the importance of supportive friends & community

Braveheart, my intention for Right Brain Planner® is to offer ideas, resources and practical ways to foster your unique creative practice (in baby steps), as well as to host kindred, creative spaces. ♥

• Right brain planning is a practice of creatively noting what you want to include and experience + continue to allow in your wild and precious life.
  • Your practice will develop over time as you discover what is most appealing and useful for you — and it might take some time. (Slow is fast enough.)
• Participating in a kindred community that provides a compassionate scaffolding of ideas and resources is a way of bolstering your creative practice.
  • Together we are stronger — and it is vital and life-giving to be active in community spaces both online and locally, whenever possible.

Listening to this podcast I was reminded how much my life is enriched by being in-community.

Within the communities I host, we support one another through the highs and lows of living — in addition to sharing ideas about our right brain planning practices, discussing books and offering a faithful witness (that often translates into an affirming framework of accountability).

Open hearts and open minds are critical if we want to be brave. Remember, it’s not fear that gets in the way of courage — it’s armor. It’s the way we self-protect, shut down, and start posturing when we’re in fear.

Brené Brown

Ko-fi Membership

• My Ko-fi community started in 2020, and it’s an ongoing community with a variety of support and benefits.
  • Membership Term: flexible, join anytime; monthly for as long as you are a patron.
  • Current Focus: monthly themes encouraging a Kaleidoscope Perspective regarding habits, routine and mark-making.
  • Focus for 2025: [Chapters] The Magic of Your Story Unfolding
    • One-time supporters receive a free monthly download with templates (art+content) to add to a journal and/or planner, and also have access to selected posts for 30 days.
    • Monthly recurring supporters have free access to a variety of template downloads and content posts, as well as a lunar cycle downloads (with prompts, art and content) and periodic Zoom sessions.
    • The difference between one-time and monthly access.

I host online community sessions via Zoom for the members of a private community focused on using Right Brain Planner® resources, with specific examples about my right brain planning practice.

Chapters Membership

• Registration for Chapters is open quarterly* to my Ko-fi patrons.
  • Our focus is a New 🌑 Moon check-in + utilizing Right Brain Planner® resources.
  • Our theme is [Chapters 📖 The Magic of Your Story Unfolding].
    • “Life is the story you tell yourself. But how you tell that story—are you a hero, victim, lover, warrior, caretaker, believer—matters a great deal. How you adapt that story—how you revise, rethink, and rewrite your personal narrative as things change, lurch, or go wrong in your life—matters even more.” -Bruce Feiler

*January, April, July and October

For almost two decades I have enjoyed expanding my vision for Right Brain Planner® which has included publishing thousands of blog posts, an annual right brain planning kit and cyclical resources, hosting creative communities, membership groups and book discussions.

Self-compassion and creative expression are the foundation for right brain planning.