Events
Co-Create Hour with Keeping Creative Time ft. Special Guests: Artists Liz Bessel and Hayley Perry (Virtual)
Co-Create Hour with Keeping Creative Time ft. Special Guests: Artists Liz Bessel and Hayley Perry
A monthly virtual space for parallel play with creative friends from Keeping Creative Time
Free for paid subscribers to Keeping Creative Time on Substack
$5.00/mo to join as a paid subscriber (cancel anytime)
Parallel play is not just for kids—it’s a powerful antidote to burnout and an integral part of your whole creative life. Whether you struggle to keep creative commitments to yourself, want to unwind in the evening without the need for social media or TV, or just like the company of creating in the presence of others, you are invited to join Faye and other creative friends from Keeping Creative Time who are resisting burnout together and quietly practicing their joy.
Each session’s mission is to build more community supports into the creative relationship we have with ourselves, and practice making time for activities that truly nourish us.
Session Timetable
7:15-7:30pm | Zoom Room Opens + Community Check In
7:30-8:15pm | Parallel Play Time
8:15-8:30pm | Community Check Out
All times are Eastern Standard Time.
KEEPING CREATIVE TIME is a newsletter and guide for navigating the artist’s journey from burnout to creative well-being. Each week, Faye, a holistic librarian in Asheville, shares stories, interviews, book reviews, tools, and more to help you regenerate, keep your creative power, and find your sense of balance in the cycle of rest, digest, play, and create.
Book Launch Basics: Your Successful Author Event with LitArts RI
Book Launch Basics: Your Successful Author Event with LitArts RI
💲Free Event
📍In Person in Providence, Rhode Island
Publishing a book is an enormous achievement that deserves to be celebrated. Successful book launches and author events can also attract national audiences, generate book sales, connect writers to their local communities and advance careers.
Yet many writers enter the book market without the necessary tools to promote their work.
At Book Launch Basics, LitArts RI is bringing together local authors and booksellers alongside event coordinators, digital marketing, PR and public speaking specialists to give Rhode Island writers the skills and confidence they need for a successful book launch.
Join at 6pm for a panel on author event best practices with Kiersten Resch, Faye D’Avanza, Kate Lohman and Patricia Tulli-Hawkridge, followed by an opportunity to consult with the experts, build relationships with local booksellers and connect with fellow authors.
Meet the Panelists
Kiersten Penaloza-Resch began her career performing dance in Manhattan after receiving a BFA in Creative Writing and a BA in Dance Performance. Later, as she worked in marketing and communications for the performance arts, she received her MA in Book Publishing and Writing from Emerson College. As a freelance marketing professional, Kiersten has worked with non-profit organizations and magazines to boost their email and social media presence. Now, Kiersten is transitioning to take on more authors and artists as clients. Offering services in editorial work, marketing, and publicity, Kiersten is proud to help new authors better understand the publishing landscape and to project their voices to a targeted audience.
J. Faye D'Avanza serves artists and creative communities as a consultant and facilitator based in Asheville, NC. As a writer, editor, librarian, and the former marketing and communications event coordinator for Ink Fish Books, she’s worked extensively with authors to design and promote their work through book signings, readings, talks, conversations, themed-events, and workshops that invite community engagement, promote learning, and build social connections.
Faye shares stories and tools for creative regeneration in her Substack newsletter Keeping Creative Time, and is the founder of Library of Care, a holistic education + resource hub for creative healing and thriving in the burnout age. Learn more at jfayedavanza.com and follow her on Instagram @jfayedavanza and @libraryofcare.
Kate Lohman is an actor, director, writer, teacher, and former Artistic Director of the Gamm Theatre. Kate attended Brown University and is a graduate of the Trinity Rep Conservatory (now the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program), and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard University. She’s taught oral communication, writing, and theatre classes and workshops in many settings, most recently with graduate students at Brown to help them feel more confident making presentations. Kate facilitates the Village Common Writers Group, and this summer will return to the Summer@Brown program to teach a memoir class. Kate is very excited to reunite with Patricia Tulli-Hawkridge for a class at School One’s Write Rhode Island Creative Institute: “Thrilling and Terrifying! Reading Your Writing for an Audience.”
Patricia Tulli-Hawkridge holds an MFA in Dramatic Arts with a concentration in Acting & Speech from George Washington University. She is a RI Teaching Artist through the RI State Council on the Arts. Pat is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Acting and Speech courses for Rhode Island College.
