This gathering is hosted by Rebecca Briggs.

Maven is donating space to support their work and help make this conversation accessible to our community. We’re grateful to partner with organizations like this that create opportunities for women to learn, connect, and grow together.

Sometimes, the most supportive thing you can do is pause—and let your body catch up.

During Community Day at Maven CREATE, we’re offering a limited number of 20-minute bodywork sessions designed to help you release tension, reset your nervous system, and reconnect with your body.

These sessions will be offered by Rebecca Briggs, a massage therapist and holistic practitioner whose work draws from her background in bodywork, movement, and whole-body wellness. Her approach focuses on the areas where stress tends to live—neck, shoulders, back, and hips—supporting both immediate relief and longer-term alignment, injury prevention, and rehabilitation.

Whether you’ve been sitting at a desk, holding tension in your body, or simply need a moment to slow down, this is a chance to step away and receive care in a calm, supportive space.

What to Expect

Each session is 20 minutes and tailored to what your body needs most in the moment.

Rebecca integrates techniques that support:

• Stress relief and nervous system regulation
• Postural alignment
• Injury prevention and rehabilitation

This is not a full massage, but a focused, intentional session designed to create meaningful impact in a short amount of time. Please note that you will be in a public setting with your clothing on during the session.

Booking Details

• Session Length: 20 minutes
• Price: $20 per session
• Capacity: 6 total sessions (limited availability)

Please arrive a few minutes early so your session can begin on time.

About Maven Community Day

This offering takes place during our weekly Open Community Day at Maven CREATE—a time when our membership space is open to the public.

You’re welcome to arrive early or stay after your session to work, connect, or simply spend time in the space.

This gathering is hosted by Allegra Pyschology.

Maven is donating space to support their work and help make this conversation accessible to our community. We’re grateful to partner with organizations like this that create opportunities for women to learn, connect, and grow together.

Anger is often the emotion we’re taught to suppress.

To soften.
To hide.
To make more “palatable.”

But what if anger isn’t something to avoid—but something to listen to?

Embrace Your Rage is a guided women’s gathering designed to explore anger not as something to fear, but as a powerful signal—one that points to boundaries, truth, and unmet needs.

Together, we’ll create a brave, intentional space to move beyond surface-level conversation and into deeper reflection, connection, and understanding.

This gathering will be facilitated by Stacy Ackerlind, PhD, of Allegra Psychology, who brings a grounded, thoughtful approach to emotional processing and group work. With a background in supporting individuals through complex emotional landscapes, Stacy holds space with both care and clarity—helping participants explore what’s present without judgment or pressure to “fix” it.

Through guided prompts, group discussion, and simple ritual elements, you’ll be invited to explore your relationship with anger—where it’s been silenced, where it’s been misunderstood, and what it might be trying to show you.

This is not about venting or escalating emotion. It’s about learning how to be in relationship with it.

Inside this gathering, we’ll explore:

• Anger as a signal, not a flaw
• The tension between internal truth and external expectations
• The role of “politeness,” conditioning, and gender in emotional expression
• Archetypes of feminine rage and what they reveal
• How to safely process, reflect, and respond rather than suppress
• You’ll move between conversation, reflection, and quiet moments of integration—supported by a space that honors both expression and grounding.

What you’ll walk away with

• A deeper understanding of your anger and what it’s communicating
• Language for emotions that may have felt confusing or overwhelming
• A sense of permission to feel without immediately fixing or minimizing
• A clearer connection to your boundaries and inner voice

A 2-hour immersion in unfiltered creation—play, experiment, and surrender to joy.

Fearless Abstract Painting invites you into a different kind of creative experience, one where there’s no right way, no finished outcome to chase, and no pressure to get it right.

Led by third-generation artist Samantha da Silva, this gathering introduces her signature approach to abstract painting: rollers instead of brushes, tables instead of easels, and an open invitation to move, layer, and explore.

