Sensitive Creatives Meetup
SEPTEMBER 23

This month’s topic was

HOLDING

BOUNDARIES

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:

Holding Boundaries As A Sensitive Creative - How do we identify what our boundaries are and communicate them with others?

Ah boundaries. We hear about them all the time, we know they are good for us and if you're a super sensitive creative you've probably already worked on yours. But of course they tend to be more difficult to enact than they are to talk about, and for most of us they are an ongoing work in progress.

So this Sensitive Creatives Meetup was dedicated not only to supporting you in better understanding your own boundaries in your creative relationship, but in enabling you to work out how you can hold these boundaries with less confusion and stress so you can use that energy on the things that really matter to you.

This month we explored:

✨ Understanding what we mean when we talk about boundaries, and a brief introduction into the theory behind the term.

✨ Looking at some of the common areas in which sensitive creative people struggle to set and hold boundaries.

✨ Opening up why it’s important for us to hold and communicate our own boundaries, and how this can improve our relationship with our creativity.

✨ Gentle activities to support you in identifying and communicating your own boundaries with family, friends, colleagues and clients.

✨ The opportunity to find support in your own personal experiences of boundaries in our Q&A at the end of the session.

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Let’s explore how we can identify and hold the boundaries that we need, and what opportunities this could open up for our creativity.

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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.