Sensitive Creatives Meetup APRIL 23

This month’s topic was

HSP-FRIENDLY SYSTEMS

Hosted by Eleanor Chaney

Artist and Creativity Coach

Find support as an HSP creative with people who get it.

Join creativity coach and artist Eleanor for this monthly gathering of likeminded thoughtful, sensitive souls.

This month the topic was:

HSP friendly systems: How do we organise our time (and ourselves) in ways that work for us?

HSP creatives are often very intuitive and love to respond in the moment, but as people who tend to want to think about things carefully before we act, we can get a bit stuck between these two ways of being!

For those of us who are 'high sensation seeking’ HSPs or neurodivergent in other ways strict structures can make us feel demotivated and trapped. But having no structure can send us down the energy rabbit hole, leaving us drained without having got what we really wanted to do…actually done.

In this free session we’ll:

  • Briefly look at some of the common approaches recommended to neurodivergent people to support them in organising their work.

  • I’ll share my journey in trying to create some sort of ‘container’ for my Goldilocks brain (not to structured, not too loose, but juuuuust right as a flexible container!).

  • You are also invited to bring along your own organisational systems or share your learnings with the group, offering us all lots of approaches that have been tried and tested by people with similiar personalities and brains to help you find what works for you.

  • We’ll have time for open conversation to share your challenges and find support in this area so you can find what works for you, and make what really matters!

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    Hello sensitive creative!

    I’m Eleanor Chaney - an artist and creativity coach with 15 years experience in sharing the creative process with thousands of people.

    I’m also a highly sensitive creative who understand the challenges of being a sensitive artist. But with this experience I’ve come to see my sensitivity as one of my biggest strengths.

    I’ve been a self-employed artist since 2009 and my own journey has included:

    - Working as a full time artist, sharing my own artwork through exhibitions, residencies, funded projects and through selling work online.

    - Gaining qualifications in art up to MA level, in counselling skills, and as a teacher and trainer for people aged 16+ in the arts.

    - Working as a creative practitioner teaching art and craft subjects for people of all ages including in formal education, community and adult education, for museums, galleries and arts organisations.

    I support sensitive creatives to embrace who they are, find the approaches that work with their personality, and learn to trust themselves on their creative path

    so they can make what really matters to them.