Career Ecosystem Map
Create a healthy foundation to liberate your life’s work.
a four-week course for artists + creative humans
Oct 17 - Nov 14, 2025
every day our attention and energy is strip-mined by powerful forces…
what would it look like to protect and tend your capacity?
how would it feel to be in a healthy relationship with your life's work?
tl:dr
a course for people trying to be healthy AND pursue a creative career
four Fridays starting Oct 17
90-min live online sessions (1p-2:30p EST), replays available
pricing starts at $75 with additional options
a single map that gives you a birds-eye view of your capacity and fulfillment levels
the place I recommend starting if you’re new to Creative Career Design, or coming back after time away
Almost daily, I talk with people who are struggling, trying to do their creative work in the world.
Maybe you can relate? You’re frustrated, creating something only you can make and maintaining your integrity, all while trying to survive late-stage capitalism. It’s a tall order.
You’re pretty sure something could be better, but aren’t sure how to make it happen.
No surprise. Our culture doesn’t give us tools to measure our capacity or the vocabulary to talk about it.
In fact, there are a lot of powerful systems around us that thrive when we aren't in touch with the state of our overall health.
Billions of dollars from tech, media, and government organizations operate to extract your attention, your money, your work and recreation time, and so much more…
In simple terms: they are taking your capacity.
As my mentor Javan K. Bernakevitch says:
“If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you. And it will be to their benefit, not yours.”
After nearly a decade of Creative Mapping, it’s clear to me that my job is to facilitate a substantial and effective movement around reclaiming our capacity.
I’ve taken everything I’ve developed over the past decade, and distilled the foundational principals into a single meta-tool. You can use the Career Ecosystem Map in an ongoing practice to take back your agency, protect and tend your capacity so you cand dedicate more of it to liberating the work only you can do in the world.
““These maps are very useful anchors to help get me back on track with where I need to be directing my energies.”
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The Career Ecosystem Map helps you cultivate awareness of the health of 3 critical aspects of your life:
What You Have (Your 8 Forms of Capital)
What You Want (Your Core Values)
What You Do (Your Primary Projects + Activities)
Observing these three categories will help you see what’s working well, identify weaker areas, and gain a holistic perspective on the health of your career ecosystem.
three pricing options
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
+ I’m already low on time and money, how do I know if this is a good fit?
I hear you! It’s hard to spend time and money when you’re already stretched thin. This course is actually designed specifically to address this conundrum. This course contains the material that used to only be accessible in an 8+ week course that cost at least $400.
This map is designed to get to the root causes of why you’re low on time and money, and give you the information you need to address that. My hope is that after 4 calls, you’ll have a tool that will transform your relationship with your capacity, so that you’ll make decisions that lead to measurable progress as you navigate your career in the short term and long term.
If your current career/life landscape is feeling unsustainable, the sooner you redesign it, the sooner something can change for the better. That’s what I want to help you with. And I've made it as affordable as possible while keeping it sustainable for me.
+ I can’t make the live calls but I’m interested in the course, can I still participate?
Yes, replays and Q&A forum are available through Mighty Networks. You can gain access to this by purchasing pricing option 2 or 3. If there’s enough demand I’ll add an additional live session day, so let me know if you’d like that.
+ Which pricing option is right for me?
Option 1 is for people who just want to be emailed a zoom link. No log-ins, no replays, no online conversation, just 4 live calls over 4 weeks.
Option 2 is for you if you'd like to have access to call recordings. Some people prefer to do the course material on their own time, and so I edit the calls into smaller chunks and upload them to our Mighty Networks platform. Option 2 gives you access to the recordings and course material for a year, as well as a Q&A community forum where you can ask questions, post maps, and interact with Chris and other participants.
Option 3 includes everything in Option 2, plus a 60-minute individual Career Design call with Chris, to be scheduled sometime in the next 3 months. This is for folks who want to get focused support as they use the Career Ecosystem Map and apply it to their current situation.
+ What's the time commitment? I'm worried about signing up for another thing.
The minimum time commitment is one hour per week during the 4-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. After the first hour, I’ll stay on for 30 additional minutes for optional sharing and Q&A (90-min total per call). I’ve tried to make it as concise as possible, that said, many people benefit from spending extra time with the material on their own. 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, play with your maps, and engage on the community forum in Mighty Networks.
+ I’ve done Creative Mapping before, is this course still applicable to me?
In a word, yes!
While in a way this is "101 level" material that will be familiar to long-time creative mappers, this course combines it all in a new way. It’s like a dashboard where you can keep tabs on your 8 Forms of Capital Life Inventory, Core Values fulfillment, and Projects & Activities health, all on a single map.
It’s also the foundation for how I do this work now, and is now a prerequisite for anyone who wants to book one-on-one calls with me, or do deeper Career Design work.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?
Please let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at chris[at]creativemappingproject.com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!
You can also book a free call with me to determine whether this course is a good fit.