Creative Facilitation

Romance Your Muse

“Sharing your voice can be uncomfortable. But you know, that’s how the sun feels, too, when it rises out of the night. Doesn’t make it any less bright.”

– Cat Wityk

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Cat facilitates a workshop at Story Parlor — At Story Parlor in West Asheville, Cat facilitates a creative workshop about trusting in the unknown.

What is Creative Facilitation?

To facilitate means to guide without controlling in order to make learning easier.

Contrary to traditional instruction, a facilitator gets out of the way just as much as they influence. As a teacher-student, the facilitator is constantly evolving as a person and honing their wisdom through their students’ experiences. Likewise, participants are student-teachers, invited to bring their own perspectives, wisdom, and authority to the table.

This collaborative model creates a feedback loop in which everyone learns from everyone else.

Humility replaces absolute authority.
Openness replaces single-mindedness.
Collaboration replaces hierarchy.
Co-creation replaces intellectual homogeny.

creative facilitation Goals

To guide creatives in reconciling their fear and affirming their joy.

To inspire others, ensuring they always leave a little better (wiser, less blocked, more creative, more empowered, feeling safer, etc.) than they arrived.
To share the wisdom gained from walking the walk, and to show others the path so that they might find their own meanings.
To be of service to my creative community, fostering a sense of belonging and empowered resourcing within it.
To trust that the participant is their own best guide, and to empower that inner guide.

Cat Wityk, creative facilitator — Cat prepares to receive awards from UNCA’s Departments of Mass Communication and French Language & Literature, circa 2016.

WORKSHOPS COMING SOON…

Taming the Dragon: Transmuting Fear with Creative Writing

Taming the Dragon: Transmuting Fear through Creative Writing

We all struggle with fear. It’s a universal aspect of the creative process. Fear often shows up in consistent patterns unique to our nervous system and personal stories. If we can befriend what’s underneath it, we can restore our internal system to a state of safety. But there is no one-size-fits-all step-by-step handbook on coping with fear.

The purpose of this workshop is to transmute fear by changing how we relate to it and engage with it. It is possible to receive creative abundance and personal insight from fear when we shift rejection into acceptance, judgment into compassion, and neglect into curiosity. We will use character as a means of personifying fear and written story as a mirror to our own personal journey moving through it, finding inspiration through activities designed to help you safely interact with fear.

Join us as we tame our dragons and soar our creative skies upon their backs!

What People Are Saying

“What a playful journey that Cat led us on! As a risk-averse (bordering on anxious) person, I need a lot of safety and trust in order to explore the unknown. It says a lot about Cat’s presence and leadership that the entire group was laughing with joy as she invited us to investigate our own processes around fear. I’m excited to have a safe space like this to learn more about my own feelings about taking risks (which is to say, creativity itself)!”

– Ty G.

“Cat’s ability to distill wisdom into creative exercises is truly impressive. I rely on my intuition constantly, yet I have not really dug into “what IS intuition?” until this workshop. It was so cool to see what our intuition actually does for us – alerts us to fear, helps us navigate situations where we don’t have access to all the information, and teaches us when to trust others and when to trust ourselves. Cat brought these ideas to life in the workshop activities, and she is so good at “show, don’t tell” when it comes to exploring intuition and fear! I am grateful I got to be there for this. I am excited to learn more from Cat!”

– Hannah K.

“Cat’s energy is absolutely infectious—she has a way of lifting you up and calling you into action, no matter where you’re starting from. Her deep knowledge about fear and how to face it made me feel like I could take on any challenge. There’s a fire in her presence that’s both inspiring and empowering, and it comes through in how passionately she guides her students through even the toughest creative blocks. With Cat, you don’t just feel supported—you feel unstoppable.”

– Tara T.

“Working with Cat feels like stepping into a creative dojo where play, intuition, and daring exploration meet. Her workshops are an invitation to move beyond comfort zones and into the exhilarating edges of possibility. Cat’s deep background in martial arts infuses her facilitation with a grounded strength and vitality.”

– Mari T.

“Cat’s sweet enthusiasm and passion for what she does is infectious! I found it such an awesome blend; exploring fear and intuition. One of the biggest takeaways for me, was to be able to trust myself more — and another person, too. I felt some anxiety/fear pop in my solar plexus, but it was not unbearable… I was kind of playing with that blurry line between fear and excitement. What would happen? Where am I going? Cat brings an element of fun and mystery that’s complemented by a confident and strong embodiment, a sense that she knows where she wants to take us- even if we didn’t. It was reassuring.”

– arae

“Cat brings a perspective that diverges from that of the typical person – even the typical artist. Through a lifetime of exploration into the deepest corners of the human psyche, she has traveled to the farthest edges of the universe and back again. She wants nothing more than to help others take that journey. She encourages you to play and think and feel, and provides a space where you are safe enough to do all three. With patience and understanding she seeks to remind us of the thing we’ve always known in our hearts – that curiosity never killed the cat.”

– Devin R.

“Cat draws from a deep reservoir of intuition, compassion, and personal experience to accept and validate new perspectives while maintaining focus on the task at hand. This openness and understanding allows her to facilitate complex thought exercises among diverse participants, much as a tapestry weaver combines individual threads to make a pattern more compelling than the sum of its component parts.”

– Rebecca M.