Meet your
Creative Monsters.
Something keeps getting in the way of your creative work. In this workshop you’ll name it, understand it, and start changing your relationship with it.
Wed July 29 · 7:00 PM · Eye Dot Studio, Toronto · Limited to 10 seats
Past sessions in Berlin and Japan. Toronto is next.
You sit down to create. Something freezes you.
So you wait. You tinker. You make something safe and hollow and the world goes without the thing only you could have made. It doesn’t have to keep going like this.
Those voices aren’t your enemy. They’re frightened guardians that never learned to let you grow.
Name them · Face them · Befriend them
Meet the eight you’ll be working with.
In the room, we’ll identify which monsters are running your creative life and build a practical response you can use the very next day.
“I should start on Monday. Or next Monday. Or when the first one lands on a Monday.”
“Maybe this is too personal. I am not enough. I don’t deserve attention.”
“If we never share, we can’t be rejected.”
“Other people are doing better than me. This won’t sell. Who will buy this?”
“If no one sees the real you, no one can wound the real you.”
“I need to think this through a little more. I can fix this with more planning.”
“That’s not good enough. It needs to be perfect before anyone can see it.”
“I can’t move. I don’t know where to start. Maybe if I just wait a little longer.”
An intimate evening, in three movements.
Name them
Walk through the eight patterns that block art, what they whisper, and where they come from. You’ll recognize yours immediately.
Face them
Visualize and give shape to your own monsters. Talk to them. Set limits. We’ll work with practical tools you keep for life.
Befriend them
Share in a small circle of like-minded creatives. Realizing you’re not alone is, quietly, the most healing part of the night.
Wed July 29 · 7PM
- →Full in-person workshop
- →Creative Monsters digital zine
- →Actionable tools to take home
- →Everything in Live Workshop
- →Private 1:1 Creative Mapping Session
- →Personalized integration plan
This Toronto workshop is for a particular kind of person.
“I felt my heart become considerably lighter. I realized I had been trying to eliminate my negative inner voices rather than understand them. That realization alone was invaluable.”
“We were a small group, and everyone was equally open to explore — some surprised at themselves for how deep we went so quickly. Cuau invites presence and non-judgment by embodying all of it himself. The beauty is the connection and recognition that comes out of it: everyone there relates to the block in some way. Naming the monsters and facing them together led, again and again, to inspiration.”
I was creatively frozen for over a decade.
I’m Cuau Velazquez, a filmmaker. I always loved writing and telling stories, but I was petrified to share a single idea with the world.
In 2023, heart surgery put things into perspective. It gave me the push to write, produce and shoot my first short film, Apparition. Making it forced me to confront my own creative monsters and find tools to move through them.
Since then I’ve run these workshops in Germany and Japan. Now I’m bringing it to Toronto in person for creatives ready to meet their monsters face to face.
Wed July 29 · 7PM
- →Full in-person workshop
- →Creative Monsters digital zine
- →Actionable tools to take home
- →Everything in Live Workshop
- →Private 1:1 Creative Mapping Session
- →Personalized integration plan
Leave with clarity and a map.
Wednesday July 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM · Eye Dot Studio, 548 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1H3