Standing On the Abundance Already Inside Your Creative Practice
For the Worldbuilders Ep. 046
"There are invisible strings everywhere holding us together, binding us to one another as a matter of fact, as a matter of being."
— Ayana Zaire Cotton
Dear Worldbuilder,
I’m bringing you this week’s podcast episode a day early. Why? Tomorrow at 12pm EST we’ll be inside the Worldbuilding Workshop exploring how we might resource a creative practice rooted in the truth of our needs.
Only you can create the offer calling on your spirit. Some creatives will say, “if you don’t create your idea someone else will”. That’s bullshit. There’s only one you, with your unique lived experience and your journey of transformation. So, no. No one else can create the offer calling on your spirit. Join us this spring, take your offer from spirit to material and witness the magic that’s been asking to be actualized all along.
Inside Today’s Podcast Episode
🗣️ We open with a reading of the weekly essay.
📋 We explore a long list of creative offer examples rooted in collective liberation.
🕸️ We remember the mycelial network of support already embedded in the forest floor of our practices.
✨ We consider how creative offers allow us to practice inside a triptych of alignment: zone of desire, being of service and getting our resource needs met.
🧐 We interrogate the neoliberal, millennial branded, capitalist propaganda of the soft life™️.
⚒️ We re-commit to the inescapable and irresistible work of transforming our collective imagination.
🤲🏾 I list the creative practioners that inspired the Seed A World Retreat and ask who will your creative offer inspire?
What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying About the Retreat
"The Seeda School is unlike anything I have experienced before. It's a mix of personal, intimate, and necessary inner groundwork, visioning for the future, and practical tools for business and financial sustainability, all within a liberatory framework of black feminism and worldbuilding. I found it to be such a necessary container for reflecting, visioning, developing ideas, dreaming up possibilities and then bringing them to life with the many tools that are offered throughout the course. Ayana is a brilliant and generous facilitator, and has thoughtfully curated a safe community of support among like-minded artists and creatives. I am telling everyone I know about Seeda School as I feel like all interdisciplinary artists and creatives need this kind of facilitated retreat experience to bring their ideas to life and offer them to the world."
— Steph Rue, Winter 2024
“I find it difficult to express in words just how impactful the Seeda School Retreat was for me as a clayworker, herbalist, teacher, and activist. Seeda School contextualized our work as multidisciplinary artists in the revolution and helped us all to abandon mentalities of scarcity that are upheld by colonialism and white supremacy. Ayana has put so much time, effort, and care into every piece of her retreat and it shows. Even as someone who already had a creative offer established, I gained so much wisdom from the content and discussions that I am confident will only improve the success of my offers, along with one of the most tender, caring, and uplifting communities that anyone could ask for. I am infinitely grateful for the work Ayana does in bolstering us artists and creating containers for the radical dreaming of better worlds.”
— Taylor Rae, Fall 2023