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September 2026 | Starting at £1900

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Thinking About It Isn’t The Same As Doing It.

You've had the idea for a while now.

Maybe years.

You've planned it, sketched it, talked about it. You've read the books. Watched the videos. Almost started a dozen times.

But it's still not done. Still not out there. Still ‘one day.’

That's not a talent problem. It's not even a time problem.

It's a structure problem.

Start with a week that changes your direction.

Choose Sweden or France for an immersive week-long residential bootcamp.

Then spend the next 12 weeks online, building momentum alongside a small group of people committed to bringing meaningful projects into the world.

Not another year of planning.

A year from now, something real exists because you started here.

* A Method That Works

Not theory. Not inspiration. A proven framework applied directly to your project - so you stop circling and start shipping.

❋ You're Not Doing This Alone

You don’t have to do it alone! You will be learning and sharing your experience with a small group of creative doers.

❋ People Who've Seen It All

Ten years. Hundreds of creatives. Every flavour of stuck. Our team knows exactly what moves a project forward… and what's really holding yours back.

❋ Built for the long game

The residential bootcamp starts it. The online sessions sustain it. Together, they build the consistency that turns an idea into something real.

OUR members - in action

Why Most Meaningful Projects Never Happen

Not because people lack talent.
Not because they lack ambition.
Because there's always a reason to wait one more week.
The book sits in a drawer. The business stays in a notebook. The community project has been "almost ready" for two years.
The problem isn't inspiration. You've got plenty of that.
The problem is that inspiration without momentum is just fantasy.

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THE MAKE HAPPEN PROGRAMME

Week 1: RETREAT

Five days. In person. Away from your usual excuses — in Sweden or France.

You'll arrive with an idea. You'll leave with a mission.

  • Name exactly what you're building and why

  • Face down whatever's been blocking you

  • Lock in working habits that survive contact with real life

  • Ship something before you go home

Weeks 2–12: Build Momentum

Three online accountability huddles every week. Show up, report in, keep moving.

  • Stay focused when life gets noisy

  • Push through the weeks when motivation disappears

  • Call out what's working and what isn't

  • Tackle real problems as they surface

  • Build the consistency that makes shipping a habit

One week changes nothing. Eleven weeks of repeated action changes everything.

THAT’s NOT ALL

  • Honest conversations with creatives and social entrepreneurs who are actually doing it
  • Workshops on money, confidence, and the stuff that derails projects but nobody talks about
  • Access to a private community space to connect, share and stay accountable between sessions
  • The Make Happen Method workbook and a library of videos to support your practice
  • An invitation to join the Make Happen alumni network when your 12 weeks are up
Reserve your spot

What's Next

  • Choose one of the upcoming retreat dates and locations that suits you.

  • Sign up and pay the deposit to reserve your spot. If plans change, you can cancel up to 28 days before the retreat start to receive a 80% refund.

  • After booking, we'll send you a Welcome Pack with everything you need to know—detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, add-ons to consider, and more.

  • We'd recommend booking your transportation to and from the event as soon as possible, to ensure you can arrive without any complications or delays.

  • Now all that's left to do is pack your bags and get excited for your new adventure!

I'm ready!

THE MAKE HAPPEN METHOD

  • Most creative development programmes give you more to think about. This one gives you less room to hide.

    The Make Happen Method isn't a philosophy to admire. It's a way of working. It starts from one premise: the only thing that changes anything is action. Not planning. Not researching. Not refining. Action, shared with the world, before you feel ready.

    Everything in the method points back to that.

    The Three Principles

    The method is built on three interlocking principles. They're not steps — they work together, continuously.

    Possibility is where you start. Not positive thinking, not wishful vision-boarding — but a genuine clearing of the frames, stories, and inherited assumptions that narrow what you think is available to you. Most people are operating inside a much smaller version of what's actually possible. Possibility is the practice of seeing that clearly.

    Action is the engine. Without it, nothing exists. The method doesn't ask you to feel ready, confident, or certain before you act. It asks you to act and let those things follow. Things will go wrong. That's not a sign you're doing it wrong. That's the method working.

    Beyond is the shift from making things for yourself to making things for others. It's also the antidote to the fear of sharing. When your work is in service of something bigger than your own reputation, rejection stops feeling personal. A hidden project is a dead project. Beyond gets it out into the world.

