THE CALLING

As an artist, I know how creative projects can challenge us to our core.

I began writing music when I was 16 and began performing as a singer/songwriter at 21. I knew I had a calling but, the truth was, I suffered so much before, during and after most shows.

Here was a common cycle that I lived through for years:

Before a show: Am I good enough? I'm too good for this crowd! I should be famous already!

During a show: They hate me. They're not paying close enough attention. They don't get me.

After a show: I hit a bad note at the show. Everybody noticed. I'm too ashamed to leave my bed.

This couldn't have been fun for my audiences, huh?? Or me!!

There were years when I didn't write music because I thought I wasn't original enough.
I though every song I wrote was my last and that I would never write again.
I thought my music was only good because the band I played with was so good.
I didn't know enough yet I was also scared to learn.
I felt ashamed.

My sense of worth was tied up with my musical abilities. I suffered greatly.

In my mid-30's - yes, after years of this - I decided to take a hiatus and not play again until playing was FUN.

I took about two years off from writing and playing music and I dove into the core issues that were holding me back. I began to approach music from a new place:
Why am I here?
Why do I have a knack from writing music?
What is my relationship with my audience?
What is my work in the world?

I came out of that journey a changed person with a new understand of my role as an artist and how my calling - and each of ours - is to serve others. I began to play concerts again, now with a new understanding of how to serve my audience. I committed to releasing a new song and music video monthly and continued that for over four years. I released a number of albums.

However, while I was working prolifically, I noticed so many other creative people around me continuing to suffer with their own doubts:

Am I good enough
Am I talented enough
Do I deserve to do this?

Does anybody care what I have to say?
What if I find out I'm no good at this?
What if people don't like what I make?
What if I mess up publically?

That's when I realized that I held the medicine for people who wanted to move from fear to creating. I built The Calling, a course designed to give creative people the tools necessary to get through creative projects with as much ease as possible.

WHAT DO YOU LEARN IN THE CALLING?

• How to immediately start creating consistently
• How to work imperfectly (surprisingly, imperfection is your secret power when it comes to art!)
• Inner Critics: How to spot and deal with them
• How to maximize your innate body intelligence in your creative process
• The best pacing for you that gives you the best returns
• Expansiveness and contraction: When to go big and when to go small
• What to do when things fall apart (and they will!)
• The three steps of the Creativity Loop: Channeling, Resting, and Editing
• How and when to edit your work

SPECIFICS:

• We meet twelve times weekly over Zoom. Each meeting lasts one hour.
• Every week I give over a powerful teaching about the creative process. The course builds week by week to give you tools for creating art and for living as a creative person in the world.
• We will set a personalized goal for you for where you want to be at the end of the course and we will meet it.

WHO IS IT FOR?

I have worked with both hobbyists and professionals in many areas of creative expression, from music to writing to visual arts and more. Here are a sample of projects I've coached people through:

• Writing and publishing a memoir
• Writing and releasing a batch of songs
• Releasing a first musical album
• Creating art to hang in a gallery show
• Releasing a chap book (a book of poetry)
• Home-based projects, such as metal- and woodwork, house painting and gardening
• Writing for work
• Fiction writing
• A dance piece
  

Questions? Email me at julie@juliegeller.com