Pat has served as the Dean of the Arts at TAPA: Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts and at Beacon Charter High School for the Arts and as an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Theatre Arts Department at Salve Regina University. As an actor & director, Pat has worked with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Horizons Theatre, Silver Spring Stage and Round House Theatre all in the Washington, DC area and OUTLOUD Theatre, Barker Playhouse, Gamm Theatre, Rhode Island College and Providence College all in Rhode Island. As a trained speech and accent/dialect coach, Pat has worked for area colleges, high schools, local theatres, and businesses in RI, including the Rhode Island Department of Education’s Center for Teacher Certification and Excellence.
Participating Bookstores
Book Around
Heartleaf Books
Inkfish Books
Stillwater Books
Symposium Books
Health Safety Guidelines
If you have tested positive for Covid-19 within a few days of attending an event at LitArts RI, please contact Staff so we can let others know of possible exposure. We ask that you wait 14 days or until testing negative to return to the Center.
Accessibility
LitArts RI is wheelchair accessible. The organization is actively committed to cultivating a community that values and reflects diversity, equity and inclusivity and to providing programming that is accessible to all attendees. Please let us know about any accommodations we can make to allow you to participate fully in this event.
West Asheville Yoga Spring Book Club: Poetry + Potluck
Join me and West Asheville Yoga for our spring book club gathering, as we explore the book The Way Forward by yung pueblo.
Craft Your Commerce Book Club ft. “Make Your Art No Matter What” at Center for Craft
Craft Your Commerce Book Club ft. “Make Your Art No Matter What” at Center for Craft
Free!
Register for Craft Your Commerce Book Club through Craft Your Commerce’s website.
Calling all creative minds! Join the Craft Your Commerce Book Club to connect, learn, and grow with fellow makers and doers.
3 Sessions:
Feb 26 | Mar 12 (VIRTUAL w/Author!)| Mar 21 from 5 to 7pm
During this final meeting, we’ll discuss the themes Fear, Grief, Education, and Marketing.
Don’t worry if you haven’t finished—or even started—the book yet! This is a welcoming space for all to explore ideas, share insights, and grow together. There are no tests or pop quizzes—just meaningful conversations inspired by the book.
About the Book:
Make Your Art No Matter What by Beth Pickens is a practical and inspiring handbook for artists looking to build a lasting creative practice despite life’s challenges. From managing time and money to addressing fear and burnout, this book offers tools and wisdom for overcoming obstacles while reigniting your creative spark.
Facilitated by: Me!
J. Faye D'Avanza serves artists and creative communities as a consultant and facilitator based in Asheville, NC. With a vision to transform the world of creativity and how we care for it, she shares stories and tools for creative regeneration in her Substack newsletter Keeping Creative Time. A writer and librarian, she is certified as an Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator, and is the founder of Library of Care, a holistic education + resource hub for creative healing, and thriving in the burnout age.
Register through Craft Your Commerce’s website HERE.
Co-Create Hour with Keeping Creative Time (Virtual)
Co-Create Hour with Keeping Creative Time
A monthly virtual space for parallel play with creative friends from Keeping Creative Time
Free for paid subscribers to Keeping Creative Time on Substack
$5.00/mo to join as a paid subscriber (cancel anytime)
Parallel play is not just for kids—it’s a powerful antidote to burnout and an integral part of your whole creative life. Whether you struggle to keep creative commitments to yourself, want to unwind in the evening without the need for social media or TV, or just like the company of creating in the presence of others, you are invited to join Faye and other creative friends from Keeping Creative Time who are resisting burnout together and quietly practicing their joy.
Each session’s mission is to build more community supports into the creative relationship we have with ourselves, and practice making time for activities that truly nourish us.
Session Timetable
7:15-7:30pm | Zoom Room Opens + Community Check In
7:30-8:15pm | Parallel Play Time
8:15-8:30pm | Community Check Out
All times are Eastern Standard Time.
KEEPING CREATIVE TIME is a newsletter and guide for navigating the artist’s journey from burnout to creative well-being. Each week, Faye, a holistic librarian in Asheville, shares stories, interviews, book reviews, tools, and more to help you regenerate, keep your creative power, and find your sense of balance in the cycle of rest, digest, play, and create.
Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout: A 6-Week Workshop at Story Parlor
Thursdays, January 30-March 6 from 6:15 to 8:30pm at Story Parlor in West Asheville.
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
Price: $340
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience.
Register for Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout through Story Parlor’s website.
Workshop Description:
Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely.
Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals.
How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives because they are all connected)
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community in which to rest, digest, play, and create
Testimonials
“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli M.
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change. I want Faye to lead this workshop for the doctors I work with who struggle with burnout!”
–Taylor Rose E.
About the Instructor
Learn more about me, J. Faye D’Avanza, on my Meet Faye page.
Craft Your Commerce Book Club ft. “Make Your Art No Matter What” at Center for Craft
Craft Your Commerce Book Club ft. “Make Your Art No Matter What” at Center for Craft (VIRTUAL)
Free!
Register for Craft Your Commerce Book Club through Craft Your Commerce’s website.
Calling all creative minds! Join the Craft Your Commerce Book Club to connect, learn, and grow with fellow makers and doers.
3 Sessions:
Feb 26 | Mar 12 (VIRTUAL w/Author!)| Mar 21 from 5 to 7pm
During this virtual meeting, we’ll meet the author Beth Pickens for a Q&A about the book!
Don’t worry if you haven’t finished—or even started—the book yet! This is a welcoming space for all to explore ideas, share insights, and grow together. There are no tests or pop quizzes—just meaningful conversations inspired by the book.
About the Book:
Make Your Art No Matter What by Beth Pickens is a practical and inspiring handbook for artists looking to build a lasting creative practice despite life’s challenges. From managing time and money to addressing fear and burnout, this book offers tools and wisdom for overcoming obstacles while reigniting your creative spark.
Facilitated by: Me!
J. Faye D'Avanza serves artists and creative communities as a consultant and facilitator based in Asheville, NC. With a vision to transform the world of creativity and how we care for it, she shares stories and tools for creative regeneration in her Substack newsletter Keeping Creative Time. A writer and librarian, she is certified as an Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator, and is the founder of Library of Care, a holistic education + resource hub for creative healing, and thriving in the burnout age.
Register through Craft Your Commerce’s website HERE.
Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout: A 6-Week Workshop at Story Parlor
Thursdays, January 30-March 6 from 6:15 to 8:30pm at Story Parlor in West Asheville.
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
Price: $340
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience.
Register for Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout through Story Parlor’s website.
Workshop Description:
Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely.
Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals.
How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives because they are all connected)
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community in which to rest, digest, play, and create
Testimonials
“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli M.
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change. I want Faye to lead this workshop for the doctors I work with who struggle with burnout!”
–Taylor Rose E.
About the Instructor
Learn more about me, J. Faye D’Avanza, on my Meet Faye page.
Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout: A 6-Week Workshop at Story Parlor
Thursdays, January 30-March 6 from 6:15 to 8:30pm at Story Parlor in West Asheville.
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
Price: $340
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience.
Register for Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout through Story Parlor’s website.
Workshop Description:
Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely.
Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals.
How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives because they are all connected)
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community in which to rest, digest, play, and create
Testimonials
“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli M.
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change. I want Faye to lead this workshop for the doctors I work with who struggle with burnout!”
–Taylor Rose E.
About the Instructor
Learn more about me, J. Faye D’Avanza, on my Meet Faye page.
Craft Your Commerce Book Club ft. “Make Your Art No Matter What” at Center for Craft
Craft Your Commerce Book Club ft. “Make Your Art No Matter What” at Center for Craft
Free!
Register for Craft Your Commerce Book Club through Craft Your Commerce’s website.
Calling all creative minds! Join the Craft Your Commerce Book Club to connect, learn, and grow with fellow makers and doers.
3 Sessions:
Feb 26 | Mar 12 (VIRTUAL w/Author!)| Mar 21 from 5 to 7pm
During this first meeting, we’ll discuss the themes from the first four chapters: Time, Work, Asking, and Money.
Don’t worry if you haven’t finished—or even started—the book yet! This is a welcoming space for all to explore ideas, share insights, and grow together. There are no tests or pop quizzes—just meaningful conversations inspired by the book.
About the Book:
Make Your Art No Matter What by Beth Pickens is a practical and inspiring handbook for artists looking to build a lasting creative practice despite life’s challenges. From managing time and money to addressing fear and burnout, this book offers tools and wisdom for overcoming obstacles while reigniting your creative spark.