    Key Distinctions

    Throughout the method, you'll encounter distinctions - precise ideas that, once you have them, change how you see and act. Here are the ones that do the most work.

    Act, Ship, Debrief
    The core cycle. Act on something. Ship it - share it, show it, put it in front of real people before it's perfect. Then debrief: what worked, what didn't, what's next. Then repeat. This isn't just a creative process. It's how you learn. Waiting until something is finished to share it means you never get the feedback that would actually make it good.

    Evolving in the Wild
    The natural extension of Act, Ship, Debrief. Your work improves through contact with the world, not through more time alone with it. Most things that look like successes evolved through a mess of mistakes first. Get your work out early and let it evolve in public.

    Declare Into Existence
    Say what you're going to do, out loud, to people who will hold you to it. Not as motivation - as accountability. A private intention is easy to abandon. A public declaration isn't. "I will [what] and share it with [who] by [date]." That's it. Discomfort is the point.

    Getting to Zero
    Coming to a situation without the weight of your past assumptions, judgements, and stories about how it will go. Most of what blocks people isn't reality - it's the interpretation they've layered on top of it. Getting to zero means meeting what's actually there.

    Frames
    You don't experience reality directly. You experience it through the context, assumptions, and stories you bring to it. The Make Happen Method calls these frames. The useful insight: because you authored your frames, you can change them. A different frame makes different actions available.

    Identity as a Habit
    "I am shy." "I am not a business person." "I am someone who never finishes things." These feel like facts. They aren't. They're descriptions you've repeated until they hardened into conviction. The method asks: what if instead of "I am..." you said "I have a habit of describing myself as..."? That small shift returns your choice.

    Nobody Cares
    Your imagined audience - the one judging every move - is largely a fiction. People are too preoccupied with what others think of them to scrutinise you with the attention you fear. This is liberating. Act, create, and share without performing for critics who aren't actually watching.

    Discomfortable
    The method doesn't ask you to remove discomfort. It asks you to get comfortable with it. Discomfort is navigational - it usually means you're close to something that matters. Accept it, and act anyway.

    Specificity
    Vague intentions produce vague results. The method insists on specificity: how many, by when, for whom, exactly what. You can't act on an "etc." You can't ship a "sort of." The closer you get to the actuality of what you're doing, the more available action becomes.

    Ship First
    Always finish something before you start something new. Every unfinished project is an open loop draining your energy. Shipping - finishing and sharing - is where impact happens. Nothing you're currently thinking about, planning, or talking about is having any impact. Only what's in the world counts.

    How It Works in Practice

    The method isn't linear. It cycles. You move from possibility into action, debrief what happened, return to possibility with new clarity, and act again. Each cycle, you get closer to the work that matters and further from the habits that were keeping you stuck.

    The programme structures this cycle with accountability built in. Huddles, declarations, missions, prototypes - all of it is designed to keep the cycle moving and make it very difficult to stay in the stands.

    Because the stands are comfortable.

    The court is where things actually happen.

  • BE AUTHENTIC:

    Your unique perspective is your greatest asset. Use it. Don’t dilute your voice to fit in.

    THERE'S NO RIGHT WAY:

    Don’t be confined by what is expected. There is just what works.

    VOLUME UP!:

    Ideas are the whispers, your action is your roar!

    SHOW YOUR WORK:

    A hidden project is a dead project. Put your work out there. Let it collide with the world and evolve.

    CHALLENGE THE NORMS:

    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. Question it. Make the old ways defend their existence.

    DO, THEREFORE KNOW:

    Theory is the shadow; action is the substance. You understand best when you engage fully.

    DIALOGUE:

    Monologues are for egos. Real impact comes from back-and-forths, from resonance, from challenging and being challenged.

    BE BOLD, NOT CERTIFIED:

    Awards collect dust; audacity breaks barriers. Credentials don’t change the world; courage does.

    GET DISCOMFORTABLE:

    The comfort zone is where ideas go to die. Get out there, mess up, learn, and grow.

    IT'S NOW:

    The future is an illusion, constructed from actions taken today.

    STATUS IN VULNERABILITY

    In our presence you gain your status through your modesty and vulnerability not in power, wealth or celebrity.

  • The Make Happen Team

    Our Action Coaches are practitioners first. Most of them came through the MA in Creative Practice - they know the method from the inside, not from a handbook. They're out there making things happen in their own work, which means when you hit a wall, they've probably hit the same one. They don't coach from the stands. They coach from the court.

