Creative consultant & Embodiment support

White Rushes (2024). Fili 周 Gibbons & Paloma Dawkins. Centre PHI, Embodied Spaces. Photo: Kevin Delamourd.

~ Personalized creative consulting for the cultivation of embodiment, spirit, and craft ~

On request, we/Fili offer 1-on-1 sessions to develop your artistry, voice and spirit expression. Working as a creative and intuitive consultant — we will draw from a unique set of tools and methods to multiply your creative expression.

Drawing from work in sound, memory, plural embodiment, and creation systems, and ancestral practices. We/F will tailor our approach to who you want to be creatively, and explore ways to access your own systems of creation, voices, intuition, and clarity for your path.

Very open to work together regardless of age and background, whether it’s to develop an existing creative practice, or open into something new. We can assist in work relating to disciplines of sound, embodiment, media, recording, or crossing in-between disciplines.

Our goal:

To accompany — as you step into the most liberated and creative version of you. To establish a sacred and fruitful foundation for your creativity and embodiment. Defined by you and lived without compromise.

Photo: Kevin Delamourd

Who it is for:

Anyone opening up to their creative expression: a new or existing practice, a dream project, or a bold new way of existing in the world. Finding a personalized and sensitive approach in our work together, we will build energy, momentum, and anchors, and witness your project(s) coming to life.

Things we can work on together:

Being and becoming: Step into a more embodied and vivid expression of you and your practice. Move aside unnecessary fears or emotional blockages to self-expression.
Vision work: explore your creative dreamings and expand your artistic tool-set.
Co-creation: embodiment support, photo sessions, building an inspired personal expression.
Intuitive knowing: blending flow-states, memory arts, somatics and traditional practices.
Ancestral sources and guidance: connecting to your own cartographies and guides.
Sound-body arts: Sound, frequency, and music as it relates to being embodiment and intuitive aid.
Project orchestration: anchor the complexities your practice with strong workflows. Keep track of your ideas and turn them into reality.
Effortless practice: fun, nourishing, and invigorating. Finding ways to let your work energize you rather than deplete you.
Creation commissions: tailored sound and media support.

Photo: Paloma Dawkins

Our approach:

Safe space for exploration, vulnerability, and honest dialogue.
Respect, openness and non-judgement.
Deep listening and a warm and nourishing presence.
Human and heart-first.
Adaptive and intuitive. Following what is working and pertinent.

Session rates (sliding scale)

Rates are be determined after an first meeting, depending on the kinds of practices and support we will be offering.

Approx. $300 CAD (before taxes) / 2 hour session
Reduced rates are available for people with limited financial means (especially artists identifying as disabled, POC, queer / trans). Please reach out and we will do our best to accommodate.

For enquiries - please reach us at:

fili.apothicaire@gmail.com

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Notes

Goal

10 sessions / month = $3000 / month @ 5hrs / week

5hrs coordination-promotion / week.

Story

We are an interdisciplinary artist who has spent our entire life dedicated to channeled sound practice and creative, multifaceted artistry.

We are an aquarius moon and lover of secrets. Drawing from our Chinese and British Iles ancestry and connecting with systems of divination arts, talisman and memory making, internal embodied arts, and expressive arts from these traditions — we aim to uphold a special respect to human spirit heritages beyond of scientific-western colonial and materialist world-views.

We identify as a 8-being plural system (pronouns : we / you / they). Growing up in a society as a mixed-race plural queer, we filled in almost none of the expected catergories in society. Growing up as one of two POCs (we are half-white, but our lack of whiteness was something we learned in school) in an all white rural country school, and bullied on a daily basis.

It was a lot of work to sift through our own plurality with little to no support and resources growing up. It’s a lot of work to be born into this world as a collective, it means you have multiple ways of feeling, being in the world, dressing, socializing, sexual preference, everything. You have to get good at negotiation and problems solving and mediating dissonances between different beings in the collective. There are actually so many amazing things about being plural too, so we’re definitely not complaining, but it’s a lot of work to figure it out!

Through this process we learned to develop sophisticated systems and methods that would help us not only to exist but to flourish. To show up honestly and fearlessly to the people around us — bracing mixed diasporic identities and creating something new, creating our own language and tools, building complex note-taking and organizational systems.

Today we work in many disciplines as an artist, existing in ways we never thought possible. When we were young, it was always our dream to sing, and dance, to create, to code digital worlds, to learn about acoustics and make recordings. Society tells you you have to be a specialist to be ‘good enough’.

As someone who was often bullied and criticized growing up — about our voice, our appearance, our body and way of holding ourselves — we know what it feels like to feel disembodied and disempowered. When so much of who we want to be is so clear you can almost taste it, but it feels outside of you — impossible to get there. “It looks fun, but it could never be me doing that, being that.”

By engaging in healing ourselves, and by pursuing studies while listening to our inner voices, today we are doing all those things. Reading on folk music history, and working with mentors and collaborators in non-Western colonial cultures, we realized that it’s actually very unnatural for humans not to express their creativity in many different ways. This is a flimsy and recent invention of modernity that is barely more than 100 years old — not to sing and dance, tell stories and dream with each other.