CENTER
A hosting and advising practice
A space where creative clarity and attention begins. Whether you’re untangling a project, shaping a vision, or seeking strategies to ground your work, CENTER offers tailored guidance for every step of the meandering path of art and business.
All sessions are available over zoom or in my home studio in Cedar, MI
Easy Swim : The Classic Creative Advising : $285
(ONE HOUR)
Together we will put everything on the table - what projects do you want to bring forth? What creative desires are emerging? We will then list out strategies for how to move forward with next steps.
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Deep Dive : $500
(TWO HOURS)
Deep Dive is your chance to go deep into the depths of visioning and strategizing. This is great for someone who is at the beginning stages of naming and organizing a project and wants to develop it further.
This offering comes with a custom document with next steps outlined for you and whatsapp text support for a week after our call while you integrate what we invented together.
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In the Pond : Body Doubling : $65/hr
(UP TO TWO HOURS)
We will check in for ten minutes, silently co-work for the remainder of the time, and check in again with the last five minutes. This is great for returning creative advising clients who just need some hand holding to knock some tasks out of the park.
Opening the mail
Paying the IRS
Making a difficult phone call
Opening up a long neglected google doc
Responding to emails
Anything you’ve been avoiding!
Treading Water : Leaving Social Media Audit : $88
(30 MIN)
This is for any artist or small business owner who wants to leave social media and needs to develop practical next steps for doing so. You can do it! You don’t need social media if it’s killing you inside.
Step by step on making an exit plan
Planning finances around leaving
Starting your newsletter
Creating rituals around using it until its time to leave
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Swan Dive Weekend : $1000
(FIVE HOURS OVER TWO DAYS)
Set up a 15 min call to see if this is the right fit and for booking information : BOOK CALL HERE
The best thing if you don’t want to travel but you do want to dive in all the way. Over two days we will spend our time doing the hard work and the heavy lifting. This might look like playing with your website, developing a new suite of offerings, writing copy for a sales page, reinventing your business, and more.
This offering comes with a custom document with next steps outlined for you and whatsapp text support for a week after our time together while you integrate what we invented together.
The Celestial Plunge : A Creative Advising In Person Immersion : $2000
Set up a 15 min call to see if this is the right fit and for booking information : BOOK CALL HERE
(THREE DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN)
Ten Hours of dedicated creative advising, strategizing, and co working
Your own guest room and work area
All meals provided
Beach field trip
Pickup and drop off from Cherry Capital Airport
You can split your payment into two payments but must be paid in full at time of retreat
WHERE : Cedar, MI on the Leelanau Pensinula of Northern Michigan - 15 min to the beach 15 min to the food co-op.
Another note on the space : June is a 60lb lab mix mutt who lives here. She can be high energy in the first 20 seconds of meeting you and then is a total chiller.
SAMPLE AGENDA OF A CREATIVE ADVISING IMMERSION RETREAT
This can and will be specifically tailored to your needs which we will map out on a one hour zoom call before your time here.
Day one :
Arrive by 4pm to settle in
4:30-6:30 pm : Opening session where we map out how we want our Day 2 to look like
6:30pm : Dinner
8pm : Rest mode / no work mode
Day Two :
8-9am Breakfast and slow morning
9-12 : Creative Advising : Picture big pieces of paper on the wall, analog writing, big markers, fun creative map making
11-1 : Lunch and break
1-3 : Creative Advising
3-5 : Co - Working
Depending on time of year the timing of this changes : Sunset beach trip
6pm : Dinner
7pm : End of day reflections
Day Three
8-9 Breakfast
9-11 : Closing Session and understanding integration going forward
One week later : A one hour zoom call to talk through how things have integrated since our time together
ENERGETICS OF ALL SESSIONS : This is not therapy and I am not a therapist. I say this lovingly and to make sure when you understand that Study Hall is facilitated through my specific lens as an artist with a BFA in Dance who has been self employed since 2013 with a career in shop keeping, residency facilitation, book writing, online teaching, and more! It is important that you show up to Study Hall with your own tools as well as be open to me reminding you of the beautiful tools that you already have in your toolbox. Big feelings are welcome here! Stories of your past and current lived experiences and how it affects your creative practice, business visions, and personal life are encouraged. But understanding the clarity of the exchange before investing is important.
HUMAN AND ANIMAL ACCESS : My home has no stairs but the bathroom is very small and requires lifting the legs over the ledge of the bathtub to take a shower. At this time Devotion Field does not host children or pets as June is healing from a back injury.
Cody Cook-Parrott (formerly M@rlee Gr@ce) is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Their practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists. Grace’s Instagram dance project Personal Practice has been featured in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and more.
They have a newsletter that comes out every Monday called Monday Monday. Sometimes it comes out on different days but usually it comes out on Monday. It’s always free. If you love it and want to also read the monthly advice column YES YES you can become a paid subscriber.
Cody’s most recent book is Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown. You can buy it here. They also wrote the book How to Not Always Be Working.
Cody received a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and is currently getting their MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
EXAMPLE PROJECTS TO BRING TO CENTER :
Book Proposal
Self published book project
Launching a new newsletter
Quilting
Knitting
A small business idea
Starting your own artist residency
Mapping out an online course
Designing a membership site
Working on an art show
Anything creative you can think of!
Together we will see where we can turn our desire for discipline into a skill of deep devotion. We will engage in and design rituals that support your business and your practice. We will talk about pricing, money, and valuing our time and expertise. While I am the facilitator I am also your collaborator in the Center retreat portal!