A Ceremonial Workshop for Braving Visionary Thresholds and Mothering Ourselves through Change
“Thank you from the most exhausted parts of my artist body for this absolute sermon.
I have been writing all night since this rite of passage. Some writing I was stuck on unlocked and unblocked. Your overflowing-out-of-every-cell-passion for your mission and vision revitalised and reminded me of who I am and why I’m here, your grounded maturity guided me to resource a younger part of me that needed to be held so I could carry her message again. I’m about to really hold myself up and step into my wintering elderhood to offer my cultural contribution and long term vision work. After 3.5 years of gestating, birthing, teaching, nurturing, reworking, refining and redefining a singular concept and methodology that has worked me and walked me through more mini and massive thresholds and identity evolutions than any other thing in my lifetime—this offering was a LIFELINE. A lifeline to the most deeply tired parts of my body, voice and spirit that needed to be reinvigorated for the final push of creating and birthing my mission work.”
Francesca Filippa, London, UK
Praise for the Creative Rites Workshop
When it comes to the creative process, we talk a lot about productivity. We talk a lot about getting things done and building a career, a business, and a platform.
But rarely do we talk about what it actually takes to grow into your own soul and voice. To become someone who can carry vision that swelters with wild tenderness, grit, and soul.
Rarely do we talk about what it takes to move through the thresholds of visionary maturation without getting stuck in hyperperformance, perfectionism, the pressure to package and brand ourselves before we’re ready, or the knee-deep freeze response that keeps us in the almost ready mode for years.
This is why we need Creative Rites.
* This configuration of the Creative Rites Mandala was inspired by:
The Four Shields of Human Nature, School of Lost Borders
Bill Plotkin’s books, Wild Mind and Nature and the Human Soul
The Myth of Inanna and Descent and Rising by Carly Mountain
The Creative Rites are not a course or simple steps in a process.
They are ceremonial thresholds for marking growth and time. They are our remembered ways of midwifing the profound changes we undergo when we commit to nurturing the living soul of our creative work. These rites help us remember that creativity is not a luxury or a niche skill. It is our inheritance. Our birthrite. It is the ongoing emergence of who we are becoming individually, culturally, and as a world. And like all true experiences of tender emergence, the rites require us to surround ourselves in compassionate support, reflection, and shared ritual in order to take root in our bodies and in our work.
Inside of this 2.5 hour Workshop We’ll Cover:
The 4-stage Creative Rites mandala and how it maps the deeper cycles of vision, change, and creative expression.
Why so many visionaries get stuck in the “almost ready” phase and what to do when you’re frozen or overprocessing what’s next.
How to root creative work in ceremony, embodiment, soul, and sacred structure.
The difference between an identity death and a period of visionary maturation.
How to recognize when a creative process is calling for rites of descent, pause, grief, and rebirth as part of your creative process.
Join us on June 20th from 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. pst.
As a Participant, You will Receive:
Access to a live, 2.5 hr Creative Rites workshop guided by Daje Aloh, with replay included.
A downloadable Creative Rites mandala + printable zine full of rituals to orient your process toward more a seasonal, cyclical, and ceremonially-rooted way of creating.
Included in the zine, you will find a practice guide with reflection prompts to support you in integrating the rites of practice into your own process.
An intentional invitation into deeper vision development support and praxis inside of our foundational six-week intensive, Midwifing Your Vision, beginning August 5th.
Rites of passage have always been part of human culture.
They marked moments of transformation—birth, death, marriage, adolescence, elderhood. But in modern life, we’ve lost many of those rituals. And as a result, we often try to navigate change in isolation. We try to grow without grounding. We try to evolve without being witnessed. We forget that crossing a threshold is not just about what you do, it’s about who you become in the process and what you feel compelled to offer back to your community as a result. Without rites, we rush through the discomfort and we miss the alchemy. We miss the shared deep affirmation that says: You belong here. You are ready. You are seen.
The Creative Rites exist to restore that affirmation.
They offer a way to track our unfolding together. To name where we are in the creative spiral. To witness the death of one identity and the emergence of another. They hold us through the sacred process of individuation, initiation, and integration: the three phases every visionary must move through to bring their medicine to the world.
Meet Your Guide
Founder of Storywork Studio
15+ years supporting humans at the intersection of spirituality, cultural regeneration, and the creative process.
7+ years moving through the highs and lows of full-time entrepreneruship.
As a Memphis-born, Appalachian-cured storyteller, story doula, and ecosomatic depth guide; Daje Aloh supports seekers, lovers, crafters, and kin in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. She does this in several domains: entrepreneurship, creative rites of passage, and musings on culturework and leadership.
About Storywork Studio
We are an Institute of Visionary Praxis + Mystery School of the Creative Process
We exist to nurture a culture of earth-rooted visionaries who are channeling the new stories of our shared futures through their soul work, businesses, and ideals.