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Get Clear on the Things
You Need to Get Clear On
Crystallizing the vision of your dream self and building tools for the journey there
September 25th to November 13th ❦ Eight-week workshop
on Zoom ❦ Fridays at 9-10am PT / 12-1pm ET / 17-18 BST💎
Uncover and crystallize your deepest desires and creative dreams. Over eight weeks, learn how to grow a fulfilling life and become more yourself.
Uncover your deepest desires and creative dreams, and crystallize them through an imaginative journaling practice over eight weeks. Learn the art of self-actualizing and how to grow a fulfilling, abundant life from coach Mercedes Kraus, whose eclectic references span psychology, culture, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, spirituality, art, and music.
Your old stories can quiet and fade. You can access your inner power and build confidence. You can love yourself and make your dreams come true.
The strategies I teach in this eight-week workshop are hard-won, and I use them constantly for myself and my clients.
Through readings, guided meditations, tool instruction, group discussion, and getting delusional, we’ll get really honest and really clear about what we want for our lives — and start to chart the course to our truest selves.
Create a clear mental map so your brain can help you
readings, guided meditations, technique development, group discussion, and getting delusional
learning and developing mindset techniques
practices, disciplines, principles, virtues,
studying, examining our core beliefs and our stories about ourselves
Core to this workshop is the act of getting delusional, which loosens up our “shoulds” and our fears, juices our imagination muscle, and helps us to show our brains where we want to go. We do this through delulu journaling, a method I developed based on a range of scientific research.
When you practice imagining your dream life, your brain gets a new blueprint as its guide — and it starts to see and make connections it hadn’t previously. Serendipitous events seem to occur more frequently because your brain is open to them, looking for them.
The work: Make your blueprint, build your toolkit
In this workshop, delulu journaling will help you create a new blueprint that crosses different areas of your life. And then each week, sessions will explore each of these areas and offer a new perspective on some of the old stories you’ve been carrying around. Sessions cover:
September 25: How your mind works, and how to get delusional
October 2: Resilience, acceptance, and old stories
October 9: The mind-body connection
October 16: Money, abundance, and reciprocity
October 23: 🌹 Christina Catherine Martinez: Clown Principles for the Postmodern Polymath
October 30: Relationships and healthy attachment
November 6: GUEST TBC: The erotic, power, and creativity
November 13: A love ethic, community, and callings
November 20: Bonus wrap session — yapping and processing and resource exchange
We’ll also build a mindset toolkit. You’ll develop new self-talk phrases and skills and learn mindfulness and somatic practices that are essential for resilience. And, by working to delulu journal for 30 days, you’ll road-test habit formation, the foundation for effective change.
You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of not only what you want to accomplish in the coming years (and decades!), but the kind of person you want to become and what it will take to get there. You’ll practice slowing down and noticing your thought patterns to develop a refined ability to focus on what really matters to you.
❦. September 25th to November 13th ❦
❦ Eight weeks on Zoom ❦
❦ Fridays at 9-10am PT / 12-1pm ET / 17-18 BST ❦
What’s included
Eight, one-hour workshops with learning and discussion
Eight weeks of group chat with a small cohort of likeminded creative people
Mindset tools that you can use til you leave the planet
One 30-minute session of coaching with Mercedes
Prompts for 31 days of journaling to shape your vision
NEW: Specific weekly assignments to keep you gassed up and focused
NEW: Bonus wrap session
By popular demand, Get Delulu is extended to an eight-week workshop. Join a small group of likeminded creative people to clarify your holistic vision of success and the path to getting there. With delulu journaling as our core practice, we’ll build mindset tools for various aspects of our lives, and in between, we’ll chat and swap inspo. You’ll gain new perspectives, new community, and new ways to see yourself and work with your thoughts.
September 25th to November 13th ❦ on Zoom
Fridays at 9-10am PT / 12-1pm ET / 17-18 BST
Early Bird pricing ends Saturday, September 12th
What they’re saying
“This workshop is a holistic approach that has helped me to shift my thinking and improve my confidence and clarity when it comes to my creative (and life!) goals.” — S.D., Los Angeles
“The perfect balance between woo woo/spiritual and factual and grounded. Disarmed my inner critic and got through to me. … When I started this, I was a bit skeptical, even without fully realizing it. I was experiencing so much resistance to positive vibes that I could feel it throughout my whole body. The workshop, and especially being in a group, helped me make sense of so much and truly unblocked me. Today, I delulu journaled with a smile instead of tears. Thank you!” — Lyu, Sofia, Bulgaria
“We need our imagination to build a new world, and we need each other, and I’ve found access to both here!” Sara S., Cairo, Egypt
“I really liked the body of the workshops, the classes and the curation — the way Mercedes presented the information and sprinkled different activities throughout.” — K.R., New York
“Delulu science and journaling has been very useful and easy to integrate into my life. Establishing a habit was and is the most difficult aspect of this for me and opened my eyes to all the ways I need to establish boundaries and facilitate self-care.” — Jessica G., Boulder, Colorado
“I’m working actively to think bigger and more ambitiously while giving myself breaks; it’s an interesting new syncopation.” — K.S., Los Angeles
“Mercedes is an amazing connector. She brings wisdom and insight to the table in both a personal and collective manner. She has an abundance of resources. She is humble and lighthearted while still being an excellent leader, directing the group with grace and keeping the workshop sessions focused but fun. She has a special gift of evoking transformation in others. She is like a lighted guide on a dark path!” — Devon, east coast U.S.
Who is this for?
You’ve tried to change, to become your truest self, but you feel stuck. This is the year of the fire horse after all — and you wanna get moving!
You have a vision, or kinda, and want to breathe life into it.
Your inner voice includes a lot of negativity and old stories. You know you’ve got limiting beliefs, and you’re ready to move on.
You’re inspired by others and want to connect to some cool new people.
You crave emotional regulation and know you need a toolkit for :waves arms: these times.
You’re ready to commit to a daily journaling practice, share vulnerably with others, and integrate your insights into your life.
Who am I?
I’m Mercedes, a creative coach and a former design editor, strategist, and manager. As a coach, I regularly lead people through vision exercises, mindfulness practices, and habit formation — all the ingredients we need to get this delulu practice in motion.
I’m energized by helping people change their minds about themselves and actualize the person inside — that one you’ve always known is there — through creative resilience, interconnectedness, and vulnerability.
My coaching methodology relies on knowledge from across many different worlds — art, science, philosophy, spirituality, literature, psychology, mythology and more — plus my own life experiences with motherhood, relationships, friendships, trauma, grief, stress, separation, awe, joy, truth, and beauty.