Paint is poured, pushed, and lifted.
Water moves color across the canvas.
Textures emerge through plaster, salt, sand, and sawdust.

What unfolds is not just a painting, but a process.

Many of us are navigating the quiet space between doubt and trust—between the fear of being seen (or unseen) and the longing to belong fully in our own creative skin. This gathering meets you there.

Inside a gentle, heart-centered space, you’ll be guided through intention setting and a series of creative rituals designed to quiet the inner critic and awaken intuition. Through these practices—including Samantha’s “five rituals to clear your channel,” compassionate reflection, and learning when a piece feels complete—you’ll begin to trust your own creative voice again.

There’s space here to move, to make a mess, to follow what feels interesting, and to discover something unexpected along the way.

We’ll open the evening with a short Meet the Moment presence practice to help you arrive fully, then transition into guided exploration and open creation, allowing the experience to unfold organically, with support when you need it and freedom when you don’t.

We’ll close with a moment to reflect and integrate before transitioning out of the gathering.

You’ll leave with more than a finished piece.

You’ll leave with a different relationship to creating—one rooted in trust, curiosity, and permission.

Your canvas is waiting.

What You’ll Walk Away With

Participants can expect to leave with:

• Permission to stay messy—trusting that the imperfect or unfinished mark is often exactly what’s needed
• A deeper connection to your intuition, learning to trust what your body and materials already know
• A sense of belonging within yourself, remembering that showing up honestly is enough
• A finished abstract piece created through your own intuitive process. Please note that your work may still be wet at the end. Plan ahead for transportation by bringing a clear space in your car trunk, and bring an old sheet, shower curtain, or protective layer to safely carry it home.

What if working with your hands became a way to come back to yourself?

In a world that moves quickly, this gathering offers a slower rhythm—one rooted in presence, creativity, and connection.

Clay Church is a guided, hands-on experience designed to help you reconnect with your senses through clay. Through simple techniques and thoughtful guidance, you’ll explore what it feels like to create without pressure, allowing the process itself to become a form of meditation, reflection, and expression.

This is not about making something perfect.
It’s about being present with what’s in front of you.

We’ll open the evening with a short Meet the Moment presence practice to help you arrive fully, then transition into a guided pottery wheel experience led by Stephanie Hillman of Art Haus. Throughout the morning, you’ll have space to create, explore, and settle into your own rhythm supported by both instruction and openness.

This gathering will take place between Maven CREATE and Art Haus, offering a blend of intentional space and hands-on studio experience.

Whether you’re new to pottery or returning to it, you’re welcome here.

What You’ll Walk Away With

Participants can expect to leave with:

• A sense of calm and grounding from slowing down and working with your hands
• Confidence in exploring creativity without pressure
• A deeper connection to yourself, others, and the creative process
• One finished piece of glazed pottery that you created; available for pickup within 8 weeks

You’re invited to spend the day inside Maven CREATE.

Maven CREATE is typically a membership-based space designed for focused work, collaboration, and community. Each Wednesday, we open the doors to the public—creating a shared environment where anyone can step in, experience the space, and be part of the rhythm.

There’s no structure, no agenda—just a place to work, connect, or simply be around others.

Bring your laptop, your journal, your ideas—or nothing at all.

Maven exists to create spaces where women can show up fully—without pressure to perform or produce. This is one small way we practice that together.

You’re welcome to drop in at any time and stay for as long as you’d like.

If it feels good, introduce yourself to someone new.
If you need quiet, take it.
If you’re looking for connection, it’s here.

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What to Expect

• Open coworking + flexible seating
• A calm, welcoming environment
• A glimpse into Maven’s membership-based community
• Light guidance from the Maven team if you need anything

What to Bring

• Whatever supports your day (laptop, notebook, water, etc.)

Cost
Free and open to the community on Wednesdays.

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If this space resonates, we’d love to share more about our memberships and the spaces we offer to work, gather, and be in community.