CREATIVITY & PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY (Online)
Ten Week Class
Mondays, Oct. 6-Dec. 8, 2025 from 6:00-8:30pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Sliding Scale Registration | $550 / $600 / $650
Please pay what you’re able—when you’re in a position to support more, your contribution strengthens our community and makes creative learning accessible for all.
2025 Workshop Dates/Time:
Mondays, October 6-December 8 from 6:00-8:30pm EST
Last class on December 8 will meet till 9pm
See weekly breakdown in class description.
Policies & Agreements
Cancellation and general policies can be found here.
As we investigate the stories we tell ourselves, we explore purpose, meaning, and the fabric of the human condition while also reaping the innumerable fringe benefits that result from responding to our creative calling. With the accompaniment of a creative project, this ten-week course will investigate the intersection between our creativity and personal mythology, including strategies to work through common blocks, ways to kickstart and sustain creative momentum, and ways to leverage personal narrative for creative bounty. This course is open to narrative artists hailing from any medium, in any stage of their creative journey.
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Week 1 | The Creative Practice
Class Overview, The Creative Process; The Duality of Creativity; Ritual + Intention
Week 2 | Personal Mythology
Personal Narrative and Autobiographical Reasoning; Looking Back to Look Forward; Memoir + Memory; Creativity + Emotion
Week 3 | NarrativeAlchemy
Excavating our Lived Experiences for Creative Bounty; Theme Work and Investigation; Creative DNA; The Intersection of Creativity + Personal Myth
Week 4 | The Stories We Tell
Shadow Work; Navigating Guiding and Conflicting Myths; Demystifying Creative Resistances; Re-defining Fear
Week 5 | Your Own Personal Fairytale
Re-authoring Our Stories; Identifying Patterns; Harnessing Archetypal Wisdom and Power; Embodying Magic, Mystery, and Metaphor
Week 6 | Minding the Muse
Choosing Our Stories and Our Ideas; Feeding and Tending to the Muse; Engaging Creative Intuition
Week 7 | The Creative Wilderness
Creative Iteration; The Messy Middle; Working with Creative Constraints; Project + Process Mapping
Week 8 | Mythic Mapping
Story Mapping and Structure; Defining and Working within a Container; Detail + Sensory Exploration
Week 9 | Your Creative Compass
Artistic Autonomy and Narrative Agency; Developing a Creative Mission; Workshopping
Week 10 | Integration & Return
Integration and Celebration; Myth in Action; Completing and Sharing Work; Final Reflections + Manifestations
Please note our final class will run till 9:00pm ET.
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Erin Hallagan Clare
Erin Hallagan Clare is the founder and Artistic Director of Story Parlor, a narrative arts space based in Asheville, NC. Launched in 2015 (formerly known as “Story Bar”), Story Parlor offers community-driven events and workshops designed to bring audiences and artists together through the universal language of creativity and story. Erin has spent her career developing the “Inward & Artward Model of Creativity,” and is in the process of launching an online school dedicated to this methodology.
Erin is currently pursuing her PhD in Creativity at Rowan University. She studied film and theatre at Temple University, and earned her Masters in Psychology with a Creativity Studies specialization, where her thesis was dedicated to creative facilitation. She holds a graduate certificate from Pacifica University in Applied Mythology and is a certified Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach as well as a graduate of the Advanced Creativity Coaching program with Dr. Eric Maisel. In kinship with her experience as a Creativity Coach, Erin is an accredited Enneagram Practitioner as well as a certified yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance with over 450 hours in trainings. Prior to these projects, Erin served as the Creative Director of the Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (where she currently remains on the board), in addition to producing the PBS and PRX-affiliated project, On Story, for which she received a Lone Star Emmy for Best Arts/Entertainment Program in 2014.
A writer and storyteller, Erin regularly teaches creativity and personal mythology workshops at both Story Parlor and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She has shared stories and written work at The Moth, Listen to This, NC Writers Network, The Great Smokies Writing Program, Jazz Hybrid, Testify, One Page Salon, and is a Moth Story Slam Champion. Her writing can be found in Psychology Today, Thrive Global, and others, and she is a contributing author to The Coach’s Guide to Completing Creative Work published by Routledge.
Erin believes everyone has a story to tell, and that we are all creative. She is dedicated to making a difference through the transformative power of the arts.
>> You can watch Erin’s Creative Mornings talk on “Parallel” here.
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“A life-changing experience. The most positive, freeing, encouraging, challenging, heartening and enjoyable explorations I’ve been part of in quite some time. Erin set up an environment in which kindness and generosity to one another was encouraged. This allowed me to feel I could be myself, free myself from inhibition and open myself to new concepts and a sense of possibility. Optimism and confidence, then, resulted. I started to feel creative. There were countless tools to encourage creativity, group activities and readings that informed, motivated and inspired. The beautifully spacious, fresh and minimalistic environment complete with the creativity library made just being in the space a joy. THANK YOU!”
— Mary Lou Wittmer
“Whether you’re a writer, a painter, or a general maker, this class has inspired my creativity and challenged me to become more intuitive and present in seeing the creative possibilities all around me.”
— Keith MacDonald
“I love, love, love how each class had dynamic experiences that were simultaneously intimate and expressive. I’m excited to take more.”— Tikva Kingrea
“I want more. I feel that I would learn something new if I took the lab 20 times. It is so chock-full of wondrous suggestions for me to carry on my creative journey. Thank you for the experience.”
— Crystal Carroll
“Erin is a wealth of knowledge on the craft of stories, and very supportive no matter what your experience or where you are at in your own journey.”
— Alyssa Benedetto
“Erin was a remarkable facilitator. She created a comfortable space while also challenging us to look inward at what was holding us back. I didn’t know what to expect–I hadn’t been in a workshop setting for many years–and found the lab to be inspiring and energizing. I’ve been writing more than I have in years. I can’t say enough positive things about the experience.”
— Laura Burke
Facilitated by: Erin Hallagan Clare (I&A Founder)