This workshop will take place online. More events in the Divergent Design Series.

Many of us who are neurodivergent have creative aspirations that are difficult to realize because our need for accommodations and support are so often misunderstood, shamed, and unanswered. We struggle with some basic tasks—such as just getting started, maintaining momentum, and not abandoning our creative projects. We also struggle with mess and caring for our spaces and our supplies.

There are a million hacks out there that promise to offer the silver bullet for all our creative problems, and this workshop is … Not That. There really are no magic solutions to our struggles, but Mise en Place—a concept borrowed from the culinary world—is both a holistic practice and a quick strategy that can be helpful if we take it to heart and keep coming back to it. It is a practice of patience, pleasure, and performance that might make some of the frustrations with your creative lives feel a little easier.

CW: shame

About the Divergent Design workshop series:

These workshops will be useful to you as standalone workshops; you can go to any one without having gone to the others, and it should make sense and be helpful. However, if you can come to all four, you will see how they build and loop back on each other in interconnected and transformative ways. Please bring something to record/write with during the session, as well as something to doodle or draw with. If there is interest, we will hold an additional peer support session on 8th July to consider how we might continue to share experiences and support each other.

About the facilitator:

I’m Marta Rose, a neurodivergent creator living in Philadelphia PA. I have a neurodivergent partner, as well as two grown neurodivergent kids. I started making content for neurodivergent creatives on Instagram as divergent_design_studios and on YouTube as The Spiral Lab, which is also the name of my substack newsletter. I’m still publishing the newsletter semi-regularly, but most of my creative energy these days is spent making art, writing a novel, doing interior design, and facilitating a wonderful online community called DDS (Divergent Design Studios), hosted on the Mighty Networks platform. We offer body-doubling sessions, lots of peer support, and creative workshops and maker space sessions on various topics, from cooking to doodling to authentic movement practice.

Learn more about Divergent Design Studios

Access information for this event:

This event is for ages 16+ and will be held online. You will need a good internet connection and a laptop/computer/mobile device to join us.

There will be 100 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: Talk / Lecture, Writing, Visual presentation, possibly group discussion/breakout rooms depending on size

If you have any questions or access requirements, please get in touch with us via [email protected].

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All events will adhere to our safer spaces policy, which you can learn about here.

How to access the event:

After booking a ticket, you will be sent several reminder emails from Eventbrite leading up to the event. We will also send emails that share any resources that attendees will need access to, including any required materials.

Access links will be sent to attendees in advance of the event. For any technical problems, please email [email protected]

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