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Scenario

How to navigate professional success within peer creative groups

Our illustration collective has been meeting weekly for three years to work on personal projects together, but two of us have started getting real freelance work and suddenly the energy in the room is different - there's this unspoken hierarchy emerging and the feedback sessions have gotten careful and political. We used to push each other's work in ways that made everyone better, but now I can feel us all protecting our individual brands instead of taking creative risks together.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success has introduced an asymmetry that threatens the foundation of mutual vulnerability that made the group generative.

Your guide for this
Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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“Where Are You with Illustration and drawing?”

Peri

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