Let the practice of engaging with your creativity be a way to breathe and let go of limitations.
Morgan Harper Nichols
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I am excited to be transitioning into the time of year I consider my “new year.” A time when I assess my right brain planning practice and recalibrate as needed. 💛
My current journal-planning includes:
- Right Brain Planner® booklets (made from the templates of Ko-fi downloads) 📥
- a variety of oracle decks; I pull cards for the main lunar 🌗🌕🌓🌑 phases + whenever needed for inspiration
- sky meditations are a regular practice for me; it is a reminder to be “as the sky is to the weather” (Caroline McHugh) within the roller coaster ride of life
- cycling with/like the 🌗🌕🌓🌑 moon (and 🌷☀️🍂❄️ the seasons) and being 🌲🌌🌿 outdoors
- this journal 📙to use as an art journal (new addition/space for mixed media pages)
- two of these dated planners (one for personal plans; one for business notes)
- a favorite size; third year of using this particular planner 💗
- Leuchtturm1917 5-Year “Some Lines A Day” (daily for all of 2024)
- weekly Currently notes & handwritten pages + notes in my Chapters journal
- self-directed art and topical studies; my current book stack 📚
- a variety of “processing journals” for coursework, project planning and personal wellness (visual notes, bubble-maps, color-vents, free-writing) 💙 used as needed
Please Note: This list includes the details of what I am currently utilizing for my right brain planning practice — and I do not do everything on this list every day. ☺️
Are you currently feeling stuck in your creative practice?
- I compiled a free 📥 download with ideas and prompts and art cards for [getting unstuck].
- Because everything is simply a phase as we cycle through our feelings 🤷🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️ and experiences; we cycle through “light and darkness” just like the 🌔🌕🌖 moon.
I host online community sessions via Zoom for my Ko-fi patrons and for the members of a private community focused on using Right Brain Planner® resources.
- You may join the Ko-fi community anytime via a one-time donation or monthly.
- Registration for the private community will open in September.
- Our focus is a New 🌑 Moon check-in + utilizing Right Brain Planner® resources.
- Members are able to join community sessions and occasional one-to-one sessions to share about their practice as well as ask questions and discuss ideas for right brain planning.
- The 2024 theme is 💢”Kaleidoscope Perspectives” [beauty awaits].
- Our group chose to discuss chapters from The Artist’s Rule by Christine Valters Paintner during a monthly Saturday meeting.
- We also meet the second Saturday each month + the last Friday for discussion and set aside time for a monthly review and journal-planner prep.
- The 2025 theme will be “Chapters” 📖 [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
- If you are interested in being notified about registration for 2025 membership, please contact me via Instagram. 💛
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.
- Self-compassion has three main elements: mindfulness, common humanity and kindness.
My inspiration to design and create templates and resources for right brain planning is my desire to:
- Live more of what matters most to me.
- Have a dated and sequential chronicle of my living (time and energies).
- Process what I am feeling utilizing the lunar cycle + monthly themes from the Right Brain Planner® resources as a both a guide and scaffolding.
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner® I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute delight to continue this portion of my creative work (even as I retire from full-time work).
This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions).