The writing. The poetry. The painting. The music. The thing that you used to make that felt specifically like YOU.
It’s something you think about in the shower. Or on your drive. In the little time you have before everyone wakes up and the house is quiet.
You’re not lazy or blocked. You didn’t miss your window.
You know that thing that you kept meaning to get back to.
You got practical. You got responsible. You got busy. You created the best life you could with what you were told would make sense and make you happy. But it didn’t. And somewhere in that exchange, the part of you that was always going to make something went into hiding. It’s been there. Waiting.
That part isn’t angry. It didn’t leave.
It’s just been waiting to find out if you’re serious.
Are you ready?
Most people don’t have a creative life. They have creative moments. They wait for inspiration. They pray for better circumstances. And when it doesn’t come they tell themselves they’re just not that kind of person any more…
A life by design means you stop leaving your creative life to chance and start building the conditions for it to exist. Consciously. Deliberately. With the same seriousness that you bring to everything else that matters to you.
It means carving out time to be inspired before you actually are inspired. Because inspiration arrives on the door step of availability.
It means having a living roadmap. Something that knows where it’s going while staying loose enough to be filled with unexpected moments along the way.
It means caring enough about your creative life to get practical about it. To treat it as the foundation for the rest of your life to be built on.
This is what Reclamation is all about. How to construct life in which creativity is no longer optional or accidental or last.
After two decades of working with people at the intersection of inner life and outer becoming, I’m bringing everything I have to this. A six week immersion in living your creative life by design.
THIS IS FOR YOU
You are not a beginner. You have lived enough, lost enough, made enough half-starts to know that what you need is not another book about creativity or another morning routine or another person telling you to just show up and do the work.
You know how to show up. You’ve been showing up for everyone else for years.
What you need is someone to take your creative life as seriously as you secretly do. A structure that fits inside your actual life (not the one you’d have if everything were different), this one, with its obligations and its interruptions and its Thursday afternoons that disappear before you’ve touched anything that matters to you.
You are someone who has always known, underneath everything, that making things is part of how you were built.
Maybe it’s been two years. Maybe it’s been twenty. Maybe you’re still making things but feel like you’re making content instead of living creatively, producing instead of discovering, showing up for the audience instead of for the work itself.
Wherever you are in that, this is for you.
You belong here if:
You used to make things and stopped, and there’s a part of you that hasn’t forgiven yourself for it.
You’ve always known you were meant to make something and keep waiting for the conditions to be right, and they never quite are.
You’re making things but feel a little empty doing it, like you’ve lost the thread of why you started.
You are tired of being the person who supports everyone else’s becoming while your own sits in a drawer.
You are ready. Ready right now, with your real life and your real constraints and the hunger you’ve been carrying around and calling something else.
The version of you that kept making things is not gone. They just need someone to come find them.
What’s all included:
Private Community Forum
Ongoing reflection and connection
A protected space for participants to share insights, questions, fragments of work, or simply witness one another’s process. For all the conversations that happen between sessions.
Weekly LIVE Sessions
Masterclass time for inspiration and self-inquiry
Six hour-long sessions with Rainier. You can join live or watch the replay!
WEEK ONE: The Inventory
What did you stop doing, and when?
This week we go back in order to locate the specific moments when you set your creativity down. We find it. We look at it. We understand what it cost to leave it there, and what it will mean to go back for it. This week you will know exactly what you’re reclaiming and why it matters enough to fight for it.
WEEK FOUR: The Practice
Learning to make before you’re ready
The practices are usually small. They’re deliberate next steps in refusing to abandon your self or your art. Small things done consistently rewrite the story you tell about yourself more than grand gestures ever will. This week we build the road map for you.
Weekly Creative Invitations
Low-pressure assignments that foster contact, not performance
Each week includes practices small enough to fit inside your actual life, significant enough to change it.
One-on-One Mentorship (Mentorship Tier)
Personalized guidance through your creative emergence
Dedicated time to explore your creative journey, creative block, or emerging project. Support that meets you exactly where you are. *Limited to 5 individuals.
Course Workbook
Carrying the work into your hands and off the screen
As apart of this course you’ll receive a printable workbook that will help you track your goals, and map your progress as you create your life by design.
Six Weeks. One decision at a time.
Access to The Creators Collective
For the duration of The Reclamation you’ll have access to the masterclasses, the resources, and the online community that can hold your passions and purpose.
BONUS INTEGRATION SESSION
Because the work doesn’t stop when the course does.
This is not a course you consume. It’s a course you live inside. Each week opens with a live session with me, you, the community, present together and then sends you back into your actual life with something specific to do. Something small enough to fit inside your real life and significant enough that three weeks later you’ll look back and realize it changed something.
We go in sequence because we’re building precisely. You can’t build a practice before you’ve cleared what’s blocking it. You can’t find your voice before you’ve done the grief. Each week earns the next one.
