Who Has Time for Imposter Syndrome?
like Crossfit for your imposter feelings
with Josie (they/them)
June 18, 2024 at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm GMT.
Josie Alexandra (they/them) is an award winning experimental multi-dimensional artist, fascinated by the potential of intra-personal relationships as sites for reclamation and transformation in world-making processes. Their work offers critiques and envisionings to plausible futurisms [for trans and neurodiverse communities and beyond] in the current global crisis. Josie’s artistic work spans across film, sound, painting and writing. They’re also an educator, consultant, and assistant with a drive to learn the latest skills that they are fixated on.
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“A little while ago a beautiful person shared with me the perspective that “We are just the accumulation of the stories that we tell ourselves at any given moment in time.” These days, I’m very conscious of what my imposter syndrome story is.
Feeling like an imposter is NOT an emotional response that I have Conquered or Eliminated from my life, nor do I aim too! That is unrealistic. Every new chapter in my I’ve been met with my old friend IMPOSTER.
However, over the years I’ve dramatically shifted the narrative and response that I give to this really uncomfortable emotion, which can grip me in what feels like a devil-ish embrace.
A big break through came in 2018, I realised that I had been gaslighting myself (and fueling imposter feelings) by telling myself and others for years, that I was “tone deaf”. This power of this story meant that I had never allowed myself to creatively express through music or sound art. Even though I had lots of musical friends, I regularly went to gigs and wanted to be in a band. So I decided to tell myself and my friends that “I’m making an EP” and by 2020 I had collaborated on producing and releasing an EP.
I find it wild that imposter feelings can creep into all areas of my life, from queerness, to sex, to dating, to being an artist. My life hack for this feeling has been creating “data” for myself by engaging in experiences that directly counter-act imposter feelings, as these experiences remind me that I don’t have time for imposter syndrome.”
Is this class for you?
Are you a creative professional wasting time feeling like an imposter? This workshop will go over some imposter syndrome basics and practical tools to combat it, and then get you sharpening your chops in a speed-dating style professional meet and greet. You’ll get a chance to practice your pitch, explain what you do, your ethos, your lens, and your approach to new people.
This workshop is founded on consent-based practices.
What will we be doing?
Imposter syndrome can come at every stage of progression in career development and every time that you start something new. Dealing with imposter syndrome is not about trying eliminate any and all feelings of imposter, but about having the tools and skills to work through it. We’re working with it, not against it.
Come prepared with 1-3 sentences of what you’re offering within your industry(ies) and 1-3 sentences about what you’re looking for. These will be your offers and your requests.
Participants will be invited to share their information in a google roster and can contact anyone they met in the workshop for further collaboration.
Some myths we’re combatting:
“Pick one thing to focus on.”
Don’t be a generalist, be a specialist.
People are just born with “it” or not.
Some fears we’re combatting:
I never finish anything.
I have to do it all on my own.
I’ll never be good enough / I’m not good enough yet.
Fear of failure.
Fear of success.
We will:
go over some imposter syndrome basics: What is it? Where does it come from? Does it have a function?
practice with the embodied sensations of imposter syndrome, the embodied feelings of your confidence, and practice accessing those grounded sensations even when feeling insecure
rotate in breakout rooms so you can practice:
introducing yourself to new professionals
saying what you do concisely and confidently
sharing your offerings
asking for the kind of help you want
if it’s not a creative or professional match, you’ll get to spend 5 mins meeting someone new and talking about your experience with imposter syndrome!
Read what people are saying about these classes.
“Perhaps you have imposter syndrome because you’re doing something that’s never been done.”
“I don’t have time for imposter syndrome.”
Payment + Pricing
Register…
This workshop is $100. There are ten $25 spots, and unlimited sliding scale spots from $50-$100.
Sliding scale options are available to those who:
are S€x Workers
have been incarcerated
have excessive medical costs
have debilitating student loans
have ancestors who experienced slavery
live somewhere where the exchange rate makes this course cost-prohibitive
have ancestors who experienced, or have themselves experienced, land theft
need to use it.
Wondering if this scale is for you? It is. Still not sure? It is. Still not sure?? Email me.
Prices are set at a rate such that even at the lowest rate, I feel good providing the work, as in, not depleted or taken advantage of. If you feel uneasy using the lower tier but it makes it possible for you to join a program, use it! The ways you can pay it forward include inviting your friends to join with you, forwarding the program and other CW programs to friends, family, and colleagues, and spreading the word any way you can. You can sign up for the newsletter and forward it, send your boss our Professional Wellness Consulting page, subscribing, rating, and reviewing the podcast, subscribing on Instagram, and any other way you can think of to help get the word out.