Session Flow:

• 2 Live Group Zoom Calls: workshop + growth circle

• 1 Downloadable Guide: tools & methodology for self-care & business

• Coterie Community: a network of aligned creative entrepreneurs & ways to connect

• Forum & Peer Connection Space: conversation, idea exchange & idea incubator

• Resource Library

• Monthly Newsletter

• Discounts on AYOKI 1:1 services

OPTIONAL: Small focused meetings/think tanks available (based on industry, issue, something new) additional cost

What to Expect :
Current 3 Month Season

 SESSION 1: Welcome to AYOKI Grow

Theme: Grow Slow
Focus: Reorienting our relationship with time, success, and growth
Core Message: Healthy growth takes time. In a regenerative business, pace is a choice — one that protects wellness, longevity, and the ecosystems you touch. We make thoughtful, intentional, and well-researched decisions that keep the founder, team, customers, and environment well. Growth is present and grounded, never rushed or driven by consumption for its own sake. We expand only where it’s mutually beneficial, leaving room for all to thrive.

Topics:

• Regenerative Business & Sustainable Growth: Forest thinking, ecosystem models, anti-burnout strategies.

• Creative Resistance & Cultural Impact: Reframing success away from speed and extraction.

• What is Enough?: Defining your own measures of sufficiency in business and life.

Deliverables:

• Opening Growth Circle: Slow Growth Stories — guest creatives share their journey in choosing a regenerative pace.

• Guide: What Slow Growth Looks Like for Me — prompts for defining your healthy pace.

• Workshop: Regenerative Pace & Planning — integrating nervous system wellness into your business calendar.

• Think Tank: Slow Marketing & Gentle Money — promotion and income that align with your values.

• Forum Prompt: “What are you pruning? What are you nurturing?”

Tangible Outcomes:

• Personal Slow Growth Plan

• 2 gentle marketing experiments to test in Q1
  

 SESSION 2

Theme: Stay True: Creative Integrity & Nervous System Business-Building
Focus: Building a business that honors your full self
Core Message: Your business is an extension of you. Staying true means aligning personal wellness and business health so that your strategies nourish both. By practicing rhythms of re-centering, nurturing, and intentional growth, you keep your work authentic, whole, and creatively alive.

Topics:

• Authenticity & Creative Clarity: Brand as a living system, truth-based marketing, creative direction from within.

• Regenerative Business: Nervous system-aligned decision-making.

• Boldness, Bravery & Visionary Leadership: Courageous visibility and doing business differently without compromising values.

Deliverables:

• Growth Circle: Authenticity Over Aesthetics — creatives share how they protected their vision.

• Guide: Is This Me or the Algorithm? — self-check tool for creative alignment.

• Workshop: Decision-Making with the Nervous System — using inner signals to guide sustainable strategy.

• Forum Prompt: “Where in my business do I feel most like myself? Least?”

Tangible Outcomes:

• Nervous-System-Aligned Decision Filter

• Personal “No List” for Q1

SESSION 3

Theme: You’re Not Alone: The Ecosystem of Creative Entrepreneurship
Focus: Interdependence, peer wisdom, ecosystem-building
Core Message: Creativity thrives in connection. Regenerative business understands we are part of an interdependent ecosystem — learning from those ahead, supporting those behind, and standing alongside peers in shared growth.

Integrated Topics:

• Community & Collaboration: Peer support as medicine, co-creation over extraction, breaking isolation.

• Creative Resistance: Underrepresented voices shaping new norms.

• Boldness, Bravery & Visionary Leadership: Failing out loud and learning in public.

Deliverables:

• Growth Circle: Tree Networks & Rhizomes — member-led conversation on networked resilience.

• Workshop: Community Mapping & Networked Resilience — identifying your ecosystem of support.

• Downloadable: The Mycelium Map — visualize the people, resources, and spaces that nourish your work.

• Forum Prompt: “Who or what sustains me? How can I offer nourishment back?”

• Optional: Care Trade exchange board.

Tangible Outcomes:

• Support Ecosystem Map

• 1–2 new collaborative relationships

What’s Coming in January

Theme: Creative Risk, Regenerative Planning
Focus: Aligning your next step with your values, vision, and wellness

Integrated Topics:

• Boldness, Bravery & Visionary Leadership: Courageous visibility, doing business differently, and embodying your personal mission.

• Authenticity & Creative Clarity: Making decisions that reflect your true vision, not outside pressures.

• Regenerative Business: Planning your next season in a way that sustains your energy and the ecosystems you impact.

Deliverables:

• Growth Circle: Brave Choices, Gentle Planning — stories from entrepreneurs who took aligned risks.

• Workshop: Risk, Readiness & Regenerative Strategy — deciding which opportunities are worth pursuing now and which to defer.

• Toolkit: What’s Worth the Risk? — a values-based decision flowchart to guide courageous action.

• Forum Prompt: “What would I do if I trusted my timing and my voice?”

Tangible Outcomes:

• A 3-Month Regenerative Action Plan for the New Year