How does the IFS Studio work, really?
WHEN DO WE MEET
We meet on zoom daily, facilitated sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am – 2pm ET.
24-7 member-run collective rest of the week; work around your schedule – and mood!
Attend whenever you want as often as you’d like, from anywhere.
2 THINGS HAPPEN IN THE IFS STUDIO
We get work done …that creative work we often procrastinate on.
We connect with fellow artists. Even if you’re a mega shy introvert (like me) our format ensures that everyone will feel central and connected if you keep showing up.
WHAT NEVER HAPPENS IN THE IFS STUDIO
The studio is NOT A CLASS. We have a facilitator to make our live, co-working go well, but they’re not there as an instructor.
You won’t share work for feedback. Feel free to come empty handed! You can even come with no clue about how you’d like to spend that time or what you’ll work on. (If you’d like feedback, show up enough times and you’ll eventually make friends with other members who want feedback too, so you can meet outside studio hours and exchange input and even more support.)
members describe their experience:
HOW IT WORKS
We meet on zoom, spend a couple of minutes introducing ourselves, and then we break into small groups (of 2 or 3 people). There we each spend a couple of minutes talking about our work and how it’s going.
The bulk of the time is spent doing our work, while getting inspired as we watch our colleagues do their work. It’s self-run. You’re not given assignments. You decide what you’d like to work on and how you’ll use this time.
This format will almost always get you into a state of flow. The studio gets you focused, but without the isolation that almost always slows us down.
At the end of each block, you have the option to go into small groups again to talk about how it went, and listen to your peers talk about how it’s going for them.
Each block is an hour long. Join as many as you want, whenever you want.
The accountability, camaraderie and support make it impossible not to get work done:
🎓 Use it to work through a course you joined and haven’t finished (or haven’t started!)
✍️ Use it to do your writing if you’ve been thinking about writing but haven’t been writing.
🎥 Use it to edit a film, write that scary email, make that scary phone call, update your reel, design that pitch deck, brainstorm a script for your fundraising campaign, or just use the studio space to finally fold the pile of laundry that’s been sitting there.
The more times you come, the more useful the studio will become. That’s because you’ll become more and more comfortable with it, and build relationships that you enjoy.
We’ve had members forge collaborations, meet in-person, organize table reads and other virtual events, form writing groups that meet outside of studio hours.
The sky is the limit.
I’m there often because, like everyone else, I too get stuck and procrastinate on creative work. The studio gets me working and unstuck.
SUMMARY
❌ The IFS Studio is not a class. You don’t show your work for feedback. Showing up empty handed with no clue about what to do is perfect.
✅ You’ll find focus and get a TON of work done that you’ve been putting off.
✅ You’ll build new relationships with fellow artists who will support you.
Hope to see you there!
