Sustainable Creativity for Burnt-Out Tech Workers
A six-week online workshop to help you reconnect to your creative practice.
Mondays, Sept 18 - Oct 23, 2023 | 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern
It’s time to prioritize your creative work.
When it comes to our day jobs, we know how to get results — we align on key metrics, we create detailed project plans, and we execute them. As product managers, designers, engineers, analysts, marketers and more, we have all these tools to achieve successful outcomes at work. So why aren’t they working for our creative practices?
In this six-week workshop, we’ll examine the skills and processes that serve us in our jobs and consider whether they also serve us in our art. We’ll address issues of constraint around time and energy, shift our focus away from efficiency and towards expression, and ensure our creative wells don’t run dry. We’ll build community with each other, so that we have people to connect with who understand our unique challenges.
Visual artists, writers, and creatives of all types are welcome, including people who are exploring their mediums/forms. We will be journaling and using written prompts, but our takeaways can be applied to any practice.
This workshop is for you if:
You know that your job and career are not the sole sources of meaning in your life.
You feel an urgency to create — to write, to draw, to paint, to express yourself and you and your unique point of view.
You know what it’s like to be in flow, often at your job, though less often in your creative practice.
You cycle through periods of burnout, which prevents you from feeling connected to your art.
You struggle to find understanding among your peers on why it’s critical for you to make space for creativity now, not later.
If any of that resonates, then this workshop is for you. Come build the sustainable creative practice that you never thought you could have.
Registration is closed for the Fall 2023 cohort!
Sessions will meet via Zoom on the following Mondays at 5pm PT (8pm ET):
Sept 18, Sept 25, Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23
Your Instructor:
Hi, I’m Robin! As a product manager in the tech industry, I spent years struggling to protect my creative practice of writing from endless cycles of work-related burnout. It wasn’t until I worked towards letting go of my perfectionism and unlearned years of beliefs around ‘productivity’ and ‘success’ that I finally started to feel connected to my creative self again. I’m committed to making sure that other people find that clarity too, and I can't wait for you to join me!
“Robin has a gift for motivating teams of creative people, and is an admirable creative in her own right.”
In this workshop you will:
Build an artistic practice that is sustainable, fulfilling, and aligned with your creative goals
Connect with a community of people who share similar hopes and challenges
Develop an empowered mindset around the time and energy you can access for your creativity
Untangle limiting beliefs around perfectionism, permission, and artistic identity that are holding you back
Cultivate awareness of the space around you and engage your senses to refill your creative well
Move between phases of creativity, from inspiration and experimentation to crafting and implementation
Workshop Offerings:
Six weekly live virtual sessions, 90min each
Exploration of each week’s topic via readings, prompts, and guided discussions
Tools and resources to incorporate into your ongoing practice after the workshop ends
One 45min individual coaching session with Robin to address specific challenges
Registration:
Workshop cost: $1195
Registration will be limited to 10 students.
Please reach out for more information on sliding scale pricing, including for folks who have experienced a layoff or job loss.
The Fall 2023 workshop will meet via Zoom on the following Mondays at 5pm PT (8pm ET):
Sept 18, Sept 25, Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23
“Working with Robin has been a pleasure. She comes with wealth of knowledge, invigorating energy, and has helped us shape and rapidly push our ideas forward.”
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More About Robin Yang:
Robin is an instructor, writer and creative practitioner based in San Francisco. She’s coached clients on mindfulness and goal-setting, helping them tackle big projects across art, academia, and business. Previously, she worked as a product manager in industries ranging from eCommerce to edtech and fintech. She regularly gives talks about impostor syndrome and leadership, and writes Creative Compost, a newsletter dedicated to sharing her own journey to sustainable creativity.
For questions about the workshop or to inquire about 1:1 coaching, please reach out!