Highly Sensitive Creatives: Energy, Boundaries, and Creative Rhythm

Many creatives experience the world more intensely than average—emotionally, sensorially, and imaginatively—which is both the source of their originality and the reason they are more vulnerable to exhaustion.

If you identify with terms such as introvert, empath, or highly sensitive person—or if you’ve simply noticed that you process deeply, feel intensely, or tire more quickly in overstimulating environments—this workshop is for you.

Rather than offering labels or quick fixes, this workshop focuses on practical understanding: how sensitivity actually operates, why it can feel both like a gift and a burden, and how to design ways of living and working that don’t quietly exhaust you.

What This Workshop Is About
Many sensitive people learn to cope by overriding themselves: pushing through fatigue, ignoring subtle signals, or adapting endlessly to others. Over time, this leads to burnout, resentment, or creative shutdown.
In this workshop, we take a different approach.
You’ll be introduced to my Energetic Ecology Framework, a way of understanding how your energy interacts with environments, relationships, rhythms, and inner states. The goal is not withdrawal or overprotection, but sustainable participation in your vibrant creative life.
We’ll explore how to:

• Honour emotional and sensory depth without becoming overwhelmed
• Create boundaries that are structural, not defensive
• Design creative rhythms that support your nervous system rather than drain it

What We’ll Explore Together
During this 90-minute guided session, you will:

• Gain a clear, grounded understanding of introversion, empathy, and sensory sensitivity (without pathologising or romanticising them)
• Learn how energy leakage happens, and how to reduce it without shutting down
• Identify the difference between solitude that restores and isolation that depletes
• Map your own Energetic Ecology: the people, places, practices, and rhythms that support you
• Recognise your particular form of creative and emotional intelligence

No prior knowledge is required. You don’t need to “identify as” anything—just a willingness to reflect honestly.

What to Expect
🖊 Guided reflection (bring a journal)
🫖 Calm, supportive pace—no breakout-room chaos
🌍 Open to creatives, professionals, and thinkers from any field!
Join us to reframe sensitivity as a creative capacity, and learn how to build the systems—internal and external—that allow it to thrive rather than exhaust you.

About Your Facilitator
This workshop is facilitated by Allan Johnson, founder of The Art of Creative Practice. Allan works at the intersection of creativity and reflective practice, supporting creatives, thinkers, and knowledge workers to build lives and working rhythms that are both meaningful and sustainable. His approach is shaped by a background in the humanities, two decades of teaching in universities, and psychosynthesis coaching and integrative approaches to personal development.
Across his teaching, writing, and facilitation, Allan is particularly interested in how sensitivity, attention, and inner life shape creative work, and how these capacities can be supported through structure rather than overridden through pressure. His sessions are known for being thoughtful, grounded, and practical, offering concepts that participants can return to long after the workshop ends.
The Art of Creative Practice has grown into an international community of creatives who value depth, reflection, and sustainable momentum over hustle and burnout. This workshop reflects that ethos: spacious, rigorous, and oriented toward long-term creative health.