How to Set Your Notifications in the Autonomous Creative Collective

You can receive notifications in two ways:

1. Push notifications—alerts on your phone (if you have the app installed)
2. Email notifications
3. You can also choose to get both. You can toggle each type on/off as needed

Accessing Notification Settings

• On desktop: Click your profile picture and select "Settings"
• On mobile: Open the hamburger menu and select "Settings"

Recommended Notification Settings

Essential Notifications (Recommended for Everyone)

1. Announcements: Keep these on — they're infrequent (once every few months) and contain important updates about access and special events
2. Direct Messages: Enable at least one notification method to know when someone messages you directly
3. Weekly Digest: A summary of all community activity — especially useful if you disable other circle notifications

Optional Notifications

Circle Notifications

• You'll only see notifications for circles you're a member of
• For each circle, you can choose:
  • All messages
  • Highlights only
  • No notifications

Event Notifications

• Meetups: Enable if you plan to attend live meetings—which I highly recommend! They're extremely valuable to getting you engaged in your creative practice and moving forward. 
  • Pro tip: Add meetings to your calendar immediately after signing up
• Live Room Alerts: These notify you when the community leader goes live (maximum once per week)

Minimalist Setup

If you want to minimize notifications while staying informed:

1. Keep Announcements on
2. Enable Weekly Digest
3. Keep Direct Messages on
4. Turn off Circle notifications
5. Optional: Enable Meetup notifications if you attend live events

Here's a quick video overview! 

Guide to Using Circles in the Autonomous Creative Collective

Circles are dedicated spaces within our community for different types of content and interactions. When you log in, you'll see the circles listed in the sidebar. or the drop-down hamburger menu if you're on mobile. You'll only see circles that you're a member of.

Circles for Everyone

ACC Posts for Everyone

This is our general community circle where any content meant for the entire community is posted. Use this circle for:

• General discussions
• Questions for the community or to Jessica
• Content relevant to all members

Accountability Circle

This circle is dedicated to keeping members on track with their goals. Use it for:

• Weekly accountability check-ins
• Top 3 priorities for the week
• Sharing goals you're working toward
• Getting support for your commitments

Program-Specific Circles

Depending on your membership, you may see one or more of these circles:

• Creative Focus Workshop
• Momentum System
• Incubator/Autonomous Creative Business Mastermind

Use these circles for posts that are only for that group, having to do with private conversations or discussions of course content. 

How to Post Content

1. If you're in the main feed, start creating your post, and use the drop-down menu to select which circle you want to post in. 
2. If you're already inside a Circle, you will automatically post to that Circle.
3. You can create various types of content:
   • Text posts
   • Photos
   • Audio recordings
   • Video
4. When in doubt about where to post, use "ACC Posts for Everyone"
5. For accountability-related content, use the Accountability circle

While there are different circles, there's significant overlap in membership, so don't worry too much about perfect placement of your posts!

Find all the upcoming events under the Meetups tab in the ACC! I encourage you to pre-register for everything and add it to your calendar so you don't miss a thing. It's OK if you're not sure you can make it or if you end up missing a session. No one's doing a head-count!

Go ahead and sign up so you have all the info and get reminders!

Members who RSVP for the Meetup will receive the following reminders:

• Email notification 3 days in advance
• Push notification 1 hour in advance
• Email notification when the Meetup starts

Find all the Meetups and RSVP in the Meetups tab!

Jessica-led events

ACC Group Coaching

The ACC Group Coaching Call is an Autonomous Creative Community exclusive event hosted by Jessica on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 2 pm ET. RSVP here. 

Bring your questions, and Jessica will answer them live.

Highly recommended for all members! 

Simplify to Amplify Roundtable

Join Jessica on the 1st Wednesday of every month at 12 pm ET for a live strategy session for creative pros and entrepreneurs.

Bring whatever creative career and business questions you’re grappling with, and we’ll talk about what’s working, what’s not working, and what to do next!

Sign-up and submit your questions here.

Autonomous Creative Business Mastermind Coaching Call

The Autonomous Creative Business Mastermind Coaching is exclusive to ACBM members and takes place on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm ET. You can RSVP and submit work for the next call here. Replays can be found in the Autonomous Creative Incubator course under “ACBM Coaching Call Archive.”

Peer-led events

Annette and Shelley's Accountability Checkin

Sundays at noon ET for only 30 minutes. Hosted by Annette Tomei and Shelley Evans. 

Highly recommended for all members! 

What it is:

One of the most valuable takeaways from the CFW is the regular practice of accountability.

Through systematic reflection followed by the setting realistic daily, weekly, and quarterly intentions, we celebrate our successes and make the most of our challenges. This process is even more effective with a supportive group of peers cheering you on. 

Join your peers every Sunday to say hi, share a brief reflection from the previous week, and set your top three for the coming week.

Everyone will post their Top 3 in the ACC accountability (replying to Jessica's prompts) and then dive into a new week feeling supported and refreshed.

It’s a simple 15-30 minute process and we don’t want to take too much time. After a quick hello, we’ll jump right in.

Creativity Co-working w/ Dorothea

Need support getting your creative work done? Join Dorothea Deley’s co-working group on Mondays at 8:30 a.m. PT (11:30 ET).

Here’s what you can expect from these sessions:

• Use the Pomodoro technique, working in 25-minute blocks with 5-minute breaks, completing 3 Pomodoros each session
• Set your One Goal for the upcoming week & check in on how last week's One Goal went
• Support one another’s creative work & honor each other's working style
• Participate in a safe space for people to share about health/personal/other challenges as they relate to getting our creative work done

This session is hosted on Skype. To join, message Dorothea your Skype handle and she’ll add you to the next call.

Tidy Tuesday w/ Maggie

Tidy Tuesday is a weekly co-working event at 2 pm BST (9 am ET) hosted by Maggie Winnall.

The purpose of Tidy Tuesday is to help you maintain or establish an optimal environment in which to do your work. It's also a great timeslot to do any other kind of administrative or organizational work you've been avoiding.

Each session starts with quick intros and intentions, followed by two 40-minute organizing sessions. 

Open Studio w/ Michi & Maggie

On Thursday at 2 pm BST (9 am ET), Michi Mathias and Maggie Winnall host Open Studio co-working. This is a mics-on co-working session, where you can work quietly or chat, or both. (This is different from many co-working sessions where the expectation is muting your mic during work sessions, then unmuting on breaks). Mics-on means friendly companionship while doing your work…which means it’s especially good if you do handwork of various kinds, like sketching, stitching, painting, sculpting, etc.

Join this virtual shared studio for company, friendly chats, and accountability while you work on your creative projects!

Open Studio is hosted in our ACC Live Room. 

Video Archive:

Recordings of all of the ACC Group Coaching Sessions are available here.

Audio Archive via your podcast app:

Want to listen to audio recordings of the coaching sessions on-the-go? Make sure you're subscribed to the private feed on your fav podcast app! You got a private link to subscribe to the feed when you joined the ACC.

If you're not subscribed to the private podcast feed yet, check your email for an email from "Jessica Abel (via Hello Audio)" with the subject line, "Your audio access: ACC Monthly Group Coaching Calls." You can get access directly from there! 

See you at the next session!