Overcome your creative block.
Meet the eight monsters quietly hijacking your work and learn to befriend them.
You sit down to create. Something freezes you.
You have so much to express. Yet every time you begin, an invisible force holds you back. It isn't laziness. It's a voice and it has a script.
So you procrastinate. You numb out. You make something safe and hollow and the world goes without the thing only you could've 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.
Every block wears a familiar face. In the workshop we give each one a shape, a voice, and a way through.
The Paper Tiger
"I should start on Monday. Or next Monday. Or when the first one lands on a Monday."
ProcrastinationThe Pot Dweller
"Maybe this is too personal. I am not enough. I don't deserve attention."
Shame / HidingThe Bully
"If we never share, we can't be rejected."
Self-attackThe Scorekeeper
"Other people are doing better than me. This won't sell. Who will buy this?"
ComparisonThe Needle Heart
"If no one sees the real you, no one can wound the real you."
Vulnerability FearThe Heavy Head
"I need to think this through a little more. I can fix this with more planning."
OverthinkingThe Razor Eye
"That's not good enough. It needs to be perfect before anyone can see it."
PerfectionismThe Hibernator
"I can't move. I don't know where to start. Maybe if I just wait a little longer."
Freeze / ShutdownAn 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 recognise yours immediately.
Face them
Visualise 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. Realising you're not alone is, quietly, the most healing part of the night.
Choose how you want to show up.
- →Full workshop recording
- →The Creative Monsters digital zine
- →No live circle
- →No 1:1 time
- →Live seat in the workshop
- →The Creative Monsters digital zine
- →Full recording sent afterward
- →No 1:1 time
- →Everything in The Live Circle
- →The Creative Monsters digital zine
- →A private 1:1 call with Cuau
- →Personal guidance on your block
Every tier includes the digital zine, yours to keep. Seats are capped to protect the intimacy of the circle.
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 the tools to move through them.
Since then I've run these workshops in Germany and Japan. Now I'm bringing them online to creatives ready to meet their monsters face to face.
You already know something is in the way.
This is the work. Come do it with us.
One evening. A small circle. Eight monsters with names and shapes and, finally, a way through.
People leave lighter. Every time.
Claim your seat →This night was made for a particular kind of person.
What happens when people meet their monsters
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.
Thank you so much for the workshop. I felt my heart become considerably lighter. I'd always been aware of my negative inner voices, but I realized I'd been trying to eliminate them, wondering how to make them disappear, denying them. That realization alone was invaluable. The flow and facilitation were wonderful.
Your monsters are waiting.
Spend one evening learning to work with them instead of against them.
Wed June 25 · 7:00 PM EST · Limited to 10 live seats