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The Process of Design Squiggle by Damien Newman, thedesignsquiggle.com

The Process of Design Squiggle by Damien Newman, thedesignsquiggle.com

Tired of feeling like there’s so much creative potential in you that you’re just not accessing? 

Don’t know how to choose which of your many ideas to focus on? 

Have trouble getting started - or completing things?

Enter: Creative Club. It’s is a 6-part course that provides a step by step framework for bringing an authentic and meaningful creative project to fruition. PLUS it gives you the inspiration and necessary structure to get creatively active and kickstart a new phase of your creative life. 

Here’s the thing ...

The reason why you’re not already making your dream project is simple: the big ideas are getting in the way.  Staying stuck in your head trying to “figure it out” and comparing yourself to everyone else on Instagram is not going to get anything moving in your creative life. 

The Emergent Method that you’ll learn inside of Creative Club is all about getting you into the space where deeper, magical ideas emerge through your body. You’ll be led to generate movement in your physical body and in your creative life.

When you’re operating from this place, you learn how to allow the messy process to exist, move through the feels and fears, and know exactly what small steps to take. And don’t worry, you’ll have guidance every step of the way.

The Emergent Method broke me out of needless patterns of thought and belief built up over 40+ years and gave me the freedom to create. It felt like sorcery!
— Dylan, Brooklyn NY
 

here’s some of what you will create in the program:

  • A creative routine or practice that aligns with your natural rhythms and fits into your life

  • Your “Personal Power Dance” - a tool to get you physically moving through blocks and into your creative power

  • Your “Artist’s Statement” - the mission statement that will ground you in your process and help you stay connected to your “why”

  • Your “Creative Shadow Archetype” - to integrate the seemingly negative aspects of your creative past and alchemize them into art

  • Your unique project/creation/work-of-art that emerges from this process - with an opportunity to share it at our Works-In-Process Showcase

  • A life-changing new perspective on your creative life + beyond

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I made more drawings and paintings than I had done in years. I now have a framework and a mindset that will serve me well in the upcoming months and years. It opened up possibilities around expressing my art within the umbrella of my business, but more personally than ever before.
— Anasuya Basil, Artist and Midlife Renewal Health Coach www.mybodywisdom.net

you will:

  • Get support in actively making your work, whether it’s artwork or another creative business idea, in the most direct way possible (rather than pouring money into online courses you’ll never finish or curated social media posts that won’t end up reaching the people you want them to reach)

  • Move through the emotional or energetic blocks that are holding back your process, through somatic exercises, writing prompts, and guided coaching

  • Learn Jess’s “Emergent Method” of creating and launching projects so that you can get out of the loop of formulaic templates or linear processes that leave you banging your head against the wall. 

  • Get comfortable and confident with being more visible in your creative expression and stop hiding parts of you

  • Create a project that will become your vehicle for emotional healing, processing the past, and unblocking whatever is holding you back from doing what you love


Photo: Inside a live group coaching call!

Photo: Inside a live group coaching call!

who it’s for: 

  • The hidden artists/creators with “normal jobs” who are secretly wanting to express themselves creatively or start a business but keep stalling on making it happen

  • Creative professionals who are tired of putting all their creative energy into other people’s visions and want to focus on their own 

  • Entrepreneurs and business owners who are tired of their business sucking up all of their creative energy, and who want to be more authentic and self-expressed

 
Creative Club helped me pull something that had been weighing heavily on my heart and mind out of my body and onto a paper. Building it in community made me feel safe and held and sharing it at the showcase made me feel witnessed and accepted and ultimately healed. I can’t thank my fellow creative members enough for that.

— Daniela Ramirez, NYC

a note on trauma…

Just a note to clarify that this is work is NOT therapy. Creative expression is in fact healing and can support you in alchemizing pain into art, but it is not a replacement for therapy.

If you are actively working through something heavy or processing recent or past trauma, this program alone is not the answer. It's important to seek therapy, licensed professional support, and/or 12 step programs, etc. If you have questions about whether or not this program would be the best next step, please reach out. If it's not, I'm happy to direct you to other resources.


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Before working with Jess, I struggled with bringing dance back into my life. Deep down, I longed to dance again, but I was buried in self-doubt, depression, and resistance. I joined the program and step by step with Jess’ guidance, I started dancing again. I also began getting more in touch with my emotions, which I learned I’d been disconnected from for a while. For the showcase, I choreographed my own dance piece and performed for the first time in three years.

“Jess offers the kind of support that I’ve always needed, but never knew existed. She has led me to a better understanding of the creative process and has shared insight into the struggles and emotions we experience as creative beings. Jess provides structure and accountability with sensitivity and encouragement from the heart. This balance of emotional support and practical tools has helped me to blossom in my creative journey and other areas of my life. I’m truly blessed to have worked with Jess and look forward to all she has to offer in the future.

