Workshops: Where Technology Meets Mindfulness
Transformative Workshops at the Intersection of Technology & Mindfulness
What if learning to code could also be a contemplative practice? What if meditation could enhance your creative performances? What if the way you relate to technology could shift from consumption to conscious creation?
These workshops explore the messy, beautiful spaces where technical mastery meets mindful awareness, where creative exploration meets inner development, and where practical skills serve deeper questions about how we want to live.
Our Offerings
đ§ Basic Meditation: Foundation Practices for Mindful Living
| 6 weeks Ă 90 minutes | Beginner-friendly | No experience needed |
In a world that never stops demanding your attention, learn to return to the present moment. This isnât meditation-as-stress-relief (though that happens). This is meditation as training in awareness itselfâthe capacity to be fully present with whatever arises.
Learn three core practices: concentration (Samadhi), insight (Vipassana), and lovingkindness (Metta). Discover how to work with difficult emotions using the RAIN technique. Most importantly, establish your own sustainable daily practice that actually sticks.
By the end, youâll have tools for bringing mindfulness into eating, walking, working, listeningâtransforming ordinary moments into opportunities for presence.
đľ Ableton Live + Sonic Pi: Hybrid Live Performance
| 8 sessions Ă 4 hours | For musicians & creative coders | Some music or code experience helpful |
Live coding meets digital production. Algorithm meets intuition. Code meets clips.
Learn to wield both Sonic Piâs expressive live coding and Ableton Liveâs production power in a unified performance workflow. Start with fundamentals (MIDI, OSC, Ableton Link), then build toward hybrid setups where improvisation happens at multiple levels simultaneously.
Use Sonic Pi to sequence Ableton instruments. Process live-coded audio through Abletonâs effects. Develop your own performance rig that balances algorithmic generation with hands-on control. By the final session, perform a live set demonstrating your unique approach.
Perfect for electronic musicians wanting to add live coding, producers curious about algorithms, or anyone drawn to the edge where composition becomes performance becomes code.
đ¨ TouchDesigner: Visual Programming for Interactive Art
| 12 sessions Ă 4 hours | Beginner through advanced | No prerequisites |
TouchDesigner is the backbone of interactive installations, live visual performances, and immersive experiences worldwide. This comprehensive curriculum takes you from first encounter with the interface through sophisticated reactive systems responding to sound, movement, data, and human interaction in real-time.
Learn to think in networks rather than linear code. Master TOPs (2D image processing), CHOPs (motion and control), SOPs (3D geometry), and DATs (data and text). Build audio-reactive visuals that dance with music. Create interactive installations using camera tracking. Design generative systems with emergent complexity. Output to projectors, LED walls, VR headsets.
Dive deep into GLSL shaders for custom effects. Use Python scripting for complex logic. Build robust systems that wonât crash during a show. Leave with a portfolio of working projects and confidence to tackle ambitious creative-technical visions.
đ Algorithms as Code: Generative Art & Creative Coding
| 8 sessions Ă 4 hours | No coding experience required | Perfect for visual artists |
What if algorithms werenât just for optimization, but for aesthetic exploration? This workshop teaches you to wield loops, recursion, randomness, and mathematical functions as brushes for painting with code.
Using p5.js (beginner-friendly JavaScript), generate visual compositions through algorithmic processes. Discover how code structures produce visual outcomes. Explore noise functions, particle systems, fractals, cellular automata, physics simulations. Study pioneering algorithmic artists from Vera MolnĂĄr to Casey Reas.
Develop your personal algorithmic aesthetic. Create interactive and animated systems. Export work for print, web, and installation. This is art-making through computationâwhere mathematics becomes visual poetry.
No prior programming experience needed. Just curiosity about the intersection of code and creativity.
đď¸ Conscious Art Making: Mindfulness-Based Creative Practice
| 6 sessions Ă 4 hours | All levels | No art experience necessary |
Reclaim art-making as a contemplative practice. Not âbeing good at art.â Not producing portfolio pieces. Just presence, process, and play.
Drawing on mindfulness meditation, authentic movement, and expressive arts therapy, create a safe space for exploring creativity without judgment. Each session: meditation to arrive, then intuitive art-making using diverse materials (drawing, painting, collage, clay, movement, sound).
No techniques to master. No right way. Just following curiosity, befriending uncertainty, trusting the bodyâs wisdom. Explore how emotions want to move and take form. Discover what the hand knows that the thinking mind doesnât. Let materials become collaborators.
This is art as inquiry, healing, and return to the unselfconscious creativity we knew as childrenânow held in adult awareness. Process over product. Presence over perfection.
đ Conscious Consumerism: Inner Alignment & Planetary Healing
| 8 sessions Ă 90 minutes | Complete series recommended | Life-changing |
âYou are what you buy,â whispers the culture. But what if your consumption patterns could shift from unconscious habit driven by hidden needs toward conscious choice aligned with your deepest values?
This transformative workshop uses integral theory, developmental psychology, shadow work, and embodied meditation to guide that shift. Examine how the âongoing Big Bangâ of each present moment makes every purchase a creative act. Apply the AQAL model to map consumption holistically. Understand how your developmental stage shapes what you value and buy.
But understanding alone doesnât create change. Through authentic movement, embody your consumption patternsâfeel the dopamine loop, move through a productâs full lifecycle from extraction to landfill. Shadow work reveals disowned needs driving compulsive buying. Cultivate âinner alivenessâ so fulfillment can be sourced internally rather than through acquisition.
Learn practical strategies (reduce, reuse, repair, circular economy) rooted in inner work that makes sustainable action feel like freedom rather than deprivation. Join the tipping pointâthe 10% of humanity embodying integral consciousness needed to shift collective culture.
Not about perfectionism or guilt. About alignment, wholeness, and recognizing that how you consume reflects who youâre becoming.
