Creatives and entrepreneurs

Do these scenarios sound familiar?

  • Cluttered messes: As you zip from one activity to the next, you leave a stream of detritus in your wake.
  • Overwhelm: Your calendar is full, but you have so many ideas you want to pursue!
  • Struggle for balance: You want to work on self care, but urgent stuff always comes along and gets you off track.
  • Running out of energy: You get really jazzed about new ideas but before you can implement them fully, you get distracted by the next exciting thing.

Argh!

You have goals! You have things you want to do!

It’s so frustrating to struggle with overwhelm. When your wheels are spinning without progress, you start to doubt yourself. Sometimes you even feel like giving up.

You crave balance in your life and business. You want balance between striving and resting. Between work and life.

And forcing yourself doesn’t work — for long

Do you browbeat, cajole, and guilt yourself into action?

Self-nagging works in the short run, but it’s depleting. In fact, research shows that forcing yourself to do things by sheer willpower lowers your body’s blood sugar levels. Just imagine what it does your your creative spirit.

When you use force to motivate yourself, it’s like trying to drive a car with no gas in it. You’re running on empty.

How can you change the world on an empty heart?

There are usually two missing ingredients that allow you to fill up you heart and get the momentum you’re craving.

Community

Community holds a space for your dreams to grow. Community helps you feel normal and less isolated. There’s relief. There’s acceptance.

Most of all, a group of people with dreams and goals makes your progress easier. Like flying geese, you draft on one others’ momentum.

Consistency

Consistency is a gentle returning to what’s important to you. It’s a tender practice of choosing to return again and again to what matters.

Too much consistency is boring, but just enough of it holds you and creates flow. Like the solid walls of a canyon keeps the river moving forward, consistency supports the creative heart.

You’re invited!

Experience the support of community and consistency together.

A community for inspired momentum for vibrant, insightful, creative entrepreneurs

In The Creative Haven, you experience…

  • Hope — Be surrounded by people who believe that you can do this
  • Support — Encouragement to clear out the clutter and start creating your important ideas
  • Community — Connect with people who understand your struggles
  • Intention — Bring purpose even your tedious tasks
  • Encouragement — Celebrate the wins in your business — big and small
  • Ideas — Get unstuck and to noodle aloud with supportive allies

The Creative Haven gives you

  • Support for your projects
  • Support for clearing and maintaining your space
  • Inspiration and ideas
  • Lots of helpful goodies

What this month looks like

Office Spa Day
10a-12p Pacific, April 3

Work Party
10a-12p Pacific, April 10

Office Spa Day
10a-12p Pacific, April 17

Work Party
10a-12p Pacific, April 24

File Fling Spa Day
10a-12p Pacific, April 25

Marketing Work Party
10a-12p Pacific, April 29

Top o’ the Month call
9a-10a Pacific, May 1

14 hours of real time support on the projects that matter to you!

The Creative Haven also includes

  • The Wish Kit: My #1 most important ebook for creating a plan for your workspace (value $40)
  • How to Organize Anything: My #2 most important ebook for organizing your workspace and trouble-shooting systems issues (value $41)
  • Support videos, MP3s and worksheets: A library of  resources to keep your workspace clear and your projects moving forward
  • Top o’ the Month call: A monthly live call that helps you creatively plan your priorities and intentions for the coming month (recording available)
  • Open Q&A: A fun, monthly live call where you can ask me anything (recording available)
  • Accountability calls: At least 4 live, peer-led clutter clearing calls and work parties to keep your space clear and your projects moving forward
  • Virtual community: A vibrant, private Facebook group where you can connect with other members to brainstorm ideas, reach out when stuck, and celebrate accomplishments big and small
  • Exclusive pricing: Save on almost all of my ebooks and classes using a special Creative Haven code

New in 2013!

Starting March 2013, the Creative Haven includes a 10-month curriculum that includes ALL the tools you need to get organized.

Creative Haven members are…

  • Women from all over North America and the world (sorry, guys — we still love you)
  • Visionaries with “shiny object syndrome”
  • Seekers: wise, sincere, humorous, knowledgeable
  • People who enjoy learning and appreciate help getting where they’re going

“The Creative haven is like a sisterhood.”

~ A current member

What you can expect from being a Creative Haven member

  • Progress. Feel like you’re getting somewhere. The calls, community and support resources help you reserve time to work on important stuff you’re likely to put off or lose track of — and generate the motivation to complete it.
  • Support. Bring all of you — your organizing struggles, your work projects, your relationship with time, your questions, your dreams. You will be met with compassion, encouragement, and smarts.
  • Fun with a purpose. The community is a breath of fresh air. You get your projects and workspace back on track — and actually enjoy it!
  • Amazing peers. I can’t say enough good things about the vibrant, insightful, creative, wise women who are a part of this group. Their participation benefits everyone else in The Creative Haven community, including me.

I am in the Creative Haven program, and it is BEYOND AWESOME. :) Much productivity happens! Working with Jen has revolutionized my space & the way I work. @AmnaAhmad

Frequently asked questions

Q. What if I can’t attend all the live calls?

A. All the live calls I teach are recorded and posted for download usually within 1 business day for you to listen to and enjoy. But the calls are only one portion of the community. There’s also our private Facebook forum, videos, audios and worksheets you can use to get focused — not available anywhere else.

Q. What times and days are the live calls held?

A. As a rule, they take place during the work day and usually start at 10am Pacific. The most common call time is on Wednesdays at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. The calls that the Peer Leaders do are scheduled at their discretion: mostly weekdays and an occasional Saturday here and there. We’re going for variety so that people all over the world can (and do!) participate.

