Brave Space Confusions

Hello Brave Creatives, I just wanted to make sure that people aren't confused. Maybe I was confused too, so this is a good way to make things clearer for all of us! 

I created Brave Space in 2019 on zoom (way before anyone knew how to zoom - maybe I taught you?) as a way to help people tell their stories, whatever their stories wanted to be, all genres, even abstract art as expression is a story to me, so Brave Space has served artists and all kinds of writers, all marginalized voices, because I wanted to offer the support I didn't have when I wrote FUKT (my autobiographical play about healing from trauma). And sometimes I held trauma-focused Brave Space sessions. 

But I didn't really know how to frame those sessions and create enough safety to really manage those sessions, so I started to train to do that. In the meantime, Brave Space evolved to become a safe space for anyone (female-identified or nonbinary) to generate creative work (and yes, sometimes people work on other things too, like applications, submissions and grants). 

Along with already being a certified holistic health coach, after several additional years of training, I started coaching privately and with groups. I taught some classes, and this week is the final week of a month-long coaching class I offered about the nervous system and how to manage it with somatic exercises and parts work. It has been amazing! I am very proud of the work I've done to create and lead this class and the work being done in the class. 

So is Brave Space only for people with trauma? No. Brave Space is a trauma-informed support space for writers and artists of all kinds, but you don't need to have been traumatized or actually be in crisis to take part. You are welcome as you are! 

The trauma-informed nature of Brave Space means that it IS a safe space informed by safer practices I've been learning and developing to offer you all a safer journey so that you can take the risks you need to take as the artist and creative you are. 

And the beautiful thing about creating safe space is that it allows us all to learn and grow and make more stories, novels, poems, plays, flash fiction, cnf, hybrid forms and art (and write more grants)! 

Because safety is the best way for our nervous system to shift into a parasympathetic state where we can tend and befriend, rest and digest, mate and create! Creating a calm, alive state of safety in our cells and through our nervous system allows us to engage with the work we dream of doing. It's actually easier in Brave Space. 

And if you do want to talk to me about private trauma-informed coaching to help you deal with your Inner Critic or your nervous system or any Part of you that might be giving you a hard time, please email me. 

This week Brave Space happens Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 12pm ET via Zoom. If you want to join me, LET ME KNOW, and I'll send a link! 

Any questions, please ask! 

Onward,

Emma