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The Create & Captivate Retreat in Taos – Early-Bird Offer
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The Create & Captivate Retreat in Taos – Early-Bird Offer

ByJeffrey Davis

IT HAPPENS EVERY MARCH.  A select group of creatives and creative professionals gathers in Taos, New Mexico, each committed to creative work that matters. Writers, artists, therapists, teachers, entrepreneurs, consultants, doctors, and others. They have books and stories to write, designs to shape and explore, a spiritual journey to create into, a midlife launch to…

Is it too late to master your midlife launch?
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Is it too late to master your midlife launch?

ByJeffrey Davis

When it comes to starting a new creative-based career, there are two stories at work in our culture. We like to hear one of them but not the other. One: It’s never too late – even when in your forties, fifties, sixties, or seventies – to launch a new start-up, shift careers, or become a…

A New Take on Callings & A Life Delectable (with a Challenge to Yoga “Purists”)
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A New Take on Callings & A Life Delectable (with a Challenge to Yoga “Purists”)

ByJeffrey Davis

There’s a story I want to tell about purpose and calling that’s different from what we assume is true. We assume that people with callings “receive” them in certain ways. #1: As a young person, you know your singular desire and you follow it with fervor. #2: When you’re an adult, a burning bush or…

John Cage, Zen, & What it Takes to Publish a Book That Matters
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John Cage, Zen, & What it Takes to Publish a Book That Matters

ByJeffrey Davis

1. Several publishing stories laud authors who buck industry conventions and – through fluke, pluck, and luck – become the next best-selling sensation. But I want to tell a different publishing story, one that in its convention might be unconventional. I want to tell this story because many of you have books in you that…

When Marketing Kills Creativity
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When Marketing Kills Creativity

ByJeffrey Davis

But in the wrong doses and with the wrong timing, marketing can kill creativity, thwart innovation, and stall personal and professional growth.

To treat website development as catalyst for creativity is legit, but doing so requires authentic strategy, and it demands putting marketing in its proper place.

Fling the Beast: Yoga and Creativity Training
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Fling the Beast: Yoga and Creativity Training

ByJeffrey Davis

To sit in the mystery of your best self’s offering is delicious and unnerving. You see the vision of who you are becoming and of what you can give. But when the mouth of possibility awes open, you also feel, well, terror creep its little hairy fingers right up the back of your neck.

One way to fling that hairy beast off your back altogether is to lift off. Take gut action toward what you know rings right for your best self. Trust. Let uncertainty exhilarate you toward the great blue yonder of your heart’s desire.

A Training To Train Your Best Self to Show Up for Your Muse & Your Tribes
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A Training To Train Your Best Self to Show Up for Your Muse & Your Tribes

ByJeffrey Davis

I want to tell you about a training. It’s a training to train your best self to do your greatest creative work in the world. And it’s a training that opens the way for you to do likewise for your clients, your students, your teams, your tribes. You and I know the challenges of living…

The Right Stuff of Great Teachers & Facilitators – A Round Up from You
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The Right Stuff of Great Teachers & Facilitators – A Round Up from You

ByJeffrey Davis

I recently posed the question, “What makes for a great facilitator?” I offered my reflection on 3 qualities of great teachers, namely versatility, confidence, and authenticity – and especially a “no guru” status. And then you sent me yours. Here’s a round up of keen insights from some of you – each of you amazing teachers,…

Motivate Your Team to Thrive – Without Compromising Your Brand
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Motivate Your Team to Thrive – Without Compromising Your Brand

ByJeffrey Davis

When you invest your heart and ingenuity into developing your brand – even if you come into developing your brand sort of through the creative back door as I have – you feel you have a lot at stake when you hire someone or train someone to carry out that brand. How do you let that brand grow with a little love, trust, and wonder instead of so much fear?