A Creative Learning Community to Help Your Creativity Thrive
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This school exists for anyone on the creative journey who wants to:
Develop their Creative Process
Build their Creative Practice
Establish their Creative Business
Live out their Creative Vocation
Process
Practice
Business
Vocation
Instant Access to THREE
Online Modules
(+ a podcast module)
(valued at over $1500).
Weekly Creativity Prompt
4x Learning Module Workbooks
Monthly Zoom Gatherings
A Community of Creatives
Learning Co-hort
20min one-on-one Zoom with Joel for Creative Project Clarity
Over 50 hours of video/audio content
After thirteen years of my own full-time Creative Practice, there is nothing else I love more than journeying alongside others as they develop their own creative practice. Whether you are just beginning to dabble, whether your creative expression is just a little hobby or whether you are seeking to more fully establish a creative career...I don't really mind. This is for you. Wherever you are at and whatever your creative expression is. I come at it from a writing angle but nearly all of the learning will easily transpose into your own expression. I have had the privilege of teaching the creative process to over fifty thousand people over the last decade (it has been a rather large decade). And I would love to share what I have learnt with you too.
This School for Creative Development is not just about giving you information,
it is about supporting you in implementing change in your creative practice.
It is a community serving and supporting one another to make progress,
from where you are now in your creative practice to where you want to be.
How It Works
By becoming a member of The School of Creative Development you get access to a whole lot of learning focussed on helping you develop your practice. The primary way this works is that, across a 24 month period, as a learning cohort, we will explore these FOUR LEARNING MODULES designed by Joel Mckerrow.
A Clearing in the Forest (Creative Process Module)
The Art of Crafting Story (Story Writing Module)
Creative Vocation (Creative Business and Creative Practice Module)
The Creative Journey (The Deep Place podcast Season Three Module)
You will have FULL ACCESS to these online courses on the RUZUKU learning platform which you can explore at your own pace, whenever you start your subscription.
Each quarter we will then focus in on one course together, forming a communal learning experience. In my two decades of teaching I can hands down say that communal learning provides a superior learning environment. When you start your subscription, you can choose to join the existing community or wait for a new learning module to commence.
The fourth course (The Creative Journey) has been developed as the third season of THE DEEP PLACE PODCAST (Dropping AUGUST 2022). This is also the first course in our schedule of what we shall be working through together.
How will we work together?
- Begin with a 20minute Creative Project Clairty call with Joel McKerrow.
Online, closed creative community where you can chat to each other and get feedback from the community on your work.
-Weekly prompts sent out through the community forum.
-Monthly Zoom Gatherings hosted by Joel with specific, course related focus and time to talk through your own Creative projects and struggles.
- Four Learning Module work books with activities and reflections you can take at your own pace
Subscriptions are ongoing, although you can cancel any time. It will take two years to complete all four modules if you do it in pace with the learning community. But as you know the creative journey never ends, and these courses are designed to be repeated, each time drawing new insight.
Learning Modules
(Click for more info about each)
The creative Journey
The Deep Place Season Three
Season Three of the Deep Place Podcast has been designed not only as a podcast, but as a learning module for The School of Creative Development. In this module we look at the different phases of the creative journey and what we can learn from each. The Podcast season airs from Aug 2022.
Co-Hort Learning Schedule
You can absolutely choose to go through any of the learning modules at any time you desire. However, as a learning co-hort (and to get the most out of THE SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT), there is a schedule of what we shall be doing together. The community support of being part of this school will definitely come through taking part in this scheduled approach as this will be the focus of the fortnightly zoom sessions, the workbooks and the community forum for uploading your own creative projects. This is our communal dive into how we might practically embody the teachings from the four learning modules into our actual practice.
2022/3
Key Learning Cohort Dates
2024
