Calling All Creatives! 📣
What if you had a quiet space to co-work, co-create, co-write? To be together and yet do your own thing? A place to settle in, start with a few minutes of stillness and an hour of creating?
Silent Studio
For three years, I have taken part in Lauren Sapala’s Silent Writing. During a time of creative recovery, Lauren’s community provided a safe place for me to find my writing voice. I showed up, session after session, and grew the muscles of trust with my inner creative, honing a writing schedule for myself. I found permission to take my writing seriously and show up for myself.1
Because it was silent writing, there were no forced interactions or pressure to leave my camera on. The offering was neurodivergent-friendly in the best way, especially for an introvert and highly sensitive person (HSP) like me.
Now, Lauren is retiring the group, and I am taking the leap to continue in a similar vein and offer to others what was healing and enjoyable for me.2 I found joy in showing up, in keeping a writing date with myself, in taking myself out for coffee, and delighting in my creativity.
Let me introduce the Silent Studio
Silent Studio is a virtual place where we can co-work and co-play together, a space for creativity to abound without pressure or demands.
The format is simple. There are three meetings a week, offered at various times. We show up on Zoom and work for one hour on our creative projects. I start each studio session with a brief meditation, but you can show up at any time and stay for as long (or as little) as you like.
Can you give yourself one hour to create?
How it works:
At the beginning of the month, you will receive a Zoom link for each studio session (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
You can show up at any time during the hour, for as long or as little as you like.
Each session will start with a brief meditation as we settle into the space.
You can work on any creative project of your choosing for the hour, silent but together.
In providing a nurturing space for neurodivergence and high sensitivity (HSP), you can turn your camera on or leave it off. Whichever you prefer!
You can attend all the sessions or one session a month, whatever works for your schedule.
The schedule:
Mondays 7:00pm (Eastern) (September 14, 21, 28) There is no studio session on 9/7 due to holiday.
Wednesdays 1:00pm (Eastern) (September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
Fridays 10:00am (Eastern) (September 11, 18, 25). There is no studio session on 9/4.
There will be a make-up session offered on Tuesday 9/8 at 10:00am (Eastern)
About me, your host:
While many of you know me as a writer (perhaps “blogger” if we’re still using that term), I am also a licensed clinical psychologist with 20+ years experience. I have a clinical psychology private practice alongside my writing life.
I am also an active part of Caroline Donahue’s writing community. If you’re looking for coaching and a hands-on group, check her out.
Who this is for:
This offering is open to all creatives! Participation is open to everyone, not just writers. This is welcome to all:
if you want to journal3
if you want to complete morning pages
if you’re working on a manuscript, writing a first draft, outlining, or making edits
if you’re a poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist, journalist, academic
if you want creative time to make collage art
if you want to pull out washi tape, colored pens, stickers, and stamps
if you want to sketch and draw
if you want to paint and watercolor
if you want play time with your inner artist
In case you still have doubts about whether this space is meant for you, read who I created Silent Studio for.
Cost & Sign Up:
The Silent Studio will start September 1st with our first session on Wednesday 9/2/26.
The cost is $49 per month. Click on the link below to sign up. I’d love to have you join!
About the host: Dr. Christine Sparacino
Dr. Christine Sparacino is a licensed clinical psychologist who has spent over 20 years as a therapist and clinician in private practice. Alongside her work in health psychology, she specializes in helping people quiet their inner critic and move past creative blocks. She’s the writer behind A Life Fully Alive, a Substack of 60+ essays exploring mindfulness and embodiment, and brings that same reflective, grounded presence to hosting Silent Studio each week.
I have enjoyed the regularity of these writing times, and don’t want to community or connection with myself to end. Plus these writing times really work for me!
Subscribers to A Life Fully Alive get a free guided journal with daily prompts anchored in the seasons and intentional living. Plus it’s free to subscribe!