FREE WORKSHOP: HOW TO BUiLD A PERSONAL CURRiCULUM
that’s actually effective, fun, and works with your brain
Do you have something you want to learn, become, explore, or experience?
Maybe it's having a summer with your kids that doesn’t drive you all bonkers. Maybe it's exploring what it would feel like to actually give being an artist a go. Maybe it's finally writing that spicy romance novel you’ve been thinking about for ages, or learning to sew.
The way I approach personal curriculums is different. It's not about accomplishing something — it's about creating a container for the thing you want to explore. They need to be flexible enough for real life but structured enough that you have a clear idea of what to do and don’t wander off down some other rabbit hole.
Whatever you want to make a curriculum for, there are things that make them work and things that will absolutely sabotage them.
In this free workshop I'll cover:
My approach to personal curriculums and what makes them different
How personal curriculums helped me navigate burnout and make a major midlife pivot
The key pieces that make a curriculum achievable and actually useful
And then we'll have a go at creating your own — something you can start implementing in the next few months!
Friday, June 12th
10 - 11:30am BST
A replay will be sent out to everyone who registers
the first personal curriculum I made back in 2015 to help my kiddos and I have a structure for summer
Hi, I’m Joeli!
I've been creative my whole life. But I never saw myself as "the artistic one."
I've spent my career in the creative world — designing knitting patterns, teaching technical editing, coaching creative businesses, bookkeeping, being the structure to other people's chaos. I’ve always been the person behind the scenes making someone else's creative dream work. It was all very logical, sensible, practical.
But behind-all-that, there was this dream of being an artist. One that had been there since I was a kid, but I never believed I had the talent to pursue. Finally at 39, with no drawing experience and a sketchbook I had absolutely no idea how to fill, I picked up a pencil and decided to find out what happens when I stop being scared and just tried.
Despite going through many big life pivots — moving countries, leaving a 14-year marriage, coming out as queer — somehow "can I just decide to become an artist?" felt like the wildest, riskiest, most unreasonable thing I'd ever considered.
It still does, a little. I'm doing it anyway.
If you've been creative your whole life but never let yourself be The Artist — never given yourself the main role in your own story — that's exactly what I'm here for. I help people who've quietly stopped believing a wild and joyous creative life is possible for them show up for it anyway.
Recently read and loved…
Fantasy Books: The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black; Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo; The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Romance Books: We Could be So Good by Cat Sebastian; Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan; Not in My Book by Katie Holt
What I’m listening to on repeat…
Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally by Harry Styles
Everybody Screams by Florence and the Machine
luck…or something by Hilary Duff
my boygenius / Lucy Dacus / Phoebe Bridgers / Julien Baker compilation playlist
in general a mix of Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, Maisie Peters, Olivia Rodrigo, Griff, Sabrina Carpenter
My qualifications:
Certified bookkeeper (ICB)
International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation- Associate Coach Level
Certified Cycle Coach with Cycle Coach School
Graduate of the Self-Belief Coaching Academy with Sas Petherick
Completed the Neuroscience of Coach Training with Coach Training EDU
Completed CULTIVATE, a course on trauma-informed space holding, with Katie Kurtz
Certified Wellness & Life Coach through Coach Training EDU
BSc Hons Degree in Mathematics with Education