The Creative Constellations Program
A self-discovery and wayfinding course for complex creators
The CCP will next be offered in Spring, 2024
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After this Program, I make sense to myself for the first time in my life. I always thought of my life as kind of chaotic, and now I see the higher order of coherence. Thank you. It's beautiful.
- Deb A., Fall 2021
Have you struggled to find or name your purpose?
Have you ever felt like you are “too much?”
Have you ever been confused by how your many different interests, passions, and gifts are supposed to fit together?
You are probably a complex creator!
The framework and tools in the Creative Constellations Program are designed to help complex creators like you shift your self-concept from “too much” or “all over the map” to a powerful sense of coherence and wholeness - WITHOUT denying vital parts of who you are!
This is a place to:
reclaim all parts of who you are,
discover the wholeness and coherence underlying your pattern of creative strengths, and
learn how to use your creative constellation as a guidance system to navigate into the emerging future
Answers to the questions you are holding about your identity, purpose, and direction are all connected to your creativity.
I can't recommend Sara Saltee's Creative Constellations program enough. It's like ‘what color is your parachute’ plus ‘Myers Briggs’ but way better.
If you are at a transition in your life, not knowing how to spend your precious life energy, seriously check this out.- Karin B., Spring 2021
In the Creative Constellations Program, you’ll discover a new way of thinking about creativity and the nature of your genius.
Those of us with multiple gifts, talents, interests, and passions often feel like we are “too much” or “too confusing.” We can feel pressured to “pick a lane,” “find a singular passion” or generally dumb ourselves down to fit into the narrow categories that others have devised.
In the Creative Constellations Program, you’ll discover that your true genius and source of most authentic personal power emerges from the harmonious interplay between all the creativities in your creative constellation.
That’s why we start with a different question!
Many creativity programs start with the assumption that you are creatively blocked or deficient and that you need tips or tricks to “get more creative.” In this program, we start from a very different belief. We assume that you, like all humans, are already infinitely creative and that your particular genius doesn’t come from being more creative than anyone else.
Instead, we begin with the powerful, foundational question: How are you creative?
Using the original tools developed by Sara Saltee, you be able to name and claim all of the ways you are creative and develop a picture of the deep patterns underlying your inner complexity. Finally, you’ll have a visual map of your multi-faceted creative identity that validates your wholeness and guides you to the projects you’ll find most satisfying and fulfilling.
From the menu of 25 Creativities that Sara’s research has identified, you’ll claim the array that you express most naturally and energetically. Then, you’ll explore how they interrelate with each other!
This is most one of the most wonderful courses I've ever taken in my whole life. And I'm a learning junkie.
- Melissa W., Fall 2021
The Creative Constellation Program is a two-part, sixteen-week online course. You can start with Part One and add Part Two later, or go for the Whole Shebang.
About Part One
In Part One: Finding Your Creative Constellation, you’ll claim and explore the unique combination of creativities that makes you, you.
In this eight-week series, you’ll
Unlearn limiting old ways of thinking about creativity
Find out why “find your passion” is terrible advice for complex creators
Discover 25 different creative modes and identify the ones in your creative constellation
Envision how your creativities connect and work together
Validate, honor, and claim all facets of who you are as a creator
You’ll come away with a deep understanding of your multiple creative strengths and new clarity about how those strengths work together as a harmonious system.
In The Big Sort activity, you'll claim the creative modes that are part of your constellation.
The Star Map tool allows you to visualize how your multiple creativities work as a system.
Part One Schedule and Framework:
Live online classes meet 10 am - 11:30pm Pacific Time on Sept 22, 29, Oct 6, 13, 20, and Nov 3, 10
Coaching week Oct 23 - 27. Instead of class this week, you’ll have a coaching session with Sara to explore your constellation in detail.
Throughout the program, you’ll reflect and share in an online discussion forum
You’ll access dynamic weekly readings and digitally interactive journals on our exclusive course web page.
Replay recordings of our class sessions and slides from class presentations will be available for download during and after the course.
About Part Two
In Part Two: Steering by your Creative Constellation, you’ll practice using your Creative Constellation as a wayfinding system that empowers a wholehearted approach to your life, work, art, and activism.
In this eight-week series, we
Look back at your creative history and re-tell your life story through the lens of your creative constellation.
Look ahead at three potential futures and practice partnering with all your creative parts to decide which path to take.
Learn daily practices for getting out of your own way, sustaining creative momentum, and walking in beauty.
Part Two Schedule and Framework:
Live online classes meet 11 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time Jan 12, 19, 26, Feb 2, 9, 23, Mar 1
Coaching week Feb 12 - 16. Instead of class this week, you’ll meet for a coaching session with Sara to explore your wayfinding questions in detail.
As in Part 1, you’ll access an online discussion forum for ongoing reflection and sharing
You’ll find dynamic weekly readings and digitally interactive journals on our exclusive course web page.
Replay recordings of our class sessions and slides from class presentations will be available for download during and after the course.
The coursework is absolutely masterfully presented. Each week, it confronted something inside me, stirred the pot to think and reflect about it and THEN offered solutions to support moving through it. Not only that, I’ve gained insights to help me feel better about what got stirred up AND about myself as a human being in the creative-flow of life!
- Greg M., Spring 2023
Registration is now OPEN!
ATTENTION PROGRAM ALUMNI!
You are eligible to join either or both parts of the Fall 2023 program at a 40% discount!
The alumni discount is available to anyone who participated in:
The CCP Spring 2021 Reading Groups
The CCP Fall 2021 live online program
The CCP Fall 2021 independent study program
The CCP Spring 2023 live online program
Use the discount code ALUMJOY at checkout to take advantage of this alumni benefit.
(Have a question about whether you qualify for the alumni discount? Contact Sara)
MONTHLY INSTALLMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE
Would monthly installments make the Creative Constellations Program more accessible to you? Contact Sara to arrange a payment plan.
This course is so rich, so dense, so yummy. It's like a cornucopia.
- Stephen J., Fall 2021
About Your Teacher
Sara Saltee is a complex creator who has been deeply immersed in the study and practice of creativity for more than 20 years. An artist, writer, teacher, adult learning specialist, curriculum designer, and certified creativity coach, Sara’s original tools and frameworks help creators of all kinds connect to their authentic impulses and make their highest contributions.
After teaching as Adjunct Faculty in Communication at Regis University and Front Range Community College, Sara served as a culture change and strategic planning consultant to nonprofits and public agencies in the Puget Sound Region. For the past decade, she has designed and facilitated dynamic online train-the-trainer programs for a global community of grassroots leaders as the Director of Leadership and Learning Programs for Riane Eisler’s Center for Partnership Systems.
The Creative Constellations Program went far beyond what I anticipated. I did not expect it to reveal such deep meaning.
- D. Betzhold, Spring, 2021
Registration is NOW OPEN!
Purchase Part One and Part Two separately, or save $150 when you sign up for the Whole Shebang!
The Creative Constellations workshop was The Biggest Turning Point in how I view myself and the unusual (creative) way that I have conducted my life. I'm forever grateful.
- Morgan B.
