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I don’t give many workshops. Truth is, I don’t feel like I’m very good at them. (I’m definitely not practised at them.) I feel like what I deliver, and what I create, is not very workshop-format-friendly.
I’m a bit all over the place. The way I tend to work is rather expansive, organic, loose and free. I like to facilitate thinking, long pauses, and questions.
I tell myself that what I do doesn’t fit into the workshop format. I tell myself, I don’t deliver information; and so what on earth am I going to teach??
Anyway, today I delivered a workshop. I called it ‘Rooting into the spirit of your business,’ because that was vague enough and expansive enough to deliver what I wanted to deliver. I wanted to deliver connection. I wanted to deliver thinking. I wanted to deliver a place where people could trust themselves.
I’m fairly sure I’ve delivered some weird hybrid model of a workshop-cum-thinking session. I worry that what I’ve delivered isn’t ‘of value,’ because it wasn’t clear what is was supposed to be.
I also know that in it, I talk about some of the most powerful concepts I use to stay connected to the work I want to do. To not get lost in what everyone else says. To accept and trust my pace and way of working, even when it doesn’t look like what other people say it should look like.
One of the concepts we talk about is the desire to create — for the sake of it.
Create what you want to create. Because you want to create it.
This is a very simple concept.
And yet goes against so much of what society tells us.
Create because you want to make money. Create because you want to add value. Create because it looks pretty, or makes someone laugh, or is educational.
None of these are inherently wrong reasons to create.
But don’t try to substitute a reason, where the reason is, “Because I want to.”
Don’t place a ‘should’ over a desire.
Don’t pretend you need it to be any worthier than “This is what I love. This is what I enjoy. This is what brings me a feeling. This is what makes me alive.”
Be sure of why you are creating in the first place.
Maybe it is because you want to make someone laugh. Maybe it is because you want to express an idea or opinion. Or maybe it’s because you feel something inside — and it wants to come out in a way that speaks to you.
Those are good enough reasons. You don’t need anything more on top of that. You don’t need to justify it, or place it within a strategic framework, or tell yourself you’re only allowed to create if it makes money.
You can just create. Because you want to.
Happy creating,
Love, Kathryn.
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