You've built something real. Your business. Your team. Your life.
You show up powerfully. You make decisions. You inspire others.
But somewhere between ambition and responsibility, you've lost touch with something essential: Yourself.
Your creativity. The part of you that felt alive.
The Creative Mini Retreat is for you.
It's where women like you reclaim creativity, not as luxury, but as necessity.
Not as weakness, but as resilience. Creative REST, which is active rest!
According to Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith's research on the seven types of rest, creative rest is the rest you experience when you allow yourself to appreciate and engage with beauty in any form.
Whether it's natural beauty, art, music, dance, or creative expression.
Here's what makes it powerful: It's not about making art. It's about receiving beauty in a way that reawakens awe and wonder in you.
Creative rest reawakens what burnout put to sleep. It reconnects you with inspiration.
It restores your ability to think creatively, solve problems, and lead from wholeness instead of depletion.
And no drawing skills required. This retreat isn't about being good at art. It's about being honest with yourself through art.
✓ Welcome - Arrive. Settle. Be present.
✓ Meet the Artist as Creative Muse - Learn how one of six powerful artists embodies this month's Medicinal Pill.
✓ Learn the Framework - Understand which Medicinal Pill you're exploring tonight.
✓ Create - Using art-based tools, you'll work through what's real for you. Colour. Mark-making. Reflection. Safety.
✓ Witness & Close - Share what emerged. Be witnessed by other women. Leave with something tangible you created.
Each retreat explores one Medicinal Pill. One artist. One transformative practice.
Pill #1: Admission (See Your Worth) You are worthy. Not because you've earned it. Because it's inherent.
Pill #2: Clarity (See Yourself Honestly) Change your perspective, change your story. See from multiple angles.
Pill #3: Relationship & Perspective (Healing Means Uncovering) What have you hidden? What needs to be seen?
Pill #4: Integration (Be Yourself Everywhere) Stand fully in who you are. Stop fragmenting.
Pill #5: Anchoring (The Sacredness of Daily Practice)
Daily practice keeps transformation alive. Not through willpower. Through witnessing.
Pill #6: The Whole (Living Integrated) Pills 1 - 5 comes together. Complete. Whole.
✓ Relaxation - A safe, held space away from productivity demands
✓ Learning - Meet powerful artists. Understand the teaching.
✓ Art-Based Tools - Creative practice as a path to self-discovery
✓ Clarity - You leave with insights about what's real for you right now
✓ An Actionable Result - You always leave with something tangible: your creation, your insight, your commitment
✓ Community - Other women 40+ who understand the cost of leading
✓ You're a woman 40+ who leads (teams, companies, your own business)
✓ You've optimised everything except yourself
✓ Somewhere between ambition and responsibility, you lost touch with your creative self
✓ You're ready to find it again
✓ You know that rest isn't weakness, it's resilience
✓ You understand that leading others starts with honouring yourself
✓ Colouring pencils or pens (your choice of colours)
✓ Drawing or writing tools you like
✓ Drawing pencil
✓ Paper (sketchbook, printer paper, journal, or anything you're happy to write and draw on)
✓ And of course, bring yourself
I've been a creative and an artist for over 20 years. Art has been my lifeline and life-saver.
Creativity saved me. Now I use creativity to help other women reclaim their creative self.
I work as a textile designer with fashion designer Samantha-Jane Ogfoebu, creating original patterns for her fashion label and brand, GeoD.
My artwork explores the Black female body as angels, using collage and digital software.
What I've learned: Creativity is a powerful tool for self-discovery, healing, and releasing shame, blame and exhaustion.
I bring that to you.
Artist | Creative Doulah | Coach
Embrace You Play More 🖤
Creative Mini Retreat - ONLINE - £27 - BACK 2nd November 2026!
Bring a Friend - £39. One Price for both. One-time offer (both get full retreat) - BACK 2nd November 2026!
VIP In-Person Group - £297 In-person retreat + drink/food + painting takes place - October 2026
WHAT BELLA HAD TO SAY: (This is her third time)
I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this weeks mini retreat, where we focused on Anchoring.
It was wonderful to have a special guest with us, Poet Miss Yankey, who helped us to draw pictures with words, and notice the small things throughout the day. Looking at the work of Billie Zangewa, allowed us to imagine ourselves resting, as well as exploring the use of mixed media and textures. We were all able to share ideas and felt listened to and heard. I left the session with a plan for a new daily practice of expressing my gratitude each morning to make me feel more anchored. I produced a range of symbols I can refer to during the month of August to remind me of what I need to practice.
Thanks Jo, what a great space.
First Monday of Each Month | 7 pm | 90 Minutes
Creative Mini Retreat - ONLINE - £27 - BACK 2nd November 2026!
Bring a Friend - £39. One Price for both. One-time offer (both get full retreat) - BACK 2nd November 2026!
VIP In-Person Group - £297 In-person retreat + drink/food + painting takes place - October 2026
Recorded Guided Sessions Coming Soon - from £27
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Rest isn't a luxury. It's resilience.
Creative rest isn't about becoming an artist. It's about reclaiming the part of you that knows how to feel alive.
One Medicinal Pill at a time, you'll explore your bravery in the safety of colour and art.
And you'll come home to yourself.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Embrace You Play More 🖤
Joan
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