Journaling With Nature

Episode 33: Danny Gregory – Calming the inner critic and establishing a creative habit


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Danny is an artist, author and co-founder of Sketchbook Skool, an online creative hub filled with courses, workshops and a thriving creative community.  Danny's work involves helping people establish a creative habit and calm their inner critic. Danny is the author of more than a dozen books on art and creativity, including Shut Your Monkey, Art Before Breakfast and The Creative Licence. 

Listen to hear more about:

  • Sketchbook Skool, what it is and what you will experience through the workshops, courses and SBS membership program, Spark.
  • What Danny means when he refers to ‘the monkey’.
  • How to manage the inner critic and turn down the volume on the voice in your head.
  • Understanding the world around you through art.
  • How art can help get us out of our heads and into the present moment, during difficult times in life.
  • How to free up and let go of fears about art.
  • Finding connection with others across the world, with the help of technology.


Find out more about Danny on his website www.dannygregory.com.

Danny writes a weekly essays about art and creativity. You can sign up to receive the essays directly to your inbox using this link.

You can watch episodes of Draw With Me, live on YouTube, Thursdays at noon (Eastern Time), or watch previously recorded episodes here.

Danny has a podcast called Art For All. You can find it by clicking this link, or searching for ‘Art For All’ wherever you find podcasts. 

You can find the book by Frederik Frank, that Danny referred to, here: The Zen of Seeing.

Danny has generously offered listeners of this podcast the chance to try out his Sketchbook Skool membership program Spark for a week, for free! Find out more about Spark using the link: sketchbookskool.com/spark/naturepodcast.

You will notice that Spark has three membership levels, Discovery, Breakthrough and Danny’s Circle. The free trial will allow you to access either the Discovery or the Breakthrough level of Spark, for one week. Click the Buy Now button and you will see that you can sign up and access Spark for free. 

 

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