a creative writing workshop

Nurturing Creativity with Care

We get to care for and take delight in what we create. Join Sarah Peyton for a transformative exploration of the CARE circuit, and discover the ways you may be utilizing your creative life force for everyone but yourself.

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Do you wish you really cared for what you created? Do you wish you could talk to yourself, and your work, with the warmth and delight that you know you really feel? Do you feel guilty when you take time for yourself? Were you told that everyone’s well being comes before your own?

Warmth, relaxation, and yumminess felt in the body run through the CARE circuit. These are the feelings and physical experiences that come with communion, intimacy, warmth and relationships that have a lot of affection in them. For example, when you touch your dog and your whole body relaxes: that’s the CARE circuit coming on board. How delicious!

Unfortunately, because many of us were raised in a culture where there is a cultural imperative to care for others and not “be selfish:”, most of us have CARE circuits that have been co-opted for everyone else, instead of for ourselves. Or, if we have experienced life with very little affection or warmth, our CARE circuits might be blocked–which causes us to experience the world as cold and withdrawn.

Not only do we need care for ourselves (the capacity to stop and be really warm and affectionate with ourselves), we also need care for our creativity: we need to be able to enjoy our creativity and delight in it. And have it bring us a sense of warmth. We get to care for what we create, we get to enjoy what we create, we get to take delight in what we create.

The more we are able to create a warm turning towards the self, the more clarity we have in our creativity and our relationships. The more we are able to have discernment when it comes to feedback, and the more perspective we are able to have with rejection.

Many of us experience the winter holiday season as a time of self-abandonment. There’s a lot of stress that comes with the holidays and people tend to eat more than what they are hungry for-–which is an effort at self care, but it is driven by the SEEKING circuit rather than the CARE circuit. If it were the CARE circuit doing the self-care, then when we felt awful, our CARE circuit would have us stop and fold ourselves in warmth and say of course this is so hard.

In this course we will learn the neuroscience of the CARE circuit, work with unconscious contracts that block CARE and make us prioritize others, untangle the entanglement between our CARE and SEEKING circuits, make space for the complexity of family within our CARE relationships, and re-align the movement of CARE from outwards to inward.

The work in this course will support you in finding the wellspring of warmth within yourself that can be a powerful resource for creative practice and expression. This leads to more enjoyment of the creative process, more ability to stop and be warm with the self when the process is difficult, a greater sense of humor about all of the difficulties involved in creative expression, a greater sense of internal safety, and more ability to play, explore, and experiment.

Experience what’s possible when you explore and create within a resonant and welcoming space that honors the uniqueness of your truth and your voice in this 6-session series dedicated to creative process and exploration.

This 6-week course runs from November 26, 2024 – January 14, 2025

We will meet online from 8:00 AM-9:25 AM PDT | 11:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM BST (convert to your time zone here)

Where?

The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program (typically available within 72 hours of the live session).

When?

This 6-week course runs from November 26, 2024 – January 14, 2025 with classes meeting each Tuesday morning from 8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Pacific Time (To convert to your time zone, please click here)

What to Expect:

A warm space that creates room for the flow from thought into expression, support and resonant feedback, all in service of unblocking your creativity and more fluid expression.

In each 85-minute class, we will:

  • Begin with a free writing period
  • Explore the relational neuroscience connected to the CARE circuit, and how it impacts the ability to express and stay self-connected.
  • Offer a resonance exercise or demonstration to support the movement toward free expression
  • Continue with a second free writing period
  • Create space for sharing and resonant responses to each other’s work

The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones.

What You'll Learn Each Week:

Week 1, November 26: Intro to the CARE Circuit
Week 2, December 3: How care can distract us from our creativity
Week 3, December 10: Releasing contracts that block CARE and make us prioritize others
Week 4, December 17: The holidays, CARE, and complexity
Week 5, January 7: Being vs. Doing: What’s important to creativity
Week 6, January 14: Celebrating the gifts of care

Who Is This Course For?

For writers, artists, explorers and creatives looking for a resonant space in which to support their creative expression. The creative process work that we’ll explore in this class is for anyone involved in, or longing to be involved in, any kind of creative pursuit.

This Course Includes 1:1 Resonant Support

Get assistant support during classes – experience resonant support from experienced practitioners when you need it during class times. Often, this work can have unexpected depth and touch on deeply held subconscious awareness and pain. Getting support when we need it most helps participants to integrate, regulate, and have a felt experience of the transformative power of resonance.

Cost

$175-$400

  • This course is set up so that participants can contribute what they can.
  • Please choose a variation that considers your financial resources as well as the contribution you would like to offer Sarah and her team.
  • The standard tuition for this course is $300.  If you choose to pay more, your contribution will go toward supporting those with fewer resources to attend.

Register

Nurturing Creativity with Care

$175.00$400.00

*PLEASE NOTE:

  • Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
  • This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
  • This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.

About the Instructor

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Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.

Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.

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When we change how we speak to ourselves, we change how our brain works.

 

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Curious about the Resonant Healing Practitioner Certification?

Watch the recording from our live Q+A call from March 26th, 2023.

This recording has the most up-to-date info about the program so you can see if it's right for you! 

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Healing from Betrayal & Abandonment is Possible

 

Begin the journey of self-resonance by attending the FIRST CLASS FREE on May 31st: Clear Your Circuits - Write from Your Heart: learning the healing practice of resonant writing.

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