slow cooked
creativity*
How to fall in love with the contradiction
of being a creative mind,
with photographer Tona Olvera
June 17 2026 ➔ Online, 6PM CET (90 mins)
€40
THE WORKSHOP
This workshop is a space to talk honestly about the reality of creative life. The pressure to grow, stay visible, perform, and constantly improve often clashes with the need for calm, focus, and meaning. This session looks directly at that contradiction rather than trying to resolve it.
The focus is not on productivity tricks or success formulas, but on how creatives actually sustain their work over time while navigating doubt, ambition, responsibility, and change.
THE DETAILS*
This 90 minute session combines shared reflection with practical frameworks drawn from real creative careers.
You will explore how accomplished creatives manage the tension between making meaningful work and meeting real world demands. The workshop looks at daily practices that support creative energy when motivation is low, and at simple structures that help hold uncertainty without becoming overwhelmed by it.
Attention is given to the different roles creatives are forced to play, from artist to organiser, dreamer to realist, and how to move between them without burning out. The session is conversational in nature and designed to feel more like a shared working space than a lecture.
By the end of the workshop, you will:
Understand common patterns behind creative doubt and pressure
Learn practical ways to sustain creative work when motivation fails
Develop frameworks for managing the contradictions of creative life
Build healthier daily practices that support long term work
Leave with a clearer sense that struggle is part of the process, not a failure
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Just a notebook or sketchpad, your favourite writing tools and an open mind.
Why the Boring Workshops?
This aren’t pre-recorded courses. They’re live online workshops with professional instructors and creatives where you can ask questions, receive feedback, get personal guidance, and interact with peers in real time.
Recording are made available after the session so you can rewatch and follow at your own pace.
Tona Olvera is a creative director, photographer, and founder of the independent studio Daffy. He spent over a decade leading global campaigns for brands including Spotify, Netflix, and Nike before stepping away to redefine his creative life on his own terms.
Now based in Switzerland, Tona works across photography, food, music, and independent projects. His practice centres on balancing creative ambition with sustainable structures, and on embracing uncertainty as a necessary part of meaningful work.
MEET TONA
17 June 2026 · Online · 6PM CET · 90 minutes · €40 · Limited spots
The Workshop
Most creative advice tells you to do more, post more, grow faster. This one doesn't. In 90 minutes, photographer and creative director Tona Olvera, who built campaigns for Spotify, Netflix, and Nike before walking away to rebuild on his own terms — talks honestly about what it actually takes to keep creating over years, not just weeks.
The Details
This isn't a productivity workshop. There are no hacks here. What you get is 90 minutes of honest conversation about the real shape of a creative career: the doubt, the pressure to stay visible, the moments where ambition and exhaustion exist in the same day. Tona brings practical frameworks from his own career alongside space for yours.
You'll leave with:
A clearer way to think about the tension between ambition and sustainability: without pretending it goes away
Daily practices that hold your creative energy when motivation disappears
A framework for moving between the different roles you're forced to play (artist, organiser, earner, dreamer) without burning out
The reassurance that struggle isn't a sign you're failing, and what to do with it anyway