Six Week Class
Tuesdays, Nov. 11-Dec. 16, 2025 from 6:30-8:30pm EST
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Registration is through the Inward & Artward School of Creativity, a sister project to Story Parlor.
Turn the vulnerable space between finishing a project and sharing it into a pathway of strength. In this 6-week journey, you’ll learn to move through fear of visibility, self-doubt, and anxiety with embodied tools and supportive practices.
We’ll work with a blend of somatic nervous system practices, mindfulness meditation, and archetype reflections to support you in moving through fears of visibility. You’ll learn concrete skills for calming anxiety, grounding your body before and after sharing, and expanding your tolerance for being seen. Together we’ll design personalized daily routines that anchor you in steadiness and help you return to safety when self-doubt arises. Each session includes opportunities to practice sharing in ways that strengthen confidence, so that by the end you’ll have both the inner tools and the outer support to cross the threshold from private creation to public expression with greater ease.
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The Inward & Artward School of Creativity—a sister project to Story Parlor—launched in the fall of 2025 with the intention of expanding the workshops and classes offered to a broader, virtual community.
The school takes its name from a guiding philosophy: that one must go inward in order to go “artward.” Creativity, in this framework, begins with reflection, personal narrative, and an honest reckoning with the stories we carry—about ourselves, about others, and about the world. I&A helps participants explore those stories, untangle limiting beliefs, and cultivate sustainable practices that foster creative growth. The aim is not to teach a singular technique or discipline, but to provide tools and frameworks that allow individuals to discover their own pathways to expression.
Programming at I&A spans a range of offerings, from short-term workshops to extended creative facilitator trainings. These trainings are particularly impactful, equipping artists, educators, and community leaders with the skills to guide others in creative exploration. Through this work, the school cultivates a new generation of creative leaders committed to fostering inclusive, meaningful, and transformative arts experiences.
Together, Story Parlor and the I&A School of Creativity form a dynamic ecosystem of creativity aimed at dismantling the barriers and silencing that so often accompany early creative experiences, and to invite participants to reclaim creativity as an essential part of how they live. They affirm that creativity is not the province of a chosen few, but the birthright of all—a force capable of bridging divides, deepening empathy, and helping us see ourselves and one another more fully.
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Mariana Tirsa is a singer-songwriter, artist, and creative coach who believes creativity is both a sanctuary and a calling. Based between Oaxaca, Mexico and Asheville, North Carolina, she has released two albums and several singles, received a Songwriting Residency in the UK with the Sufi Threshold Society, and won an Austin Live Music Award Grant. With training in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a BA in Creativity and Spirituality, certifications in Mindfulness Meditation, Polyvagal Theory in the Performing Arts and Creative Facilitation, she helps artists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries move past self-doubt to share their voices with confidence, joy, and freedom.
Her coaching work and music can be found at https://marianacoaching.com/