Q. What if I’m not on Facebook?

A. No worries! Facebook is only one of several ways to connect with me and your Creative Haven buddies. However, if you’re curious about this online component of the community, feel free to join us there!

Q. How do I access the videos and other resources?

A. Once you become a member, you gain access to a private website that includes a Goodies Page. All the resources, recordings, and worksheets can be found there. That’s also where you download your copies of The Wish Kit and How to Organize Anything.

Q. What is the new curriculum about?

A. It includes all the tools and topics that you, as a creative person, need to get organized. It isn’t offered anywhere else (yet) and is available only to Creative Haven members. The topics are released on a monthly basis. We focus on them as a group and I include a Q&A call on the topic of the month. Community is a great way to learn new skills because the concepts stick with you when your peers are assimilating the same information together.

Q. Will I fit in?

A. Creative Haven members do all kinds of interesting work. They are writers, landscape designers, coaches, artists, web designers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Most are between age 25 and 65 — and there are a lot of old souls. You’ll fit right in!

Cost

Value
  Top o’ the Month call $125
  Q&A call $125
  Expert entrepreneurs calls $100
  Peer-led calls $160
  Facebook community $100
  Videos, MP3s and worksheets $750
  Exclusive pricing $200
  Wish Kit $40
  How to Organize Anything $41
NEW! 10-month organizing curriculum! $195
  Total value: $1735
  Actual price
   $68/month

Check your intuition.

Are you ready to put yourself first? Do you want to keep your workspace workable and your projects in flow in the company of fun, wise peers?

Are you ready for inspired momentum?

Sign up today!
$68/month

Your payment will recur monthly on the same date and you may cancel your membership to The Creative Haven at any time.

Click here!

Membership registration in 3 steps:

1. Activate your membership: Select “Return to Inspired Home Office” on the PayPal page after completing the payment process. Your membership will be activated instantly, and you have 24 hours to choose your username and password.

2. Check your email: You’ll also get an email with instructions on how to register your username and password, just in case you missed the instructions after checkout. That email will be sent to your PayPal email address.

3. Login and join us! Once you’ve completed checkout and registered a username and password, you’ll be able to login here: http://inspiredhomeoffice.com/community

Get inspired momentum today!

$68/month

I get two things with this program: (1) forced (in a good way) time to work on my stuff, and (2) time with Jen! Yay! :)

The price is soooo reasonable…and three months is a good commitment without being scary for people. So yes, I’m in! Thanks for including me in your list. :)

*But really, Jen, you couldn’t have figured out a way to include one of your awesome cakes? :P

Lisa Wood, Sprout New Media

So far, I’ve gained acceptance and reassurance about it all (with your compassionate lead and replies) and increasing experience that this process is long-term and ongoing! I kind of knew that, but illusions die hard!!!!

Do it! It’s awesome! I have wanted to tell people, but I haven’t because it wasn’t open yet! I’ve enjoyed you and the consistency, consistency, consistency — combined with the VERY REASONABLE price! Because that’s not my strong suit! Also really like that there are both clearing and creating times. Really helpful!

Christine Weddle, Light Spirit Coaching

I am a “cluttered creative” and I run a small business that’s expanding. And I was stuck. I needed some guidance. I needed some help.

I can’t thank you enough for what The Creative Haven has done for me. It not only provides me with the structure that, as a small business owner, I long for but struggle to create for myself. It also, through continued practice and the gentle reminders you offer, allows me to use the techniques outside of the group. I can’t whine anymore that “I get nothing done” because that story can’t hold up when I see in front of me the long list of celebrations and accomplishments there on the page!

The group and your compassion have helped me to stop beating myself up for not being enough by providing real and practical (and gentle) exercises that remind me that, as you always say, I am perfect just the way I am. And company for the journey isn’t a bad thing either!

Deborah Globus, La Padre


I know the value of setting an intention to work on X with a supportive guide – how much can happen. Which is exactly what this experience is for me. The peace and calm that descend during a Work Party or Spa Day – important stuff gets done, in a non-violent, easy way.

Do it! The Spa Days and Work Parties give you courage and support to do things you might not otherwise do, and ideas for approaching and implementing these tasks that you wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Amna Ahmad, The Pragmatic Hybrid

What current members are saying about The Creative Haven:

“My favorite is Office Spa Day, especially the relaxing and grounding process we do to prepare. The knowledge that we are all working on this stuff together, at the same time, is very powerful. And I love hearing others’ discoveries and breakthroughs.”

“Jen comes up with great inspiration. I love the recordings to keep me on track all month long should I choose.”

“This has helped me more than I can really express during the celebrations (or maybe that’s just me thinking you need the back story to know how far things have come). Thanks so much.”

“The compassionate Creative Haven approach is a paradigm shift for me, having spent my life in environments that were judgmental, authoritarian and/or highly competitive, I’m surprised by how easily and quickly I began to be able to inject some compassion into my dealings with myself. And by how natural it feels.”

“The Creative Haven helps me be more compassionate with myself. I have lost the ‘whipping it into shape’ mentality. Being more gentle with myself has crossed over into other parts of my life, too.”

I have been present at many of the Spa Days, Work Parties, Top o’ the Month calls etc. Last month I finally had a chance to go back and listen to all the January interviews with guest speakers. (Yes, it took me until March to actually have some quiet time to listen.) Those interviews were just amazing. I have replayed a number of them and hear something new every time.

When I was doing my taxes and I was thinking that the Haven is the best investment I have made in my business to date. Sincerely!

Warmest regards,
Lynn W., Portland, OR