Creators Lab
A relational incubator to bring vision into form
The Kinvene Creators Lab is a place to design and bring meaningful offerings into the world—in community.
Kinvene offers end-to-end systems and support so your program design and production is smooth from start to finish. Focus on your teaching and community—we’ll support you in the rest.
Is the Lab for you?
→ Are you a facilitator or guide ready to grow your offerings?
→ Have you waited to launch a program because you don’t want to do it alone?
→ Do marketing, technology and logistics drain your energy?
→ Have you been carrying an offering or body of work for years without knowing how to bring it into the world?
→ Would you rather spend your time facilitating than managing systems?
What is the Lab?
The Creators Lab is a relational incubator that offers thoughtful support, aligned collaborators, and a community of practice.
Through group sessions, community collaboration, trusted referrals, and a clear production pathway, we're here to walk alongside you as your offering takes shape.
Strengthen the foundations that support your work and platform
Clarify and design your offering
Connect and collaborate with aligned creators
Move at your own pace as your offering develops
Receive reflections from Kinvene and your peers
Shift into production when your offering is ready
Who the Creators Lab Is For
Kinvene Creators are authors, facilitators, teachers, community organizers, and content creators who are ready to bring their offerings into wider, more connected circles. You might:
✧ Be refining a distinct body of work or teaching to grow, refine, and offer
✧ Be ready to hold deeper or more expansive containers for transformation
✧ Be growing a community of students, readers, collaborators or clients
✧ Be looking for support not only with logistics, but with how your offerings are experienced and remembered
What’s Included in the Lab
Creator Roadmap
A roadmap template that gives you a structure for designing your offering and moving towards production.
Mastermind Sessions
Monthly sessions with peer Creators who are asking similar questions and on a journey to offer their purpose and sacred work in aligned and organic ways. Facilitated by Michelle.
Creator Skill Sessions
Monthly group sessions that focus on your program design and vision, your platform and growing your audience. Facilitated by Michelle and Guest Service Provider.
Creator Cost Calc
A template to help you determine your costs, projections and the financial sustainability of your offering.
The Creator Community
Peer feedback, beta testing, collaboration and cross-promotion with other aligned Creators.
Kinvene Team Guidance
Reflections from the Kinvene team and providers during group sessions and in the Community Forum.
Resources
Tools and resources to support you in designing and offering your program.
Referrals to Aligned Providers
A trusted network of partners to support you with your platform and needs outside the Lab.
A Pathway to Production
When you and the Kinvene team determine that your offering is ready, you can move into Kinvene's production process.
"The team at Kinvene has just the right touch when it comes to supporting retreats, webinars, and other in-person and online events. They tended to our every need, often anticipating issues long before we did. They provided us with intentional service to grow our audience and our offerings. We highly recommend Kinvene. You'll feel supported and nurtured in the most professional of ways throughout every step of the process. Simply put, Kinvene brings people together.”
– James Crews & Danusha Laméris - Program Partners
Most creators need to piece together their own program ecosystem. Take a course. Hire a business coach. Pay for their own platforms. Learn how to market themselves. Coordinate and pay for all of the moving pieces.
You don’t have to do it all alone
Rather than needing to research, hire, direct, and manage an entire team on your own, Kinvene offers an ecosystem that can support you throughout the development of your offering.
Through the community, you can give and receive support in designing, promoting, beta testing and refining your program.
When your offering is ready, we have a production pathway designed to help bring it into form.
Bring your offering into the world with Kinvene.
Kinvene’s team brings decades of experience in hosting and supporting our clients and partners with gatherings, courses and programs of all scales. We’ve worked with well-known authors, facilitators and teams to grow communities, outreach and meaningful programs into the world.
We offer our support and services with intentionality and relational care. From visioning to strategy to thoughtful production, we hold you through the process so you can hold your community.
Here’s your journey as a Kinvene Creator:
Apply
Join the Lab to clarify your offering
Step into the Creators Studio to receive 1-1 support
Bring your offering into the world.
“It is a rare occurrence to come across a professional service that offers excellence in skill and a deeper level of awareness to where things are in and out of alignment with their purpose. Kinvene does both. Their orientation of practical grounded logistics with a sense of emergence means that programs stay responsive and alive.”
– Miriam Joy Jones of Open Circle, Kinvene Creator
Creators Lab Investment
$500
per month
*3-month commitment required
Includes:
Creator Guide, Creator Compass
60-min 1-1 Orientation Session
Small group sessions, Creator Community, Co-working
Kinvene’s ongoing recommendations
Pathway to production
Opportunities to join are application-based to ensure alignment and relational support for each Creator. Pricing is per project (not per person)—if you have up to 3 collaborators, you are welcome to be part of the Lab together.
After you apply we’ll reach out within 2-4 business days.
“I've been honored to partner with Kinvene to build my program out, as it would not have happened without their collaboration. Kinvene is not only a technical host, they are a real partner.”
— Kazu Haga, Program Partner
Your Lab Facilitator
Michelle Stransky
Founder of KinveneMichelle is a community organizer and producer with extensive experience bringing transformational programs, events and creative projects to life.
She has worked with an array of clients in the transformational and nonprofit spaces to manage and produce book launches, online courses, events and retreats, podcasts and fundraisers. She has directed conferences for 2,000+ participants in the mindfulness space and hosted and facilitated gatherings and retreats for groups of 20–150.
She is passionate about supporting emerging and growing Creators in developing sustainable offerings. As an Aquarius rising, she infuses a collaborative and visionary spirit into the structures of Kinvene and envisions the Creators Lab as a shared ecosystem of meaningful experiences.
She believes this is an important time in our collective transformation to come together in deep listening, shared practice and experimentation—and created the Lab as a space for Creators to bring forward their gifts.
FAQs
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Creators can move at their own pace, and might spend 3-9 months in the Lab depending on the stage of their offering. Some creators join with a nearly complete offering while others are in earlier stages of development. There is no required timeline.
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After your initial 3-month commitment you can cancel anytime
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Yes. The Lab is designed to support creators throughout the lifecycle of their offering. Learn more about the Production Phase on this page.
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Group calls are designed to offer each Creator meaningful time for questions, reflection, and support from both the Kinvene team and fellow creators.
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Yes, since you already know the ropes of the Creators Lab, we’ll offer you a discounted monthly fee. Reach out to us directly for more info: support@kinvene.co
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Yes, all group sessions are recorded and available to be viewed by registered Creators within 48-hours and for up to 6-months.
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You don't need a large audience to join the Creators Lab. Some Creators enter with an established community, while others are beginning with a smaller circle of clients, students, readers, or followers.
What matters is that you're willing to actively cultivate your own audience, relationships, and visibility as your offering develops. Kinvene can support you with strategy, feedback, and opportunities for collaboration, but the Lab is not designed to fill your programs for you.
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The Creator Lab is one pathway into the Kinvene ecosystem, but it isn't the only one. We develop bespoke partnerships and collaboration models with creators whose offerings are strongly aligned with Kinvene's mission.
If you're curious about collaborating in a different capacity, we'd love to hear from you.
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Yes. The Lab structure works per project vs per person. You are welcome to join as a team of up to 3 collaborators, and this is a great way to share costs. We will ask for a main point person for your team, but all members are able to access the resources, community forum, group calls, etc.