    Our Associates

    Over 100 creatives from across every discipline - writers, makers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, designers, musicians, social innovators - who've agreed to show up for our community as mentors, advisors, and guest speakers.

    They include Joshua Idehen, Ruby Taylor (Native Hands), Emilie Wapnick (Puttylike), Ruth Aislabie (Fubsies), Seth & Poppy Finegold (Do Good Things), Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir (The Common Press) and the list goes on!

    What they have in common isn't a specialism. It's that they're all doing it. Active practitioners who understand what it actually takes to build a creative life - the uncertainty, the pivots, the moments where you nearly quit, and the ones where you didn't.

    They're not here to inspire you with their success stories. They're here to tell you what the work really looks like.

in the company of thriving creatives from around the world

  • Tess McCabe - Graphic Designer, Author & Entrepreneur

  • Joshua Idehen - Performing Artist & Poet

  • Ruth Aislabie - Ceramics Artist @Fubsies

  • Seth & Poppy Finegold - Filmmakers, Farmers & Food Activists

  • Ruby Taylor - Wild Weaver, Potter & Author @NativeHands

  • Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir - Social Entrepreneur & LGBTQ+ Community Activist

  • Emilie Wapnick - Speaker, Author & Community Leader @Puttylike

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • Five days. A small group. A beautiful venue in Sweden or France. And no way to hide from the work.

    The bootcamp has one mission: you leave having chosen and committed to a creative endeavour. Not because you're certain it's right. Because you're finally free enough to act.

    Day 1 — Possibility

    Before you can move forward, you have to see clearly where you are. Day one opens up the space. You'll examine the frames you've been operating inside — the stories, the looking-good habits, the self-descriptions you've been mistaking for facts. You'll get clear on what's actually possible, what's actually real, and what you actually want. It's disorientating in the best way.

    Day 2 — Reality

    Most of what blocks creative people isn't circumstance. It's interpretation. Day two is about closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be — and learning to stop making yourself wrong for the distance between them. You'll work with the competing impulses that keep you stuck, and start to see them clearly enough to move past them.

    Day 3 — Action

    There is no right way. There is only now. Day three strips out perfectionism, inherited obligations, and the imaginary audience you've been performing for. You'll get specific about your endeavour, practice describing it with precision, and begin to understand that the only thing standing between you and doing it... is doing it.

    Day 4 — Mission

    You'll get crystal clear on your endeavour and commit to your first mission — a specific, time-bound piece of work with something tangible at the end. Not a plan. Not a to-do list. A mission. You'll also build and present an early prototype: learning by doing, not by theorising.

    Day 5 — Declaration

    You'll present your endeavour to the group, refine it until it's a real commitment, and make a public declaration about what you're going to create and when. Then you'll complete — closing any open loops from the week so nothing unfinished follows you home.

    You'll leave with a mission, a habit of action, and a group of people who've seen you commit to something real.

  • Three times a week, you join a small group online for a focused, structured session. No lectures. No passive listening.

    You show up, you report what you did since the last huddle, and you declare what you're doing next. Your peers do the same. The group keeps each other honest.

    Each huddle is short by design. The point isn't to talk about your project at length - it's to stay in motion between sessions, and to have somewhere to bring the real stuff when it gets hard.

    Stuck on something? Bring it. Lost momentum? Say so. Shipped something? Tell us.

    The huddles work because they create a rhythm. Miss one and you feel it. Show up consistently and something shifts - the project stops being a someday thing and starts being a this-week thing.

  • This programme is for you if you've been carrying a creative project for longer than you care to admit.

    You might be a writer, a maker, an artist, a social entrepreneur, or someone who doesn't have a neat label for what they do. What you have in common with everyone else on this programme is simple: you've got something worth making, and it isn't made yet.

    You're not short of ideas. You're not short of ability. You keep getting stuck in the gap between knowing what you want to do and actually doing it.

    If you're waiting for the right moment, more time, more confidence, or more certainty before you start... this programme is exactly for you.

    If you're ready to stop waiting and find out what you're actually capable of, there's a spot here with your name on it.

  • Yes, you can pay for this course in 3 interest free instalments using Klarna.

  • You will be living in a new world in relationship to your projects and practice. At Make Happen we have a variety of free and paid-for resources to support your ongoing practice and holding you to account.

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