creative mentorship · starts January 2027

Show the parts of you that usually hide. Grow braver for it.

Shadore Circle is a 3-month creative mentorship. You trace your shadow, cut, glue and take small brave steps, with a group beside you. No art skills needed.

Join the waitlist Get the free Fear Ladder card

loving what lives in the shadow instead of hiding it

trace it then fill it with what you find

Collage: a woman in a trench coat with a head of flowers, labelled be you, bravely

Collage: a giant butterfly over a woman, labelled don't forget to fly

Collage: a silhouette at a door, open the door in cut-out letters

Collage: zebras and a child, I never lose, either I win or I learn

Collage: kittens at a window, what is yours will find you

Collage: a face wreathed in autumn leaves, creativity takes courage

Collage: a ring on a sea of blue, you are more precious than any diamond on earth

Collage: a figure on the moon, sky is not the limit

Collage: a woman with a hibiscus head, practice kindness

Collage: two torn eyes and a map, be weird, everyone else is taken

Collage: a giant orange slice, be open to whatever comes next

Collage: a road through a watch face, travel the universe

is this you?

Confident at work. Quietly doubting inside.

You've read the books and saved the posts. You want something you actually do, with your hands, with people who get it.

what you feelwhat the Circle gives you

You say yes when you mean noThe nerve to speak up without the guilt
Fear keeps the idea in the drawerOne small brave step a month
You're tired of performing "fine"Time that's yours, where you don't have to be on
Nothing you read seems to stickSomething you make, week after week
Your creative side went quietPlay, with no pressure to be good at it

how a month works

Two live sessions. A few small prompts. A group beside you.

Each month has a theme and the shadow hiding behind it. You meet it twice live, then carry it into your week in small, doable ways.

week 1 · live

Opening session

A small welcome ritual, tracing the month's shadow, its big question, and the exercise you'll try.

week 3 · live

Collage session

Scissors, glue and magazines. The month's work becomes something you can hold.

2–3 times a week

Small prompts

Short nudges in the private community. Do them when they land. Skip them when life is full.

every Sunday

One question

A single reflection to close the week. Five minutes with a pen.

Courage.
Its shadow: Fear.

January's theme. You'll pick one fear and break it into three steps, from least to most scary, then climb the first one before the collage session.

After three months there's a closing ritual to mark how far you've come. Then you can stay on month by month, or stop.

First Light · your first 3 months

Choose your way in

Every edition includes the welcome pack with your own Shadow Book, the private community and the same monthly rhythm.

Waitlist founding price: £99

For the online or Bristol edition, 48 hours before anyone else. The first 3 people on the waitlist pay £89.

Get on the list

Online

£149for 3 months

From anywhere, at your kitchen table.

2 live sessions a month
Replays if you miss one
Prompts and Sunday questions
Welcome pack and Shadow Book

Bristol, in person

£179for 3 months

Round a real table, with real glue.

2 live sessions a month, in Bristol
A seasonal Forest Session
Prompts and Sunday questions
Welcome pack and Shadow Book

Online with 1:1

£279for 3 months

The online Circle, plus time with Ade.

Everything in Online
A 45-minute 1:1 each month
Talk, or draw when words feel heavy
Welcome pack and Shadow Book

Welcome pack delivery is free in the UK. Giving it as a present? Christmas gift vouchers arrive in December.

what it feels like

Paper everywhere. People laughing. Something shifting.

The Circle grew out of Shadore evenings, where strangers trace their shadows and fill them with whatever they find. These are a few of those nights.

Three people cutting magazines around a pub table

A finished collage of a huge eye surrounded by torn fire and sea

Someone cutting gold coins from a magazine page

Two women working on their collages side by side

trace your own shadow

An older woman leafing through an illustrated book for images

Ade laughing, holding two torn-out magazine eyes over her own

hi, I'm Ade

who runs the Circle

I'm not here to fix you. I'm here to hand you the scissors.

I started Shadore with evenings where people trace their shadow on a wall and fill it with cuttings, words and colour. When your hands are busy, it gets easier to say what's been sitting in the dark.

The Circle is that evening stretched over three months, with enough time to actually change something. It's creative mentorship, not therapy: you make things, you notice things, and you take one brave step at a time.

the words I live by

what doesn't evolve me doesn't involve me

Ade

before you ask

Doubts, answered

I can't draw. Is this for me?

Yes. Collage is cutting and sticking. It's about what you choose and why, not how it looks. Nobody marks your work.

Is this therapy?

No. It's creative mentorship: making, reflecting and taking small brave steps. If you're going through something heavy, the Circle can sit alongside professional support, not replace it.

I don't have much time.

Two live sessions a month and a few short prompts. The prompts and Sunday questions are optional. Do what fits your week.

Three months feels like a big commitment.

Change takes longer than one evening. At the founding price it works out at about £8 a week, and after three months you choose whether to stay.

I get awkward in groups.

You never have to share your work. Plenty of people just listen at first, and that's welcome.

I don't live in the UK.

Join the online edition from anywhere. The welcome pack ships worldwide; delivery is free in the UK and paid at cost elsewhere.

join the waitlist

Start with one fear and three small steps.

Join the waitlist and get the Fear Ladder card free. You'll hear first when doors open, at the founding price.

step 1 · the least scary

step 2 · a little braver

step 3 · the big one