Facilitated by: Me!
J. Faye D'Avanza serves artists and creative communities as a consultant and facilitator based in Asheville, NC. With a vision to transform the world of creativity and how we care for it, she shares stories and tools for creative regeneration in her Substack newsletter Keeping Creative Time. A writer and librarian, she is certified as an Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator, and is the founder of Library of Care, a holistic education + resource hub for creative healing, and thriving in the burnout age.
Register through Craft Your Commerce’s website HERE.
Whole Creative Living: A 2-Part Workshop for Artists Moving Beyond Burnout (VIRTUAL) with In the Studio Online
Whole Creative Living: A 2-Part Workshop for Artists Moving Beyond Burnout (VIRTUAL)
(Virtual) with In the Studio Online
February 11 & 18, 2025
Part 1: Tuesday, February 11
Part 2: Tuesday, February 18
Time: 1 -3pm EST
Location: Online via Zoom (this is a live class with active engagement and due to its participatory nature, will not be recorded).
Price: $95 (includes parts 1 & 2)
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
What is this Class About?
Our lives may have been built for burnout, but you were born to create!
Move yourself beyond the feeling of powerlessness that burnout creates by learning the knowledge and tools of real self-care, the stress response cycle, and how repairing your relationship with yourself can heal your relationship with your creativity, in this two-part workshop for curious artists seeking personal growth and support in a community of care.
Welcome In the Studio Online Workshop Week 2025 Participants!
This workshop is a part of In the Studio Online Workshop Week 2025. Follow their Instagram for information about other online classes taught by skilled craft artists during the week of February 6-16.
Note: Workshop Week 2025 is open to anyone with the curiosity to learn! Registration is through each individual teaching artist.
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Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely. Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals. How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this workshop for the chronically stressed, anxious, and burned out among us, we explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
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Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life.
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives, because we are interconnected whole beings!).
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity.
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout.
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress.
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community to find support and healing.
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“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli Marshal
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change.”
–Taylor Rose Ellsworth
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Required: notebook and pen. Ability to print worksheets, handouts, readings from the instructor and/or view them on a digital device.
Optional: Purchase Burnout or The Burnout Workbook by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski from my Bookshop.
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By 5 p.m. EST two weeks prior to start date:
Registrants may request a refund (less a $25 processing fee) or a transfer credit* for a future workshop (additional fees may apply).After 5 p.m. EST two weeks prior to start date:
Registrants may request a refund (less a $50 processing fee) or a transfer credit* for a future workshop (additional fees may apply).After 9 a.m. one day prior to start date and thereafter:
No refunds or transfers are available.*All notifications and requests must be made in writing and sent to faye@jfayedavanza.com. Transfers to alternate workshops are subject to availability, exclude early bird pricing, and must be redeemed within one calendar year. Only one transfer is permitted; no refunds will be granted after a transfer is approved.
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In my classes, I define an artist as anyone who regularly pursues a creative practice or wants to pursue daily habits that will help them develop their own creative practice.
My students are both hobbyists and professional artists who seek the understanding, mutual support, and care of a creative community committed to learning and growth.
Creativity Mixer: Self-Nourishment at Story Parlor
Creativity Mixer: Self-Nourishment at Story Parlor
Suggested donation: $15-20 (accepted at the door via cash, check, or Venmo).
Register for Creativity Mixer: Self Nourishment through Story Parlor’s website. Please RSVP so we can anticipate seating and materials!
Event Description:
THIS MONTH’S TOPIC: Self-Nourishment
We’ll explore emotional needs, tapping into our intuition, and sharing ways we can nourish our creative spirits through lean times.
This month’s Inward & Artward facilitator: Faye D’Avanza
Held on Third Sundays, join us for our monthly “Creativity Mixers,” where we come together to explore, create, and support one another’s creative growth in a welcoming space. Each month, a certified Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator leads a bite-sized, yet brimful workshop focused on universal aspects of the creative process—such as working through common blocks or idea generation—followed by a lively salon where participants have the option to share a work-in-progress in any artistic medium.