[post-program, Marikit has published her first book and has been growing her Instagram and TikTok following with her creative belly dance videos!]
— marikit fernando

meet your guide

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Hi, I’m Jess. I’m a dancer, performer, creativity coach, and author of Dance With This Book. Although I quit dancing after high school and thought I'd missed my chance, I proved myself - and society - wrong. My DIY dance videos on YouTube years later were the catalyst for reviving my dance practice AND transitioning my career into my own business and brand. I went from being a full time women’s holistic health coach into starting my own business as a creativity coach and a performer/dance artist. 

Since then, over the last 10+ years, I've been invited to speak and perform on stages like TEDxNYU, Lincoln Center's Dance On Camera Festival, New York's Got Talent!, and the New York Comedy Club, all the while supporting my clients and dance students in bringing their own creative visions to life.

My method is different than most. I use my years of experience in body-centric practices (women’s health coaching and dance) to inform the process I guide my clients through. It moves away from linear/heady thinking. It’s about birthing your “creative babies” through the vessel that is your body. It’s an organic process that will surprise you with its magic. The end result: you move out of creative blocks and into your creative power. In other words, you will actually make the thing(s) you’ve been trying to make - or things you haven’t even realized are possible yet.


2019 performance of “Hungry Ovaries,” my one-woman show

2019 performance of “Hungry Ovaries,” my one-woman show

2013 Creative Club Showcase

2013 Creative Club Showcase


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Even before March, this past year has had a lot of ups and downs for me. After years of focusing almost exclusively on helping others find their artistry, I knew I needed to get back in touch with mine to help center and focus me through it all. Enter Jess Grippo. After creating a piece in her February weekend intensive, I knew her coaching program would give me a net to continue to dive back into my creative self. This gave me so much clarity during a time of isolation, and I am truly appreciative I had this moment.

My periods of creation were a huge stress release and an opportunity for me to be able to listen to my body that I usually deny myself. This helped me to slow down a little bit and assess what’s happening with me. I don’t have to push through, and sometimes simplifying is totally ok. Moving forward I want to find a better flow between my “task manager” style, and giving myself permission to stop and think about what is and isn’t working.

If you are a very linear person like me, I’d recommend Creative Club even more as it will challenge your way of thinking in the best way. Life is more beautiful when you think of it as a circle!
— erika atkins

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Learning the Emergent Method and getting in sync with seasonal/personal/creative cycles has totally shifted my perspective and understanding of how I create and what healthy boundaries look like. I’m so much happier and more confident and I enjoy making art for arts’ sake again.
— Eilidh Ellery, Interdisciplinary Adaptive Dance and Circus Artist, Scotland

how it works:

1: make space

  • Rather than taking a heady and productivity-focused approach that often leaves you burnt out and uninspired, you’ll be led into a body-based, process-focused approach. It starts with making space - in body, mind, schedule, and environment - to release overthinking and forcing habits, and open up to receiving aligned inspiration


2: unblock + unlock

  • Being authentically creative is less about the act of creating and more about unblocking all of the excuses, fears, and obstacles that are in the way of your natural expression. We’ll do that at the personal level, and also consider the ways in which societal oppression have contributed to creative blocks, so that we can make individual and collective impact. 


3: find your rhythm

  • Taking cues from nature and the human body, learn the art of cyclical creativity so that your process feels organic, authentic, and DOESN’T lead to burnout. Align your creative process with your schedule so that it integrates into your life. 


4: embrace your creative shadow

  • Explore the hidden side of your process - the stuff that you might have buried, stuff that will surprise you! - and allow it to heal and inform the direction your artistic process is taking. Identify which shadow archetype is the one you are meant to work with at this juncture of time. 


5: free your expression

  • Rewrite the stories from your past that have muted your true expression and clarify your message through words, dance, or other mediums. Allow your creative birth canal to open its pathway out into the world as you prepare to share in our finale module!


6: present with presence

  • Truly allow yourself to be seen in your expression and heal any wounding around being seen for who you really are. Connect to yourself, your art, and your communities, and create healing and transformation through sharing your art. 


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When I was intuitively drawn to start working with Jess, I felt a creative project emerging but had no vision for the finish line. The process of showing up for myself and creating it little by little was really incredible — and had a lasting impact. I literally danced back to my creativity and soul and felt so open to whatever life brought me next.

I started this process with the intention of two words: expansion and femininity. I felt a need to bring attention and work to these aspects of life, after asking myself the hard questions, particularly around: my mother’s leaving, romantic relationships, and why I’ve developed limitations.

