Resources to help you live a gentle and creative life
The Go Gently Library is a growing repository of resources to help you learn to live and create gently.
Download an ebook , take a course or listen to a podcast from the archive. I hope these resources will begin to help you build your own gentle, sustainable creative practice and learn to live a gentle life.
Support
These resources are all free to access, but if you would like to help support the continued running of Go Gently, I'd be very grateful if would would consider making a donation or becoming a patron over on Patreon. Thank you <3
eBook: Sustainable Creativity
Sustainable Creativity is about learning to use whatever energy you have available, however limited it may be, to maintain a creative life (or even livelihood).
A sustainable daily creative routine
It is possible to live a creative life and even build a creative career when time and energy are in short supply.
This little book will show you how to start by gently encouraging you to build a daily creative work routine around what is most important to you.
eBook: Getting Your Important Work Done
Written over the period of a year Getting Your Important Work Done is a collection of essays, originally published fortnightly in my email letter of the same name, edited and collected together in one volume to encourage, inspire, and reassure anyone who wants to discover and get on with their own Important Work
Compassion and self-care
The book is in two sections:
Introduction: A collection of five essays introducing the concept of Important Work.
The Essays: A collection of more than twenty essays written with a sense of compassion and self-care and aimed at anyone who struggles with getting on with their own Important Work.
Course: Get One Thing Done
Get One Thing Done is a gentle two-week course that will show you how to:
Choose your next creative project.
Focus on your work in regular manageable work sessions.
Finish what you’ve started!
Gentle encouragement
Through a series of audio and video lessons, you’ll be led through the process of picking a manageable creative project and gently encouraged to work on it to completion.
This course is not currently taking new students, but I’m hoping that is will be again the not too distant future. Keep an eye on my Patreon page for more details.
eBook: Start to Draw Your Life
Drawing has had a huge impact on my life. When I was first diagnosed with ME/CFS back in the late 1990s it was learning to draw (very slowly!) that gave my life a new shape and purpose.
Drawing taught me to slow down (and could do the same for you)
Drawing taught me to slow down, really look at what was around me and, perhaps most importantly, to find joy in the simple everyday things in my life. It has led me on an exciting journey over the last decade to where I am now; working in a sustainable ways as a full-time artist and blogger (and tea drinker!). It could do the same for you.
A little encouragement to draw more
Start to Draw Your Life is for anyone who’d like a little encouragement to start to draw, or to draw more. I hope you enjoy it.
Download: The Tiny Adventure Checklist
I love to go on Tiny Adventures. Maybe you would too.
In the short podcast below I talk a little about what Tiny Adventures are and how to embark on one.
Have a listen, download your copy of The Tiny Adventure Checklist and then embark on a Tiny Adventure of your own!
The Go Gently Letter
Gentle encouragement to live and create at the pace that’s right for you.
Podcast Archive
I began to record my podcast, One Thing Today back in April 2011. Now past its 1600th episode it provides a regular nudge to encourage listeners move their creative lives on a little and a reminder to live life gently.
You can find the latest episodes here, or start to explore the archive by clicking on the button below.
SUBSCRIBE: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify
“I found Michael Nobbs when I was dealing with the despair-filled depths of my chronic illness. Thanks to surgery, my illness is in remission, but I still listen every day to make sure that I am making forward motion, no matter how small, on my projects. I love pausing the podcast and setting my timer to “work along with Michael.” He feels like a friend. Whether you have limited time or limited energy with which to work on your creative life, this podcast is an invaluable resource.”