The agenda:
5:30-5:40 | A short “settling in” task
5:40-6:20 | Workshop
6:20-6:25 | Break
6:25-7:30 | Creativity Salon*
*For the second half of each Mixer, we'll open the floor up for a "Creativity Salon" where folks will be given the chance to share 5 minutes of a piece or idea they're currently working on/through. There will be a sign-up sheet at the door as your arrive; we will get through as many shares as time allows.
What to bring:
Notebook/pen or pencil
An open mind!
A creative work-in-progress (in any artistic medium) if you feel so inclined
Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout: A 6-Week Workshop at Story Parlor
Thursdays, January 30-March 6 from 6:15 to 8:30pm at Story Parlor in West Asheville.
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
Price: $340
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience.
Register for Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout through Story Parlor’s website.
Workshop Description:
Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely.
Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals.
How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives because they are all connected)
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community in which to rest, digest, play, and create
Testimonials
“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli M.
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change. I want Faye to lead this workshop for the doctors I work with who struggle with burnout!”
–Taylor Rose E.
About the Instructor
Learn more about me, J. Faye D’Avanza, on my Meet Faye page.
Whole Creative Living: A 2-Part Workshop for Artists Moving Beyond Burnout (VIRTUAL) with In the Studio Online
Whole Creative Living: A 2-Part Workshop for Artists Moving Beyond Burnout (VIRTUAL)
with In the Studio Online
February 11 & 18, 2025
Part 1: Tuesday, February 11
Part 2: Tuesday, February 18
Time: 1 -3pm EST
Location: Online via Zoom (this is a live class with active engagement and due to its participatory nature, will not be recorded).
Price: $95 (includes parts 1 & 2)
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
What is this Class About?
Our lives may have been built for burnout, but you were born to create!
Move yourself beyond the feeling of powerlessness that burnout creates by learning the knowledge and tools of real self-care, the stress response cycle, and how repairing your relationship with yourself can heal your relationship with your creativity, in this two-part workshop for curious artists seeking personal growth and support in a community of care.
Welcome In the Studio Online Workshop Week 2025 Participants!
This workshop is a part of In the Studio Online Workshop Week 2025. Follow their Instagram for information about other online classes taught by skilled craft artists during the week of February 6-16.
Note: Workshop Week 2025 is open to anyone with the curiosity to learn! Registration is through each individual teaching artist.
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Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely. Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals. How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this workshop for the chronically stressed, anxious, and burned out among us, we explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
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Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life.
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives, because we are interconnected whole beings!).
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity.
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout.
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress.
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community to find support and healing.
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“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli Marshal
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change.”
–Taylor Rose Ellsworth
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Required: notebook and pen. Ability to print worksheets, handouts, readings from the instructor and/or view them on a digital device.
Optional: Purchase Burnout or The Burnout Workbook by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski from my Bookshop.
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By 5 p.m. EST two weeks prior to start date:
Registrants may request a refund (less a $25 processing fee) or a transfer credit* for a future workshop (additional fees may apply).After 5 p.m. EST two weeks prior to start date:
Registrants may request a refund (less a $50 processing fee) or a transfer credit* for a future workshop (additional fees may apply).After 9 a.m. one day prior to start date and thereafter:
No refunds or transfers are available.*All notifications and requests must be made in writing and sent to faye@jfayedavanza.com. Transfers to alternate workshops are subject to availability, exclude early bird pricing, and must be redeemed within one calendar year. Only one transfer is permitted; no refunds will be granted after a transfer is approved.
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In my classes, I define an artist as anyone who regularly pursues a creative practice or wants to pursue daily habits that will help them develop their own creative practice.
My students are both hobbyists and professional artists who seek the understanding, mutual support, and care of a creative community committed to learning and growth.
Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout: A 6-Week Workshop at Story Parlor
Thursdays, January 30-March 6 from 6:15 to 8:30pm at Story Parlor in West Asheville.
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
Price: $340
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience.
Register for Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout through Story Parlor’s website.
Workshop Description:
Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely.
Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals.
How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives because they are all connected)
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community in which to rest, digest, play, and create
Testimonials
“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli M.
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change. I want Faye to lead this workshop for the doctors I work with who struggle with burnout!”
–Taylor Rose E.
About the Instructor
Learn more about me, J. Faye D’Avanza, on my Meet Faye page.
Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout: A 6-Week Workshop at Story Parlor
Thursdays, January 30-March 6 from 6:15 to 8:30pm at Story Parlor in West Asheville.
“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.”