đť The Conscious Coder: Engineering for Sustainability
| 8 sessions Ă 4 hours | No coding experience required | Hands-on with hardware |
Most coding education treats technology as purely instrumental. This workshop asks: What if coding was a contemplative practice? What if programming could deepen your relationship with the living world?
Using the micro:bit Smart Agriculture Kit (sensors for temperature, humidity, soil moisture, light), learn to code while keeping your hands in the dirt. Build environmental dashboards. Create intelligent automation systems. Optimize resource useâirrigation triggered by actual moisture, lighting adjusted to natural cycles.
But youâre not just coding tools. Youâre engaging ethical questions: What does âoptimalâ mean? How do values embed in code? When we automate care, what do we gain and lose? How can technology support zero-waste living?
Advanced sessions explore machine learning for pattern recognition, building local sensor networks, designing for transparency and repairability. Complete a personal project applying skills to real sustainability challenges in your life.
Learn to become the kind of technologist who asks âShould we build this?â before âCan we?ââand who codes in service of life.
đ Conscious Planning: Integral Approaches to Time & Life Design
| 8 sessions Ă 4 hours | For the overwhelmed & the seeking | Series recommended |
Productivity culture promises the right system will finally make you feel in control. But beneath procrastination and endless to-do lists lie deeper questions: What truly matters? Whose priorities am I serving? What am I avoiding by staying busy?
Apply integral frameworks to how you relate to time, projects, and what youâre doing with your life. Start with meditation revealing how you experience time (scarcity? enemy? taskmaster?) and what becomes possible in the eternal now. Use AQAL to recognize that planning requires attending to not just tasks and systems, but intentions, energy, and cultural narratives youâve internalized.
The shadow work here is potent: What are you proving by staying busy? What feelings does an empty calendar evoke? If you completed everything, what would you face?
Learn practical skills: AQAL-informed project planning, energetic time management working with natural rhythms, regular reviews preventing drift from becoming crisis. But tools only work rooted in inner work.
Move from frantic doing toward mindful being. From compulsive productivity toward purposeful contribution. From life as project management toward life as embodied presence.
How It Works
đŻ Complete Series or Individual Sessions
Complete Series: Commit to the full arc for deepest transformation. Includes community accountability, private forum access, and ongoing facilitator support.
Individual 4-Hour Sessions: Each session designed as a standalone deep dive. Explore before committing, or continue education on specific themes.
đ° Sliding Scale Pricing
These practices should be accessible regardless of financial means. All workshops offered on sliding scale based on self-assessed ability to pay.
- Sustaining Rate: Full cost supporting our work and subsidizing others
- Standard Rate: Covers costs without financial strain
- Supported Rate: Subsidized for those with limited means
Choose the rate that fits your situation. No questions asked. No justification needed.
đ Format & Location
Currently offering:
- In-person workshops (Brooklyn, NYC area)
- Online via Zoom (global participation welcome)
- Hybrid options for local participants
đĽ Private Workshops
Custom workshops for your organization, team, or private group. Contact for consulting on curriculum adaptation to your specific context and goals.
FAQ
Do I need prior experience? Most workshops are beginner-friendly with no prerequisites. Specific requirements listed in each description. Bring curiosity and willingness to try new things.
What if I canât attend every session? Complete series recommended for progressive curricula (Conscious Consumerism, Conscious Planning). Other workshops more flexibleâindividual sessions can stand alone with proper preparation.
Are recordings provided? For online workshops, yes. For in-person, audio recordings of teaching segments (not personal sharing) available.
Whatâs your refund policy? Full refund if you withdraw more than 2 weeks before start. 50% refund up to 1 week before. No refunds after workshop begins, but credit toward future workshops available.
I have accessibility needs. Can you accommodate? Please let us know any accessibility requirements in your inquiry email. Weâre committed to making workshops accessible and will work with you to ensure full participation.
What materials/equipment do I need? Varies by workshop. Technical workshops require computer access (specific software noted in descriptions). Art-making workshops provide all materials. Details provided upon registration.
What Participants Say
âI came for the live coding techniques and left with a completely different relationship to performance, improvisation, and failure. The integration of mindfulness practices made me a better performer and a calmer human.â
â Alex M., Electronic Musician
âAs someone who thought they âcouldnât do art,â this workshop unlocked something I didnât know was there. Itâs not about making pretty thingsâitâs about being present with the process. Life-changing.â
â Jordan L., Software Engineer
âThe Conscious Consumerism workshop gave me frameworks for understanding patterns Iâd been wrestling with for years. The shadow work was intense but essential. I finally feel aligned with my values instead of constantly failing to meet impossible standards.â
â Sam K., Sustainability Educator
Ready to Begin?
Choose a workshop that calls to you and send us an email. Weâll respond within 48 hours with:
- Detailed session-by-session breakdown
- Upcoming dates and times
- Sliding scale pricing details
- Registration information
Email: workshops@creativecodingtech.com
Please include:
- Workshop(s) of interest
- Complete series or specific sessions
- Your experience level
- Any questions or accessibility needs
About the Facilitator
Wingston Sharon Wilson is a creative coder, meditation practitioner, and live performer working at the intersection of consciousness and technology. Their practice spans Sonic Pi live coding, TouchDesigner installations, machine learning applications in audio, and contemplative inquiry into how we relate to tools, time, and the world weâre co-creating through technology.
They bring technical expertise grounded in embodied presenceâteaching not just skills but relationships. This work emerges from years of practice at the messy, beautiful intersection where code meets consciousness, where technical skill serves deeper questions, and where showing up with curiosity matters more than having answers.
| Connect: GitHub | workshops@creativecodingtech.com |
These workshops are an invitation to explore, create, and awakenâtogether.