Musician Career Design Track
Make peace with your creative career.
Get clear. Get strategic. Free your music.
Feb 24 - Apr 14
8 weekly course calls
A small cohort of like-minded musicians
Ongoing access to the community app + call recordings
3 pricing options so you can find the experience that’s right for you
“The Creative Mapping Project has been one of the most helpful tools in finding alignment in my life!”
Learn to navigate your career landscape with a confident clarity of vision, making choices that are in line with how you actually like spending your days on this planet.
After working with hundreds of talented, creative folks, I’ve built this course to be the most comprehensive dive into the creative career design process I’ve been researching and developing for nearly a decade.
Join a group of independent musicians for eight weeks of live group sessions, beginning the last week of February.
Your Investment
I'm offering multiple tiers of access so that you can choose the option that's friendliest to your schedule and budget.
+ Deep Work Package
$1200 includes:
- 6 one-on-one career design calls with Chris
- the full 8-week Creative Career Design course
- all live and recorded calls and features
- DM/text support from Chris through the 6 month period
- and 6 months of 24/7 access to the Creative Mapping Circle including past workshops, practice sessions, and our active social network
+ Standard Course Package
$450 includes:
- the full 8-week Creative Career Design course
- all live and recorded calls and features
- and 6 months of 24/7 access to the Creative Mapping Circle including past workshops, practice sessions, and our active social network
+ DIY Package
$150 includes:
- access to recordings from the 8-week Creative Career Design course
- and 3 months of 24/7 access to the Creative Mapping Circle including past workshops, practice sessions, and our active social network (with the option to continue monthly afterwards)
“I walked away with more clarity than I have felt in years regarding where I should be putting my time, energy, and efforts when it comes to my career. It’s f***ing great and you should do it!”
COURSE FEATURES
Weekly Call
For those in the Deep Work and Standard Course package, each week, for 8 weeks, we will gather on a group Zoom call. Our time will include a teaching session, Q&A, and co-working session where we tackle the coursework and exercises together.
Can't make it to a live call, want to revisit what you learned? Not to worry, all calls will be recorded so you can learn at your own pace.
The Creative Mapping Circle
You have a community now.
All participants will have 24/7 access to our community app on Mighty Networks. This will be a place to brainstorm, converse, share new ideas, and get support from Chris and the other participants throughout the duration of the course.
Digital Resource Library
With every tier, you will have a personal online workbook, updated throughout the course with new exercises, explorations, and mapping canvases.
Additionally, I will add extra videos, case studies, articles, and other resources throughout the duration of the course in case you want to go deeper on any subject.
Integration Weeks
Every fourth week, you’ll have the opportunity to go deeper into the maps and learning we’ve done up until that point.
Participants will have a chance to share their maps or other coursework and get focused feedback and support from me and the rest of the group. You’ll also have the opportunity to catch up on
Call Recordings
Can’t make it to one of the calls? Want to review something we learned a few weeks ago?
No problem! Participants will have access to recordings of every call from the course.
Personal Accountability
After the first week, participants have the option to be paired into accountability partnerships. Partners will check in weekly to give each other support and camaraderie throughout the course. I will do a personal mid-course call with you and your accountability partner to connect on anything that needs a more focused and personalized conversation.
“Through the course I learned that music is one of the most fulfilling and important things to me... I am playing live shows in some big venues that I have always wanted to play at!
The Creative Mapping Project has been one of the most helpful tools in finding alignment in my life!
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COURSE ITINERARY
Week 1: Intro to Creative Mapping You can design a better system for your life.
Week 2-3: Your Needs + Values Map If you know what you want, it’s easier to ask for it.
Week 4: Integration Week Space to share, go deeper, or catch up if you need.
Week 5: Your Life Inventory Money isn’t the only valuable thing you have access to. Let’s make a list of what you have and what you need.
Week 6: Project Mapping Every job, project, relationship—everything you say ‘yes’ to, is a trade. Most people aren’t aware of what they’re trading. We can map that.
Week 7: Moving Forward Make an action plan that uses what you have to take steps in the right direction.
Week 8: Integration Week Spend some time to put it all together, get feedback, and decide what’s next.
After the 8 weeks: An extra 4 months of access to Chris, the community app, and the course materials so that you have plenty of time to digest, review, integrate, and catch up on anything you may have missed.
Frequently Asked Questions
+ What's the time commitment? I'm worried about signing up for another thing.
If you're in Tiers 1 and 2, the minimum time commitment is one and a half hours per week during the eight-week duration of the course. No one likes homework so I try to organize the calls as part teaching session, and part co-working session so that all of the essentials are covered within our weekly calls.
For those in Tier 3, you can set your pace with the pre-recorded material.
While it’s not necessary, I recommend setting aside an extra 60-90 minutes per week (whether split into little chunks or one block) to reflect, journal, revisit your maps, and engage on the community forum in Mighty Networks.
+ How do I know if this is right for me?
This course might be a good fit for you if you have found yourself saying any of the following:
I know my music is good, but I’m not getting appreciated for it (financially or otherwise).
I’m pursuing a career in music but feeling stuck.
I want a systematic approach to making decisions about my career.
I love my creative project but feeling drained.
I want my creative business to be more sustainable for me.
I have lots of projects and I’m trying to create balance between them.
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+ Is this only for artists or super creative people?
The simple answer is no!
Creative Mapping started as a way to help talented, independent musicians strategize towards more appreciation (financial and otherwise) for their work without constantly feeling burnt out and frustrated.
Non-musician artists started asking me if I could help them too. We tried it out, and they had positive results!
Over the years, these tools have helped bands, artists, and entrepreneurs-- but I've also worked with everyone from stay-at-home-parents to teams running non-profit organizations.
The thing everyone has in common is that they are looking for more sustainable systems to help them reach balance as they try to spend their time on this planet in ways that feel more fulfilling and less frustrating.
ABOUT CHRIS
Chris Faroe (he/him/o) is a musician and creative career designer living in Beacon, NY.
He started the Creative Mapping Project after years of seeing talented friends trying to make a career out of their music, but feeling constantly unappreciated, burnt out, and broke.
Chris researches how tools and principles from regenerative design can be used to create balanced and sustainable careers, communities, and lives.
CMP is especially focused on empowering creative humans and the ecosystems that support them.
Please reach out with any questions!
hello[at]creativemappingproject.com
Or if a phone chat is more your speed, you can click below to schedule a call!
“I now feel more confident supporting the evolution of my vision in a less confused and overwhelming way. What I learned helped me begin to fill in the gaps between what I know I have to offer the world and how to best provide it and support myself in doing it. ”