Creative Foundations
Find Foundational Ideas and Stories to Use in Your Creative and Professional Work
Uncover the Stories That Can Guide Your Path and Insights That Can Guide Your Life
Creative Foundations is a framework of tools and practices to help you uncover the stories, themes, and ideas that can become the foundation for whatever you want to create.
Maybe you've been circling a writing idea or sensing a new direction. Maybe you know you have a project inside you, but it hasn't yet found its shape. Or you’re just uncertain what comes next. This helps you look at where you’ve been, find where you are and see where you want to go.
This is the work beneath the work.
You Can Come Away With:
✓ Greater clarity about what matters most
✓ Emerging story threads and meaningful material
✓ Stronger connection to your voice and creative direction
✓ Deeper insight into what matters now
✓ Renewed creative momentum
✓ Clear next steps and a realistic plan forward
Find Your Stories
and Creative Through-lines
Full day private intensive or ongoing mentoring support.
Full-Day Intensive
6 Hours | Online or In Person $1,250
Dedicated time to discover the stories and ideas that can become foundational for whatever you want to create.
Through a customized sequence of reflective and creative practices and projects, you'll explore the landscape of your ideas, questions, experiences, and aspirations.
Together we'll identify patterns, themes and the strongest threads, and create a clearer understanding of what comes next.
Includes:
✓ Pre-session reflective guide and workbook
✓ Six-hour customized private intensive
✓ Strategic integration and next-step planning
Book your session. Full Day Intensive →
Questions?
Book a Discovery Call →
or Email Erica →
Creative Foundations Monthly Mentoring
Monthly Program | Online $600 per month
This is guidance for people who want time for integration between sessions with ongoing support, accountability, and space for ideas to develop.
It is where insights become projects, ideas become direction, and meaningful themes have time to grow through reflection, implementation, and ongoing support.
Includes:
✓ 30-minute kickoff session
✓ Two 60-minute mentoring sessions each month
✓ Clear next steps after each session
✓ Email support and accountability between sessions
Book a session. Monthly Mentoring Program →
About This Approach
The practices I offer here are the ones I continue to use whenever I need clarity, direction, or a deeper understanding of what wants to emerge next. They have helped people uncover their next life direction or the vision for their creative work.
These are the tools that have helped me shape the songs, articles, training programs, workshops, and writing projects I have created throughout my career. They have also helped me navigate major transitions in my life and work.
They helped me learn how to listen for what mattered, recognize emerging patterns, and seek support when needed.
Today, I use these practices to help others uncover meaningful ideas, clarify direction, and bring what matters most into clearer form.
How this Work Unfolds
This work is both structured and spacious. It’s designed to help what matters take shape.
You’ll experience a set of reflective and creative practices and projects and begin to recognize patterns, themes, questions, and possibilities that point toward what is emerging as the threads of your work.
Depending on your goals, our work may draw on reflective writing, narrative mapping, visual meaning-making, integrative practices, and strategic planning.
Each 1;1 session is guided and customized to meet you where you are, and on your schedule.
Looking for some quick clarity?
Book a Compass Session
90 Minutes | Online | $275
A focused session for clarity, re-orientation, and grounded next steps.This session offers a structured process for gaining perspective, clarity, and direction.
Through powerful questions and deep listening, Erica helps you identify what feels most important, recognize what may be ready to shift, and clarify a realistic path forward.
Perfect for a work or life pivot, a project that needs untangling or exploring an idea.
Feedback
“I am stunned at the synchronicity that has happened since receiving Erica’s support. Before our session, I had multiple directions and choices to make. The Compass Session helped me focus my energy where I feel most alive, identify simple steps forward, and recognize what I was ready to release. The ripple effects have been profound.
— K.L.
“Of all the coaches, therapists, or guides I’ve worked with, no one has ever given me such a clear, practical summary of my strengths and next steps. Erica listens deeply and reflects with clarity and care. The Mini-Compass Map is unlike anything I’ve experienced. If there was one word to describe it, it would be AWESOME!”
— Janice Kelly- Author, Naturalist, Interpreter
“Having Erica as my grad school mentor provided a welcoming and powerful space to put words to my values and vision as an artist. We defined the themes I’m exploring, integrated creative practices into daily life, and began a project rooted in that clarity. Erica listens for the spirit of a work in a way that is rare, and she brings a deep well of knowledge I soaked up like a sponge.”
— Kelly, MFA Student, (California Institute of Integral Studies), Somatic Therapist
Creative Foundations FAQs
Do I need a writing project to benefit from Creative Foundations?
No, you don’t need to arrive with a project. Many people arrive with an idea, question, transition, or feeling that something wants attention, but they aren't sure what form it will take yet. Creative Foundations is designed to help you uncover the stories, themes, and ideas that can become the foundation for whatever you want to create.
What if I know I want to create something, but need help accessing the stories and ideas behind it?
This is one of the most common reasons people seek out Creative Foundations. Many people arrive with a project, idea, transition, or direction already in mind, but need help accessing the stories, themes, experiences, and questions that can give the work greater depth, meaning, and coherence. Together we'll uncover the strongest threads and explore how to work with them.
Is this only for writers?
It’s not. Writers often find this work valuable, but so do educators, artists, interpreters, entrepreneurs, conservation professionals, and people navigating transitions. The focus is not one specific product. It is discovering what wants to emerge and what matters most right now.
Is this like life coaching?
My role is more that of a mentor and guide than a coach. I offer structure, perspective, thoughtful questions, and reflective practices to help you uncover the stories, patterns, ideas, and possibilities that can guide your next steps.
How do I know which option is right for me?
The Clarity Compass Session is best for gaining perspective and identifying next steps around a specific question, challenge, or crossroads.
The Full-Day Intensive is ideal when you want dedicated time to explore ideas, uncover themes, and clarify direction.
Monthly Mentoring is designed for people who want ongoing support with time to reflect, integrate, and apply what they are discovering between sessions.