Unlocking Creativity: 6 Sundays
Join us over 6 Sundays as we invite you to return home, to your unique creative potential.
Description:
Being human is being creative.
We arrive in the world with an innate capacity for imagination and creative expression.
We dream, we play, we invent, we make art, music, we write, and we create a life, a career, and relationships.
Our capacity for creativity is abundant.
And yet, like many innate capacities,
our creativity is something we can lose sight of,
or even forget is there.
A child draws freely.
Imagines new worlds,
and is easily awestruck.
Whereas an adult often says
“I can’t draw, I’m not an artist.”
“This is the way it is.”
Or no longer notices the wildflowers blooming on their way to work.
And yet our capacity for creativity remains.
Waiting to be unlocked.
When it is,
When we reengage in the life of expression
We aren’t just creating,
We are embracing what it means to be human.
And often ,
We feel more fully alive.
COURSE DETAILS:
When:
Begins Sunday, October 11th 2026 at 9am PT
Length:
6 Sundays (across October & November)
Time: 9-1030am PT
Dates:
October 11th, 18th, 25th
November 6th, 13th and 20th
Where: Live on Zoom
“Openness to experience is the #1 personality trait of creative people across all fields.
So as far as bravery, and the courage to keep going, and all that stuff goes…
Creativity is actually more about not fearing the unknown.
The unknown within yourself, but the unknown anywhere.
Internally or externally, you don’t fear it. Quite the opposite.
We’ve found that creative people not only embrace it, but that they are passionate about the unknown.”
(-Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, CL Episode 7)
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Questions we’ll explore
What is creativity?
What internal capacities (body/mind/heart) support creativity?
What conditions unlock our creative potential?
Introduction and instructions for your Creative Project
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Themes and practices we’ll explore:
How you pay attention matters
The power of the parasympathetic nervous system - our natural throttle for creative expression
The Siren’s Call: Working with discomfort and distraction
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Themes and practices we’ll explore
Relaxing into uncertainty and embracing the unknown.
Cultivating open and expansive awareness
Curiosity
Witnessing beauty
Working with creative tension, and holding paradoxes
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Themes we’ll explore
How heartache leads to authentic expression
Finding our unique voice (discovering inspiration within)
Making the mirror (how we reflect ourselves and others)
Letting our work speak for itself
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Themes and ideas we’ll explore
Preciousness Meter (how we get stuck in our growth)
Perfectionism (the fear of endings)
Procrastination (the fear of beginnings)
Future Proofing (creating without regrets)
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In week 6 you’ll have the opportunity to share what you’ve created
THE CONTENT
Dates:
Week 1: If You’re Human, You’re Creative
October 11, 2026 from 9-10:30am PT
Week 2: The Practice of Presence
October 18, 2026 from 9-10:30am PT
Week 3: The Magic & Intimacy of Not Knowing
October 25, 2026 from 9-10:30am PT
Week 4: Heartbreak - Our Creative Paintbrush
November 6, 2026 from 9-10:30am PT
Week 5: Breaking the ‘Delete’ Key
November 13, 2026 from 9-10:30am PT
Week 6: Creative Project Presentations
November 20, 2026 from 9-10:30am PT
Registration details:
What’s included?
9 hours of live workshops
Access to course recordings for 1 month after course ends
Live Q&A time with Joshua and Matthew
Journaling prompts, tools, and exercises to support reflection and practice
Recorded meditations and practices to your learning between live sessions
A Creative Project of your choosing to complete over the 6 week course. During our final gathering you will have the opportunity to present whatever you chose to create.
Cost: $297
Or pay in 2 installments of $148.50 each
About your guides:
Since 2018 Joshua Steinfeldt and Matthew Patrick Donner have collaborated to create over 200 podcast episodes for The Courageous Life, have made a number of short films, and have built a variety of highly experiential courses including, From Fear to Love: A 6-Month Journey.
For the first time ever they are pulling back the curtain to shed light on their greatest learnings about creativity and a life built around authentic expression in their brand new 6 week course: Unlocking Creativity.
More on Matthew:
Matthew Patrick Donner is a film composer, photographer, filmmaker, and podcast producer in California.
He brings over a decade of experience in the film industry to the world of podcasting through original music, audio engineering, and storytelling. He recognizes podcasts foster unique, long-form, organic environments, creating a platform to share ideas and tell stories.
By collaborating with hosts to support their respective missions—whether mindfulness, business, or exploring new technologies—Matthew seeks to enrich lives through helping build and sustain meaningful shows.
Since 2018 Matt has served as the Executive Producer of Courageous Life Podcast - an ongoing exploration of what it means to live well.
More on Joshua here.