Boundaries + Consent for Artists
Starts March 3
Sign up here.
VIRTUAL: Tuesdays, March 3 - May 5, 10am-noon PT / 1-3pm ET. Students who sign up in advance will receive recordings of our live classes in case you can’t attend during class time. These recordings will not be available after class has passed.
This program helps self-employed artists shirk perfectionism and people pleasing in your art, advocate for yourself regarding rates, care for yourself and your creative practice for a sustainable life as an artist, and find your voice.
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
Struggling to navigate boundaries, offers, and rates sustainably while avoiding burnout as an artist? This program is for people who:
want to make (more) money from their art!!
struggle to finish projects or feel like they don’t follow through
want to build new habits, routines, and rituals to move through creative blocks and support flow
struggle with people-pleasing tendencies in your work
feel a codependent relationship with your art (“People need this from me so I will give and give and give”)
feel guilt or shame about making money with your art
struggle to find motivation to create
don’t know where to start or when to stop
want to make more money from your art
want to find a sacred relationship with play
want to find a more easeful relationship with your authenticity and creative self-expression
grapple with your ego as an artist and want to believe what you have is worth sharing with the world without feeling like an arrogant shithead
You’ll learn to:
set and negotiate rates
advocate for yourself when your rates change
price, present, and market your work in a way that doesn’t feel icky
trade/barter for services or work without the clear boundaries of money
what to consider when working for free
only offering what’s actually within your capacity, setting a container period, asking for and providing necessary information, and setting clear agreements
when and how to exit commitments you made
This class is a great fit for:
artists, designers, freelancers, consultants, and anyone who is or wants to be self-employed and find creativity in their work
performers, musicians, painters, ceramicists, directors, producers, and other artists
anyone who needs to set and negotiate rates or price their work
WHAT WILL WE BE DOING?
Our live classes will consist of lectures as well as practice exercises in breakout rooms.
You’ll also receive my Boundaries + Your Business recorded course (a $199 value) to do on your own time. This course will help you build a scalable business structure and incorporate consent into your business, both outwardly and inwardly. You’ll also receive my Boundaries + Consent for People Pleasers, my Unblocked, and Boundaries + Your Business workbooks included in the cost of the program.
Working for yourself is exciting! I wouldn’t have it any other way. But I’ve had to learn—largely through trial and error, and lots of lost money—how to speak up for myself when no one else will as a self-employed person. I’ll share everything I’ve learned, and the tools and skills I’ve cultivated to get paid and paid well.
Class 1: Myth - Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life
Class 2: Perfectionism
Class 3: People pleasing in your art - You are not for everyone and that is a good thing
Class 4: Inner Critic + Imposter Syndrome
Class 5: Discipline vs. Punishment – Consent with yourself
Class 6: Finding your voice
Class 8: Self Advocacy for the Self-Employed Part II (also available as a standalone class)
Class 9: Setting rates and negotiating - you should get paid more for work you love
Class 10: Share your work and invite your friends!
WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM THIS COURSE?
Consent and boundary knowledge will help you find ever more nuance and subtlety in your communication. It gives more options, expands structure, and opens up space for creativity. You can expect to get:
a deep dive into your blockages
a magnifying glass held up to the ways you may keep yourself small. Perfectionism, anyone?
a thorough examination of your self-sabotaging strategies
exercises to help create the environment in which creativity can flourish
a concrete, structured approach to your creative practice centered around consent with yourself
Sign up here.
I’ve seen a lot of changes in myself. The biggest is probably my willingness to fail and be seen. Since taking the course, I’ve started shadowing a tattooer with 10 years experience, something that I’ve been terrified to try for fear of failing. But I’m learning to be teachable now. I’m feeling open and motivated to get better and I understand the value of developing a consistent practice. I think my art is changing too. There’s more of me in it. I am playing more, taking chances, and seeing the growth as a result. And most of all, I’m meeting myself where I am and deciding that I’m good enough. That I’m worthy of my dreams. And capable of achieving them.
—Waverly
The reason everyone listening to this should sign up for Unblocked* right fucking now is because that broken narrative and the idea that there’s something that will fix me or save me and once I figure it out I’ll be set—it’s the one way we’re ready to believe we’re exceptional: Like, I am the only artist in the world who struggles to make work for long periods of time. And Unblocked puts you in a room with 20 other people saying that same thing. So naturally, it’s absolutely fucks over the idea that any one of us is alone in this. Just that, in and of itself, is so freeing. Being in this class brought me back to my belief in the inevitability of my art practice. I can trust my practice and myself so much more now.
—Sam
*Unblocked is included in Boundaries + Consent for Artists
Mia is a patient and generous educator. The way they conceptualize consent is so rich and nuanced that, once you've encountered it, going back to a binary or reductive approach is inconceivable. It's nothing short of a revelation. In [Unblocked*], I found myself connecting with others around obstacles to creativity, and in so doing, I experienced increased lightness and ease around being creative. My expectations were met and exceeded as I found discussions on people pleasing, the inner critic, and perfectionism facilitated more comfort and confidence in my own creative aspirations and projects. The exercises, journalling prompts, and discussions enriched my creative practices and sparked self-reflection. For me, there is immense value in engaging with this approach to consent--for creativity and beyond--and I enthusiastically recommend it to anyone.