Creative Commitment

Creative commitment is about finding what approach works to bring something real to form.
It’s accepting what levers to use to generate the things that want to come out.

What’s the Program

Creative Commitment Container
10-weeks of space and support to move one thing that matters forward

3 Stages
I. Development & Design
II. Execution & Structure
III. Distribution & Support

1:1 Sessions
Group Co-Works (opt)
Group Workshops (opt)
Structural Support

This is for people who feel something wants to move, and don’t want to abandon themselves to make it happen.

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I Was Thinking About Working on Individual Projects

I thought individual projects didn't hold the full form of what this container is, what it is that I really do with people.

But these projects are just serving as the backbone for an ego death and a transformation and a new way of doing things in the world.

And the new, as in, new for you.
It might not be new for the world, but it's in learning what has worked and reapplying it in this context

So the Point Really Is

First, getting clear on what is all the help that you can get to make your vision become a reality?

For Very Generative People

It is really hard to just pin down one idea and do one idea.

And the thing is,

I like to think of single ideas as all coming from a single source, like a stream.

I'm in relationship with the stream, and it's my responsibility to keep the stream going
I have to ground these ideas to form as they arise.

If there is an idea that just keeps clogging up my brain -- like I'm just I continually think about it. It's all I think about.

I find that just doing the thing that is taking up the most room in my brain helps the flow of my creative stream to continue.

It removes the backlog so that I can feel clear.

A Maintenance System

This is kind of like a maintenance system, primarily learning:

what are your needs?
what are your limits?
what do you need to support your limits?
how do you go about getting those edges supported so that you can focus on what makes you feel most alive

Which is this relationship with your creative spirit, which is a stream that is consistently giving you ideas and providing its abundance, it's consistently overflowing.

And it's kind of the curse of over abundance in this area of life is there's just so much to weed through.

Creating the Channels

So your job is creating the channels in which this flow can, you know, be be a beautiful thing to look at.

It can be a moat, when necessary, but it is mainly a source of beauty that you can create

a space that you curate and you steward in relationship with your creative energy and spirit process.

And you can have people visit when they want to visit.

How You Create the Landscape

How you create that beautiful landscape is by taking care of it and creating the outlets, the directions, creating the flow in which your creative spirit can remain current and you can keep up with the needs of your system.

Why Care for the Body

And I think that's why it's so important to:

eat well
sleep well
hydrate
move your body
talk to people

If you can't talk, just interact with them.

connecting with animals
connecting with outside environments like forests and deserts and oceans and lakes and waves and ships are cool

And, you know, having metaphors to kind of hang meaning on in symbolism.

Things I Believe In

We all need something to believe in, I believe.

And I think that's when I like to think about:

ships
chaotic mathematical equations
stars
moss
dinosaurs
thyme/time
creative realms
spirit zone that's unseen, but totally real

And are they watching?
I don't really know what the rules are.

That one's a question mark for me, but I also don't really feel like I need to understand it.

Choosing One Idea

Just choosing one idea feels kind of benign and kind of silly when you zoom out all of the way and you're like, wow, I'm living and I'm dead and I'm a baby all at once.

Because if you're living and dead and a baby and everything in between all at the same time, just at like different vantage points one choice feels like it could mean nothing or could change the whole system.

So when I pin down one idea, it feels like I'm pinning down a destiny.

But really it's creating a tributary.

Monsoon Season

It's like carving the area for that creative stream to funnel into, because come monsoon season, you know, it floods.

It can either:

wipe out everything that's there
or it can be directed into places where it could use it

I see each idea as a kind of tributary, a stream off of the main river for which your creative flow can:

become the well in which your idea takes its energy

And then that energy is materialized into an experience that you can share with other people.

The Point of the Program

That's the point of the program is going from an idea to a form that you can share with other people.

Because the main point is like, why do we have ideas at all?

I often have this experience where I see things visually like I'm watching a TV show, and it's just real life happening.

The experience I'm having feels very much like a program I'm watching with images and titles and pop-ups and sometimes voice effects.

Working Together Looks Like This

It's like this is what it is.

Like if you want to do this, this is what it's like to work together:

we're gonna have calls like this
I'm gonna be pacing around in my living room
it would going to be a lot more of you talking about your thing
me offering input where I feel like it's relevant

Because, you know, based on the movie thing, I can kind of see things.

What I’m Trying to Understand

It feels like zoomed out systemically while people are talking about it in language or try to like map it and place it and if I don't understand where things are placed, I ask questions.

And I'm trying to like get a sense for:

what the field is
what you're living
what are your values
what is your kind of attracting force
what is your attracting center

Like everything that is just flowing and spiraling towards.

Like:

what are you attracting in life
what are you wanting
what's the thing you're trying to do

I Why don't use the word achieve.

Like, what's the point really?

This Is Also a Meeting

The thing about like charging money for your services and what I'm doing is just pacing around my house.

There will be other things included.

It's more than just pacing around my house, but it's like other jobs have meetings where they talk to people.

This is a meeting too.

Which is a different way of meeting.

On Narrative

I don’t believe
life works
in narrative

Hollywood structure:
[inciting incident]
[building tension]
[climax]
[relief]

But we can
set up narrative arcs

to make something
of our time

This [starts here]
[ends here]
[goes here]

And what happens
in between

has room
for magic

Committing to the Arc

Committing
to a creative process

is participating
in a narrative arc —

As the director
you have choice

You can create
in any order

You might not
fully know
the arc
until it’s done

Saying:

I want to write an album
Or I think I’m writing a book
Or I really want to hold events
Or I don’t know what it is
but it’s something
and I can feel it

is a point
in a creative narrative arc

It could be
the starting point

Sometimes
the desire itself
is the climax
or the ending

The 3-act structure
(beginning / middle / end)

can help
bring ideas
to completion

Assuming the role
of director
of your creative process

is the point —

it gives you
room

to include
your well-being

The structure
holds the serendipity
that comes out
when it’s safe
to walk
on solid ground

and not a tightrope

The Base Layer

The base layer
is your heart —

what matters
to you

why you wake up

what is most tender

what it wants

The foundation
of the well
you pull from

is strongest
at that depth

Ego

Ego
is the protection

of what is most tender

Choosing how to protect it

based on who
you want to be

and how you want
to spend your time

incites ego deaths

one after another

until the ego you’ve built

lets you be tender

where it matters

Creative Processes As Containers

Creative processes

are wonderful
backbones

to run an ego death

An experiment

on whether
you need to protect
your tenderness

the same way now

or if it can come out

and play a bit

I find

making contained spaces

of eager playfulness

are important
to feeling alive —

like creating

real time

real space

resources

to meet an idea
in material form

And to be able
to share it

with others