Creative Wizardry

Where there’s meaning, there’s magic.

Together, we’ll build the structure and internal sense of safety you need to freely play, explore, and create.

Whether you want to start a new project, build a business based in creativity, move through creative blockages, or rekindle your love of a medium you’ve lost touch with — there’s something here for every kind of artist at any point in your career.

  • feeling like a jack of all trades, master of none

  • seeing all your art as one cohesive body of work

  • feeling like you should choose one thing

  • listening to what your art wants to be

  • pressure from the outside (e.g. “the art market”)

  • comparing yourself to other artists

  • negotiating, setting rates, or even feeling like you should get paid for your art at all

  • starting a project

  • finishing a project

  • calling yourself an artist

  • making something out of nothing

If you’re struggling with…

  • follow through on commitments

  • find flow

  • find your voice

  • express yourself vulnerably and authentically

  • make money off your art while staying in alignment with your values

  • proudly call yourself an artist

  • get cozy with your embarrassment 

  • be willing to try and fail and try again 

and you want to…

I can help.

With my background in consent education, I can support you in building your own creative container in which you can play.

specificity is a creative muscle

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specificity is a creative muscle ⋆

Hi, I’m Mia.

Mia Schachter

I’m a writer, musician, playwright, performer, and ceramicist with a background in consent education and intimacy coordination for TV, Film, and Theater. Learning about consent triggered a creative boom in my life, and I’m excited to share my practice with others.

With all the pressures of the world we live in to be productive and efficient while making money, it’s easy to rupture the trust and desire required to make your art. With my my consent-based, non-hierarchical approach to art-making, based in devised theater principles, I can support you in finding your voice as an artist in any medium. I want you to have easy access to flow and motivation to create so making your art feels fun.

We’ll go from perfectionist questioning such as, “Is this right?” and, “Is this good?” to consent-based, self-reflective questions such as, “Do I like this?” and, “How does this feel to me?”

My book Unsolicited Advice: The Canceled Memoir of a Consent Educator is on Substack

My musical SQUIRM: A True Story at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Listen to the album here.

Pieces from my ceramics project, Hold Water Ceramics.

A still from my performance The Evidence of Her Limitations: For Home with Sara Jane Mumford, 2017.

Want to work together? Find my virtual group classes here, or fill out the form at the bottom of this page to request 1-on-1 coaching or a class just for your group.

CLASSES

Find your flow in a group of artists looking to do the same, while building community and solidarity.

  • Do you feel like you do too many things? Are you a jack of all trades, master of none? You think the things you do might all be related, but you’re struggling to connect the dots? Have you reached the limits of other forms of support (such as talk therapy), either as a practitioner or a client, and do you want practical tools, skills, vocab, and exercises for yourself and your clients?

    This program will help you bring consent work into your art and build a teaching practice and business that sustains your artwork.

    Read more and apply here.

  • NEW DATES: Wednesdays, October 8–November 19, 5pm–7pm PT / 8–10pm ET. Please note: USA time zones shift on November 2. International attendees, please double check your local times.

    This program is for artists, musicians, creatives, writers. It’s for people looking to deepen or return to their creative practice and for those looking to embark on one for the first time.

    If you:

    • struggle with people-pleasing tendencies in your work

    • feel a codependent relationship with your art (“People need this from me so I will give and give and give”)

    • feel guilt or shame about making money with your art

    • struggle to find motivation to create

    • don’t know where to start or when to stop

    • want to make more money from your art

    • want to find a sacred relationship with play

    • want to find a more easeful relationship with your authenticity and creative self-expression

    • grapple with your ego as an artist and want to believe what you have is worth sharing with the world without feeling like an arrogant shithead

    This is a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-aware course that takes into account the reality of the Capitalist system we live and create within.

    Read more about this course here.

  • Are you too frozen to create for fear of cancelation, scrutiny, or a toxic ex who might contact anyone who works with you? This one’s for you.

  • This program is for artists of all kinds: musicians, creatives, writers, dancers, photographers, choreographers, directors, designers. It’s for people looking to deepen or return to their creative practice and for those looking to embark on one for the first time. If you:

    • are looking for structure

    • feel pressure around making art and want to loosen up

    • want to create something new but don’t know where to start

    • are stuck in the middle of a project and don’t know where to go

    • find it intimidating to create something out of nothing

    … this class will provide practical tools, exercises, and assignments to get you out of your head, into your body, and surrender to the creative process, drawing on principles from devised theater.

  • This program helps self-employed artists shirk perfectionism and people pleasing in your art, advocate for yourself regarding rates, care for yourself and your creative practice for a sustainable life as an artist, and find your voice.

  • Working for yourself is exciting! I wouldn’t have it any other way. But I’ve had to learn—largely through trial and error, and lots of lost money—how to speak up for myself when no one else will as a self-employed person. I’ll share everything I’ve learned, and the tools and skills I’ve cultivated to get paid and paid well.

    Sign up here.

I offer these classes periodically, or you can request a session for you and your group!

Read what people have said about their experiences in my classes here.

1:1 coaching

Programs tailored to you and your needs as an artist, in any medium. We can schedule sessions over 8 weeks or 4 months.

  • Through building a practice of self-consent, you will find the boundaries you need to cultivate secure attachment with your creative process.

  • Personalized coaching for your art project using a method I built out of devised theater principles. A non-hierarchical, consent-based approach to art-making using meaningful source material and putting them into conversation with each other to create something larger than the sum of their parts.

  • A tailored program for you and your particular position as a director or project leader giving you the tools you need to navigate consent, boundaries, and power dynamics with performers when you’re in a position of power. This is not intimacy coordination training and isn’t meant to replace an intimacy coordinator, but it will give you the tools, skills, and vocab you need when an IC isn’t available while also supporting you in working with an IC when you have one.

  • For self-employed artists looking to cultivate healthy boundaries with their work as they support their artistic practice through offering coaching or classes.

You can register for live classes here, request a class or coaching series using the form below, or keep scrolling for more info about pricing and policies.

Request a class or coaching

Interested in working together — either one on one or with a private group or company? Fill out this form and I’ll be in touch shortly. If you want to sign up for classes, you can do so here.

Policies + Pricing

  • All sessions are on Zoom.

  • All sessions must be scheduled and paid for at least 24 hours in advance. The deadline for refunds is 24 hours before our class or session begins.

  • I approach this work as an artist, educator, and consultant. I am not a mental health professional. My practice is my own.

  • Price list:

    • Classes vary. Find current classes and pricing on the registration page.

    • 8 weeks of 1-on-1 coaching: $2400

    • 4 months of 1-on-1 coaching: $4800

  • To request a payment plan, group rates, or negotiated price, contact me. I want to make this work for you.

  • You can read about why my prices are what they are on my Business + Financial Transparency page.