Lectures
How Creativity Shapes Your Brain and Your Life
Made to Make
Discover why creativity isn’t just something you do—it’s who you are. This 50-minute talk blends neuroscience and philosophy to reveal how intentional making transforms our brains, restores presence, and reclaims creativity as a vital part of being human—even in an AI-driven world.
How Making Builds Resilience & Reinvention
Creativity in the Unknown
In times of transition or uncertainty, creativity becomes more than a hobby—it becomes a lifeline. This 50-minute talk explores how making helps us process change, rebuild after burnout, and reshape our lives through resilience, presence, and possibility.
Cultivating Presence Through Creative Practice
Mindful Making
Step out of the hustle and into the sacred rhythm of intentional making. This 50-minute talk explores how being more intentional in your creative process cultivates mindfulness, restores joy, and transforms both your work and your well-being.
Finding Meaning Through Creative Expression
Stitching Self Stories
Your creative work holds stories—whether or not you intend them. This 50-minute talk explores how every choice in your making can carry memory, meaning, and cultural connection, inviting you to create with deeper narrative intention and presence.
Creativity as a Practice, Not a Product
Process Over Perfection
Reclaim creativity as a way of being, not a list of finished projects. This 50-minute session explores how shifting your focus from outcomes to process can reignite joy, reduce burnout, and transform your relationship with making—unfinished edges and all.