A space for experimentation, discovery, and regenerative creative practice

Creativity Lab began as a way to hold a safe, generative space for deep exploration into creativity. This includes both the inner creative life and the ways creativity expresses itself in the world.

Over the years, this space has been shaped by a consistent pattern. Many graduate students, faculty, leaders, and professionals arrive having learned to quiet their creative instincts in order to survive systems that reward productivity over presence, rules over curiosity, and external approval over inner knowing.

Creativity Lab exists to tend to what has been sidelined.

What is Creativity Lab?

Creativity Lab is a laboratory for experimentation and discovery. It is a place to nurture and regrow creativity that has been constrained by institutional pressures, competitive cultures, and the inner gremlins of perfectionism and imposterism.

Creativity Lab is offered seasonally, typically in the winter and summer, and runs for three to six weeks depending on the focus. Within this container, participants engage creativity as a living, embodied practice rather than a skill, product, or outcome.

This work supports healing, resilience, and meaningful engagement across personal, professional, and relational life.

Why Creativity?

Creativity Lab is grounded in the understanding that creativity shapes how people think, process experience, and make meaning across work and life.

Participants are invited to relate to creativity as a regenerative practice that can restore range, soften rigidity, and open new ways of being with complexity. Creativity Lab creates conditions for curiosity, imagination, and play to re-enter lives shaped by urgency and constant evaluation.

Creativity is approached as cyclical and relational, reflecting the rhythms of nature and the seasons rather than linear expectations of progress or output.

This is a practice container.

Creativity Lab is held as a practice space rather than a curriculum.

Participants engage in a rhythm of guided practices and reflection that includes:

  • Creative prompts that support experimentation and discovery

  • Embodied and nature-based invitations

  • Space to notice patterns, resistance, and possibility

  • Opportunities to integrate creative insight into work and daily life

There is no single right way to participate. Creativity Lab is designed to support exploration rather than mastery.

“Before Creativity Lab, I thought that creativity was separate from my work as a scientist. What I learned is that I can be creative in my work, and I can use creativity to access ways of thinking, processing, and doing that I don’t usually use in my science.”
— Laura

How can I participate in Creativity Lab?

Creativity Lab is not offered as a standalone program, so participation happens through one of two pathways:

This structure supports continuity, depth, and integration across the experience.

If this space feels resonant, you are welcome to explore the available pathways or reach out with questions.

You can learn more about Mentorship Coaching, explore The Grove, or begin a conversation about what support might be most useful right now.