The Creative Reset: Clarity, Productivity & Structure Specialization

The Creative Reset: Clarity, Productivity & Structure Specialization

Creative Clarity, Productivity, and Daily Systems.

Build creative systems to reduce stress, overcome procrastination, & design a structure that works.

Instructor: Skillshare

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3 course series

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Beginner level

No prior experience required

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

Beginner level

No prior experience required

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Design a personalized creative workflow that reduces procrastination and supports long-term productivity
Build simple daily systems to manage ideas, tasks, and energy using mindset tools and Notion
Reduce overwhelm by aligning goals, habits, and structure with your creative identity and mental wellness

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

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Specialization - 3 course series

This Specialization is intended for creatives, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate individuals seeking clarity, focus, and sustainable productivity. Through three courses taught by Sarah Edwards, you will reduce overwhelm, design a personalized creative workflow, and build simple daily systems using proven mindset practices and tools like Notion. By the end, you’ll be equipped to manage your ideas, energy, and time with confidence and consistency.

Applied Learning Project

Learners will complete a series of applied projects that translate reflection into action, including a personalized Creative Reset Journey Map, a fully customized creative workflow, and a functional daily structure built in Notion. These projects help learners solve real-world challenges such as procrastination, burnout, and disorganization by creating systems they can immediately use in their creative work and daily life.

4 Day Creative Reset: Reduce Stress & Boost Productivity

Course 1 5 hours

What you'll learn

Have you struggled with maintaining productive habits, or constantly feel overwhelmed or unhappy? Do you feel disconnected from your intentions behind your creative projects or feel distracted?

By the end of this course, taught by creative educator, Art Director, and mental health advocate Sarah Edwards, you will be able to redefine success on your own terms, create healthier and more sustainable goals, reduce work-related stress and overwhelm, and build intentional habits that boost focus, creativity, and productivity. 4 Day Creative Reset: Reduce Stress & Boost Productivity is a short, powerful reset designed to help you change your working reality in less than one week. Through guided exercises, reflection, and practical tools, you’ll reconnect with your intentions, untangle productivity from pressure, and learn how to work in ways that support both your creativity and your well-being. This course is ideal for creatives, professionals, caregivers, and anyone who feels overwhelmed, distracted, or disconnected from their goals. You don’t need a creative background—just a willingness to reflect and try something new. To be successful, you should be open to self-assessment and small habit changes. What makes this course unique is its holistic, human-centered approach. You’ll complete a personalized Journey Map, use a 40+ page workbook, and apply simple, repeatable practices you can return to again and again for long-term clarity, balance, and success.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Productivity

Category: Stress Management

Category: Planning

Category: Mental Concentration

Category: Goal Setting

Category: Creativity

Category: Prioritization

Category: Resilience

Category: Self-Awareness

Category: Growth Mindedness

Category: Mindfulness

Category: Personal Development

Defeat Procrastination: Design Your Own Creative Workflow

Course 2 6 hours

What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to design a personalized creative workflow, identify and work with your strengths and weaknesses, reduce procrastination and overwhelm, and confidently move projects from idea to completion.

Taught by Art Director, creative educator, and mental health advocate Sarah Edwards, Defeat Procrastination: Design Your Own Personalized Creative Workflow helps you stop forcing productivity systems that don’t fit—and start building a process that works for you. This course is structured in three parts, guiding you from understanding the power of process, to designing your workflow framework, to practicing discipline, grace, and sustainable success. You’ll learn how to break free from common productivity myths, brainstorm more effectively, manage ideas without mental overload, and become your own project manager. Through guided exercises and a 35+ page workbook, you’ll uncover your creative “superpowers” and “kryptonites,” integrate mental health into planning, and build systems that support real-life creativity—not burnout. This course is for anyone who considers themselves creative, from professionals to parents and hobbyists. No prior productivity or design experience is required—just curiosity, self-awareness, and a willingness to try a new approach to getting things done.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Productivity

Category: Prioritization

Category: Stress Management

Category: Brainstorming

Category: Self-Awareness

Category: Time Management

Category: Creative Problem-Solving

Category: Self-Motivation

Category: Organizational Skills

Category: Goal Setting

Category: Adaptability

Overwhelmed to Organized: Design Daily Structures in Notion

Course 3 5 hours

What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to design a simple, sustainable daily structure that reduces overwhelm, supports your creativity, and actually works in real life. Led by creative educator and Art Instructor Sarah Edwards, helps you move from constant catch-up to confident clarity using mindset shifts, practical frameworks, and a beginner-friendly Notion system.

This course is designed for creatives, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate humans who feel buried by ideas, stuck in procrastination, or exhausted by rigid productivity advice that never quite fits. Through short, focused lessons and a ready-to-use Notion template, you’ll learn how to prioritize what matters, work within your limitations, release timeline pressure, and build daily structure without sacrificing creativity. By the end of this course, you will be able to organize tasks and ideas in Notion, set identity-based outcomes, structure your day around high-impact priorities, and practice functional perfectionism that values progress over burnout. To be successful in this course, no prior experience with Notion or productivity systems is required—just a willingness to simplify, reflect, and try a new way forward. This isn’t about doing more. It’s about finally doing what matters.