Why You Need a Creative Consulting Circle (and How to Form One)

Lost your spark in the pandemic? Sharing ideas can reignite you.

There is a cognitive dissonance that comes with working from home. On the one hand: no commute. Chats with my partner over coffee in the kitchen. Running on my lunch break. Candles. (Seriously though, can we make office candles a thing when we return?)

BUT. I miss connection. Ideas. Gossip. Sparks. Collaboration. Friction. Disagreements. Breakthroughs. The magic of creative thinking bouncing around a room.

The cognitive dissonance comes with knowing that while I enjoy the peace of remote working and don’t want to give it up, I am also aware it is sapping me of something.

Even though work with our colleagues continues, and we are collaborating over Zoom, and workshops are held on Miro, and we try our hardest to be creative in silo — there is still something missing. The creative fire.

The pandemic has meant I need a ‘top-up’ of inspiration and pep, to compensate for the missing ‘in-between’ moments of being out there in the world, connecting with people, and sharing ideas as they happen.

That’s when I realised something. I needed to prioritise interesting conversations with creative people — since they…