one on one dreaming + strategy collaboration

 
 
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As a designer focused on healing, I create from a place that honors my values and body because all that I experience is continually shaping what I choose to bring into the world.

The many identities and histories that I hold—Blackness, womanhood, queerness, sobriety, disability—speak life into my creations. It has been the cultivation of ongoing self-awareness and acceptance that allows me to collaborate with folks seeking a regenerative path to design their lives and futures from a place of wellbeing.

My lifework mantra is something I know for sure: Design can facilitate healing. Healing is a creative process. Creativity blooms new futures.

What lights me up is inviting people into the process of designing those futures with the transformative power of care and (re)imagining what it means to rest, dream, build, and write new worlds.

These one on one dreaming and strategy sessions are spacious, compassionate, pleasurable, playful, healing-centric and rooted in liberatory practice.

 
 
 
 

Themes we CAN touch and move through

- creative mashup AND lifework DISCOVERY
- ALIGNMENT with natural rhythms and CYCLES
- taking care while DESIGNING care
- daily acts of liberation THROUGH RITUAL DESIGN
- boundary work in relationships AND collaborative partnerships
- holding care-centered spaces
- intuitive writing practice
- life-giving values/principles/agreements
- home as sanctuary, body as sanctuary

 

A LOOK INTO MY GUIDANCE PROCESS

These experience images were captured in my home space with friend and collaborator, N’Deye, as I guided them through my “Creative Mashup + Lifework Discovery” process.

 

OUR EXCHANGE OF ENERGY

60 min session
sliding scale for BIWOC: $130 - $155
everyone else: $160 - $200

This is for folx who are seeking an exploratory design session for asking questions on the themes while generating beginning pathways and strategies.

Ongoing Guidance Package with three 60 min sessions
sliding scale for BIWOC: $375 - $420
everyone else: $425 - $475

This Ongoing Guidance Package is for folx who want to explore their deep challenges, questions and ideas through a continuous collaboration together, building upon each session.

Rates for Black, Indigenous and Women/Womxn/Femmes of Color (BIWOC)

All of my
Patreon members receive a discounted gratitude rate.

 

AFFIRMATIONS

 
Instead of giving me cookie-cutter answers and catch-phrases, she asked me questions that I never thought to answer and challenged me to do the transformative work of starting at the base of who I am. I cannot recommend Denise Shanté Brown enough. If you are transitioning to the next phase of your profession, your career, or your life, she is an incredible guide, and a steward of potential.
— N’DEYE, INTUITIVE DESIGN COLLABORATOR
I had been feeling overwhelmed with my business idea and couldn’t decide on what project to focus on. Denise provided so many resources and tools to help me determine my “why” by focusing on the emotional connection to my healing work. She helped break down my thoughts and ideas so that I could tap into my true feelings and emotions. This allowed me to realize what I truly desired and prioritize my needs.
— KHALA, MOTHER & HEALER
Denise’s insight opened my mind to the various ways I can engage my desired audience. She reminded me of how important it will be to understand their journey to inform my research. One of her many helpful tips was to have a visioning session with my thesis, starting with the five senses. It was then that I realized I’d been blocking imagination from my creative process. She shared readings and other resources that are helping shape the outcome of my thesis.
— ashley, MFA Graphic Design
She approaches each component of a project, from how to frame questions in an interview to creating group environments where everyone feels creative and supported, with a great deal of intention. Denise beautifully balanced asking me open-ended questions with sharing her perspective and expertise directly. I walked away with fresh inspiration for my own process and an expanded perspective of what’s possible.
— ashley, rising action studio