creative facilitation
groups
An adaptation of TUNING, group facilitation provides a unique pathway to collective listening, community-making, & creative practice through deep attention, generative approaches, and shared curiosity. A custom group session or sequence of sessions can bring insight, clarity, & renewal to collaborative environments, assist groups in building shared frameworks & creative approaches, support organizational evolution, and grow interpersonal connection. As with 1:1 creative facilitation, custom group work can fit into a variety of contexts; I have facilitated sessions for a dance company, a group of friends celebrating a birthday, and a college class, to name a few.individuals
From the early generative moments of a brand new project, all the way to final edits, individual facilitation encourages clients to cultivate integrated creative and personal practices that stem from somatic and intuitive awareness. A session might include a combination of customized prompts and generative exercises, facilitation of project development, attention/intuitive practice, deep listening with and beyond the physical body through somatic self-study, collaborative critique, &/or reimagination of the creative space. Often, our work extends beyond the session space, and when appropriate I will offer notes and reflections as clients continue to evolve to their work. Highly individualized, the lens of creative facilitation can be applied with individuals in all modalities and at any stage of growth to support accountability, integrity, purpose, and longevity in creative and vocational practice.RATES
Rates vary and are offered on a sliding scale with openness to alternative payment structures. I offer a 20-minute phone consultation to all new clients free of charge, where we can address questions, discuss objectives for our work together, determine if we’re a good fit, and establish format and pricing.
individuals: $55-$75/hour
groups: varies
LOCATIONS
Individual creative facilitation works well in a virtual/phone space and this is its typical format. Group work is available in the Wood River Valley, with regular offerings in Boise and Seattle, and in other locations occasionally. Please scroll down for community TUNING and keep in touch here and here to learn about other facilitation offerings.
client reflection
from a creative mentorship client:
It was a joy having CL as a creative coach. We worked together when I was just getting started on the seeds of a project that would turn into my memoir. CL gave me insightful writing prompts and gentle guidance on where I might dig deeper, and helped me learn to trust my own voice. My book filled out in a meaningful way because of CL’s guidance, and I feel like a more thoughtful writer after our time together.
from group workshop participants:
The TUNING workshop reverberated within me months after its completion. After a year bogged down by depression, CL's process gave me the permission to start each day by tuning into my body and the creativity within. Healing. Regenerative. CL facilitated the virtual space in a way that invited ease, and a collectivity so hard to create over distance. I've shaped the vibrations of the workshop into my own daily practice to feel more embodied and engaged with the day-to-day stuff of living.
TUNING was exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. Because of the workshop I feel that I was able to reconnect with my body in a positive way after all the medical trauma I've been through and create space for an attention/meditation/creative practice in my life again. I know I will take the things we worked on as a group and in our 1:1 session forward into my day to day. Working with CL has contributed greatly to my healing and recovery.
COMMUNITY + GROUP WORK
Check below for upcoming group workshops, events, & offerings. For details & updates, please stay in touch. If you’d like to know about future online offerings, go here.
UPCOMING
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PAST
TUNING at The Common Well
02.22.2025
2-4 pm
free
Through gently guided somatic & generative practice, this session will consider the role of the body, intentionality, & repetition in grief & creative processes, & invite experiment with building individual & place-based ritual.
Participants can expect to move & rest their bodies in ways that work for them & to engage with writing/drawing/expression forms that resonate. Please wear comfortable clothes & socks/shoes that allow you to move. Bring a blanket, a notebook/utensils/other preferred creative tools, as well as a water bottle/anything else you might need. TCW is ADA accessible.
This workshop is offered free of charge thanks to support from the Alexa Rose Foundation and The Common Well.
02.22.2025
2-4 pm
free
Through gently guided somatic & generative practice, this session will consider the role of the body, intentionality, & repetition in grief & creative processes, & invite experiment with building individual & place-based ritual.
Participants can expect to move & rest their bodies in ways that work for them & to engage with writing/drawing/expression forms that resonate. Please wear comfortable clothes & socks/shoes that allow you to move. Bring a blanket, a notebook/utensils/other preferred creative tools, as well as a water bottle/anything else you might need. TCW is ADA accessible.
This workshop is offered free of charge thanks to support from the Alexa Rose Foundation and The Common Well.
Grief Release
01.11.2025
1 - 3pm
free
A gently guided somatic experience that will invite participants to locate grief of any form that is ready to be let go, and tend to & release that grief to make space for the new. With equal focus on the physical body & outer surroundings, this walk is an opportunity to be in deep attention alongside others while regulating the nervous system & is intended to be clearing, steadying, & uplifting for those who attend.
We’ll meet at the parking lot just before crossing the river on Curtis/Veterans Memorial (left on Stilson Road if moving north to south, then immediate right into the first parking lot), & then slowly make our way to the bridge near the wave in Garden City. We’ll move along the river on a wide, well-maintained dirt path for about a mile with stops along the way (plus another mile to return to the meeting spot). Anyone who would like to continue on to The Common Well afterward is welcome.
This event is offered free of charge thanks to support from the Alexa Rose Foundation and The Common Well.
01.11.2025
1 - 3pm
free
A gently guided somatic experience that will invite participants to locate grief of any form that is ready to be let go, and tend to & release that grief to make space for the new. With equal focus on the physical body & outer surroundings, this walk is an opportunity to be in deep attention alongside others while regulating the nervous system & is intended to be clearing, steadying, & uplifting for those who attend.
We’ll meet at the parking lot just before crossing the river on Curtis/Veterans Memorial (left on Stilson Road if moving north to south, then immediate right into the first parking lot), & then slowly make our way to the bridge near the wave in Garden City. We’ll move along the river on a wide, well-maintained dirt path for about a mile with stops along the way (plus another mile to return to the meeting spot). Anyone who would like to continue on to The Common Well afterward is welcome.
This event is offered free of charge thanks to support from the Alexa Rose Foundation and The Common Well.
TUNING Outside
TUNING Outside provides space for individual processing and release within a group experience of deep attention. We begin by moving through a gentle physical practice that combines breath, movement, and visualization to encourage regulation and rest, inviting individual and collective receptivity, then turn listening outward, toward one another and the surrounding environment.
Summer 2023
Absolute Listening
TUNING Outside w/ Others
Walking as Engagement w/ Kevin Huelsmann
Summer 2022
TUNING Outside
TUNING Outside w/ Others
TUNING Sequence (virtual)
Through somatic practice, creation experiments, ongoing correspondence, resources, group observation, and a 1:1 intuitive session, the TUNING Sequence is designed to open participants to their own process of inquiry with and beyond the body. A multi-week arc adapted uniquely by each individual, the sequence provides a gentle container for estabilshing a regular somatic practice, nurturing internal exploration and curiosity, cultivating creative work, finding pathways to self-regulation, and supporting growth, change, and healing/release processes.
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Fall 2021
OPEN TUNING
A gentle weekly practice to slow down, listen in, and clear out. Through intentional movement, internal visualization, attention to breath, and gently guided experiments, OPEN TUNING supports participants in finding pathways for embodied connection, deep relaxation and release, and renewed engagement with creative/intuitive/personal work.
Winter 2023
Spring 2022