Overcoming Imposter Syndrome for Creatives
A 6-week live online course beginning
Thursday 12th September 2024
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome for Creatives
Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Take Your Creativity Out into the World
A 6-week live online course with Jacqueline Harris MScR
for creatives and freelancers
Thursdays 7:30pm - 9:00pm starting 12th September 2024
For creatives/freelancers who want to stop holding themselves back and put themselves and their work out there.
It’s time!
If you want to put your work out into the world with more confidence and excitement, and less fear and anxiety, this course could make all the difference.
Do any of these stop you?:
I don’t have enough confidence
I’m not good enough
I don’t have what it takes
I’m scared I won’t be able to deliver
I’m worried about what people will think of me/my work?
I might not be talented enough
My creativity might desert me just when I need it?
I’m too old to start
“The Cinderella Experiment workshop was such a joy to attend. Jacqueline skillfully guided us through a journey of story and self reflection. Looking at ways to change the stories that may be holding us back, we were given both the clarity and the magic to open up new possibilities, new thoughts and a strong sense of love for life in all its wonderful complexity.”
- Anne Whitehead
“I would like to thank you once again for the wonderful experience and for being such a warm and helpful guiding light for us all. I enjoyed your friendly approach, the openness of all the participants, and the wonderful feeling of the penny dropping”
- Cristina Ticoi
Through folktales and personal story, this intensive course will help you open the door to a whole new way of overcoming imposter syndrome.
You’ve probably heard something like this before, and maybe recognise some truth in it, but still have no real idea how to make it happen:
“Change your story, change your life.”
You’ve tried to change your mindset, you’ve tried affirmations, but your life still looks the same, you still self sabotage and you still feel frustrated that you can’t just - get out of your own way.
What if there’s something you can only be see by looking in the opposite direction, and noticing something about how the mind works with the stories we tell ourselves that could change everything?
The human mind is wired to navigate the world through stories, but trying to replace old stories with new ones is extremely difficult without first noticing something fundamental about the relationship between story and our personal experience of reality. Only then can things can start to change with more ease and grace.
This is what this course has to offer: A whole new way of relating to our stories about who we are, and who we are not.
You’ll begin to:
Find your natural confidence
See how the stories we tell about our creativity affect how and when it shows up.
No longer worry about what people think, because it no longer makes any sense, at a level where it changes how you show up.
Take creative risks without feeling paralysed by the fear of failure.
Be able to share yourself and your creative work with the world.
Become happier in your own skin
Joseph Campbell said,
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”
When Joseph Campbell said this he didn’t mean ‘just have fun and to hell with everything else’, he was talking about those dreams and interests that you’ve always noticed were somehow yours, and to find ways of honouring them.
This course throws a light on how we can make this possible, and where it can lead us.
“If you are prepared to step out of your comfort zone and be curious, this workshop might change your life.”
- Wendy Davidson
“Really inspiring with lots of wooooaaaaah moments! Thank you.”
- Kirstie Gorman
Imagine having a new sense of clarity, more peace of mind and the ability to come back to centre far more quickly.
This isn’t about taking anything on trust; it’s about starting to notice for yourself what ‘creating our own reality’ actually means.
My work is informed by over twenty five years of working experientially with story and creativity, post-graduate research into how and why we tell stories, and a psychological/spiritual understanding sometimes known as the Inside Out understanding that I found reflected in some of the latest research into the role that story plays in our lives.
“Thank you for helping us to see things differently, long may the journey continue!”
— Amanda
What We’ll Be Doing
We’ll hold our stories about creativity up to the light to see what sticks and what crumbles when we view them through this new lens.
2. Play hide and seek with our creativity and get curious.
3. Control and surrender: Work with what we can control (which is often not what we think) and notice what opens up when we let go of the rest.
4. Look closely at inspiration and what happens when we flip tactics.
5. Putting yourself and your work out there: Looking fear of failure in the face.
6. What does the magic in folktales have to do with the magic in you? (We’ll be talking to “Cinderella” and others!)
Reflect on what we’ve seen and experienced, and have time for everyone to connect what they’ve seen for themselves to their own work.
“My reactions to my thoughts are different now, so my ongoing thoughts are therefore different. I’ve found this very useful, no longer adding negatively to my thoughts.”
— Carole Wilkinson
Who am I to teach this?
As a Creative
I have over twenty five years experience as a freelance storyteller, writer, creative learning consultant, and theatre maker/performer, collaborating with fine artists, film makers and musicians.
As a Creativity/Creative Learning Specialist
Working across the cultural and education sectors as a creative learning consultant: training, delivering and facilitating creative approaches to motivation and engagement, and fostering creativity and creative learning in galleries, museums, schools and universities.
Academic research:
In 2019 I finished a Research Masters at The University of Edinburgh, exploring how and why we tell stories, and how this relates to our creativity.
Other Postgraduate research includes looking into the relationship between creativity, arts and practice.
My Own Journey
I’ve had my own journey to make with creative identity, lack of self-belief, and seeing criticism everywhere I went, including being late diagnosed with ADHD.
Years ago I ran away from a brilliant week-long writing retreat. Why? Because I’d made it matter so much it felt terrifying….
Even after many years travelling along a road of devising, writing and performing regularly, I still questioned who I was to be doing this, procrastinated, self-sabotaged and panicked frequently, to such an extent that I often wondered if I should just give it all up.
It was about ten years ago that I first began to notice something: a completely different way of understanding what was going on. This came about through two major influences. The research that I undertook at the University of Edinburgh into how and why we tell stories from an anthropological and neuro-scientific perspective pointed to the way we perceive the world through the lens of the stories we tell about it. At the same time I had come across a psycho-spiritual way of looking at the part our thinking plays in how we experience the world, often called ‘The Inside-Out Understanding’. In many ways these two perspectives reflected each other, coming to many of the same conclusions. One arrived there through intellectual thought and enquiry, the other through felt, embodied experience.