Here’s where we go.
WEEK TWO: The Grief
Mourning the creative life you didn’t live.
This is the week where we honor the years you didn’t write. The paintings that didn’t happen. The music that didn’t get made. That loss is real and deserves to be named. Grief and creativity live in the same room. They need each other. This week we stop pretending.
WEEK FIVE: The Voice
Remembering what only you can say
You’ve got a voice. This is about locating it and learning to use it. It’s about trusting the strange and specific thing over the general thing. Understanding that your weirdness isn’t a liability. It’s the whole point. It’s what your future get’s built on.
WEEK THREE: The Unlocking
Removing what’s actually in the way
It’s usually not the talent or the time. The real obstructions are older than any of that. The voice of the IM-perfectionist. The waiting room where we keep delaying. The belief that you don’t deserve a creative life. This week we clear out the rubbish and create a pathway for you to walk ahead on.
WEEK SIX: The Reclamation
Choosing this life going forward
We close with a commitment. This isn’t fantasy. It’s a structure that can be sustainable inside your actual life. This week is all about learning to stay with your vision, to use your voice, and to share your deep value with the world.
Every week builds on the next one. By week six, you won’t be the same person who started. That’s what choosing to not abandon yourself does.
About Rainier
Rainier Wylde is a creativity coach, writer, and podcast host devoted to helping people create from the soil of their lives. He is the founder of The Creators Collective, a community and resource for those seeking a more faithful approach to art, self, and purpose.
His work lives at the intersection of grief, creativity, and existential inquiry. For years, he has worked with artists, entrepreneurs, and sensitive thinkers navigating rupture, reinvention, and the ache of wanting to be in contact with reality. His approach is grounded, unsentimental, and deeply human.
Rainier is the author of As You Are, a meditation on self-acceptance and the courage to inhabit your life fully. His forthcoming book, Making Art Slow: Creativity & The Courage to Stay Human, explores devotion, presence, and the discipline of creating from your whole self.
Through his podcast and public speaking, he has explored the lives of revolutionary creators, spiritual dissenters, and artistic rebels, always returning to the same question: how do we live and make in a world that rewards inattention and performance?
The Art of Grief emerges from both personal loss and years of sitting with others in seasons of heartbreak and transition, as well as walking the intimate path of grief in his own life with the loss of both of his parents within a year and half. Rainier teaches how we create ourselves alive, and continue to push against despair.
Ways to Participate:
Foundation
Self-paced, private immersion
Access all twelve weekly recordings and creative invitations, as well as the online community, and invitation to final in-person gathering. Move slowly, listen deeply, and engage the material on your own time. Ideal for those who want a solitary, steady relationship with the work.
Gathering
Private immersion + COMMUNAL FIELD
Includes everything in Foundation, plus two live gatherings each month. A space for shared reflection, real-time inquiry, and being witnessed without pressure. For those who want accompaniment as they move through grief and creation. This is limited to TEN individuals only.
Mentorship
Full experience + PERSONAL GUIDE
Includes recordings, live gatherings, and one private session with Rainier each month. Dedicated space to explore your specific grief, creative process, and emerging work with direct support and care. This is limited to FIVE individuals only.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. This course is not therapy, nor is it a substitute for mental health care. It is a container for people who want to engage sorrow thoughtfully and CREATIVELY. If you are in acute crisis or need clinical support, this may not be the right fit. This is about WHOLENESS and stepping into wholeness, not simply finding healing
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No. You don’t need to identify as a writer, painter, or “creative.” Creativity here is treated as a human capacity: noticing, responding, shaping experience into language or form. The invitations are accessible and low-pressure.
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That’s okay. Participation might look like listening quietly, taking a short walk, or writing a single sentence. There is no performance requirement here. Creation is approached as relationship, not productivity.
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This course is for anyone navigating meaningful loss: death, divorce, estrangement, identity shifts, illness, career collapse, or a future that didn’t unfold the way you expected. If something has ended or changed you deeply, this work applies. There are a thousand griefs and a thousand thresholds for imagination
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All live gatherings will be recorded and available for replay. You can participate fully even if you cannot attend every session in real time.
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The core commitment is one hour for the weekly recording. Creative invitations are flexible and can take anywhere from ten minutes to longer, depending on your capacity. This course is designed to work with your life, not compete with it.
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Maybe. Some participants begin or deepen meaningful creative work during the course. Others leave with a steadier relationship to grief and a more honest creative rhythm. Both outcomes are valid.
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If you prefer to move privately and at your own pace, Foundation is enough. If you value shared reflection and communal presence, Gathering may be a better fit. If you want personal guidance and direct feedback, Mentorship offers the most depth. Make your decision off of what your most imminent need and desire is
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Yes. The course concludes with an optional one-day gathering in Charleston, South Carolina. This is an opportunity to meet in person, reflect on the passage, and close the container together. Details will be provided to registrants.
Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodations.