We root before we rise
If you feel called to share meaningful work, but the ways we’ve been taught to show up online leave you feeling disconnected from your voice, this journey was created for you.
Deep down, you already sense that something wants to grow through you. Somewhere along the way, sharing that work began to feel like disconnecting from it. Stories disappearing into the noise. AI-generated content filling the space where real voices used to live. Without noticing, we start simplifying what we mean to say, packaging our message until it feels strategic rather than sincere, trying to fit our voice into systems that were never built to hold the kind of work we carry. What if there was a way back before there was a way forward? Not another strategy, but a return to the roots your work is actually growing from.
Introducing
We root before we rise
WE ROOT BEFORE WE RISE IS A 7-WEEK SELF-PACED JOURNEY: A GUIDED RETURN TO THE VOICE, THE RHYTHMS, AND THE DEEPER FOUNDATIONS YOUR WORK IS GROWING FROM.
Everything is yours from the moment you begin: seven workbooks, each drawing you through reflective prompts, somatic mapping, and creative rituals shaped around one layer of your inner foundations, alongside ten guided audio practices that meet you in the body, helping what you have explored on the page settle somewhere deeper than thought.
Rather than teaching you how to chase algorithms or perform visibility, this journey helps you cultivate the conditions where your work can grow naturally and call the right people home.
You move through it slowly, at your own rhythm, pausing wherever your life asks you to, returning to a section months or seasons later if that is what you need. Each week becomes a small ritual you take for yourself: a space to return inward, listen, and reconnect with the deeper frequency of your work.
How the JOURNEY unfolds
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YOU BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE
There is nothing to prepare and no answers to arrive with, only a willingness to notice what is already true for you right now. Each workbook opens with that: a place to land before anything is asked of you.
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YOU REFLECT AND MAP
Through reflective prompts, somatic colour mapping, and creative rituals, you are guided to see the patterns quietly running beneath your relationship to visibility, creativity, and connection.
YOU LISTEN AND LET IT SETTLE
Each workbook is paired with its own guided audio practice: a visualisation or a ritual that meets you in the body, so what you have explored on the page can settle somewhere words alone cannot reach.
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YOU RETURN WHENEVER YOU NEED TO
The journey does not end after seven weeks. It stays with you: a space to revisit whenever your work enters a new season, asking you to root again before it rises further.
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A closer look at each workbooK
Workbook 01
Creative Season Awareness
A Creative Season Self-Assessment to help you locate where you are right now, followed by a dedicated creative ritual for each of the four seasons: the Seed Jar for Spring, a success-anchoring ritual for Summer, a letting-go ritual for Autumn, and an inner sanctuary ritual for Winter, each paired with a body-mapping exercise.
Guided audio:
Listening for Your Current Creative Season (7:30)
Seven workbooks, 200+ pages in total, alongside ten guided audio practices,
available to download directly or to listen to through your own private podcast feed.
Workbook 02
Nervous System Foundations
A gentle, accessible introduction to the nervous system and the polyvagal ladder, a colour and sensation mapping ritual to locate your current state, and the Regulation Boat: mapping your inner resources, your external supports, and your intentions for the season.
Guided audio:
Guided audio: Nervous System Reset Visualisation (6:37)
Workbook 03
Designing Your Days With Your Creative Season
A weekly check-in practice and a way of setting a realistic, season-aligned intention for the week ahead, so your days take their shape from your rhythms rather than against them.
Guided audio:
Weekly Alignment Ritual: Designing Your Days With Your Creative Season (4:56)
Workbook 04
Emotional & Energetic Patterns
Reflective prompts exploring the emotional memories connected to creativity and visibility, followed by four creative rituals: the Parts Wheel, Mapping the Heart, the Ancestral Tree, and the Holding Boxes.
Guided audio:
The Inner House Visualisation (7:30) and Shifting the Inner Landscape (6:44)
Workbook 05
Collaboration Patterns & Boundaries
Journaling prompts exploring attachment, override patterns, and reciprocity in your collaborations, followed by the Relational Map and the Boundary House, a colour-coded practice of where your boundaries feel clear, porous, or evolving.
Guided audio:
Creating Your Energetic Boundary Space (5:45)
Workbook 06
Relationship to Visibility & Marketing
Reflective prompts exploring what visibility, social media, and marketing bring up in the body, followed by creative rituals for visibility and energetic hygiene.
Guided audio:
Designing Your Energetic Hygiene Ritual (5:06) Bonus guided audio: Meeting Your Ideal Client (6:12)
Workbook 07
Sensing the Frequency of What's Emerging
Journaling prompts on lived experience and the idea following you, then three creative practices: Sensing the Vibrational Pattern of Your Idea, A Conversation With the Idea, and a closing integration practice, Returning to the Signal.
Guided audio:
Tuning into the Frequency of Your Idea (6:03) Bonus guided audio: Future Memory Visualisation (6:19)
7 weeks
of coming home to yourself,
so your work can find the people
it was meant to reach.
Everything lives in one place: your own Notion dashboard, organised week by week, holding each workbook and audio practice exactly where you need it, so there's nothing to search for and nothing to lose track of.
Your seven workbooks are yours to download directly from Google Drive: save them, print them, or work through them digitally (they are fillable) whichever suits how you like to write.
Your ten guided audio practices are available two ways: downloaded directly from Google Drive, or through your own private podcast feed, which you can add to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or Pocket Casts, so each practice sits quietly on your phone, ready whenever you are.
this is for you if
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You feel a pull to explore what is moving beneath your work, even if you cannot yet name what that is.
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You sense that your body, your emotions, and your creative energy are inseparable from how you express yourself in the world.
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You are curious about your own creative rhythms, rather than forcing yourself into constant productivity.
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You are open to journaling, somatic practice, and creative reflection as ways of deepening your relationship to your work.
this isn’t for you if
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You are looking for a quick fix rather than a slower process of listening and integration.
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You are hoping for formulas or answers, rather than a willingness to sit with what reveals itself along the way.
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You feel resistance towards journaling, somatic awareness, or creative ritual as ways of exploring your inner world.
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You are not currently in a place where turning towards what lives beneath your work feels possible.
Investment
An early-bird price
for those who arrive first
(until August 10)
€90
for the full 7-week journey
(Regular price: €120)
You will receive:
Seven in-depth workbooks (211 pages in total), each guiding you through reflective prompts, somatic mapping, and creative rituals
Ten guided audio practices (1 hour and 3 minutes in total), available to download directly or to listen to through your own private podcast feed, so you can return to them wherever and whenever you need to
Reflective practices and creative exercises blending somatic exploration and creativity
A journey you can return to whenever your work enters a new season
A few scholarship spaces are also available for those who feel called to this journey but are currently navigating financial constraints. If that is your situation, you are warmly invited to reach out.
meet your guide Charlotte Gomes
Founder of Collective Roots PR
For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to what happens underground before anything visible begins to grow.
I saw it first in the music industry, where from the age of eighteen I organised and promoted more than sixty concerts across Europe, working with artists across radio, television, and print. What stayed with me was never the logistics. It was watching strangers walk into a room separately and leave changed, moved by the same melody, the same atmosphere, the same shared frequency.
Later, my own body called me inward. Chronic symptoms that conventional systems struggled to explain led me into years of nervous system work, somatic healing, ritual, and inner listening: the slow return to what my body had always known.
Collective Roots PR was born at the meeting point of these two paths: the outer world of visibility and communication, and the inner world of embodiment, rhythm, and truth.
Through years of working alongside creatives and changemakers, a pattern kept appearing. The projects that created the deepest connection were rarely the most polished or the most strategised. They were the ones that had taken the time to root first.
We Root Before We Rise was born from that pattern: from everything I had learned about how meaningful work actually wants to unfold, and from my own repeated experience of needing to return to the ground before I could rise again.
We root before we rise. This is why I created this journey.
frequently asked questions
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No. This journey is not therapy and does not replace professional support. It draws on practices inspired by nervous system awareness, somatic reflection, and creative exploration, and invites you to move at your own pace, taking what feels supportive.
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No. This journey focuses on the roots rather than the branches. Instead of teaching strategies for visibility or growth, it invites you to explore the inner foundations of your creativity. When those roots are nourished, the way your work is expressed and received in the world often begins to shift on its own.
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Each of the ten practices is available two ways: as a direct download from Google Drive you can save and keep, or through your own private podcast feed, which you can add to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or Pocket Casts, so it's there whenever you want to return to it. Everything lives in your Notion dashboard, organised week by week.
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No. The journey is completely self-paced. You can move through it week by week, take pauses between sections, or return to certain practices whenever your work enters a new season. Many people revisit parts of the journey months or even years later when they feel the need to slow down, recalibrate, or reconnect with their creative foundations.
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Not necessarily. Some participants arrive with a clear project, business, or creative direction. Others simply feel that something inside them is asking to grow but isn't fully formed yet. This journey supports both situations.
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You don't need to be a writer or an artist to engage with the practices. The journaling prompts and creative rituals are designed as tools for reflection and inner listening, not performance. There are no right or wrong answers, and you are always free to adapt the practices in ways that feel natural for you.
Begin the journey
We Root Before We Rise is available now as a self-paced journey. Begin whenever you feel ready, and move through it at whatever rhythm your life is currently asking for.