My Inner Harbour - Building a Creative Practice: Spirit Room Edition

Building a Creative Practice: Spirit Room Edition

7 Apr 2025 1:33 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

Engaging our creativity is a practice. Practices are powerful rhythms in our lives that can support and nurture our well-being and we can develop them any time. Don't already have a creative practice? Using our Spirit Room as a place to start, here's one way to begin a creative practice focussed on materials.

1. Explore the materials. In our Spirit Room, we have supplies for colouring, watercolours, collage, acrylic painting and a few mixed media items like stickers.

2. Commit! Building a practice is all about committing the time and energy to making it a habit. It doesn't have to be long and it doesn't have to be every day, just choose a time and a place for your practice and put it in your calendar!

3. Connecting with someone else building a creative practice or already consistently practicing their creativity can be really helpful. Invite a friend to watercolour with you or join Savanna at Craft & Connect on Monday nights. Alternatively, you could ask a coach or therapist to check in on your practice to give you that added layer of accountability.

Have fun! Creativity is all about being open to intuition, new ideas and new experiences. It doesn't have to be neat, perfect or make sense!

My Inner Harbour
149 Wallace St, Nanaimo, BC
1-866-791-9454 or 236-312-7376
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My Inner Harbour is committed to learning about and working toward reconciliation and decolonization. We acknowledge that our space is located on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the Snuneymuxw First Nation.

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