CREATIVE WELLNESS EXPERIENCEThe Four Codes Workshop
A three-hour workshop guiding students through the Four Codes of Creative Energy to maintain creative wellness
A CREATIVE WELLNESS WORKSHOP
APRIL 2026 - CURRENTCLASS DESCRIPTION:
This fun three-hour experience guides you through the Four Codes of Creative Energy, a creative wellness framework designed by Zack Orsborn to keep your creativity charged without running yourself into the ground.
This is an immersive, grounding experience designed to help anyone seeking reconnection with their creative energy in a mindfully supportive way.
Zack shares: I’ll guide you through the Four Codes of Creative Energy—Community, Craft, Clarity, and Condition—a simple but powerful framework I use to stay creatively alive, consistent, and well.
Through gentle movement, reflection, hands-on making, and shared conversation, you'll explore where your energy leaks, where it wants to flow, and how to support it sustainably. You’ll be learning to generate creative energy that actually lasts.
CLASS DESIGNFour Codes of Creative Energy Overview
Definition for each of the Four Codes of Creative Energy and how they work as a living system and cycle.
Learning about Micro-Practices
An overview of Micro-Practices, small activities within each Code that are selected based on a creative’s preference
The Creative Energy Audit Exercise
Students complete a Creative Energy Audit, filling each Code with their current practice status to see where they are thriving and what might need attention.
Audit Decoding Exercise
Students see which Code is the least and most practiced, the feelings they might be having when a Code is missing, the Micro-Practices they can do to regain balance, and possible results.
Meditative Color Walk
Students walk in nature, choosing three colors to find along the way, in silence for 10 minutes, to practice observation skills and gentle movement.
Reflective Automatic Journaling
Students learn about Reflective Automatic Journaling, a stream-of-consciousness style of journaling, to reflect on the Color Walk by answering a series of questions.
The Passion List Exercise
Students are given five minutes to write 20 things they are passionate about. Once time is up, they must select the three things they are most passionate about to use as their North Stars in the craft.
The Code Synthesis Exercise
Using their Reflective Automatic Journal entry, their three chosen passions from their Passion List, and images/phrases/ideas from a curated collection of art and creativity books, students draw inspiration from all their sources to create a manifesto, poem, or reflective writing piece.
Collaborative Collage Creation
Students embody the Community Code by working together to create a collage, cutting out materials and placing them on the same surface.
