The Creative Lab is designed especially for those of us who don't always feel creative enough or like a "real" artist or writer.
This is where you drop that misunderstanding…
This is creativity on your terms.
The lies we tell ourselves about our creativity are painful and unoriginal.
They didn't emerge from a vacuum. While your personal story is yours, the patterns that keep you stuck are shared by so many people, and every one of us tends to hold them alone.
When we understand the inner critic, perfectionism, and creative avoidance as attempts at self-protection, it all becomes more workable. The resistance that holds you back becomes a vital part of the creative process when you know how to meet it.
It dissolves when met with consistent curiosity, compassion, and community that gets it.
And yeah, creative hurdles will always exist, even after decades of practice, but you don't need to become trapped in self-judgment when it feels impossible to start or when the initial enthusiasm you had for a project suddenly runs dry.
If you're here reading this, I know you have an entire world inside of you that only you can express. In The Creative Lab, we're going to honor the bigness of our creative desires while breaking it down to doable creative assignments designed by you.
Let this be the moment you look back on as the turning point when you stopped fighting your creativity and started trusting it.
WELCOME
TO…
THE CREATIVE LAB
One cohort, six spots
You’re in the right place if…
You’re a strong starter ready to savor the sweetness of seeing your finished projects.
You’ve got a million creative ideas, but your follow-through feels ruled by mood and luck.
You’re overwhelmed by information and input—a creative soul stuck in the scroll who just wants to live a life where you make cool stuff!
You reside squarely in the Procrastination Zone. There are plenty of good reasons for it, but you’re officially done with feeling stuck.
You crave creative community that isn’t pretentious. You want to be around real and kind people who are making art and writing for themselves.
You’re becoming friends with your creativity in a new way—maybe trying something out of your comfort zone or returning to a creative practice after a long time away… You have your materials and those creative desires pulling at your sleeve, but the starting part just hasn’t happened yet.
You’re not behind!!…
… and you are in the right place!
Creativity is the embodiment and expression of our deepest levels of care and power.
I am an artist, writer, researcher, and friend. Most days you’ll find me supporting brilliant women in one-on-one and group containers as a creative coach, designing transformative experiences that are as playful as they are deep.
I help people move through creative resistance, perfectionism, and creative fear so they can make progress on projects or dreams they can't face or hold alone—without forcing themselves.
My approach is rooted in curiosity, shame resilience, a love for deep knowledge and craft, and unwavering trust in your creative callings.
Here’s what you get…
Breakthrough Sessions
Be seen and supported in the messy middle of your creative process
Silent Creative Work Time
Drop in friendly - come for all or some of the time, cameras on or off
The Creative Assignment Design Guide
Intimate, authentic creative community
The Creative Lab Mini Lesson Library
on demand audio lessons
Optional add on: 1-1 Sessions
Because some creative desires and challenges feel too big or too tender to explore in a group
“I just wanted to send a note to say how much I am enjoying The Creativity Lab. There has been a profound shift for me in the way I perceive and experience creativity. I feel lighter, less weighted down with negativity.
The group of women are truly warm and real and kind and I so appreciate being able to share space and thoughts with them.
In my mind, I have dubbed you The Queen of the Great Questions. You have an uncanny ability to listen deeply and to ask questions that get to the heart of the matter. That’s a gift. Thank you for sharing it."
- Dana, Creative Lab participant
“I came into The Creativity Lab feeling blocked and intimated to create bigger art. After the first call, I felt a huge burst of clarity and made space in my living room to finally get over my excuse of not having space to create. I thrifted a vintage desk and chair and made my own creative corner. That was just the first week! I felt so comfortable in the space because we were all just doing our own thing. I was actually surprised by how comfortable I felt sharing so openly - I feel like I found my creative crew!”
- Peggy, Creative Lab participant
“You’ve cultivated an (in my experience) unmatched sense of safety here, a place that welcomes big emotions within clear and reasonable boundaries + humor when it feels right.”
- workshop participant
“Maggy is delightfully skillful at unlocking my innermost reserves”
- BM, workshop participant
“I felt seen - heard - understood - touched. Contact was made.”
- workshop participant
I was about to celebrate my 70th birthday and had decided it was now or never if I wanted to make sure my grandchildren knew some of my life stories… I came into the relationship with a low opinion of myself as a writer and only a vague sense of what I wanted with regard to writing. On the other hand, I knew my life had been full and interesting to those who knew me. I had stories to share but was clueless how to get started and then how to maintain a writing habit…
I went from believing I couldn’t write, let alone establish a writing habit, to a person who enjoys expressing herself through “printed” words. Because of my work with Maggy, my grandchildren and perhaps others will have the opportunity to know me better through my written stories.”
- Gail, private client
On the freedom of creative assignments…
Assignments come with built-in constraints. For one, there's an end date. And no matter how it turns out, something gets created.
But there's a downside to assignments, too. For most of us, our experience of assignments has been in the context of grades. Evaluation loomed over the process.
There's also putting them off to the last-minute—staying up late and slapping something together right before it's due. Even when you care about it… Even when you meant to start sooner. I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to reclaim assignments as adults.
Instead of being standardized, what if you made creative assignments that were completely unique and self-designed?
Instead of a tool for evaluation, assignments then become a purposeful container for experimentation.
