Where does your work need care right now?
Your work is a living system. Your creative practice is the tree, your business is the garden around it, and your marketing reaches beyond the fence. Each part needs tending, but rarely all at once.
This quiz helps you see which part of your system is asking for care in this season, which Ecological Role of Care you're resourced to embody, and what to focus on next. It's free, no email needed, and your results come into view as soon as you finish.
Choose the answer that feels most true today. There's no wrong place to be.
Three parts of one living system
Your values, your rhythm, your rest, and the making itself. Everything else in your business draws from here. When the tree is out of balance, no amount of strategy above ground makes up for it.
The tree ✱ your creative practice
The garden ✱ your business ecosystem
Your offers, pricing, systems, boundaries, brand, and website. The structure that holds your practice and lets it sustain you and the people you serve.
Your story, content, channels, community, and outreach. How your work travels, and how the right people find their way to you.
Beyond the fence ✱ your marketing ecosystem
Your Ecological Role of Care
Healthy ecosystems stay alive because many beings play different roles, and so do healthy businesses. The second part of the quiz finds the role you're resourced to embody right now. Roles can shift with the season.
Future-facing and catalytic: Seed Planters, Wayfinders, Decomposers
Stabilizing and relational: Sustainers, Pathmakers, Regenerators
Stewards of attention and integrity: Signal Boosters, Record Keepers, Protectors
Our frameworks are rooted in ecology, anticapitalism, and decolonial approaches: nature as teacher, care over extraction, relationship over ownership. Read the full breakdown.
What to do with your results
Your result is a starting point, not a verdict. Most living systems need tending in all three places; the quiz shows where to begin.
Start small. Pick one priority from your results and give it a few weeks before adding another.
Come back each season. Retake the quiz when something shifts. Your result will move as your work grows.
Talk it through. Bring your result to a conversation with us, and we'll start from where you are.