Price: $340
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience.
Register for Whole Creative Living Beyond Burnout through Story Parlor’s website.
Workshop Description:
Do you ever feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely.
Burnout happens when we get stuck in the stress cycle, and no longer have the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did. Without the gentle rhythm from our internal creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world—our vitality begins to fade, we become less heart and more head. We may no longer recognize ourselves, grasping for self-care quick fixes to lives lived without user guides or repair manuals.
How then, we ask, does one begin to mend the harmful effects of living in modern time?
In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the energetic cycles of rest, digest, play, and create that are vital to your well-being as an artist living in the 21st-century. Through creative questions, journaling, reading, group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, and as a group we will nourish each other to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and begin to move through our cycles with less stress and more peace.
This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, and many more. In time, and with the support of others, you will once again embody the values most important to you as you begin to be well, create, and thrive on the path of your whole creative life.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone looking to embark (or re-embark) on the path of living a more balanced, sustainable, and joyful whole creative life
Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative lives (or other parts of their lives because they are all connected)
Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity
Anyone wishing to repair their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout
Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress
Anyone interested in taking part in a creative community in which to rest, digest, play, and create
Testimonials
“Faye’s workshop is thoughtful, well researched, and full of creative tools for combating creative burnout. One of the most profound experiences was sharing my relationship to stress, anxiety, and burnout with another participant, and also hearing about their relationship to the same. It was extremely vulnerable and also relieving to know I’m not alone, not the only weirdo struggling to find space and energy for my creative practice.”
–Alli M.
“Faye's workshop is grounded in her personal experience and deep research. She is meticulously planned and is thoughtful, humble, and hopeful in her facilitation. Working with Faye feels like intentional movement in my own journey out of burnout and into rejuvenated creativity!”
–Katherine S.
“Faye leads by example in her offering, sharing lessons from her own lived experience with burnout which immediately creates a feeling of trust. She dives into self discovery in a way that is both freeing and disarming. Through a series of prompts, dyad activities, and so much more Faye encourages participants to get curious about their own coping strategies with stress and anxiety and to question what’s working and what isn’t. She leaves you with concrete, tangible tools, a refreshed sense of inner wisdom that we can break free from harmful habits and ways of being when we better understand ourselves and the ways we crave change. I want Faye to lead this workshop for the doctors I work with who struggle with burnout!”
–Taylor Rose E.
About the Instructor
Learn more about me, J. Faye D’Avanza, on my Meet Faye page.
West Asheville Yoga Winter Book Club: Poetry + Potluck
Join me and West Asheville Yoga for our winter book club gathering, as we explore the book Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman.
Lunch & Learn with Mountain BizWorks & Craft Your Commerce
Rest, Digest, & Create Your Way Forward in 2025
Lunch and Learn | Lunch Included
Friday, December 20
12:00pm -1:30pm ET
IN PERSON | Center for Craft
Register
As you begin to reflect on the year 2024, do you feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? In the wake of Hurricane Helene, how do we find the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did? Join J. Faye D’Avanza of Library of Care to explore the impacts of chronic stress on our creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world.
West Asheville Yoga Fall Book Club
Book: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
Join West Asheville Yoga Book Club for the fall season on Sunday, October 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Cooperative Coffee Roasters. Registration is required. We invite you to join even if you are still reading or listening to the book.
West Asheville Yoga Summer Book Club
Book: Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay.
Join West Asheville Yoga Book Club for the summer season on July 21 at 11:30 a.m. You can join either in person or virtually. Registration is required and participants must have acquired the book by July 15.
How Authors Make Friends with Bookstores & Libraries — A Creative Engagement Talk
Bookstores and libraries are a writer’s best friend. But when a writer grows to become a published author, the relationship balance can change from fun-loving customer to awkward sales rep. And this makes sense because writers are taught to write books, not how to sell books. Fortunately, for readers, many authors are eager to learn how to meaningfully connect with bookstores and libraries to promote their book, expand their author brand, and contribute to the growth of more engaged communities.
West Asheville Yoga Spring Book Club
Book: Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, Expand the Future by Yung Pueblo
Join the inaugural seasonal West Asheville Yoga book club meeting on April 21 at 11:30am. You can join either in person or virtually. Registration is required and participants must have acquired the book by April 18.
Light snacks and tea will be provided. BYOMug.
