care-centric guidance
WITH INDIVIDUALS
As I revisit the intimate process of working with individuals, I’m particularly interested in building a relationship with people who want to weave the tender power of care into their creative life and daily practice.
In the past, I’ve focused on sessions with folks longing to locate and communicate their life’s work. This period of guidance reflected where I was within my own creative practice and illuminated so much about the magic within a refusal to limit ourselves to one pathway or possibility.
I’m now offering single sessions and longer journeys for ongoing guidance where we can go deep on a specific project or world you’re designing into existence—with care. Through Individual Guidance Sessions and my Creative Care & Guidance Journey we will co-conspire to make care the compass for your creative trajectory.
my approach and ways of guiding
Inquiry-Based
I invite inquiries and what if questions into the process because our questions are sensorial pathways to what can become more possible when we allow ourselves to fully feel the futures that are living, breathing, and weaving inside of us. Inquiries design the compass that will help guide our everyday, embodied devotions
—to ourselves, to each other, to our more-than-human worlds.
Sensorial and Sensuous
We are creative, intuitive beings and the bodies from which we create are sites of knowledge we can learn from. As someone living and creating within a disabled body, integrating the felt, the sensorial, and the sensuous is imperative for bringing more care into the futures we want to build. We will work together in ways that touch our entire being—body, mind, spirit.
Collaborative
There will be no pre-determined outcomes and no quick tips. Instead of entering with urgent expert energy, I bring the spirit of collaboration and ease so you have space to listen for—and trust—your own ideas and answers. Remembering that the word facilitate means to make the way easy, I create the conditions for emergence and possibility (while generously sharing my wisdom) so we can move toward your dreams and desires.
Duration: Single Session, 90 minutes
Creative Energy Exchange: $225/300/375 (USD) Sliding Scales are tools for economic justice that rely on the principles of truthfulness, respect for complexity, and accountability. I will not ask for income verification. Read these guidelines to help you determine which sliding scale price is for you.
This guidance session is designed to collaboratively shape a trajectory where care can become the throughline in your everyday life, creative practice, and projects.
During this session, we'll flow within my sensorial and inquiry-based framework to:
Center in what you care about and name what matters to you the most
Discuss what you're holding in your creative life and begin cultivating care-full ways of being, sensing, relating, and making
Identify people and more-than-human beings who can journey alongside you
Seed a plan that will shape your path toward a creative life and practice rooted in the tender power of care, with ways to enact the futures you desire
Have open space for you to ask me any questions related to shaping a creative life, practice, or project
Note: For this experience, if you’d like to propose another form of Creative Energy Exchange that doesn’t involve money (for example, exchanging services and offerings) send me an email to discuss possibilities.
N'Deye hand-drawing circles with areas of practice inside, illustrating what they are interested in and what's at the root of their desired life's work.
N'Deye radiating joy after completing the mapping process for excavating, articulating, and manifesting their life's work.
N'Deye rolling the visual artifact that emerged from our session to keep as a continual reference and remembrance.
View of friend and collaborator, N'Deye Diakhate, pulling tarot cards during a guided and personalized "manifesting my life's work" session.
Duration: 6 sessions, 90 minutes each
Creative Energy Exchange: $1275 USD
This journey is designed for you to receive ongoing,
care-centric guidance on a specific project or world you're designing into existence. Your creation could be
a community-led project, workshop, program, zine, residency—anything you're actively seeding and creating.
The Creative Care & Guidance Journey includes the experiences within the Individual Guidance Sessions in addition to:
Monthly 90 minute sessions for experimental inquiry, collaborative dreaming, and embodied strategy based on your needs and desires
Honest, supportive feedback that honors your boundaries and growth edges
An approach that creates an environment for you to listen for—and to trust—your own ideas and answers
Personalized curation of multi-sensory resources for inspiration and study
Personalized inquiries and parting prompts in between each session for creative reflection
Please note: For this experience, you must complete a more in-depth interest form and if aligned, we will schedule the start of our journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of people and creative projects do you guide?
I work with people who have a creative social practice and are building new visions rooted in liberatory ways of being. My previous clients have backgrounds in design, art, research, cultural work, community organizing, healing, and education.
If I’m not satisfied with your offering, can I get a refund?
I have a no-refunds policy across all offerings. When considering a booking, please be sure to read the details within these offerings, as well as the main Care-Centric Guidance page and my personal About page. You can ask me any clarifying questions you may have by sending me an email through the form below.
When will I hear back about joining the Creative Care & Guidance Journey?
I’ll respond to submitted interests within two-weeks, letting you know if the collaboration feels aligned for us to move forward. If it does, we will schedule the start of our journey. If this particular offering doesn’t feel aligned, I may suggest booking the Individual Guidance Session.