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What if your art could become a spark for the change you’ve been longing to see?
The Maeve Collective
A Year-Long Creative Collective for Women
Hello & welcome to The Maeve Collective~
Maeve is a year-long makers and thinkers lab for women who want to explore ideas, create meaningful work, and bring their thinking into form — together.
This is a small, intentional creative community for women drawn to slow, thoughtful, and embodied creative practice, rather than productivity or performance.
How the Collective Works
We meet as a steady, supportive group over the course of a year to engage in shared inquiry and creative exploration.
Together, we:
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Choose a shared theme that shapes our collective focus
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Think, make, and experiment individually and alongside one another, using any medium that feels alive to you
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Share and release our work publicly, honouring each woman’s contribution and the power of collaborative creation
The Maeve Collective supports women who want to bring inner questions, reflections, and ideas into visible form, without pressure to polish, perfect, or monetize their work.
The Spirit of The Maeve Collective
The Maeve Collective is named for the Irish queen associated with sovereignty — the deep inner knowing that allows a woman to stand in her own authority. This name was chosen to honour women who are no longer seeking permission, but are listening inward and responding with creativity, courage, and care.
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The Maeve Collective is a space for curiosity, slowness, and creative work as a way of thinking, sensing, and responding to the world we are living in.
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In times marked by uncertainty, fragmentation, and speed, making and thinking together becomes a quiet act of care. Creative work helps us metabolize what we are living through, give shape to what cannot yet be named, and stay connected to what feels human and alive. When women come together to think and make, we are not just creating objects or ideas — we are strengthening our capacity to see, to feel, and to respond with integrity.
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This is a space for women who value:
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explore creativity as a way of thinking and sensing
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listen for what wants to emerge through their creative work
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discover new aspects of self, voice, and expression​
All work is held within a steady, generative circle that supports risk-taking, honesty, and experimentation. Over time, this shared attention creates the conditions for art and thinking that feel grounded, meaningful, and able to meet the moment we are in.
Membership
The yearly membership fee is $85, which supports coordination, care of the container, and the ongoing holding of the collective.
If this fee is a barrier, please reach out. We want the Maeve Collective to remain accessible and inclusive.
Join The Maeve Collective
If this resonates, you’re warmly invited to express your interest here.
Facilitator
Rachel Schmidt BSW, PLC
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✨ Hello, I'm Rachel
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I created The Maeve Collective as a place where women can think and make together, sharing the process of creative inquiry in ways that feel honest, supportive, and alive.
I am drawn to creative work because it opens space - for ideas, questions, and images to gather and take form in their own time. Some of the most meaningful creative work emerges through patience, attention, and relationship - with oneself, with others, and with the natural world we are responding to.
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My life has been shaped by love, motherhood, adventure, loss and change. I am a mother to a 27-year-old son, and I know what it means to move through seasons of identity - to release roles that once defined us and to listen for new parts of ourselves asking to be lived. I believe deeply in goodness, beauty, and kindness, and in our responsibility to bring these qualities into the world through how we live and create.
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I bring over 30 years of experience in social work, more than a decade in consulting, and the creative perspective of a contemplative arts teacher and award-winning documentary filmmaker.
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My training in psychosynthesis, a depth-oriented psychological approach, shapes how I hold this work - with respect for the whole person, attention to inner life, and trust in the wisdom that emerges when women are given time, space, and one another. The Maeve Collective exists as a living, shared inquiry - a place where creative work becomes a way of responding thoughtfully and honestly to the world we are living in.
"Rachel's courses have reignited my belief in the power of women’s voices. I came to her feeling somewhat hopeless, and left knowing exactly how my creativity can contribute to change. The mix of inspiring women artists and hands-on projects was empowering beyond words."
— Elena M.