The Sacred Creativity Collective
inside Appetite for Living's new founding membership
G’day friends,
I’m thrilled to take you on a tour inside the new Appetite for Living founding membership, the Sacred Creativity Collective!
What is the Sacred Creativity Collective?
It’s Appetite for Living’s sacred creativity incubator - a place for co-creating and co-visioning. Together we’ll make space for the mystery and the wild muse and explore a more expansive and relational approach to creativity including the rich sources of support, intelligence and wisdom beyond ourselves.
Each month on or around the new moon, we’ll come together online for an hour of sacred creative power guided by the themes of the seasons and cycles. Together we’ll create a container for intention setting, meditative writing, drawing, knitting, visioning, whatever vessel holds your creativity - using ritual, readings, prompts and harnessing the collective energy of like hearted folks up for remembering our interconnection with the greater web of life in service of our creativity.
It’s not about the craft of writing or receiving feedback on your work. There will be time for sharing about our projects, setting personal and collective intentions and sharing what we’re noticing in our creative practice and lives, especially once we get going and the magic starts to happen.
Why are we aligning with the moon?
The moon is universal and accessible to all of us regardless of where we are. All we have to do is look up to the night sky to reconnect with the greater turning. She provides a steady rhythm that our bodies and intuitions know and understand as well as providing the perfect framework for exploring other cycles and practices as portals to our inner knowing and the wisdom of the greater web of life.
Our monthly gatherings take place once a month on the Monday closest to the new moon because new moons are potent for sowing seeds and setting intentions.🌑✨🙏🔮 Through ritual, guiding questions and practices, together we’ll create a sacred container for creativity, connection, visioning, sharing and intention setting.
Who is it for?
Writers and creators looking to deepen their intuition and listening skills, remember and practice attunement with the bigger forces and cycles, enhance the power of their creativity in service of remembering, reconnection and breaking the culture of individualism and separation in a space where the support and company of both the seen and unseen is acknowledged, honoured and encouraged.
We’ll be guided by the necessity of the times in opening ourselves up to the stories that are longing to be told through us.
How do I join, how much is the membership fee and what happens when I sign up?
By upgrading your Appetite for Living subscription to founding membership, you’ll automatically gain membership of the Sacred Creativity Collective. As a paid subscriber, you’ll also gain access to the full Appetite for Living archive, including posts paywalled after 6 weeks, receive a new creative or contemplative practice each month by email, and the free fortnightly Appetite for Living newsletter.
As a founding member, you’ll also receive a 10% discount on the purchase price of the limited edition hardback of my latest collection of poetry, Reunion Songs: poems for reconnection and remembering yourself home. The poems in this collection were co-created with the other than human world for which I am eternally grateful.
You’ll also be the first to hear about, and receive discounts on, new workshops and opportunities to work with me 1:1.
I’m holding annual founding membership at the current price of $150 AUD for folks who join by 23 February. From 24 February, the membership will increase to $200 AUD per year to reflect the new membership changes.
When you join, you’ll gain access to the Sacred Creativity Collective tab and homepage on the Appetite for Living website. It will be your go to for information about when and how you can join our online gatherings. You’ll find a calendar of dates for our monthly gatherings, the ZOOM link to join, a time and date converter link, how do join the Sacred Creativity Collective Chat and notes and resources from our meetings. I’ll let you know as soon as the page goes live in time for our first gathering later this month.
How often will we meet and when’s our first gathering?
Our monthly gatherings will take place online via ZOOM on or around the new moon.
Our first gathering will be Monday 24 February 2025 at 6am AEST. We’ll meet for an hour of sacred creative power!
You can check the time and date for where you are HERE.
I’m new here and have missed the first meeting. Can I still join?
Yes absolutely! You are welcome to join at any time. Every gathering is recorded for you to watch anytime. You can find the recordings on the Sacred Creativity Collective homepage, along with resources and creativity/contemplative practices.
Is there a calendar of dates available for this year?
Yes there is! We’ll be meeting 12 times during 2025 (11 monthly new moon gatherings and one mid year full moon retreat). Here are the dates and times:
Monday 24 February 6-7am AEST - 🌑 welcome gathering
Monday 24 March 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 28 April 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 26 May 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 23 June 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 28 July 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 25 August 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 8 September 6-7am AEST - total lunar eclipse & 🌕 release retreat
Monday 22 September 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 20 October 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 17 November 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering
Monday 15 December 6-7am AEST - 🌑 gathering & reflection retreat
Will our gatherings be recorded?
Yes! I will also post detailed notes, including a list of readings/resources on the Sacred Creativity Collective page within 24 hour of each gathering. You’ll also receive the monthly creative/contemplative practice the Friday after each gathering, which can be used to support your own personal practice.
Will there be opportunities to connect and share in between gatherings?
Absolutely! I’ll be checking in every Monday on the private Sacred Creativity Collective Chat on Substack where I’ll post prompts, questions for contemplation and other interesting/relevant otherworldly info you might like to weave into the week ahead. For those folks not using the Substack app, these weekly threads will also be delivered to you by email. The Chat will be the best place to share and connect in between get togethers and you can always reach me by replying to my emails.
I can’t wait to welcome you into the collective and hear about your creative projects!
In the meantime, please reach out by return email or comment if you have questions.
With love, Amanda x