Welcome to Creative Wednesday
crisalida's weekly newsletter about the creativity cycle
In nature, the butterfly’s metamorphosis is an incredible process of transformation, where each stage plays a crucial role. From egg to caterpillar, from cocoon to butterfly—every phase is interconnected, leading to the moment when it’s finally ready to fly. This cycle, from potential to realization, is what inspired the creation of our Wednesday newsletter.
Just like in metamorphosis, the creative process follows stages—inspiration, presence, introspection, experimentation, and action. Often, when we feel blocked or overwhelmed, it’s because we’re trying to force creativity without respecting the natural flow of these phases. That’s why I designed this newsletter as a creative unlock system, where each stage nurtures a different aspect of your creative process.
How Can This Structure Unlock Your Creativity?
Every week, Crisálida will guide you (in a simple and fluid way) through five interconnected phases, each designed to unblock and fuel your creative process:
1. The Egg: Where Everything Is Possible
Every creation starts with potential. In the beginning, everything is nothing, and nothing is everything. The Egg represents infinite possibilities—a fertile ground where creativity begins to take shape.
How it helps: This phase expands your creative repertoire, introduces new references (films, books, art, ideas), and shows you that every creation begins with an open mind.
2. The Caterpillar: Grounding and Awareness
Once ideas have been planted, it’s time to connect with the world around you. The Caterpillar phase is about mindfulness and grounding, making space for your roots to grow deeper.
How it helps: It encourages presence. When you truly pay attention, you start noticing details, opportunities, and inspiration that usually go unnoticed when your mind is on autopilot.
3. The Cocoon: Introspection and Reflection
Creation isn’t just about the external world—it also requires moments of stillness, introspection, and reflection. In the Cocoon, you turn inward—to your own process, emotions, and intuition.
How it helps: This is where insights emerge. The Cocoon phase gives you space to let ideas mature before they take form, offering the quiet needed for true creative depth.
4. The Metamorphosis: Transformation
Creativity is about transformation—about reshaping what already exists. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel, but you can discover new ways to make it turn.
How it helps: This phase encourages experimentation, remixing, and reimagining. It’s where you allow yourself to make mistakes, to explore, and to unlock creative flow by embracing change.
5. The Butterfly: Action and Expression
After all that, it’s time to fly. The Butterfly phase is about bringing your ideas to life. Here, you’ll find creative prompts, challenges, and exercises to help you move from thought to action.
How it helps: It pushes you out of contemplation and into real-world creation, one step at a time. Creativity only becomes real when you give it form.
Why Does This Structure Work for Any Creative Process?
Whether you’re an artist, writer, designer, musician, or simply someone looking to unlock creativity in everyday life, this framework respects the natural rhythm of creation. Each phase provides a different stimulus—inspiration, connection, introspection, experimentation, and action—guiding you through a fluid evolution of your projects.
The goal of this newsletter is to help you embrace the creative process as a whole—allowing flow to happen, rather than forcing it. Just like a butterfly needs every stage to be able to fly, your ideas also need time to grow.
✨ Ready to dive in? See you next Wednesday!
💖 Bjs!
