ARTIFACT
3 Month Creative ResearchLab
for Artists, Curators, Facilitators + Creative Guides
Cultivate Alignment, Authenticity, and Embodied Wisdom through your Creative Practice
ARTIFACT is a practitioner development program grounded in practice-based research, embodied presence, and creative liberation. It supports artists, facilitators, guides, and thinkers in becoming vessels of transmission through inner alignment, somatic inquiry, and integrative visibility. Through a blend of mindfulness, creative practices, and professional development, this program provides a transformational experience for participants to align their values with their practice.
The Body is The Compass
The Practice is the Path
ARTIFACT is a 3-month creative research lab designed for artists, creative, seekers, guides, and embodied practitioners/facilitators ready to root into their artistic voice, clarify their offering, and creatively document a body of work.
Rooted in the scholarship of Practice-Based Research, this intimate container integrates embodied wisdom, artistic process, and identity development to elevate the emerging artist. With the support of Nkechi’s PBR project The Compass, and her personalized artist development sessions, you’ll explore your personal lineage, move through embodied inquiry, and translate your findings into a meaningful artifact—a poetic and professional reflection of your practice.
WHAT IS AN ARTIFACT?
An artifact is a tangible reflection of your research—an offering, score, portfolio, ritual, story, or process that makes your creative intelligence visible. It is your living archive, creative blueprint and legacy.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Month 1: GROUND + ALIGN
Root into identity, lineage, personal arc + somatic memory
→ Practice Map ( Process, Archival + Documentation)
Month 2: CLARIFY + COMMUNICATE
Direction through inquiry, uncover voice, express identity powerfully, make visible
→ Artist Statement + Project Sketch
Month 3 : OFFER
Shape your process into form and visibility
→ Final Artifact, Offering + Research Artist Profile
What You’ll Experience Each Month
ARTIFACT is thoughtfully designed to support your practice and creative expression:
3 Live Group Calls (recorded)
90-minute gatherings to learn, share, and grow together
3 Private Mentorship Sessions with Nkechi
Tailored to your creative and artful path
Custom Notion Workspace + Creative Prompts
To track your practice, ideas, and research
Community Sharing Pod (optional)
Peer connection, feedback, and encouragement
Self-Paced Practices
Meditations, creative prompts, and reflective exercises via The Compass Membership
Curated Reading List
Books, essays, and media that inform ARTIFACT’s core themes
Final Witnessing + Integration Circle
To honor and integrate the work completed
Opportunity for an In-Person Retreat in Northern California
A space for embodiment, ceremony, and connection
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Root into identity, lineage, personal arc + somatic memory
→ Practice Map ( Process, Archival + Documentation) -
Direction through inquiry, uncover voice, express identity powerfully, make visible
→ Artist Statement + Project Sketch -
Shape your process into form and visibility
→ Final Artifact, Offering + Research Artist Profile
About Your Guide
Nkechi Njaka, founder of The Compass, is an interdisciplinary artist, somatic practitioner, and PhD student in Practice Based Research. Her work weaves her practices in mindfulness, movement, contemplative neuroscience, storytelling, and social practice to guide others into embodied presence, somatic liberation and sovereign creativity.
What Awaits You at the End of ARTIFACT
A Clear Creative Offering or Facilitation Project
Rooted in a researched body of work that is uniquely you
A Personal Practice Map + Artist Statement
Honest, comprehensive, and reflective of your voice and vision
A Co-Developed Creative Research Artist Profile
Ready for press, grants, and professional opportunities
Archives: A Visible, Documented Artifact of Your Embodied Work
The living trace of your research and artistic presence
Introduction to a Gallery, Studio, Event Space, or Mentor
Expanding your network and opportunities
A Year Membership to The Compass
Continued access to the platform’s practices, community, and support
THIS IS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
An artist, guide, or healing practitioner at a creative precipice
Working at the intersection of identity, depth, and embodied expression
Longing for structure that honors process over performance or output
Ready to bring your vision and voice into form in a new, powerful way
Searching for creative community and would benefit from individual and collaborative support
Space is limited to 10 artists
Intimate cohort
Begins September 25th, 2025
INTEGRATE + EMBODY:
A Northern California Retreat
A Gathering for Creative Practitioners
Join us for an intimate in-person gathering that brings the ARTIFACT community together beyond the screen. This is a space to slow down, connect deeply, and be in shared creative practice.
This retreat is designed for spaciousness — time to listen, move, share, and witness one another’s work in real time. Together we will explore our practices through guided sessions with Nkechi, meaningful conversations about creative research, and open time for collaboration and exchange ideas, practices.
You’ll be invited to:
Participate in group in-person guided practices led by Nkechi
Share your own offerings, ideas, and works-in-progress with the group
Experience other practitioners’ work in an intimate, supportive setting
Be nourished by shared meals, conversations, and quiet reflection time