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May 10, 17, 24 - 2026
10 - 11:15am Pacific Time
– With guest appearance by Rick Rubin –
Three Sundays Series : Live and Recorded
THE CREATIVE PATH
Carrying What is Hidden as a Gift to Others
About this Series
The Creative Path
The difficult secret about creativity is that it is an invitation to travel the path of longing—longing for real meaning, real connection, and continual nourishing surprise that can enliven and even transform the lives of others.
We associate creativity with discipline and long hours but long hours make sense only if we are following a meaningful central trajectory—one that in the creative act itself seems to issue from our bodies like a comet’s tail out into the world.
Creativity is an invitation to transgress—once you take the step toward creating, we always betray our known self and the inherited stories we hold close, the scaffolding of our entire identity, and the structures and systems that held us in place. This is why it feels so difficult. This is why we feel as if we are ‘blocked’, we really, actually feel as if we are losing our sense of self. This is why the creative path can feels so distant and elusive: to create is to betray your home and set off into a distant unknown place.
Creativity demands choosing longing over belonging: that choice asks us to risk losing grip with what makes sense—to drop into a state where the familiar self cannot follow a known path. So many things can be created easily and unconsciously—chaos. Resentment, envy—even destruction—can be created on a daily basis without effort or intention. Meaningful creativity is something else entirely—it puts us in cultivated, intimate companionship with the world and with the struggles of other human beings—fellow creatures trying to get things right and failing awkwardly most of the time.
To follow the path of creativity is to stay in the unknown long enough for it to become aliveness—and to shape that aliveness into forms of beauty and life-changing insight—the gift of being given new eyes or ears for this world or even a new mind for an imagined future. These dreams beneath the surface made real through our creative gifts, are the fruits of a long and conscious path—a harvest that asks us to keep listening to the inner urgencies our life—and the way those urgencies arrive in all the hours of our everyday lives.
Bringing our inner and outer worlds together is the theme of these three Sundays in May. Following a creative path that always asks us to shape a way of being equal to every mode of doing.
In the third Sunday of the series, David will be joined by Rick Rubin, producer and interpretive maestro for so many famous musicians of all genres, but also the best selling author of The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Rick has interviewed David in many of his own Tetragrammaton podcasts and is now willing to take some of his own good medicine on the Three Sundays Series.
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Three Sundays in May
Join David Whyte as he looks at creativity as an invitation to travel the path of longing—longing for real meaning, real connection, and continual nourishing surprise that can enliven and even transform the lives of others.
The sessions take place May 10th, 17th and 24th, 2026.
Registration is open until September 20, 2026; the session recordings and resources will be available to all registered attendees until October 1, 2026.
How the series work
Live session webinars take place via Zoom and include 60 minutes of David speaking followed by a 10-15 minute Q&A period.
Commonly Asked Questions
What if I can't attend live?
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Each session is recorded and will be made available to all registered attendees for a period of three months after the series ends. Session recordings can be found in “Three Sundays” in your Profile.
How long is each session?
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Each session is 60 minutes of David speaking following by a 15-minute Q&A.
Will I be on camera during the live session?
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The sessions are set up as webinars. Only David will be on camera. Attendees are muted and set to video off during the entirety of the session.
Can I join the sessions from my mobile phone or landline?
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Yes. You can connect via the Zoom app on your mobile device, or call in from a landline or mobile phone. For those interested in listening on a landline or mobile phone, we will send the phone number prior to each session, including international call-in options.
Are Closed Captions Available?
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Yes! English Closed Captions are provided with the video recording. We do not have CC available with the live sessions at this time.
How do I receive the Zoom details for each session?
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The Zoom details will be made available 24 hours before each session begins. The call-in number and link to join will be added to your Series Library, as well as emailed to you. Please check your Spam/Junk folder if you cannot find the Zoom details in your inbox.
If you do not receive the Zoom information by email, or cannot log into your library, please contact [email protected] and someone will be happy to assist you.
What if I can't afford the cost of registration?
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The cost to register for three sessions is $75.00 USD. If you cannot afford to pay the full fee, please contact us to receive a discounted rate.
Will I be able to ask David questions during the live sessions?
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During each session, we will open the Zoom Q&A column where anyone can submit a comment or question. David will take select questions during the last fifteen minutes of the session.
Due to the limited time, we cannot answer every question live, but David does enjoy reading all the comments after the session is closed, and on occasion is able to answer additional questions there.
How long can I access the recordings for a series?
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Session recordings are posted in the Series Library and are available for a period of approximately 3 months after the date of the last session.
We round up to the 1st day of the next month, so, for example, if the last session of a series is on March 26th, we will have the recordings available until July 1st.
Can I register to watch Three Sundays Series from the past?
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A selection of Three Sundays Series from past years are available in the David Whyte Companion Library. The Companion Library contains all of David’s poetry and essays, as well as recorded talks and original short videos.
To find our more about the David Whyte Companion, visit the Companion experience page here.
Are the audio-only recordings available of the sessions?
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As of July 1, 2024 we are no longer providing audio only files of the sessions. It should still be possible to play the video file and listen to audio on headphones or through your device speakers.