Tomorrow! Curious about curiosity's role in supporting your creative practice? Join me at Corvideum Creative for a free workshop on this very subject. Bring your favourite notebook and a spirit of inquiry. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corvidaeum...
March Courage Pie is all about 🔭 noticing. We're continuing the Five Ways to Wellbeing by talking about how we can become more mindful of the world around us. Join us on 11 March at 1 PM in the meadows. buff.ly/BTq5tO0 Sign up for my newsletter to get the prompts for your own walk: buff.ly/HjZsDmy
Thank you for the vote of confidence, friend of a feather 🪶
There's still time to sign up for Thursday evening's Curiosity for Corvids workshop, where you'll get to know the new Corvidaeum Creative coworking space and explore how reflective writing can support your creative practice. Join the flock: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corvidaeum...
This time next week I'll be leading a flock of curious corvids through a reflective workshop using writing to think about how curiosity can support the creative process & build resilience through creative setbacks. Want to join us? Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corvidaeum...
If you were to follow your curiosity, where might it take you? Join the flock at the Corvidaeum Creative launch on 5 March to ask this question during my Curiosty for Corvids workshop! Free, 7 PM, bring your pen, notebook and sense of wonder. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corvidaeum...
Banner reading "Very relaxed but thought provoking, all within a safe space." An orange streak has the words "Courage Pie!" written in it with a little picture of a pie.
Every month I run a free walking group session to talk about a personal development topic - I call these sessions Courage Pie 💪 🥧 Here's what one recent attendee had to say about the experience. If that sounds like something you need, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/courage-pi...
Hear me with Digital Trailblazer Leah Rae talking about why my coaching business is focused on helping people find 'courage in the complicated'. Check out our episode on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... or on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/67mTJJk...
I'm so excited to be partnering with Corvidaeum Creative for their upcoming introduction event on 5 March, running a workshop on how to use reflective writing to support your creative practice! Join us for a cuppa and some curiously creative reflection: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corvidaeum...
Connection is one of the core research-backed Five Ways to Wellbeing. Join us tomorrow at 1 PM in the Meadows for a gentle walk & reflective discussion about how to connect with others more deeply. Sign up here: buff.ly/BTq5tO0 My newsletter has the discussion prompts for a DIY walk: buff.ly/HjZsDmy
Can't make it? Sign up for my newsletter to get the prompts in advance and do your own self-guided walk - or better yet, connect with a pal & reflect together!: buttondown.com/caitlin_coac...
Poster with a picture of Caitlin, tiny pies, an orange block of colour and a hand holding a compass over text reading "Caitlin McDonald - Courage Pie to go!" with a link to the event.
Courage Pie has a new format this year: on the move! Join us on Wednesday 11 Feb at 1 PM for a walk around the Meadows in Edinburgh where we'll be using gentle prompts to reflect on 🪢connection 🪢. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/courage-pi...
#3 when the ears pop up.
"I'M HIDING! NOTHING TO SEE HERE"
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I always get nervous when a platform describes itself as "anti-censorship," so will be interested to hear your experience when you do get in
Promo card reading "Caitlin is amazing - gets you thinking about things in a different way."
Last weekend I had the privilege of leading people through a new years' intention workshop with Solas Yoga! New year is often a time when people are ready to shake up their thinking. What are some things you'd like to surprise yourself with this year? And how are you supporting yourself in that?
Poster reading "Focus on your new year with movement and intention: a movement and coaching workshop by Solas Yoga and Caitlin McDonald." Workshop details can be found at the link in the post.
Find your flow into the new year - join Solas Yoga and I for gentle movement and grounding exercises to help focus your mind on what 2026 can become for you. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-y...
Still time to sign up for my workshop with Solas Yoga - join us on Sunday 18 January for a reflective and moving (literally!) start to the new year. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-y...
And if you're in Edinburgh, our next completely free walk is on Wednesday 11 February at 1 PM - more details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975108327...
Curious for more? Read this month's newsletter and sign up for updates - this also means you'll get the prompts for each months walk, so you can have a DIY Courage Pie if you can't make it in person! buttondown.com/caitlin_coac...
A wonderful thing about a labyrinth is that even if you think you're going backwards or moving away from the centre, there's only one path - so you're always moving in the right direction. Now there's a thought, as my coaching teacher used to say.
The Edinburgh University labyrinth.
This month's Courage Pie was all about curiosity. I followed my curiosity earlier this week and found a very beautiful labyrinth that I had no idea was in the park where I often eat my lunch! That gave us a spontaneous labyrinth walk today for our inaugural outdoor edition of Courage Pie.
Tomorrow - Courage Pie: to go hits the Meadows! Join us for a gentle lunchtime walking coaching group - completely free on the second Wednesday of every month. More info here: buff.ly/ypilhrr Can't join in person? Sign up for my newsletter to get self-guided prompts every month: buff.ly/MAbtVOL
Poster reading "Focus on your new year with movement & intention: a movement & coaching workshop by Solas Yoga and Caitlin McDonald." The workshop takes place on 18 January 2026, 3-4:30 PM at OMH Therapies in Edinburgh. Further details are at the booking link in the post!
Just one week left to book for my movement & reflection workshop in partnership with Solas Yoga! Get grounded with some movement. Envision the year you want for yourself. Gentle reflection & discussion to commit to your intentions. Start 2026 right! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-y...
An unexpected pleasure for me was an actual, honest-to-goodness-its-their-day-job artist in the group saw my board and said "Wow! Are you a graphic designer?" Reader, I am not, but what a delight to receive that compliment. What surprising joys might you find in your vision board?
A vision board with the mountains and the sea in the background with vines and plants in the middle containing books and pages as the leaves and fruits of all the plants.
You don't have to be a great artist, you just have to find some images that spark something in you and put them together. Here's one I made earlier on Mel Larsen's Future Seed event! Can you guess what my big vision is for next year?
Maybe you're not a fan. Maybe you find it too woo-woo. Maybe you think it's wishy-washy. Maybe you're not a 'visual person' or you don't think you're creative enough for this kind of thing. But there's plenty of science to back this up too: envision it and your brain will start acting on it!
In other words, to connect with your unconscious desires, beliefs and motivations and bring those into the light to figure out what your performance goals might be! Enter stage left: the vision board.
You can also use more open-ended self-reflective visioning as a way of connecting with something that's important to you without language and analytical thinking.
Loads of research shows that works as a concrete method for performance improvements. This has measurable effects on future performance even if you're a skeptic! We'll be doing this on my upcoming yoga/coaching workshop next weekend... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-y...
There are lots of ways to work with visualisation - one of my favourites is a future-visioning exericse where you envision or write, in the most specific detail you can, as though it's already happened, a future success that you want to happen.
