maike. / make magic through matter/HOW TO BE CREATIVE [workshop]

  • $44

How to Be Creative

A mindset-shifting course to help you unlock your creativity, quiet the inner critic, and reconnect with your spark → Perfect for: “I want to make something… but I don’t know where to begin.”

virtual workshop

How to Be Creative is a self-paced, pre-recorded workshop designed to help you shift out of perfectionism, fear, and creative paralysis—and into movement, curiosity, and joyful mess-making. Whether you're just getting started or returning to creativity after a long break, this course is your invitation to start where you are, with what you have.

what's

INCLUDED

  • A series of short, energizing video lessons you can watch anytime

  • Tangible frameworks that demystify the creative process

  • Real talk about fear, failure, resistance, and how to work with them

  • Simple creative prompts + mini-missions to activate your inner maker

  • Optional reflection worksheets to help you notice what’s shifting

you’ll walk away with:

  • A clearer understanding of how creativity actually works (and how it doesn’t)

  • A personalized creative rhythm that supports—not sabotages—you

  • Tools to move through blocks, perfectionism, and doubt

  • Permission to be messy, playful, and fully in process

  • One small creative piece made with your own hands—and a whole new way of seeing it

This is the groundwork. The warm-up. The creative permission slip you didn’t know you needed.

get started ➤

your instructor

CARA newhart

[ Interior Designer, DIY Queen & Creative Alchemist ]

Cara believes transformation starts with your own two hands. Over the past seven years, she’s taught millions of women how to wield power tools with confidence and reimagine their spaces from the inside out.

As the Founder of MAIKE, she's designed creative workshops that are less about perfection and more about permission—to try, to make a mess, to rebuild beauty from the broken bits.

With a background in Home Renovation, storytelling, and energetic transformation, Cara blends the practical and the magical to create spaces (and experiences) that help you reconnect to your power through hands-on making.