About the Courses:​

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Each course consists of one 2-hour session. You can book each individually, or all three as a bundle for a £5 discount.

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Neuroqueering Shame in our Creative Lives

Saturday, July 5th, 12-2 pm EDT (5-7 pm BST) via Zoom

Shame is a powerful political tool used in almost every area of our lives—our families, our schools, our workplaces, even our identities—to wrench us into conformity with the values of industrial-colonial time and compulsory executive functioning. In this workshop, we will look at the ways shame disables us for deviating from neurotypical expectations and norms, and the ways it creates dysfunction in our creative practices. Through creative care invitations, we will examine some of the ways shame shows up and explore how we can disrupt and even transform it, so that it becomes less and less debilitating. 
 

Creating in Spiral Time

Saturday, July 19th, 12-2 pm EDT (5-7 pm BST) via Zoom

Neurodivergent people are often plagued by a sense that we have “wasted time” and “fallen behind” our peers in terms of productivity and creative accomplishment. If there is any hope for finding a more enjoyable and generative relationship with time, we need new metaphors that defy the contemporary Western ones that have colonized the world. We will explore alternative metaphors and values of slowness, cyclicality, ritual and rest. Through creative care invitations, we will explore the different shapes time might exist for us, and how we might inhabit time differently.

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Mise en Place: When Getting Started is the Hardest Part

Saturday, July 26th, 12-2 pm EDT (5-7 pm BST) via Zoom

​Many of us struggle with getting started, maintaining momentum, and following through with our creative projects and lives, as well as caring for our spaces and supplies. We are often shamed for these struggles, and offered many hacks and systems that seldom last very long, but we seldom are invited to examine the reasons these issues plague us in the first place. Mise en Place, a concept from the culinary world, offers a practice of slowness, and of pleasure in the materiality of our creative projects, and in our creative lives. We will spend time in the session doing the mise en place for a project we are having difficulty starting, or that has stalled out in the middle. 

Ticket for one course: £15 GBP

Book all three together: £40 GBP (or two monthly instalments of £20)
There are a limited number of free places available for those on low or no income. Please only select this option if you are unable to afford the General Admission cost.

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Included with All Tickets:

• Access to the live Zoom session(s), which consist of facilitator presentations, creative care invitations, and opportunities for group sharing and discussion.

• All session recordings & materials for 6 months following the course

• Lifelong access to an online group for all past, present & future course attendees to continue the conversation, share art & writing, and create connections & community. 

• Lifelong access to KR's 'Writing Sprints' - a gently structured, body-doubling space you can use for writing, art-making, or doing the washing up (access is through membership in the above group).

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No refunds will be offered for this course (unless it is cancelled). Can't attend live? The event will be recorded and shared with all ticket holders.