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Workshop Series: Being Seen for Service - Moving from Self-Consciousness to Contribution


This event is occurring in The River

Mondays from september 14th to OCtober 5th from 11:30-1pm PT via zoom

Many of us long to share our work, voices, and creative gifts while also feeling conflicted about visibility. We worry about being too much, not enough, self-promotional, or ego-driven. Yet when we hide what we're here to offer, the world is also deprived of the medicine that only we can bring.

This four-week series invites us to explore visibility not as performance, but as service, and to move from self-consciousness and self-centeredness to contribution. This is not about becoming more visible for visibility's sake. It's about becoming available to the work that wants to move through us, and allowing our gifts to be received by those they're meant to serve.

Together we'll practice releasing the need for perfection, recognition, and pedestal-building, while cultivating the courage to let ourselves be seen in service of conscious creation, meaningful contribution, and collective flourishing. Whether you're an artist, entrepreneur, facilitator, writer, healer, or creative human, this space is for anyone longing to share their gifts with greater integrity and less fear.

🌀 What to Expect 🌀

  • A welcoming space to connect, be witnessed, and witness others

  • Curated resources exploring ego, purpose, visibility, and creative service

  • Guided reflections to clarify your unique gifts and the deeper "why" behind sharing them

  • Honest conversations about the challenges and joys of being seen

  • Practices that help shift from performing for approval toward creating as an act of generosity and contribution

🌊 Our Living Agenda

  • Arrival and community check-in

  • Resource exploration

  • Guided reflection

  • Group discussion and connection

  • Integration and closing

🌱 You'll Walk Away With 🌱

  • Greater confidence in sharing your creative gifts without needing to prove yourself

  • Practical tools for recognizing when your ego or inner critic is pulling you toward fear, perfectionism, or self-consciousness, and ways to gently return to service

  • A clearer understanding of your unique medicine and the value it offers others

  • More trust that your voice, perspective, and creations are worthy of being received

  • A renewed relationship with visibility as an act of generosity rather than performance

  • The support of a community committed to conscious creation, mutual witnessing, and collective flourishing


recordings will be provided to stream for 7 days after if you cannot make the live sessions.


facilitated by Chetna Mehta

Chetna (she/they) is a granddaughter of Indian and South African diasporas. As a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and creativity doula, she weaves somatic healing, decolonial/ecological frameworks, and expressive arts as liberatory practice. She is the founder of The River and Mosaiceye Collective, creating resources, programs, and spaces where women and non-binary changemakers can fiercely soften into trust, play, transformation, and expansive collaboration. Chetna is the author and illustrator of The I Am Devoted Playbook, Cultivating Abundance Mentality Coloring Book and the new Cultivating Compassion in Times of Fascism Coloring Book


Ticket options

$210 - attend the 4-workshop series

$260 - attend the series and pay it forward

Reach out if the sliding scale ticket is not accessible to you and we’ll sponsor you.
Folks who pay it forward with their tickets help us do this.

 
Workshop Series: Being Seen for Service
from $210.00

Four Mondays from September 14th to October 5th @ 11:30-1pm PT

We will email you the Zoom link and other relevant details a few days before the start of the series.

Recordings will be provided to stream for 7 days after if you cannot make the live sessions.

Our workshop-ticket return policy applies.

 
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