6 sessions over 10 weeks

Tuesdays 7-9pm with slots in between for 1:1 session 

Starting 22nd April 2025

Have you had periods in your life when you don’t know how to express yourself creatively, got stuck half way through a project or have just felt creatively blocked? Or maybe you have plenty of ideas (too many?) but can’t get started, stay focused or finish a project?

In this course we will create a sketchbook of drawings of natural objects using a range of multimedia approaches.Though some of this media work may be new to you, the main purpose of these explorations is to reflect on the inner workings of your creative process. Giving practical strategies to help you understand and navigate the rollercoaster of creativity and building creative wellness and resilience into your practice. Helping you to learn how to shift from “No” to “Flow”. 

As well as practical strategies from creativity research that have transformed my practice and others I’ve worked with, we will use short everyday mindfulness practices to help us to slow down and listen so we can notice when we have become hijacked by our inner critic. Only then can we take steps to turn this voice around and tune into our inner creative instead.

Stella is a designer/educator/mindfulness guide who has been researching creativity, resilience & wellbeing for over 20 years. She has an MA in Creativity & Innovation from The Edward de Bono Institute of Thinking (Malta) and taught design for 18 years at Massey University, College of Creative Arts in New Zealand. During lockdown Stella began a two year intensive training with the UK Mindfulness Association which she feels has been fundamental to her understanding more deeply how to unlock creativity in herself and others. 

Everyday mindfulness is a way of bringing mindfulness into day-to-day life. Research is beginning to show that this, more digestible approach to mindfulness can be as beneficial as longer sitting practices and is especially good for people who have previously struggled with mindfulness meditation.