The Deepening
A 12-week group mentoring program for photographers tired of
hiding their work, their voice, and themselves and are ready
to feel safe being fully seen.
We start Wednesday, June 17th
Group Size: 12 People
10 Spots Left
You want to be seen
and you're terrified of being seen
at the same time.
DO YOU RELATE:
You want to put your work into the world. And every time you get close, something stops you.
You over-edit. You delete the post. You don't enter the show. You tell yourself you'll make your work and get it out there when you're really ready and you never feel really ready.
You think it's about other people
judging you.
It's not.
You've already rejected yourself.
You believe the outside world will see what you've already decided about yourself.
Let's change that
from the inside out.
Quick OVERVIEW:
We meet weekly. Starting always with grounding ourselves in the present moment. Checking in.
We look at your work from the previous week and I give you feedback to support next steps.
You deepen your understanding of your own work. Grow in your confidence about the talent you have and the importance of making your work and getting it out into the world.
You write your artists statement and your bio and get support along the way.
You’re encouraged to submit your work to juried shows, magazines with calls for work, grants if it aligns with your project, get more involved in the art world in your city. This helps you strengthen your own internal value regardless of whether you get into anything or not (Everyone who does this part of the course gets in to many things) This helps you build evidence that your work matters in the world.
By the end of our 12 weeks together you’ve edited your new body of work down to the top 12 images (with support and suggestions ) and everyone exhibits their work in an online show on my website.
We meet every Wednesday at 10:30am PT, beginning June 17th.
~Each session is 90 minutes and recorded, so you can fully be present without worrying about missing anything.
~Every week, you receive direct, honest feedback on your work. Not just on what you’re making, but where you’re holding back inside it.
~You’ll study conceptual fine art photographers who’ve shaped my practice, expanding your sense of what’s possible and sharpening your own artistic lens.
~Each week, you’ll receive a creative prompt designed to bypass overthinking, so you can stop circling and start making. If you already have a project you’re working on you don’t have to use the prompt, but it’s there for you if you want it.
~Inside our sessions, we don’t just talk about “blocks” and procrastination, we interrupt the pattern.
~Through breathwork, writing, and grounding practices, subconscious reprogramming techniques, Toltec wisdom and practicing the 4 agreements you’ll begin to recognize and shift patterns like perfectionism, hesitation, self-doubt, avoidance and numbing out in real time.
~You’ll also receive intuitive teaching and guidance that helps you stop abandoning yourself in your creative process.
~And during the 12 weeks, you’ll receive a private 60-minute 1:1 mentoring session with me, dedicated entirely to your work, your patterns, and your next level.
Every week for 12 weeks you make new work, receive direct feedback from me on your images, and move closer to a finished body of work, an artist statement, a bio, and our online exhibition.
Weeks 1–2 / Building the Foundation of Safety We locate exactly where self-abandonment is living inside your creative practice. The moment you flinch, over-edit, or stop short. You leave with a clear map of your patterns and the somatic tools to interrupt them in real time. You begin making work this week.
Weeks 3–4 / Finding Your Thread We surface the invisible obsession running underneath everything you've ever made. Your conceptual north star. By the end of week 4, you can name in one sentence what your work is actually about, and your weekly images start orbiting that center.
Weeks 5–6 / Personal Narrative as Foundation Your story becomes the lens, not the subject. Through Toltec practice and writing, you root the work in truth. You begin drafting the language that will become your artist statement.
Weeks 7–8 / The Body of Work Emerges Weekly prompts, weekly feedback, and study of the conceptual fine art photographers shaping contemporary practice. Your private 60-minute 1:1 with me lands in this window, focused entirely on your work and your next move.
Weeks 9–10 / Artist Statement + Bio You finalize your artist statement and bio with my direct edits. We identify your first (or next) open call, exhibition, or submission and you enter it before the program ends.
Weeks 11–12 / The Edit + Your Online Exhibition You edit your work down to the final 12 images. Your exhibition goes live on catherinejust.com, joining the two existing exhibitions as a permanent part of my site. You leave with a finished body of work, a statement, a bio, an exhibition, and the bones to keep going.
Deeper Details:
You’re comfortable using your camera, but your images don’t feel like you
You have creative ideas but you’re afraid to make the work and even more afraid to show it
You’ve been circling the airport and you’re ready to land
You’re done abandoning yourself in your art and in your life
You’re done making safe work when you have more to say and you know it.
You’re done avoiding deeper work.
You’re ready - genuinely ready - to interrupt your own patterns
and create from a different place.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
WHAT BECAME POSSIBLE
"Honestly, the only thing that kept me from giving up on photography was this space. The weekly calls, the support, and the accountability to keep creating. I almost didn’t apply to a juried art show because I didn’t think my work was good enough… and I got in. That moment changed something for me.
Since then, I’ve been accepted into multiple shows and had my work featured in a magazine.
You believed in me and my work at a time when I couldn’t see it for myself. And each week I show up, it keeps that creative flame alive. I’m deeply grateful for the space you’ve created and for how it’s helped me remember who I am."
-R.
“It’s not just photography, and it’s not just personal growth or spiritual practice, it’s all of it, woven together in a way I’ve never experienced before.
Before this, I was overthinking everything. Not trusting myself. Holding back in my work. That changed.
The way you teach shifted how I show up. Not just creatively, but in all areas of my life.
It went far beyond what I expected.”
-Susan
If you know you’ve been holding back
this is where that ends.
Stop circling
Choose yourself.
$2450
The Deepening
A 12-week mentoring program for photographers ready to stop abandoning themselves and feel confident and safe being fully seen.
$850/month
$425/month
$325/Month
Soothe your nervous system, make your work with confidence,
take your work out into the world in ways that matter.
YOUR MENTOR
Catherine Just
VISUAL ARTIST • FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
SEER • MENTOR
At 18, newly sober from a meth addiction, I picked up a camera and turned my pain into visual poetry. It saved my life.
Three decades later, my work blends Toltec wisdom, somatic practice, and a deep ability to see what lives beneath the surface.
When I look through the lens, I am not searching for an image. I am listening for truth.
My work has been exhibited internationally in Milan, Paris, London, New York, and Los Angeles, and featured in National Geographic and O Magazine.
Beyond the gallery, I work with photographers and artists who are ready to stop holding back and be fully seen, through both private sessions and immersive group experiences like The Deepening.
I’m also a single parent to my son, Max, who has Down syndrome. He continues to teach me daily about presence, connection, and what it means to truly show up.
I believe~
showing up fully and loving yourself no matter f*ing what is the most powerful creative act there is.
