The Creative Compass Journey

Stories are like ideas with superpowers. They have the ability to heal, connect, transform and inspire. 

This comprehensive program is designed to help you own your creative voice and find your unique path. It will ground you in a solid understanding of your life stories and insights gained from lived experience, as well as your knowledge and expertise, to find stories and ideas you can use in your personal or professional work.

It's for you if:

• You want to express yourself, and feel you have stories to tell.
• You want to hone your skills, develop your craft and communicate more effectively.
• You want to write, yet do not seem to take the time to do it.
• You want to look at your work from a fresh perspective
• You want to create more powerful learning opportunities for others. 
• You'd thrive in a supportive community of peers.

It's for you even if: 

• You're unsure if you are a writer, but you feel called to try.
• You have lots of ideas, but don’t know where to start.
• You're already writing, but feel stuck.
• You could use a creative boost.
• You're tired of trying to figure it out on your own.
• You know sharing information is valuable, but stories are the key to opening the heart.
• You know you would thrive with more structure and more support.

The Creative Compass is a proven process that offers a door into your creativity and greater well-being. Your entry point for this unique journey is your sense of place.

Your sense of place can be found anywhere. It can be your kitchen or the wilderness. It can be found in a memory or the present moment. What is so surprisingly true is that starting with places will lead you to your stories. Finding your sense of place, which can be found anywhere, is a gateway into your creativity. 

When you include your sense of place, your writing becomes grounded in details, relevance, and meaning.

Through discovering symbols and metaphors in your surroundings, you find the key to the creative mind. In turn, this elevates your writing, creativity, and your sense of self. You start to apply these skills to craft stories from memories, experiences and ideas with a new sense of polish, purpose and direction.

Together we uncover the answers to these questions: 

What are your stories now? 

What is the best way to tell them?

How do they fit together?

Together we hone and polish your skills through: 

A powerful sequence of meaningful prompts and explorations.

The support and feedback from a nourishing community of peers and 1-to-1 mentorship with Erica.

A process for setting your own goals and intentions.

The Creative Compass journey blends my expertise in creativity, sense of place and story-crafting to help you find, hone and share your stories.

This in-depth knowledge comes from decades of experience as a touring artist, creating CD's of songs rooted in a sense of place, and performing across the country. I have developed workshops to help others find their sense-of-place stories, providing my Sense of Place and the Art of Interpretation professional development training for the staff of national parks, historic sites, museums, and more.

I know how hard it can be to find just the right words and tone to convey what you want to say, but also how amazing it feels when you do. And how rewarding it is to know that others fully grasp what you are trying to communicate.

My work combines my wisdom and experience to guide you towards your path for expressing what you most want to say. 

Everything I've ever created, from my songs or other writings to professional development training has come from this process: awareness, reflection, integration, and expression.

This three-month journey gives you time and the support to dive in deep. It gives you time to follow this progression, and gain the most from your experience. It gives you a framework to allow your deeper stories to emerge.