About the Course:

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Two groups available:

Tuesdays Jan 21st - Feb 25th, 1-3pm EST or

Thursdays Jan 23rd - Feb 27th, 6-8pm EST

The process of neurodivergent unmasking can often feel like coming home to a more authentic version of ourselves, but it can also be incredibly confusing, disruptive, and often tinged with grief and regret. Our creativity is often at the heart of facing these difficulties, and embracing our homecoming and homemaking allows us to redesign and recreate both our literal and metaphorical interior spaces.

Through this course, Marta and Meg will offer a community that feels like home for people who have felt out of place, ashamed, and alienated from their creative selves. Through short presentations, in-session creative projects, and conversation, we will 

• create a comfortable and safe space in which to share and work together

• look to our past and map out our creative lineage

• explore the ways we have felt like aliens and misfits in the places we have called home, and reimagine what home might mean for us

• look at the spaces where we currently create (whether that is an art studio, a desk, or a perch on the corner of your couch) and explore our own sensory and organizational needs and ways to accommodate them

• explore ways of finding and creating ecosystems and community that support and center how we want to feel in ourselves and our spaces

• explore homemaking rituals, systems, and connections that will support us as we move into the future

• enter into conversations, creative making and practical application to welcome ourselves and each other home 

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Coming Home To Ourselves includes:

• Access to all slides and creative invitations shared in Coming Home To Ourselves, alongside AI generated notes (sessions will not be recorded in order to maintain privacy in our sharing together) 

• Optional weekly Home Work to continue home making & creating outside of class

• Ongoing community to share Home Work and continue the conversations begun in the course and create community connections (platform TBD)

• Collaborative art making opportunities through digital work or snail mail 

• Home Making Salon after the course is done 

Aside from a pen and paper, no specific materials are required- participants are encouraged to approach creative invitations and home making applications with what they enjoy using and have on hand.

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Please note that the structure and overview shared below may shift as we create this home together- we welcome the chance to adapt and grow to create a welcoming and comfortable community for the folks who share this space with us.

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Class structure:

• Welcoming & reflection

• Conversation (may include slides, examples of art, sharing spaces in Meg & Marta’s studios and homes)

• Creation & application (reflective exercises, creation of art and home)

• Sharing (A chance to share words & work)

• Presentation of Home Work (optional ways to continue Home Making between in class sessions)

• Closing thoughts & goodbyes

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Course Overview:

Week one: Containers
In our first session, Meg and Marta will usher you over the threshold through an overview of our time together, community agreements and introductions. Using reflection and art making, we will explore where you currently live, what makes a welcoming space for you as an individual and us as a group, and how to make yourself and each other feel at home over the next six weeks together.

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Week two: Past
We all have a past, places we’ve moved through and carry with us. Ways we were taught to think and ways we were made to feel about our creative work and it’s worth. Through reflective writing and mapmaking exercises, we will explore our individual creative lineages as a way of answering the question: How did we get here?

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Week three: Homewrecking
Having mapped our paths to the present, we’ll explore the feeling of alienation that many neurodivergent people feel. Through design thinking, making and writing we pull apart the places where we’ve landed and reconstruct home as a place that suits us, rather than a place we contort to fit ourselves into. 

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Week four: Present
A home can be four walls, a body, something outside of us and places internal. We explore practical ways of creating our homes in ways that suit our creative work, alongside reflective practices and invitations to make that will help us explore our present realities and prepare a home for our creativity.

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Week five: Wayfinding
Many of us feel outside, craving community, but unsure of how to build it. Using creative making and reflective exercises we will clarify our own needs, wants and desires, centering how to feel at home in shared spaces as a way of leading us to envisioning ecosystems of support, and finding our way back to ourselves when we inevitably get lost.

Week six: Future (welcoming ourselves home)

Welcome home.
[A note from Meg & Marta: We’re leaving this session a little ambiguous because one of the things we are the most excited about is being able to tailor this offering to the folks who show in the space. We imagine a chance to integrate what we’ve done in previous weeks, space for questions and conversation, and a celebration of all we’ve created and learned together.]