The
Artist’s Way Companion
1:1 Sessions and Artmaking for Creative Transformation
The Artist’s Way offers a tried-and-true path to living a more creative and inspired life.
I can be your companion along the way.
It’s powerful to have space where you can share, witness, be witnessed, and move through the parts of the book together.
My approach blends discussion with creative practices, and my background in intuitive painting, teaching, and creative facilitation helps you move beyond the cerebral part of the book and into the embodied, playful, experimental side of creativity. That’s where the real shifts tend to happen.
Offerings
The Open Road
(4 Sessions)
Work mostly on your own, checking in at key milestones for reflection, support, and creative grounding.
This is for you if you're self-directed and motivated, and what you need isn't constant check-ins but a reliable place to land at key moments in the journey
A Supported Path
(7 Sessions)
Regular touch points throughout the process, with room to synthesize, share, and go deeper.
This is for you if value your independence but also know that having someone to process with at regular intervals keeps you honest, curious, and engaged with the work.
Walking Alongside
(13 Sessions)
Consistent, steady support woven through every stage of the journey.
This is for you if you know yourself well enough to know that an accountability partner at every step makes all the difference. Nothing gets skipped over, rushed, or left unprocessed.
“I've been working with Jo as my art coach for the past six months, and the experience has been truly transformative!
Together, we have worked one-on-one through "The Artist's Way". Jo's support allowed me to deeply engage with the readings and remain present and focused on integrating this practice in with my daily life and demands. Through our work together, I've rebuilt a daily art practice and regained confidence in my creative voice.”
-Joelle Hess
Here’s What Happens
The Artist’s Way offers a tried-and-true path to living a more creative and inspired life, and it just might change your life completely. The book is structured like a self-led 12-step recovery program. Each week you read a chapter, reflect, and do some exercises to get you unstuck. You can read or listen, but the physical book matters. You’ll want to underline things and scribble in the margins. And you’ll want to talk about what you’re discovering. The ideas are rich and personal, and they’re not always easy to sit with on your own.
That’s one reason I always recommend reading it in community. It’s powerful to have space where you can share, witness, be witnessed, and move through the parts together.
My approach blends discussion with creative practices, and my background in intuitive painting, teaching, and creative facilitation helps you move beyond the cerebral part of the book and into the embodied, playful, experimental side of creativity. That’s where the real shifts tend to happen.
When committed to the process, The Artist’s Way can be a powerful tool to bring you more in touch with your Highest Self. This program offers you support and accountability while moving through the book. It is designed for those who want to stay engaged with the process, deepen their understanding of its themes, and integrate the work through discussion and embodied creative practices rather than words alone.
Focus
Structure
Each chapter is presented as a week’s worth of reading and exercises. Some people time things directly as the book intended, while others prefer to stretch the work of a chapter into two weeks.
The pace is up to you, and the frequency of our sessions is too. We first meet for a grounding and intention setting session, and then periodically thereafter to discuss the reading, insights, progress, and challenges, and to process things somatically.
Our hour-long sessions together are divided like this:
Reading and Insights discussion (about 30 min)
Breathing and grounding in Presence (around 5 min)
Creative Practice (20 min - more or less)
Closing (around 5 min)
To truly commune with our Creativity, we must get into the body and out of our intellectual centers. These practices are tactile ways to invest in your forward momentum.
The art-making practices help you find Flow and release perfectionism. No prior art experience is needed and all skill levels are perfect.
Examples include:
The Creative Practices
❋ Ugly ArtMaking “throw-away” art as a practice in releasing perfectionism, and a way to process emotion, insight, and change.
Creating touchstones that help you visually articulate paths forward.
❋ Vision BoardsSomatic practices to augment the Morning Pages including dance, drawing, and painting.
❋ Morning Embodiment Self-designed, actionable tools for resilience, clarity, and alignment.
❋ Divine Connection Cards
What You Walk Away With
A steady, supportive rhythm for moving through The Artist’s Way without rushing through or dropping off.
Greater awareness of how fear, perfectionism, and inner critic patterns show up in our creative practice and in our lives, plus tools for meeting these challenges with curiosity rather than resistance.
A felt understanding of how insights from the book land in the body, not just the mind.
Experience using art as a way to process emotion, insight, and change, even without a goal of making finished work.
Increased trust in your Creative Intelligence and intuitive impulses.
A deeper sense of Creativity as a grounding, regulating, and supportive practice in daily life.
Clarity around what kinds of creative practices feel nourishing and sustainable for you.
Foundational steps towards an active and sustainable creative life
Session Options
The Open Road
This is for you if you prefer to move through the work mostly on your own, checking in at key milestones for reflection, support, and creative grounding. You're self-directed and motivated, and what you need isn't constant check-ins but a reliable place to land at key moments in the journey.
We meet four times total: once at the start, then at the end of Chapters 4, 8, and 12. Between sessions, brief weekly check-ins by email keep you moving forward.
4 sessions | In-person or virtual | Weekly email check-ins on off weeks
Total: $785
The Supported Path
This is for you if you want more regular touch points throughout the process, with room to synthesize, share, and go deeper every two chapters. You value your independence but also know that having someone to process with at regular intervals keeps you honest, curious, and engaged with the work.
We meet seven times: once at the start, then at the end of every two chapters through to the end. Between sessions, brief weekly email check-ins keep momentum going.
7 sessions | In-person or virtual | Weekly email check-ins on off weeks
Total: $965
Walking Alongside
This is for you if you want consistent, steady support woven through every stage of the journey. Like having a personal trainer at the gym, you know yourself well enough to know that an accountability partner is essential. You want someone in your corner each step of the way, not just at the milestones.
We meet thirteen times: once at the start, then once per chapter all the way through. This rhythm means nothing gets skipped over or rushed. Each week's reading gets its own space for reflection, artmaking, and integration. Over the course of the program, the sessions build on each other in a way that the lighter tiers simply can't replicate. By the end, you won't just have moved through the book. You'll have lived it.
13 sessions | In-person or virtual
Total: $1,685
Location
Sessions held in my studio or online.
In-person clients have full access to the studio space and all its materials. Virtual clients meet from home with whatever creative supplies they have on hand.
Connect with Jo to learn more.
