Creative Resilience: Regulation, Rest, Resistance
8 - Week Course with Laurel True
$495
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This course explores how nervous system regulation and gentle creative practice can support resilience, agency, and well-being. Through expressive arts, creative wellness practices, and community, participants reconnect with creativity as a nourishing way of being rather than a task to complete.
February 22 - April 12, 2026
Sundays on Zoom (1.5 hrs)
10 am PDT /12 pm Central/ 1 pm Eastern
3 spaces available
February 24 - April 14, 2026
Tuesdays on Zoom (1.5 hrs)
4 pm PDT /6 pm Central/ 7 pm Eastern
1 space available
April 21 - June 9, 2026
Tuesdays on Zoom (1.5 hrs)
4 pm PDT /6 pm Central/ 7 pm Eastern
Creative Resilience: ✨ Regulation, Rest, Resistance ✨
How can we lean into creative practice when our nervous systems feel overwhelmed?
How does our nervous system state shape our relationship with creativity?
How can creative acts become a way of being vs. another item on a to-do list?
How might creativity itself become a form of resistance?
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Creative Resilience explores these questions through a polyvagal-informed lens, weaving together nervous system regulation, expressive arts practices, ecology, and creative wellness. This course is designed to support creative people in cultivating resilience, agency, and gentleness in their creative lives… especially during challenging times.
In this 8-session course, we’ll explore creative practice as a stabilizing and nourishing force rather than something that requires effort or pressure. We’lllook at how nervous system states influence creativity and how small, embodied creative acts can help us shift out of states of stress and rumination and back into relationship with ourselves and the world.
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Sessions include:
Gentle, hands-on creative exploration to engage the “Hand Brain”
Short presentations and inspiration
Creative prompts with optional sharing
Group discussion within the safety of a small cohort
An online platform for connection between sessions
This course emphasizes micro-bites of information and inspiration, offered within a spacious and uniquely structured format. We are going gentle here…prioritizing integration, embodiment, and ease over complexity or cognitive overload.
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Themes we will explore include:
Creative resilience and adaptability
The role of rest as a form of resistance (!)
Nervous system regulation and its relationship to creative practice
Creative agency in times of uncertainty and turmoil
How artists and creative communities have used the expressive arts as resistance
How small, consistent creative acts can support well-being and life-force
The aim of this course is to support your creative practice in ways that feel accessible, nurturing, and sustainable! Together, we’ll lean into creative wellness practices that strengthen creative energy, resilience, and a sense of purpose and belonging through easeful creative exploration.
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Participants will:
Understand how nervous system states influence creativity and motivation
Learn gentle, polyvagal-informed practices to support regulation through creative activity
Develop an embodied creative practice that engages the Hand Brain and reduces overthinking
Gain tools to work with creative resistance compassionately
Explore creativity as a way of being, not a productivity demand
Discover how creative acts can support resilience and empowerment
Experience the power of creative community as a stabilizing and inspiring force
Leave with practical, repeatable creative wellness practices
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Who This Course Is For:
Artists, makers, and creatives of all kinds
People who are experiencing feelings of creative block, under + overwhelm or difficulty accessing their creative mojo
Those longing for a more embodied, gentle creative practice
Anyone seeking creative community and support
People interested in creativity, nervous system regulation, and well-being
Creatives navigating change, stress, or uncertainty
Those who want their creativity to nourish rather than deplete them
No prior art training is required. This course is process-focused rather than product or technique-focused and is open to all levels of creative experience.
Note: This course is an opportunity for information and inspiration sharing, and community. It is meant to offer affirmation, enjoyment, and connection. It is not intended as any kind of therapy or therapy-adjacent offering.
PDF flyer available here.