Get warmly supported for being in your studio!

Bi-Weekly Facilitated
Virtual Mini-Retreats

Join me, Claire O’Connor — and a warm and friendly group of kindreds — for big fun and creative play!

Group size is limited to foster an intimate feeling.

Is this you?

  • “I’m erratic in making time and space to create, sew, paint, write, cook, nurture my creative soul.”
  • “I can’t remember the last time I just PLAYED — hmmm… what’s THAT?”
  • “I feel uninspired.”
  • “I get inspired and then I quickly fizzle or get distracted.”
  • “I judge myself, and my creative process and output — ick.”
  • “My time for creativity always seems to take a back seat to everything else — including the dishes, for Pete’s sake.”
  • “I feel isolated — I long for a community of kindred spirits with whom to grow, share, celebrate, learn from AND inspire.  (Yes, I actually believe I COULD inspire!)

Benefits

  • Have tea with your muse every other week
  • Be more regular in your dates with yourself for creative expression and time in the studio
  • Get LOTS of practical support for committing to creative time in the midst of completing demands on your time
  • Give yourself the quietude and space your soul craves
  • Have kindreds to share with. learn from, and feel connected to in an authentic way
  • Prime the pump of your creative juju with all kinds of inspiration, things like Ripening Trays and Idea Land
  • Tap into your wellspring of innate creative juju 
  • PLAY and have FUN!
  • Say goodbye to procrastination

Logistics

DAY:  Every other Saturday
TIME:  8:15–11:45am Pacific Time
FORMAT:  via live interactive teleconference and in your own studio

Each virtual retreat session is book-ended by TWO (2) short Group Check-In Conference Calls

  Opening Check-In: 8:15–8:30am Pacific Time
  Solo Retreat in your own space: 8:30–11:30am PT
  Closing Check-In: 11:30–11:45am PT

This gives you an accountability check-in at the beginning and end of each Virtual Retreat, with a 3-hour chunk of time for the retreat itself to carry out one of the following
  • Your own project
  • Suggested prompts

Bonus!

Private Interactive Group Forum
in The Sweet Spot Community Cafe

Get support, make connections with coursemates, share insights, engage in discussions, and exchange information about resources, events and other activities. You’ll have the opportunity to share about your experiences, projects, learnings and breakthroughs via discussion forum posts/replies, upload photos or videos of your projects.. before, after, and progress pics!

Sweet words

“I don’t often say this about a teacher, but knowing Claire has been life-changing for me.  She's a role model for me in the way she lives her philosophy herself.”
                                            —Michelle Hess, Mount Horeb, WI

About me, Claire O'Connor

I’m a fiber artist, quilter, painter and surface pattern designer. Time in my studio is sacred play. And yet I call upon all the tools in the Sweet Spot ‘toolbox’ to assist myself all the time, because my creative expression is often blocked, or I resist it, or on some level fear it. So I know firsthand these tools work, reliably, and with a surprising-yet-familiar ease.

Aside from time in my studio, sharing these tools with creative soulmates is my favorite thing to do, where we get to explore together—in a community of learning buddies—how to create a new and deeper relationship with our Soul’s most vital need for expression. It would be my great delight if you chose to join us!
Learn more about me HERE.
Read my Artist's Statement HERE.

Investment

Choose one of the 2 options below:
Drop-In Tuition
Join in when it works for you!
$19
Frequent-Flyer Tuition
Save 70% when you commit to putting your creativity front and center! Pre-purchase 2 retreats per month, for 3 consecutive months, for a total of 6 delicious retreats
$59

QUESTIONS?

Email me at tclaire.oconnor@gmail.com or connect via the CONTACT Page.