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VITAMIN B

Live Zoom Webinar Series for Artists and Creatives

Rx to energize your artistic practice and build professional capacity during Covid-19

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A 6 part series of weekly, one hour, themed webinars designed to support professional practice during Covid-19. Vitamin B webinars will help you develop your ability to recognize and build on your personal strengths, skills and experience as a creative professional. Each week I will introduce exercises, tools and tips to support your growth during this challenging time of social distancing and beyond.  

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FREE Introductory Session - Monday April 20 | 1pm EST

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Five Weekly Workshops Tuesdays at 1pm EST | April 28 through May 26

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Vitamin B Live Webinar Series

Introductory Session 

Vitamin B1: Build Habits to Nurture Your Creativity and Professional Growth

Presented in partnership with The Steps Initiative CreateSpace Artist Workshops

This first one hour webinar will help you identify and establish daily routines to develop your capacity, energize your practice and promote your self-care as a creative professional.

You will learn how to:

• Identify habits you personally need to survive and thrive as an artist.

• Close your Habit Loop to set yourself up for success!

• Create tools to help you track, reflect and adjust moving forward.

Session 2 

Vitamin B2:  Boost Your Practice - Understand Your Artistic Values and What Fulfills You

This week’s webinar  will help you identify what really excites you and is most important to you as a creative professional. Learn how to leverage this self-awareness to better evaluate your current opportunities and to determine how and where you drive your practice moving forward.

You will learn how to:

• Identify what is most important to you in your art and career.

• Clarify how this knowledge can enhance your approach to goal setting & decision making.

• Be more strategic in the present and moving forward.

Session 3 

Vitamin B3:  Become More Focused and Productive

Many of us are struggling to find focus even though we have more time on our hands as a result of our current practices of self-isolation and social distancing. This week’s webinar will help you tap into your motivation, nurture your creative capacity in these challenging times and give you tools to maintain momentum.

You will learn how to:

• Energize your commitment to goals and projects that matter to you.

• Identify likely obstacles and distractions.

• Build strategies to stay on top of key priorities day-to-day and week-to-week.

Session 4

Vitamin B4: Inoculate Yourself from Your Inner Critic

Your inner critic can prevent you from growing, taking risks and moving forward. In fact, it can stop you right in your tracks - perhaps even leave you feeling unworthy of calling yourself a “real” artist. This week’s webinar will help you better recognize when this is happening and to be able to tap into your inner resources when you want to inject yourself with courage and confidence.

You will learn how to:

• Recognize how your personal inner critic operates and when it is likely to speak up.

• Better distinguish between your inner critic’s messaging and what’s really true when you are doubting yourself.

• Create strategies to help you consciously access your unique inner resources to better support your growth and development.

Session 5 

Vitamin B5: Build on Your Strengths and Be an Inspiration to Yourself.

Culturally we tend to focus on fixing our weaknesses but our greatest opportunities for growth and development come from building on our strengths. This week’s webinar will help you better understand who you are when you are at your best as an artist and professional; what personal strengths and experience you drawn on and what unique opportunities you have to build on them.

You will learn how to:

• Identify your personal strengths and experience.

• Explore how to turn your strengths and experience into opportunities in your professional practice.

• Brainstorm how to boost your strengths.

Session 6 

Vitamin B6:  Understand Your Artistic Process to Be Intentional

How aware are you of all of the steps and complexity of your artistic process? What parts come naturally and what requires preparation, true focus and sheer determination? This final webinar will help you to acknowledge, take a stand for and honour what it takes for you to show up in the best way for yourself as a creative professional.

You will learn how to:

• Identify the key steps of your process.

• Build a practice of setting yourself up for success

• Create tools to help you plan, appreciate and advocate for your process