

Create Your Idea Collection Bucket
Imagine yourself creating freely and expressing yourself fully in 2026 . . .
💡🪣✨ Create Your Idea Collection Bucket is a two-day workshop that will give you the tools and practices to build a rich, intuitive system for generating ideas and accelerating creativity; one that saves time, enhances your thinking, feeds your curiosity, and provides abundant material to work with when you’re ready to create.
As Ann Patchett says:
“I am a compost heap, and everything I interact with, every experience I’ve had, gets shoveled onto the heap where it eventually mulches down, is digested and excreted by worms, and rots. It’s from that rich, dark humus, the combination of what you encountered, what you know and what you’ve forgotten, that ideas start to grow.”
Together, we will build the container for all that rich idea compost!
You will learn to move through the world like a squirrel, pocketing away memes, quotes, questions, stories, facts, writing samples, snippets of overheard dialogue, and other miscellaneous acorns that pique your curiosity.
You'll learn how to tuck these treasures into your new collection bucket, connecting new acorns to similar, related older ones—with everything right at your fingertips when it's time to synthesize your experiences and original thinking into new work.
Then, once a rough draft takes shape, intuition and serendipity also work their magic, dropping just-right acorns into your awareness (often at the last minute) to round out the final version.
🌱🐿️ This class will give you ready-made templates and teach you the practical daily creative habits to use them, so you, too, can become an idea composter and expert acorn-collector :)
Over two 90-minute sessions together, we will cover:
Setting up your own idea collection system in Notion
Building a collection habit—expanding the range of what you collect as you move throughout your day
Labeling systems to help create connections between ideas
Curating from your collection when it’s time to write or create (i.e. for a book, essay, newsletter, course, etc.)
Strategies for leaning into your intuition and serendipity in the process
If you’re working on something big in 2026, and you have scattered notes everywhere but no system for making sense of them, this class is for you.
Who it’s best for: Anyone working on a project that requires your original thinking and/or writing (such as newsletters, essays, books, courses, etc.)
Prerequisite: You are already using Notion, or curious about how to use it and willing to experiment with it during our time together.
You will get: Two 90-minute sessions (plus recordings), five done-for-you templates so you’re not setting up your Idea Collection system from scratch, and detailed follow-up notes.
Format: Within each session, we’ll have a mix of instruction and a handful of quick 5-10 minute creative practices to accelerate what you collect every day.
Timing: We will meet live on Thursday, December 4, and Friday, December 5, from 12 p.m. ET to 1:30 p.m. ET. (After you book, you will get a link to add the second session to your calendar.)
Recording: Sessions will be recorded if you can’t make it live, or if you need to step out at any point.
I look forward to seeing you soon—here's to making 2026 your most prolific and creative year yet!
❤️ Jenny