Creative Orientation

One-to-one sessions for moments when things feel unclear, scattered, or out of alignment.

Creative Orientation offers a structured, reflective space to pause and orient—how you think, how you perceive, and how you are currently relating to your work, decisions, or inner experience.

Rather than solving problems, optimizing behavior, or prescribing strategies, the work slows things down. This makes it possible to see what is actually happening beneath urgency, noise, or internal pressure—and to regain a sense of coherence and direction.

People often book these sessions during transitions, periods of uncertainty, creative questioning, or when familiar ways of thinking are no longer working.

This is not therapy or coaching.

What Happens in a Session

Sessions are conversational, reflective, and guided by inquiry rather than technique. We work with attention, perception, and lived experience—sometimes through dialogue, sometimes through image-based or art-informed reflection, depending on what is useful in the moment.

The focus is on:

• clarifying how you are currently oriented

• noticing how attention moves, fragments, or settles

• understanding how perception shapes experience and decision-making

• recognizing internal rhythms related to effort, rest, and direction

The aim is not change for its own sake, but orientation—so choices, next steps, or pauses arise more naturally.

When This Work Is Useful

Creative Orientation can be supportive when:

• things feel complex but hard to name

• you are at a crossroads or transition

• you feel creatively stuck without being blocked

• your thinking feels busy, layered, or overloaded

• advice, tools, or productivity frameworks feel unhelpful

Some people come once or twice for clarity or recalibration. Others return periodically, when questions resurface or when orientation begins to slip.

Who This Work Is For

This work is for adults who:

• think deeply and reflectively

• experience complexity in how they attend, perceive, or work

• want clarity without pressure to improve, fix, or perform

• are not seeking therapy, coaching, or clinical support

People come from creative, professional, academic, and other backgrounds. No role, identity, or diagnosis is assumed.

Many who find this work supportive identify as neurodivergent, including autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD adults, though this is not a requirement.

How This Differs from Therapy or Coaching

Creative Orientation does not focus on symptom treatment, goal-setting, or behavioral change. It also does not offer strategies, techniques, or performance optimization.

Instead, it provides a grounded space for recognition, sense-making, and orientation—especially for people whose inner experience is complex or nuanced and not easily addressed through conventional frameworks.

Practical Details

One-to-one Creative Orientation session

$180 USD · 90 minutes

Sessions are offered online.

A limited number of sliding-scale places are available. If cost is a barrier, you’re welcome to mention this when getting in touch.

About the Facilitator

Shawna is an artist, photographer, creative consultant, and educator with over twenty years of experience working across art, perception, and reflective practice. Her background includes advanced training in somatic psychology and art psychotherapy, which informs a neuroaffirming, process-oriented approach to creative guidance.

Creative Orientation is part of Arte Soma, a cross-disciplinary space blending art, psychology, and education through practices that support awareness, presence, and creative orientation.