PERMISSION PRACTICE is a collaborative process that utilizes intuition, ritual, creative practice, system building, and togetherness to help you tend to each season of the creative cycle. This offering is for career artists or anyone looking to cultivate, discover, uncover, develop, make time for, or not feel so alone in your creativity + access more permission within your practice. Through one on one sessions catered to wherever you are within the creative cycle, we can talk it out, move it out, sound it out, organize it out, stretch it out, purge it out, strategize it out, plan it out, dream it out, grieve it out, celebrate it out, or workshop it out. Together.

Sessions are 1 hour long and offered via zoom until further notice. We can work together once, sporadically, or weekly over an extended period of time, depending on your desire and what you want to tend to.

This work is based on the tools, practices, and rituals I have cultivated over the past 15 years of slowly + mightily granting myself permission to uncover, name, explore, develop, deepen, and fortify a relationship with my creativity. I have worked with many teachers, mentors, and collaborators on this path and take great care to honor + cite this lineage during our work together.

TO BOOK A SESSION, EMAIL INFO@PARISHURLEY.ORG

***I offer a limited number of discounted rates per month, with priority given to BIPOC and trans people. Email info@parishurley.org for more info.***

Read on for testimonials + more information about the practice.
Email info@parishurley.org with questions.

I look forward to working with you!

For me, so much of the creative process is about permission. The permission to be a beginner. The permission to not know. The permission to be unskilled at something. The permission to be great at something. The permission to make mistakes. The permission to be honest with myself. The permission to cultivate intimacy with myself. The permission to take up space within myself. The permission to show up. The permission to keep showing up. The permission to tend to my ideas. The permission to try. The permission to not know how something will turn out. The permission to make something I think is terrible. The permission to not be driven by an end point or specific or externally measurable result. The permission to let go of perfectionism. The permission to practice presence. The permission to face the unknown, to meet the unknown, to sit in the unknown. The permission to share myself. The permission to make a mark or write a word or speak a sound, and then to do it again. And again. And again.

This part of my creative self — the part that needs me to grant her permission to create — needs so much tenderness, so much spaciousness, so much gentleness, so much playfulness, so much ease, and so much support. It is a great gift anytime someone shares this part of themselves with me and it would truly be an honor to participate in this work with you.

Photo by Shoog McDaniel

FOUNDATIONal beliefs supporting THIS PRACTICE:

▲ Creative engagement is a spiritual practice.

▲ Creative expression is an integral component of physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual health.

▲ Facing, being with, and healing the self is an active lifelong practice + an essential component of being in service, accomplice-ship, or collaborations with others.

▲ You + your body carry inherent wisdom.

▲ There is no hierarchy within this work.

▲ My role in this work is as a guide helping you connect with your creative desires + your own inherent wisdom.

▲ You do not need to consider yourself an artist to engage with this practice. 

▲ You can absolutely consider yourself an artist to engage with this practice. 

▲ This is a spiritual practice.

▲ This is a collaboration.

WAYS I WORK:

▲ Asking questions

▲ Listening

▲ Mirroring back what I hear from you

▲ Identifying patterns

▲ Creating systems + structures: ways to organize your space // ways to organize your ideas // ways to organize your process

▲ Offering tools, rituals, and practices to support where you are within the creative cycle + what you are working on + with

▲ Suggesting external resources: books // classes // people to connect with

THINGS WE CAN DO TOGETHER— to name a few:

▲ Co-create a daily practice for you to tend to yourself + your creativity

▲ Talk through your new performance work, book idea, or podcast (to name a few)

▲ Strategize practice techniques

▲ Unpack your creative blocks + core beliefs

▲ Invigorate your tried + true creative process

▲ Cultivate permission to name + uncover your desires / goals / dreams

▲ Make a plan + take concrete steps on a path

▲ Create affirmations

▲ Overhaul your physical and/or mental work space

▲ Lie on the floor

▲ Generate improvisational scores

TESTIMONIALs:

“Paris has a very special gift for creating a safe space to try new forms of expression. I am a person who has struggled to find my voice (literally and creatively), and I require a teacher and a collaborator who is emotionally intelligent, insightful, compassionate, expressive, and generous. Paris is all of those things! When we have worked together in movement practice, the tools that she has brought (which she uses in her own movement practice) have served to connect me with my body and reveal forms of movement and gesture outside of my habitual and familiar body language. That process has been educational, transformative, and empowering for me, and has made me a better mover and performer. Through her Permission Practice, I have also learned to play music and have allowed myself to sing in public! I have become MORE myself through these practices. Paris has also consulted for me in the work I do as a teacher and choreographer. She is generous with her ideas, and her incredible attention to detail is a true gift to any project that she is helping with. I am enormously grateful for the impact Paris and Permission Practice have had on my life!”

"To work with Paris is to open oneself to the myriad ways in which the universe is already supporting one's creative desires, and move and build from that place of trust and abundance. Paris's combination of Virgo exactitude and pragmatism combined with a profoundly sensitive Cancer's intuition will gently but firmly lift your project out of a space of doubt and scarcity and into a space of possibility, clarity, and momentum. Her ambition is contagious, her organizational acumen is impeccable, and her ability to meet you where you're at and co-steward the broadest possible potential for your artistic goals is a thing of true magic. Working with Paris helped me turn my grand visions into an actualized reality in mere months - a reality that actually surpassed my dreams in terms of real success and satisfaction - and I couldn't have done it without her."