home.
The deeper bit: at her core, Emmie is the workaholic who didn’t take a day off for years. Learning softness, rest and pleasure was what allowed her business (and life) to finally bloom, but the reality is, she cannot discount the fact that extreme discipline is beneath the surface of it all. Sierra’s story is that softness alone was depleting all of the resources she had as creative to move the needle. Getting serious about structure is what allowed her to honour her work so that she could continue to show up and make it real, even when she had no direction for what was next.
Long story short — many of us have different versions of this story, perhaps swinging from one extreme to the other. What we are offering here is finding a middle path, one that works for you, and knowing (without shame, guilt and fear) when you need to readjust, veer from those pointy, extreme tendencies and find a more supportive version of structure, romance, success and peace.
Emmie & Sierra
Like nettles and red raspberry leaf, some infusions are just better together.
Both of us agree what business success looks like: time to browse second hand bookshops and spending the afternoon reading our purchases drinking three different beverages at once in the sun. It looks having the money to learn and study more, to wear well made clothes that look incredibly cute and hop from coffee shop to coffee shop, because the conversation (or the Substack) needs to be finished in a difference aesthetic space. We are also both under no illusion of what it takes to get here.
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