2025 Year of Quests 🌅 Sign Up Open
QD #62 🪐 FOUR new themes to explore. Join us in January!
Dear Questers,
Happy Holidays! Sam here with our final Quest Digest of 2024! I hope whatever you have been up to has been restful, playful and merry.
It’s been a very different kind of year for CQ - pausing on our Quest programme in service of Beginner’s Mind.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
This year we’ve reimagined how people can experience the magic of our Quests in THREE new formats. When we loosen on grip on what we think things should be or have been… illuminating new pathways appear. In our case:
A festival pop up at Latitude Festival
A place-based experience (we haven’t spoken much about this one yet… but 2025 will see our first Town go on a Quest!)
A print publication (shout out to all the Kickstarter backers!) Issue one of our new book series The Quester’s Guide due for release late Spring 2025.
Despite these wins, it has overall been an extremely difficult year! From lots of conversations it seems that many feel this way. Do not be fooled by the seasonal highlight reels you see out there.
So if you are looking back at 2024 with a strange mixture of disappointing feelings and hoping that 2025 brings more abundance, joy and adventure… I am right there with you. Hope is a creative act after all.
Let’s make 2025 a creative success together?
Our Quest programme returns in 2025 🥳
After a year of exploring what our Quests look like in different formats, our flagship Quest experience is back in 2025 for a whole new season.
FOUR brand new themes over four different months.
Jan/Feb • April • July • October
Kick off 2025 in the most creative way possible.
Sign up for January’s Quest is open now!
21st Jan - 18th Feb
2025 themes…
Here’s the catch: you won’t know what the theme is until sign up closes! That might sound daunting or risky - which is exactly the point. When we Say Yes to the unknown with sense curiosity and possibility - magical, unexpected things happen. Don’t just take our word for it…
“If you are creative and enjoy exploring the world - JUST FUCKING DO IT. You will find your tribe and your world will get more magical, more exciting and many doors will open up because of it.” - Moyra, UK
”This experience was mind expanding and once you do it you can’t stop thinking like a Quester.” - Ana, UK
I can honestly say that life has been significantly less fun, memorable and adventurous in the absence of these Quests. I guess sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone!
How does a Creative Quest work?
January’s Quest dates
21st Jan - 18 Feb
Our Quest programme is mixture of virtual workshops, inspiring creative missions, community exchange and self-paced exploration.
🍿 This video explains it all in 2 minutes :)
Dates for Jan/Feb’s virtual workshops:
Inspo Sessions (90 min interactive workshop style sessions)
🗓️ Tuesdays: 21, 28 Jan, 4, 11, 18 Feb
🕰️ 6.00pm - 7.30pm GMT / 1.00pm - 2.30pm EST
*these are our main sessions.
Campfires (60 min conversations between Quester’s in small groups)
🗓️ Thursdays: 23, 30 Jan, 6, 13 Feb
🕰️ varying times (TBA)
*try to make at least one of these over the month!
**Pick and choose the elements that suit you. We call it ‘Playground Style’.
A round up of illuminating discoveries from our world…
💅 Hard As Nails: strengthening masculinity and expanding empathy one painted nail at a time
🗑️ Talk about reimagining! NYC Garbage as art.
🧠 Creative Quests exists to be the polar opposite of Oxford Dictionary’s 2024 word of the year… Brain Rot.
🪩 The video of indie band MGMT playing a show at their university campus 5 years before they hit fame will fill you with the joy of naivety and doing it for fun.
🍺 This artist is drawing every pub in London!
🪐 Astrofutures: What happens when the science of foresight meets the art of astrology?
Our top three most read newsletters for 2024
Finally…
I want to send a huge huge thank you and ball of loving energy to everybody in this incredible community that has given their time, ideas and energy to Creative Quests this year. Transformation sure can feel uncomfortable - but with your support, every step of the way has felt worth it!
And thank YOU for reading! I put a lot of time into these newsletters - and its great to see so many of you open and read on each send.
Let’s make 2025 the Quest year yet.
big love,
Sam x
CQ HQ
🥾 Quest Guide / Founder
📲 @saaamfurness
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