Those same constraints that felt limiting (and even intimidating) when they’re handed to us by someone else? When you are rooted in creative choice the whole way through, self-designed assignments become a way of transforming creative dreams and projects into something that exists in the world instead of just in your head.
This is exactly what we’ll be doing in The Creative Lab together. Because you deserve to see your creative desires in form! Even when it feels cringy, even when you want to start over again, or even if nobody else sees it but you.
Creative Assignment Design Guide
A creative assignment is a type of project or challenge that's based on high intention and low attachment.
In a creative assignment, the main point is to learn from the process instead of produce a specific desired outcome.
It's comprised of both inner and outer commitments that work in tandem to create a purposeful container for experimentation and trust in the process.
You don’t need to know what you’re going to focus on before stepping into The Creative Lab, that’s why the Creative Assignment Design Guide exists!
Breakthrough Sessions
90 minutes
Every Monday in November
Each week, we'll come together to check in about where you're at with your creative assignment. This is your time to share challenges, insights, and progress. The Breakthrough Sessions are not critiques—you won't be holding up your work for feedback. The focus is on you and your experience in the creative process.
In The Creative Lab, output and productivity aren't the main goal.
Some of the most powerful breakthroughs happen in your inner world before they ever show up on the outside: noticing your inner critic has gone quiet for the first time in years, feeling a new sense of possibility in your creative choices, reconnecting to a desire that has been buried for years. These shifts in your mindset and energy are just as important as the outer actions—and you'll be supported in both.
During our Breakthrough Sessions, everyone has time to share and check in.
And if you didn't have time to work on your project that week? Bring that in! It’s not possible to fail or “fall behind” here—every block and broken promise to yourself is going to be met with respect and compassionate curiosity.
In The Creative Lab, you just have to show up as yourself, no more and no less. You are creative enough and you have something important to contribute.
The Creative Lab Mini Lesson Library
Meet creative challenges with a fresh perspective and connect with your inner wisdom with this collection of on-demand audio lesson all around 10 minutes
The Silent Creative Work Time is YOUR time. Use it however you’d like: work on your creative assignment (which we’ll get clear on together), stare out the window, make lists, reorganize your space… you might even use this time to nap if that’s what you need.
Screenshot - about to welcome people in during the first round of The Creativity Lab, now called The Creative Lab
Even with a full schedule, you can trust that in The Creative Lab, you will have a solid hour completely dedicated to making whatever you want every week.
Intimate, authentic creative community
If you’ve been in Regarding Dew spaces before, you know that the people that come together are down-to-earth and real. We come from diverse backgrounds, across geographies and generations.
Unlike many creative programs at universities, this is not a space of exclusivity and pretense. This is space where you don't need to prove yourself.
The relationships you form in The Creative Lab can lead to long-term accountability partnerships, collaborations, and friendships (I’m grateful to have seen this happen more than once).
What if I genuinely don’t feel creative or interesting enough to be in the group?
If you see yourself in this and part of you knows you are an artist or writer—the deep part of yourself knows that’s true—and you’re done with feeling not creative or interesting enough… or ready enough or smart enough… The Creativity Lab is a place to live into the deeper truth of who you are.
Because identifying with a sense of inadequacy is learned and unlearned socially. Some of the greatest gifts of being in a group are 1) feeling the hard parts normalized by hearing other people share openly about their challenges 2) being received and respected as you practice sharing yourself more truly, without veneer.
You can believe you’re uninteresting or a total beginner and still make something that makes you feel like you’re floating.
You can be burnt out and make something cathartic. You can be overwhelmed and find crystal clarity through taking small, consistent action with the support of community.
This is why The Creative Lab exists. Stepping in is saying you’re done with the narratives that keep you small.
It’s time to show up in ways that look different from what you've tried before.
If you know that now is the time to show up in new ways, this is your invitation to trust that.
Your past “failed” attempts don’t determine what you might create next…
The Creative Lab is recommended for people who have a track record of making things. Yes, even if you don't finish them, or haven't hit publish, or even if you tell yourself your work isn't "serious"—don't exclude yourself!!
You've made things before, you have a sense of what you want to make and what's in the way, but you might not know exactly what to work on now or how to move forward... or you might just realize that you want creative community as you experiment with lots of projects.
This is important: You don't need to know what you're going to focus on before stepping in.
In fact, I recommend against coming in with lofty goals. Name them, claim them, but don't let the pressure squash the possibility of what might happen inside The Lab.
That said, if you are coming into The Creative Lab with loads of past attempts or feeling extra wobbly in your self-trust, I strongly recommend booking at the Immersive Tier for one-on-one creative support. While you’ll get a ton of support either way, this is ultimately a self-directed experience and the one-on-one sessions are there if you need more focused support.
Here's what you need to know before you sign up:
Regarding Dew spaces are introvert friendly and highly interactive. By signing up, you understand that you’ll contribute in conversation (even if it’s mostly in the chat). If you're ready for spontaneous self-expression and being witnessed in your imperfect humanness, this is for you.
We try to keep this as close to IRL as possible, meaning:
There are no recordings or AI transcription. This is a space where you can share openly without being recorded.
Cameras are on in general so we can see each other’s faces! You’re here to share and be seen. You are always welcome to have your camera off as needed.
Loving this idea but wanting the privacy of 1-on-1 support?
Head this way and we’ll have a conversation.
You get to be restful & bold.
At ease & ambitious.
Brilliant & imperfect.
It’s time.