Sliding scale pricing is available for those who are in need.
If that’s you, please complete complete this form and we’ll get back to you.
If that’s you, please complete complete this form and we’ll get back to you.
Formerly offered as “Creative Mentorship,” these Creative Guidance sessions will be a container toward establishing a holistic and intuitively informed practice.
Whether you are seeking guidance through a particular project or you want to discuss your creative journey in general, I will be a mirror in your process by listening to your concerns and questions, reflecting these things back to you, and helping you to knead out the values and priorities that will set the standard for your practice. My goal is to help you establish an emotionally and psychologically aligned practice that will inform the direction of current and future projects, such that this creative practice ultimately aids in your overall wellbeing.
I apply my experience as a curator, professor, mindfulness meditation teacher, and arts administrator to cultivate a safe and unique space of discussion and reflection. I have extensive experience working with writers, arts workers, visual artists, musicians and sound artists, in particular, but the sessions are suitable for creative practitioners of any kind.
In our time together, we will massage out any existing kinks or blockages and instill a deepened capacity to find the answers you seek within yourself. Comprehensive attention being paid to emotional and psychological dimensions of being a creative person.
Here are some examples of things we can address:
- Feeling stuck while working on a project, and unsure about what direction to take the project in
- Being introduced to works, theories, practices of other artists and writers who might be relevant to you
- Considering new creative directions in your practice
- Reflecting on your arts career so far and setting goals for the future
- Returning to your “why” for a particular project or overall creative approach
- Strategies for sustainable collaboratione
These sessions are not solely about meeting professional goals (i.e. mentorship); holistic in this context means fully integrated, helping you get to the root of your creative practice as it is in deep relationship to your embodied self, helping you to understand how to navigate new endeavors and old blockages using your own inner knowing.
If you’re interested in working together, but are unsure if this is the right format to you, please feel free to schedule a free 15-minute consultation, or reach out at studio.agduplan@gmail.com.
These sessions are available as single sessions, or as a bundle of sessions (best for working through more complex issues).
Scheduling link will be sent upon purchase. Both virtual and in-person sessions are available. In-person sessions are held in North Adams, MA.
Sliding scale is available by completing the form at the top of the page.
A chaplain is like a spiritual friend. Unlike a teacher, mentor, coach, or therapist, a chaplain is there primarily just to listen, not necessarily to offer guidance. A chaplain also makes space for the exploration of spiritual and existential questions, especially as they arise around life’s meaning and one’s individual purpose, death and illness, identity, and relationships. A chaplain may offer companionship during a difficult time or participate in a celebratory moment, too! I am currently training to be a Buddhist eco-chaplain. Eco-chaplains, in particular, help to bridge human life and the more-than-human world. They may help to field climate anxiety or offer nature-based spiritual practices when appropriate. While each chaplain usually has a spiritual/religious practice of their own, chaplains are trained to interact with a broad range of spiritual practitioners outside their own tradition. Chaplains may learn about and participate in the spiritual traditions of those they offer support to, by offering or participating in ritual, prayer, or again simple listening. Chaplains can also provide support those who don't practice any kind of spiritual tradition at all, and even those who have had negative experiences with religion. This brings us back to the beginning: a chaplain is like a friend of sorts, one who is particularly good at listening.
I am offering my support as a chaplain on a volunteer basis; however, if you are able to make a donation, you can do so via the booking link below.
I will draw on a my 17-year meditation practice across a number of modalities, including Advaita Vedanta, a number of Buddhist schools, Bhakti Yoga, and secular meditation (i.e. mindulness meditation) to tailor a 30-minute guided meditation to your particular needs and experience level. I enjoy working both with beginners and more experienced meditators. After guided practice, we’ll have an additional half hour to talk through any concerns arising in your meditation practice.
Some things we can work through:
- Making time for meditation in daily life
- Finding the right style of meditation for you
- Attentional issues in meditation
- Integrating meditation and creative practice
- Relationship-focused meditation practices, e.g. lovingkindness meditation
- Connecting more deeply with the body
These sessions are expansive, allowing for compassionate discourse on clients’ thoughts, emotions, and relationships; however, these sessions are not a suitable replacement for therapy. It is best to pursue meditation and therapy in tandem, if possible.
Scheduling link will be sent upon purchase. Both virtual and in-person sessions are available. In-person sessions are held in North Adams, MA.
Sliding scale is available by completing the form at the top of the page.
I feel incredibly lucky and have so much gratitude for getting to learn from and share space with An. Please take what you want, erase what you don't need, or edit anything that might need changing.
I couldn't believe when taking a multi-session class with An, Research-Based Practice for Creative Writers, that they shared their Calendy link, offering office hours for anyone in the class—I almost immediately took them up on their generosity, and we met. I still cannot believe how An is changing-shaping my life (this sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not).
- Testimonial from Georgia
I couldn't believe when taking a multi-session class with An, Research-Based Practice for Creative Writers, that they shared their Calendy link, offering office hours for anyone in the class—I almost immediately took them up on their generosity, and we met. I still cannot believe how An is changing-shaping my life (this sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not).
- Testimonial from Georgia
Anaïs Duplan is one of the most humble, kind, creative and insightful people we have had the pleasure of writing and collaborating with. The creative writing workshop, Decolonizing the Creative Voice, was a playful and potent portal into the disrobing of dominant white supremacist values and patterning internalized and imposed on our creative musings.
-Testimonial from
Evie Toland
-Testimonial from
Evie Toland
An has guided and mentored me by asking questions that have encouraged me to consider my work in entirely new ways; by sharing texts and authors that I continue to reference and look to for inspiration; and most of all, by modeling a way of engaging with poetry that is new and revelatory to me.
- Testimonial from J. Miakoda Taylor
- Testimonial from J. Miakoda Taylor