Jess helped me to create a dance piece that shed cobwebs of doubt, discomfort, confusion, unworthiness and pain. Through this process, I naturally let go of what wasn’t serving me. I felt this new space to be exactly who I was.

As an entrepreneur myself, practicing what I preach is huge. I was able to find more joy, give back to myself, slow down, and better serve my clients. I’m more creative, rested, and present when I step back and take creative time for myself.
— jessica patrycja
 

what’s in it for you…

Tap into the magnetic power inside of you -

instead of chasing formulas and linear models of business at the cost of your body, you’ll access more of your flowing, magnetic energy - the part of you that can move things forward with more ease, flow, and even magic

Dance out of the boxes you’ve been stuck in -

instead of staying limited to what you “should” do or what you’ve been doing, get comfortable enough to take risks and follow the (weird? eccentric? bold?) creative impulses that are nudging you

Create innovative ideas for your business and life -

let go of trying to jump through the typical hoops, release stale, forced concepts, and make authentic content through awakening your body and creative energy


Create success without abandoning your body -

instead of pushing yourself and ignoring your body’s natural cycles and rhythms, you’ll learn to understand your body’s signals and let them take the lead more often


Richard dancing in the 2020s

Richard dancing in the 2020s

Richard dancing in the 1970s

Richard dancing in the 1970s

Through working with Jess, I was able to focus on my love of telling a story through movement - which had been dormant for close to 50 years prior to meeting her! I was encouraged to explore this no matter how imperfect it felt, and thus I have learnt and continue to learn that it’s good enough instead of it having to be all or nothing. Making more time to dance in small ways has got me in touch with my energy and to be more present.

Jess gently gives you the space to feel uncomfortable. Instead of stuffing it down, she encourages you to use it, all of it: the anger, fear, silliness, resistance, tears, and laughter that come up when creating.

”Plus - what started with my personal dance revival has now seeped into my business. I’ve been making creative videos for the bookstore I own, which has generated a new marketing avenue AND made work a lot more fun.
— richard chalfin

let’s get you back to creating, ok?


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frequently asked questions

I'm busy and limited on time. Should I still join?

If you’re busy and you’ve been using that as an excuse to why you haven’t been moving forward with your creative stuff, then I’ll venture to guess that carving out time for this program would be a GAMECHANGER. Committing to your creative self by investing in your creative self means you will do it! 
Plus, we focus on realistic goals and step by step integration from Day 1. It’s about shifting your mindset and approach, which will help you make amazing use of your time. 

What makes Creative Club different?

Rather than teaching you a specific creative technique (i.e. How to Do Ballet or How to Start Painting Again), the center point of focus here is YOU. It’s about getting real enough with yourself that you allow your natural expression to emerge - in the format it wants to take at this moment in time. 

Taking this approach takes the pressure off the productivity-focused lens that so much of the creative world pushes in our modern day society. While you absolutely WILL create a product/project by the end of the program, you’re going to be led to do it in a way that feels authentic, works for your body and schedule, and expresses something meaningful for you in life right now. 

If you didn’t already catch it, the “this might suck” podcast series goes into way more depth about it all!

Is this a dance program? I thought Jess was a dancer?

While this is not specifically a dance program, we certainly use dance and movement as a tool for unblocking, healing, and getting creative ideas moving. You don’t have to know anything about dance to be able to benefit from it, you just have to be willing shake things up ;)

And yes, I’m a dancer and you might know me from my TikTok/IG dances, but I’m also so much more: a writer, a poet, a video maker, a business owner, a copywriter and business coach, a former women’s health coach, a dog mom, etc. In other words, as a multi-passionate creator, I have a wide range of experience that shapes this program and supports you in embracing your own unique set of hyphens and multi-passionate interests.

Got more questions?

Click through and submit your questions through the form on the sign up page here:


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I decided to participate in Jess’s program because I found myself really struggling as I started to pursue photography more full-time. I struggled with trusting myself and my unique voice and being secure enough in my work to really share that part of my creativity. I really struggled with asking for compensation for the work I was doing out of fear of rejection. So I found myself doing photo shoots I wasn’t that into for practically free and felt very annoyed and resentful towards the people I was trying to “help out”.

”Jess really helped me hone in, identify and embrace my creative voice and to share it even when I felt like people might not like my ideas. She helped me stand up for myself and actually ask for compensation.

”Jess helped me to find more and more clarity in who I am as an artist, who I actually want to work for, and how setting personal and professional boundaries really benefits everyone. My favorite parts of working with Jess are her beautiful, metaphor filled meditations and her movement and dance exercises that helped get me out of my head.
— hanna agar, conceptual photographer