Sensitive Souls Don't Belong in Crowds
How The Creator Retreat Smashes the Soapbox
After months of posting into “the void” I thought I might just need some help in how to build my Substack audience.
So I signed up for one of those group programs,
and found myself lost as one person in a group of many.
By many, I mean HUNDREDS.
The zoom workshops was one teacher lecturing to a crowd. The guest presentations were that one teacher interviewing an expert in front of a crowd.
“please hold your questions until the end. . .”
I did what I do every time I find myself in a one-to-many teaching scenario, I hid in the back, put my head down (turned off my camera) and quietly cried as I got more and more lost.
I’m not a one-to-many type student.
I refuse to be a one-to-many teacher.
As a sensitive soul, I don’t need information thrown at me like spitballs flying through the firehose I’ve been told to drink from.
I need connection, community, interaction, engagement.
This is the difference between instruction and education.
Instruction is the process of building-in, an expert on a subject builds a structure and puts it into the student.
Education is the process of pulling-out, a facilitator provides a space and experience so students can figure out things for themselves in their own ways.
Most of learning these days, both in schools and online programs is instruction based.
I’m an educator.
The Creator Retreat is education based.
The word Education comes from the Latin word educare which means “to pull out from within”
The Creator Retreat is built on the core value of education, providing the space and experience for participants to explore and figure things out for themselves, their way.
No lengthy slide-presentation lectures.
No sit-and-listen guest interviews.
No wait-til-the-end Q&A sessions.
We provide interactive workshops playshops where we will dig in together, get messy, get creative, play together, and come out the other side (and sometimes sideways) figuring things out that we didn’t expect to discover.
We can’t guarantee what you will learn, or how you will grow, or even that your Substack will get certain results. But we can promise you that if you show up, you will have an experience of a lifetime and pull things out of yourself that you didn’t know were there.
Here is our monthly schedule
March - Setting Intentions
Spiritual Inner Work: focus, clarity & overwhelm
Business Outer Action: Consistency - The power of “the void” to build consistency & skill
Guest Presenter - : The Perfect Weekly Routine To Grow Your Substack in 2025
April - Focus
Spiritual Inner Work: exhaustion, fatigue, dysfunction, over-thinking
Business Outer Action: Slow & Steady - Halting the hustle and finding the slow and easeful approach to content creation
Guest Presenter : The Art of Letting Go: Stress, Surrender, and Creative Flow
May - Grounding
Spiritual Inner Work: support, stability, fear, anxiety, & worries
Business Outer Action: Getting “Out There” - Facing your fear & anxiety as you hit “publish”
Guest Presenter : Being a Vulnerable, Fearless and Compassionate Writer
June - Releasing & Letting Go
Spiritual Inner Work: perfectionism, control & letting go
Business Outer Action: Quality Control - Keeping the fun & joy in your creation by finding play in the process
Guest Presenter : Embracing Joy and Play in a World of Perfectionism
July- Empowerment & Strength
Spiritual Inner Work: imposter syndrome, enough-ness & apathy
Business Outer Action: Branding Your Identity - Maintaining confidence even when you live with the shame of imposter syndrome
Guest Presenter : Turn Your WEIRD Into Your Biggest ASSET
August - Giving & Receiving
Spiritual Inner Work: isolation, disconnection, grief & loneliness
Business Outer Action: Engagement: Build your online community through authentic interactions in commenting & collaborations
Guest Presenter : Engaging with Heart
September - Speaking & Listening
Spiritual Inner Work: feeling unheard & miscommunication
Business Outer Action: Sales & Marketing - Self-Promoting for the introverted and quiet creator
Guest Presenter : How to Self-Promote When You Loathe Self-Promoting
October - Intuition & Self-Awareness
Spiritual Inner Work: lack of self-trust, second guessing, indecision
Business Outer Action: Integrity - As you grow, stay true to your vision, handle trolls, and keep your compass on true north
Guest Presenter : Write Like A Compass - Wielding Badass Leaving Haters Spinning
November - Spiritual Faith
Spiritual Inner Work: existential fears & a greater purpose
Business Outer Work: Define Your Success - redefining success from an internal focus away from data, numbers, money, and statistics
Guest Presenter : Let Your Soul Lead Your Success
December - Future Forward Action Plan
Spiritual Inner Work: maintaining a lifelong practice
Business Outer Action: Up-Leveling - explore strategies to monetize your work and build your creations into a business.
Guest Presenters: Panel Discussion
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Ok let's goooooooooooo!!!! Seriously. I cannot wait anymore LOL