The Spark
Do the stuff that actually matters and come home to yourself without abandoning everyone you love, burning out and burning everything down and creating yet another beautiful plan you’re going to rebel against anyway!
3 months of following through, making progress and space for your projects and with delight, not (even) more demands and great company, not commitments!
You have so many projects you want to do. You have the lists, the books, the Pinterest boards, the courses, the ideas and you also have the best intentions.
But at some point, it started feeling overwhelming, rather than exciting.
So you went down the rabbit hole of how to get it all done, and 50 saved later YouTube videos, you found yourself with even more to do.
Now, not only do you have all these wonderful things you want to do, but you now also have all these complicated systems and routines to implement - which just feel like more work and takes you even further away from doing the things that light you up.
(But also, let’s face it: those new systems and routines sound exciting, too! Your multi-passionate brain finds it hard to resist a new experiment and a new rabbit hole!)
And gap between where you are and where you want to be feels bigger than ever.
Here’s the thing:
You’re not supposed to do it all at the same time.
You don’t have the same energy every day.
One size fits all doesn’t work for our creative, often neuro-spicy and highly sensitive selves and we never signed up for this hustle culture/toxic productivity bullshit in the first place.
The current system we have is completely wonky with the way that life actually works, and actively goes against many of us our values:
Old ways won’t open old doors. And those old doors were created by - let’s face it -mediocre, boring tech and productivity bros*, who were pedalling bullshit we never wanted in the first place.
*Held up by systemic oppression, and all the external fuckeries you can name: the patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, ablism.
it’s time to shake shit up.
Because your work really fucking matters, and it’s even better when it’s created from a place of delight, not demand.
And here’s the kicker: it’s not like NOT doing the thing that matters takes zero energy. There’s the thinking about doing the work, the planning the work, the feeling bad about not doing the work, getting yourself ready to do the work, feeling resentful about prior commitments which have taken over the work.
It’s time to work on our own stuff without working against ourselves.
It’s time to actually prioritise our own damn stuff in a way that leaves us feeling joyful and filled up rather than guilty and selfish.
This looks like:
Actually working on the things, rather than spending so much energy thinking about it, figuring out a perfect plan and running out of time.
A dedicated space for yourself with a direction so you can start actually doing the thing you love rather than spinning your wheels and tying yourself in perfectionist knots.
Working with yourself rather than against yourself: listening to your rhythms, your own seasons and what feels right for you.
Flexible structure that feeds your creative fire rather than taking it away.
Community and like-minded folks doing their own exciting shit alongside you, where you can show up as you with no need to explain your weird flights of fancy - they get it, and they revel in it!
Taking your ideas off the someday pile without neglecting every other commitment you have.
Supporting our creative life by actually taking the time to sit and be with your ideas and giving them time to flourish without always feeling like you have to be running a sprint and farting gold dust.
This is the work we do in The Spark
And the reason my clients have also come to realise that you get so much further working compassionately and seasonally.
We work together as a collective for twelve weeks over the Winter and Spring, and we start to really close the gap between where we are and where we want to be, without it becoming yet another thing we have to drag ourselves through mud to do. We’re choosing delight over demand and it’s gonna be fabulous!
The Spark runs between January and April 2025, and we’re gonna lean into that delicious late Winter/early Spring energy:
Stoking our creative fires
Dreaming and percolating
Emerging, not exploding into the New Year
Coming back to life and connecting with the things that make us feel alive
Shedding old identities and decluttering our lives, inside and out.
here’s how we’re gonna do it!
We’re gonna kick off with a Seasonal Intention Setting Circle, and then each month, during our Winter/Spring together, we gather for a:
Making session
A dedicated space for making things, creative exploration, and trying new things together so you can actually get started rather than thinking about starting for the entire month!
Study Hall
It’s time to actually do the courses, reading the books, learning the skills and doing the things we spent a long time deciding were right for us! We’re gathering our curiosity, up-skilling, diving down rabbit holes, and feeding our creative fires.
Office hours
To keep you from getting stuck in the mud, the office hours are there for troubleshooting, coaching and casual support so you can move through the Big Scaries and have a space to brainstorm, get feedback, bounce ideas around and keep moving!
Little Fuckers Club
Hello body doubling AND gamification! This is time to knock out the essential but dull as dishwater shit that so often gets in the way! Think: body-doubling for taxes, emails, returns, insurance, and boring adulting so you have more time and space for doing the things you actually want to do!
Bring Your Own Book Club!
We all have so many things to read that will help us close the gap between where we are and where we want to be. (And I think there are a lot of similar books on our shelves!) Its time to actually read them and share and get some gems without the pressure and limited choice of a regular bookclub!
Wildcard Wednesday mystery event!
Our brains thrive on novelty, and most of us loved a Lucky Dip bag as a kid! So every month we’ll be doing something new together to spark our creativity, and make us feel more like ourselves. Will we be doing a before-and-after of our creative spaces? Will we be creating 2026 punch cards? We’ll see what themes come up in the group and see what happens!
designed by a rebel, for fellow rebels!
NO RULES, NO FLUFF, NO BULLSHIT!
Photo Credit: Rachel Burt
I’m Meg, and I’m a life/creativity/biz coach, podcaster, writer and all-round rebel rouser for creative and multi-passionate women!
I’ve been running group programs for the past 5 years, and a big part of my magic is bringing fabulous, likeminded women into the same room, and creating online spaces where you’re invited to be you exactly as you are. And when you combine the two together? MAGIC HAPPENS. We create. We transform. We come alive.
I created The Spark because it combines everything I know that works for those of us with creative, curious and often neuro-spicy brains. Not only does it work, it’s fucking FUN and I think we can all agree, a bit more joy wouldn’t go amiss!
Ready to join The Spark?
3 months of following through, making progress and space for your projects and with delight, not (even) more demands and great company, not commitments!