Room to Create: A Guide to Designing Your Space & Enhancing Your Creativity

Learn tips and get inspired to carve out and protect your own creative space! A dedicated space helps overcome creative blocks and ruts, and gets your mind into a habit of creativity.

So many of us wish we could be more creative, or more easily tap into our creative flow. Maybe you feel creatively blocked, easily distracted, or unmotivated. If you relate, I have good news: You can improve your creativity right now by making your own designated creative space! 

In this class, I’ll explain why having a creative space helps your creativity, and provide clear and inspiring guidance for how to set up your own creative space. I’ll share actionable steps toward building your unique creative space, interesting science supporting these tips, plus personal insights gleaned from my own experience as a professional creative! 

This Skillshare features a free downloadable Class Workbook that will guide you through the steps we’ll be taking together in class. Find the free workbook under the Class Project tab on the right, under Resources.

We'll address big-picture considerations as well as specific practical advice on common hurdles, including: 

1. Why it’s important to have a creative space
2. Setting intentions for your creative space 
3. Finding your own creative space, regardless of how much room you have 
4. Physical space, lighting, and seating considerations 
5. Minimizing distractions 
6. Ideas for organizing your supplies (or not!) 
7. Gathering inspiration and decorating your space 
8. Engaging the senses and creative self-care 
9. Breathing space, i.e. how to use your creative space mindfully :) 

And as promised, below are links to some of my favorite resources to support you with this project! 

Playlists 

• Deep Focus
• Lofi Beats
• Aesthetic
• Moonlight Beats
• Draw & Breathe - I made this one myself :)

Creative Books 

• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert 
• Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic by Lisa Congdon
• My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation by Donald M. Rattner 
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Keon 

Try Libby, a free app, to get e-books and audiobook versions of these books from your local library! 

Sources for Furniture and Organizers 

• Container Store
• Buy Nothing Groups (your local Facebook exchange groups) 
• Offerup 

See you in class! -Mimi