DEVOTION FIELD
A Creative Advising Retreat
a two night in person one on one creative advising immersion for artists, writers, freelancers, small business owners, and hopeful humans in Northern Michigan
Book a 20 min call to see if its a good fit by emailing info@codycookparrott.com
Devotion Field is a two night IN PERSON one on one creative advising immersion that integrates intuition, guidelines for best strategies to meet your goals, unpacking creative blocks, and adding ease and joy into your practice!
Creative Advising, my touchstone 1:1 offering I’ve been facilitating for over a decade, is the root of Devotion Field. It is for full time artists, people who love their creative hobbies and have 9-5’s, small business owners, part time artists, artists who haven’t touched their craft in years, artists who interact with their craft every day but want to pivot to creating more income around their practice, and anyone who wants to live in more alignment with their creative attention.
Through a series of modalities, list making, and talking we will work through systems to integrate in your daily, weekly, and seasonal rituals and routines. Think big post it notes on the walls, research spread all around us, fire in the wood stove, hot water on the kettle, and dreams and visions abound.
This is great for you if you’re starting at the beginning with naming a project or business, setting up a website, and launching a newsletter. Or if you are working on your second best selling novel. Devotion Field is a place for you to bring your messy work, your truest self, and your brightest ideas.
This is also for you if you’re ready to up-level, cross the six figure line, work on creating clearer systems for organizing and launching products, and how to work with a virtual assistant. This is for you if this is your first big business investment or you’re already a pro at adding to your team of cheerleaders.
Common topics for visioning are : publishing and self publishing, visioning an online class, discussing fear and self loathing and how it relates to your practice, the sky is the limit! Devotion Field welcomes all mediums, all people, and all modalities.
INVESTMENT : Devotion Field is $2000 and includes
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 :
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 DEVOTION FIELD : 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 DEVOTION FIELD :
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 Devotion Field retreat portal!
Devotion Field is a rooted in radical politics, anti capitalism, and collective liberation. Devotion Field operates on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe peoples and redistributes monthly to Title Tracks’s Indigenous Mutual Aid Fund.