ARISE
A six-week container for women who want to give life to their ideas and birth them into reality.
If you feel stagnant at any part of your creative process, perhaps it’s the ideas, perhaps you’re like me and hesitate when it comes to actually getting the idea into the physical, maybe you feel crippled when the time comes for getting it out into the world, maybe you have given up and resigned yourself to not having enough time. Regardless of the reason that is keeping you stuck, conscious or unconscious, if there is a block, this is for you.
For me my process of creating feels light, exciting and ease filled when my imagination is ignited and I am forming ideas. In the past, however, I have got stuck at the part where I must begin and make the idea material.
As a stylist, art director and creative consultant, I worked in an industry with established practices and methods to produce, over the years and alongside my PhD, I became expert in them, and so creating felt like it had a way of being. Creating and producing fashion images is collaborative as well, so, catching the momentum was often ease filled.
When I became a mother, however, and began creating on my own on completely new projects there was no path and usually, no collaborators, and so I had to create my own- and this is the part we so often over look. Becoming a mother meant my creative process that I had indulged in my entire life before that point needed to change. It almost felt impossible because I was working to a reality that was no longer mine. With sheer determination I managed to complete my PhD thesis and I began to understand that my process needed to adapt to my world because I was not the same person, that being a mother could be inspiration and fuel.
I can sit stuck in the space between idea and beginning for weeks if I allow it, I can find all sorts of things that need to be done instead of doing the thing- cleaning the house, clearing out my clothes, going for walks, reading a book, maybe doing a course or looking outside of myself, all the things. I’ve got better at acting on my ideas because I have consciously surrounded myself with people who act immediately on their ideas- even if it is just one step into the making part.
I know that creating is far more ease- filled, for more inspiring, far more joyful when we are doing alongside others, and specifically, alongside other mothers who are tending to their own unique universes, other women who are multifaceted creators.
So, I created ARISE. Inside the 6 weeks we take a deep dive into HOW to create within your individual reality, how to adapt and how to use our inspiration and our beautiful lives as fuel to getting our ideas into the material.
The container will comprise of 6 one hour weekly zoom workshops. I will also be creating a What’s App group for community, momentum, and celebration. All replays will be sent out after the live Zoom.
We begin on SATURDAY 07TH NOVEMBER 2026 9AM
The weekly break down:
1. Inspiration - Capturing our life force
2. The cave - Integrating creativity in our lives during our time in Motherhood (I am referring to women in the stage of life that requires them to tend to others).
3. The Vessel - We step into forming your creative container.
4. Building- one step into materialization.
5. Getting things out into the world
6. Gratitude and Receiving
Your facilitator:
I have over twenty years of experience in the fashion image making industry and I hold PhD from Central St Martins College of Art and Design. I have produced fashion shoots across the globe in my capacity as Junior Fashion Editor at The Sunday Times Style: in the middle of the Namibian Desert, on the ski slopes of Switzerland, the hills of Spain, the back of beyond in middle America and just about everywhere in between. As a freelance stylist my clients have included Vivienne Westwood, Mother of Pearl and Universal Music, and my images have been published in Vogue Portugal, Vogue Italia and GQ amongst other titles.
Over and above all, I am the devoted mother to my beautiful magical daughter.