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An inspiring community of women changemakers reclaiming our voices and stepping into our creative power for these times
An inspiring community of women changemakers reclaiming our voices and stepping into our creative power for these times
You’ve landed here because someone inside this community pointed you in this direction. Welcome!
What unites every woman in The Joy-Led Creativity Collective is a shared desire to step ever more fully into her creative power. Not as a 'nice-to-have,' but because the world we’re living in urgently needs more of us in our radiance, sovereignty, and irrepressible aliveness. Women who are unmistakable forces for change – in our lives, our work, our communities, and our leadership.
And we want to do this together. We are here to join hands and dance past the perfectionism, fear, and doubt our culture feeds us, and let delight itself be our rebellion!
This is a space where women show up as they are, speak what’s true, and let themselves be seen in ways that strengthen their clarity and courage. A place where creative power becomes something we live – not just something that stays on the pages of our journals.
Our monthly gatherings and pop-up events are designed to ignite aliveness, deepen expression, and strengthen the change we’re here to usher in – individually and together.
If this page feels like it’s speaking directly to you, we’d love for you to join us. You can read more about December's taster events below, and the full invitation to join us as a founding member here.
With love,
Founder, The Joy-Led Creativity Collective
At the heart of the Collective are our monthly writing circles – intimate, eight-woman gatherings where writing becomes a portal back to ourselves.
We meet on Zoom, settle into our bodies, and follow creative prompts that open surprising pathways into truth, intuition, and power.
We write privately, then come back together and share (if we choose) in a space where our voices are met with presence, reverence, and zero critique. Again and again, women describe this practice as a homecoming – a place where their clarity deepens, their courage expands, and their creative power awakens.
Over time, the monthly rhythm becomes an anchor: a sacred non-negotiable that nourishes your voice, allows you to be witnessed, and sends ripples of aliveness into your work and life.
Come and join us for a complimentary taster circle in December!
Choice of 2 dates: Friday 12th December @ 2.30-4.00pm UK or Monday 15th December @ 6.30-8.00pm UK (10.30am - midday pacific). Book here.
Members also gather each month for our Joy-Led Pop-Up events – a guided practice or workshop designed to spark aliveness and expand creative power.
This December, that looks like Joy-Led Dance Club: a 45-minute movement experience where you can dance, sway, stretch, or simply rest – meeting yourself exactly where you are. No choreography, no performance, cameras optional.
These gatherings are joyful experiments in presence, embodiment, and creative leadership – inviting us to reconnect with our bodies, our energy, and the deeper wisdom that fuels us in our lives, work and leadership.
Come and join us for Joy-Led Dance Club in December!
Choice of 2 dates: Thursday 4th December @ 5pm UK/9am Pacific or Tuesday 16th December at 9am UK. Book here.
Creative power is your life-force directing itself toward expression, truth, and impact. It’s your inner wisdom, your voice, your intuition, and your courage moving as one.
When we are in our creative power, we stop performing what’s expected and drop into something truer. We act from soul rather than pressure. We lead from inner authority rather than external approval. What we offer through our work and in our lives becomes more unmistakably us – and more magnetic to those we’re here to serve.
Creative power is also alive. It’s that quiet-but-undeniable pull toward what feels meaningful and energising. It’s the part of you that knows when something wants to be created, even if no one has asked for it.
It’s also relational: a way of moving through the world with your eyes, heart, and hands open – connected to yourself, to others, and to the wider field of life.
In a world where so many systems still benefit from women being small, silent, or self-doubting, creative power is both a reclamation and a leadership stance.
It's the energy that dissolves outdated, extractive ways and catalyses new ways of living, leading, and creating – within us and far beyond us.
What members say...
What members say...
“When I write here, I am often surprised by the vigor, the clarity, the urgency of my voice and my creative vision.
Afterwards, I notice I have a new sense of centeredness in myself: My truth, my voice, my vision. I'm better able to discern what I want and don't...And I'm able to invite others into magical, connected, rich experiences like this one.
My capacity is greater, and my intuition takes a front seat.
When I listen to the other women's words, I feel recognition, affirmation, power, drama, care, fire, wildness, loss, joy, the whole spectrum of all of life. I know that we are united, unstoppable, healers, truth-speakers, and wise women. The world needs us.
The world needs this. It is holy and sacred and rare. The collective is here to light a new path forward. In the midst of all the disconnection and insanity, the circle practice teaches us to speak, to listen, to find and hold with reverence the deep truth of our being, that we are interconnected.”
"What often surprises me is what actually lands on the page. It's like a release valve for things I didn't know I needed to express or could not have otherwise found the words.
Afterwards, what remains is a sense that I've been safely held by the broad, strong, and divinely feminine arms of the collective group. I carry that along with me for days. It’s one of the very few places I show up as myself and feel both seen and heard.
Since joining, my sense of myself as a creative being has been excavated from the depths.
I believe this collective is here to bring us closer to our real selves, to build our sense of belonging to ourselves and to a bigger community of women. It feels like one of those untold things that pass down through the generations of women that we've just somehow lost connection with.”
“As we stand together, hand in hand, we may feel like just one circle in a world of increasing darkness, but our circle is known.
Its power is held and felt. And the only thing that's asked of us is to allow ourselves to be lit up and radiate that light to others.”
Curious about joining us...?
Curious about joining us...?
If something in you feels drawn to this space, even if you can’t yet explain why, we warmly invite you to join us!
You can read the full invitation to become a founding member here. It shares the full logistics and will help you discern if this might be a place that would serve your journey. Towards the bottom of the invite you’ll also find the link you need to join.
If you’d prefer to dip your toe in first, we’re offering two taster writing circles in December, and opening our monthly pop-up event (Joy-Led Dance Club) to any woman who has been passed this invitation by a member of the Collective.
Tickets for these taster events are complimentary and offer a chance to feel the energy of the space and meet some of the women already walking this path.
If you have any questions at all, you can reach out to Sharon, our community manager, at support@clairemackinnon.com.
About our Founder
About our Founder
Claire Mackinnon is a transformational coach, creative catalyst, and women’s leadership guide devoted to supporting women to reclaim their voices and step into their creative power – in their work, their leadership, and their lives.
Before founding her business in 2015, Claire spent over 15 years leading large-scale organisational transformation across financial services and the social impact sector – including senior roles at Barclays and as Director of HR for one of the UK’s largest social housing mergers.
An ICF PCC-certified coach with more than 2,000 hours of coaching and facilitation experience, she has supported hundreds of leaders across industries including technology, retail, professional services, and education – as well as an ever-growing community of mission-led women entrepreneurs.
Claire is the founder of The Joy-Led Creativity Collective, and creator of The Joy-Led Visibility Salon, a pioneering programme for women founders ready to make their work visible in life-giving, soul-led ways.
She is currently completing her debut memoir, Finding Aphrodite: One Woman’s Dance from Shame to Aliveness, through which she hopes to spark a wider cultural conversation about women’s creative power – and the urgent need for leadership rooted in aliveness, truth, and joy.
Claire's website is currently undergoing a refresh, but you can join her email community here to be kept up to date about her offerings and community events.
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