Lunch and Learn

Description

Craft Your Commerce Lunch & Learn Series
Rest, Digest, & Create Your Way Forward in 2025 with J.Faye D'Avanza of Library of Care
📅 Friday, December 20th
⏰ 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
📍 IN PERSON | Center for Craft, Asheville, NC | 67 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801

Lunch Provided

“You may run out of energy, but not creativity.” —Rick Rubin

As you begin to reflect on the year 2024, do you feel like a broken clock? Gears stuck, springs unwound, the weight of the world creating too much pressure? As creatives, our relationship with stress is deeply intertwined with our art, influencing our lives in ways that can both move us forward or stop time completely. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, how do we find the energy to move through life and the creative process the way we once did?

Join J. Faye D’Avanza of Library of Care to explore the impacts of chronic stress on our creative clock—your unique beat that guides your body to feel and make sense of the world.

Through the use of creative questions, mindful group engagement, and the introduction of somatic practices to ground and soothe your nervous system, you will identify where you get stuck in the parallel cycles of stress and creativity, release what no longer works, and as a collective we will nourish ourselves to create the momentum we need to ritualize the winding of our creative clocks and move into 2025 with less stress and more peace. 

Who Is This For:

• Anyone looking to explore the intersection of creativity and stress.
• Anyone wishing to repair and balance their relationship with creativity, stress, anxiety, or burnout.
• Anyone wanting to discover more about what’s keeping them stuck in their creative life.
• Anyone hoping to learn more about the energetic cycles of stress and creativity.
• Anyone interested in giving and receiving support in a creative community. 

This workshop draws from the research, wisdom, and inspiration found in literature, including: The 5 Resets by Aditi Nerurkar, MD; Burnout and The Burnout Workbook both by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA; Real Self-Care by Poojah Lakshmin, MD; Writing on Empty by Natalie Goldberg; and many more. 

This is a great opportunity to enjoy a light lunch and find support from fellow creatives as we navigate together into the New Year with the intention to be well, create, and thrive.

J. Faye D’Avanza

Writer-Editor, Holistic Librarian, & Founder of Library of Care

J. Faye D'Avanza is a writer-editor, holistic librarian, and founder of Library of Care, a 21st-century resource hub dedicated to curating and sharing the knowledge, stories, and tools needed for creative recovery, healing, and thriving in the modern age through workshops, classes, events, and creative consulting and coaching services. For over twenty-years, she worked in public libraries beginning as a book shelver during Y2K, a Reference Librarian during The Great Recession, and then as a Community Engagement Librarian who found herself bookended and burned out during COVID-19, becoming one of 4.5 million quitters in The Great Resignation. By leaving her job as a public librarian, she committed herself to answering two questions: “Why did I burn out in a job that I loved?” And, “How do you write a book when you only have the energy to write a fragment of a thought?” 

Today, Faye serves as an information professional for creative well-being with her Substack newsletter Keeping Creative Time, where she shares stories and tools to help you be well, create, and thrive. A creative workshop facilitator and coach, she is passionate about helping others on their parallel burnout recovery and creative healing journeys. Faye holds an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, a BA in English with minors in American Studies and Art from the University of New Hampshire, a Certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago, and is a certified Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator from Story Parlor in West Asheville, North Carolina.

Faye lives among the artists, tourists, trees, and mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and can often be found drinking a matcha latte and writing in the margins of her books. You can learn more about her writing, workshops, consulting and coaching at jfayedavanza.com and follow her on Instagram @jfayedavanza and @libraryofcare.

Date & Time

Fri, Dec 20, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Venue Details

Center for Craft

Mountain BizWorks