An Off-Screen, One-on-One Workshop
Creative Flow
Development Workshop
It’s Not Just a Workshop, It’s a Dreamshop, and it’s Just for You
for Brand, Identity & Offering Development
You have a glimmer of an idea or a strong vision for how you want to shape your business and you’re ready to energize these ideas in preparation for re-story or launch. Creative Flow offers a creative approach to brand development that guides you through the process of identifying and connecting with important moments and key themes that shape how you bring your ideas to the world.
This workshop is designed to energize. This is meaningful work that creates an underpinning for creative exploration, connective focus, and intention-setting. Your ideas take root off-screen in a nature setting. We’ll close the computer, meet up where the birds sing, and we’ll talk, dream, and get creative.
Who Is It For
New & Evolving Businesses
Artists & Creative Professionals
Organizational Leaders
Nature-Based Project Producers
HOW IT HELPS
Expand Thought-Work
Discover or Deepen Narratives
Reflect on Ideas that Shape Identity
Visualize Flow & Draw Interactions
Creativity Practices for Developing Brands
Shape Your Foundational Vision
Enliven Your Development Process
Creative Flow is for creative professionals, artists, entrepreneurs, and organization leaders who want to reframe and deepen creative process, creative initiatives, and/or brand identities. This process breaks up habitual multitasking tendencies that are amplified by screen time. It shifts important process work into a space that allows you to reclaim movement and breath, and promotes an open, imaginative mindset. These sessions are great for idea generation, thinking through new offerings, or and laying groundwork for authentic narratives that reveal the unique story of your offering, creative pursuit, or brand.
Inspire Creative Thinking & Connect With Nature
Creative Flow reconnects us with natural rhythms while walking in nature (when conditions allow) followed by journaling insights and creative processes. In this process, we connect off-screen (indoors or outdoors) in a natural setting to expand creative-thinking, focus ideas, or deepen origin stories. Creativity exercises activate different ways of thinking to bring more flow to your developing ideas. This deeply connective session work explores the foundational fabric that shapes your business or initiative.
Creative Flow sessions are not production-focused. Instead, this process helps you connect, discover, engage, and visualize so that whatever you (or we) create next is energized and imbued with intention.
A forest trail with a paved path in a park in Minneapolis.
Swamp milkweed from a summer walk.
This boardwalk surrounds a pond at a St. Louis Park nature center.
Wildflowers in bloom on a prairie walk.
Let’s Bring Deep Attention to Your Best-Loved Ideas
The Creative Flow session shown below took place in Driftless Wisconsin. Most Creative Flow one-on-one workshops take place in or near the Twin Cities.
Taking a moment to appreciate on a Creative Flow walk.
We often discover moments of wonder and inspiration in nature.
Documenting highlights from the Creative Flow walk.
Sharing a process drawing from a journaling session after a Creative Flow walk.
“I have always known what I love to do but recently was stuck on seeing where that could take me. After a rewarding and successful career, I was ready to set a new goal for myself but I was struggling on what that could be or how I wanted to get started. Creative Flow was exactly the experience I needed to open my mind, dig deeper into myself, and discover some new pathways. The guidance Karen provided from her knowledge and experience, and the natural setting, enabled me to see things more clearly and be more creative in thinking about where I could go next. ”
Structured for Flow
These one-on-one workshops take place outdoors in a public park or indoor location that is connected to nature. If weather is not temperate, we’ll move indoors to a location that is connected to nature. After the workshop, you’ll stay in the flow with a week of independent practice. Then we follow up with a 1-hour phone or video call so that you can share insights.
Creative Flow Workshop Themes
In this process, we engage with themes that allow you to slow down to reflect and tune-in to inspiration. It is designed to help you:
Reflect — Connect or reconnect with important stories that shape your brand, identity, or project
Expand — Shift into expansive space to imagine, reimagine, or deepen your relationship with an offering, approach, or story
Embody — Integrate formative insights for new or existing themes that shape aspects of your brand or identity
Visualize — Create process drawings that help you visualize the journey of your offering or approach and its optimal flow
Map — Bring attention and focus to an idea, offering, or approach to begin to connect dots and map its reality
Practice — Carry this practice into continued engagement with your brand or project to empower you in your next steps
How can Creative Flow help with your specific needs? Creative Flow is designed to support a variety of needs. It can be a stand-alone workshop or structured within Brand Development sessions that precede logo design, print initiatives, or website work.
Schedule a 15-minute complimentary call to discuss an area of focus that you want explore and to find out more about the 2024 introductory rate.
Why I Developed This Method
Walking, being in nature, and journaling have been an integrated part of my own creative processes for as long as I can remember. I created a framework to bring these methods to my clients to enliven creative and foundational development processes. For over two decades, I have worked with inspired people, small business owners, and organizational leaders in brand and story development and creative initiatives including: logo design, visual identity, print materials, publication design, and websites. I am honored to build trust and partnership with clients in order to support them in their visions to create their life-work.
Nature-Based & Research-Based
Walking and moving while engaged in free-flowing ideation are scientifically proven to promote creative thinking. Visualization increases motivation and activates the area of the brain that helps you set intentions. Gestural movement has been shown to improve recollection of autobiographical events and narratives, and connection to nature and forest-bathing reduces stress and improves mood. These core concepts are integrated into the framework of Creative Flow sessions.