Connecting & Creating Beyond Social Media

$200 or 2 monthly payments of $100

Connecting & Creating Beyond Social Media

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A two day workshop with women's coach & author Claire Baker.

🐬 What is this?

A two day workshop for curious souls who feel eager to spend more time away from the scroll-heavy world of social media. It's an opportunity to discover effective ways to find clients, build community, create truly great work, promote your offerings and form new tech habits that support a sustainable and deeply joyful way of doing business. Ultimately it's an invitation to think, create and connect beyond the apps and the algorithms.

Two days. Live and online. Me, you and a small group of like-minded peers.

Think: workshop-style with elements of teaching, discussion, sharing and ample space on the second day for creating. You will walk away from this workshop with new insights and perspectives to implement right away, new pals who (like you) are yearning for community beyond the 'gram, and (most excitingly) new creative content that you'll have created distraction-free, focussed, in the flow and with joy in your heart.

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🌞 We'll explore:

The impact of social media on our physical, mental & emotional wellbeing
The pro's & con's of social media for businesses
Why creating our best work for social media is a mistake
Inspring examples of businesses who do not use social media & what they do instead
Newsletters, podcasts, books, YouTube, Substack — what should you focus on?
How to make friends & network away from social media
How to *really* know your audience
Finding focus & fulfilment in a distraction-heavy world
Digital detoxing & building in social media breaks to your day, month and year
Creating offerings that your community genuinely loves
Finding your unique voice & having the confidence to use it
Do you need to delete Instagram forever? (Spoiler: no)
The power of delaying gratification & optimising dopamine as you create
Exactly how I use email to reach the right people for the right things
And more!

💗 Who is this for?

This workshop is geared towards business owners and folks with an online brand and presence. It's for people who are feeling increasingly frustrated when using social media for their communications, marketing and content creation and find themselves regularly fantasising about deleting those blasted apps forever and running away to a forest where annoying notifications, algorithms, likes and reels are a thing of the past.

I can't promise that you will never find yourself stuck in a scroll-hole again, cursing Zuckerberg and wondering why you bothered spending three hours making that reel for only a handful of people to see it. But I can promise that we'll have a laugh at this modern predicament we've found ourselves in and you WILL leave feeling encouraged to create new boundaries, habits and processes that ensure your unique creativity and gifts are seen, heard and valued.

The workshop is taught through my lens as as a creative, coach, writer and teacher. I run a service-based business and so the content will likely be more relevant to those with similar business models, though this is not a pre-requisite. I'm not familiar with product-based selling and I can't speak to that. If you don't create your own offerings or run a business at all (and have no plans to) you'll get some value from the workshop but I'd say it's not what you're looking for.

🗓️ When is it happening?

Live and online over two days:

Friday 11th August, 1pm - 4:30pm BST
Saturday 12th August, 10am - 1:30pm BST

The Friday afternoon session will be include teaching and discussion while the Saturday morning session is dedicated and focussed creative time as a group. Plus of course, space for feedback and celebration!

Ideally you will be able to attend both sessions but recordings will be available for both days for everyone who is registered, eg. if you can only make one day, you can catch up on the recording afterwards.

You'll also receive:

Prompts and exercises to begin reflecting on your current relationship with social media to find clarity on why you want to start doing things differently. You'll take an audit of your social media use plus you'll receive my much-asked-for plan on how to take a break from Instagram without causing any harm to your business, as well as scripts and templates to use for pitching, copywriting and general magic-making.

Who am I?

Hi, I'm Claire! I'm not a social media expert and I promise I'm not secretly trying to get everyone to abandon Instagram and move to that magical forest. In fact, I use social media and it's been a valuable marketing and community-building stream for me since 2012 when I began sharing and teaching online. But I'm also a highly-sensitive creature who thrives creatively when I have space, quiet and I can focus. Over the last decade I've been curious about how I can have a healthy online business without actually being online 24/7. I can report that I have had various degrees of success with this mission. In this workshop I plan to share with you the mindsets, systems, structures, habits, stories, research and the myriad of options available to you that (combined) will support you to spend way less time checking your phone and far more time in your creative cave. (Or not working at all and doing something else entirely, which I am fully behind!) You can read more about me here.