CREATIVITY
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The
Creativity Workshop will take place in the historic village of Carmel-by-the
Sea. This jewel-like town on the Californian Central Coast is home to
beautiful sandy beaches, quaint cottages, lovely restaurants, and fine
art galleries. There is frequent bus service to the city of Monterey
(8 miles distant) which has one of the best aquariums in the US as well
as some fine 18th and 19th century architecture. You can also rent a
car or take a bus tour to many nearby locations, such as the towering
cliffs and crashing waves of Big Sur. The Workshop will take place at
Il Fornaio in the Pine Inn, Carmel's oldest hotel.
We will
meet for 3 hours and will explore ways to expand our 
creativity
through a series of exercises including guided visualization technique,
automatic drawing and writing, map making, memoir,
and storytelling.
Throughout the workshop, the exercises and talks by the instructors
will focus on ways to:
Believe
in your creativity
Stimulate
your perceptive abilities
Find
inspiration in the world around you
Discover
and use images from the unconscious
Get
over creative blocks and the fear of failure
Engage
your curiosity
Recognize
and use your creative instincts
Give
yourself the time, permission, and nourishment to do creative work
Develop
a daily practice to accomplish these goals
Work
collaboratively
Use
your memories to engage the imagination
Order and
kinds of exercises and instructors' talks may vary.
Some exercises are done individually while others are collaborative.
Day
1:
Introduction
to the hows and whys of the Creativity Workshop. Exercises in relaxation
technique and guided visualization. Visualization:
writing
and drawing using the myth of the hero’s journey as our framework.
Automatic Drawing exercise: Finding our hidden imagery. Exercise in ‘show
and tell’ as a means of honing our natural storytelling styles and retrieving
childhood memories to spark ideas. Instructor talks about famous writers, scientists,
artists and their sources of inspiration, and how we can use some of those same
sources.
Day
2:
Relaxation exercise followed by a visualization using map making. Map
making as a way to find, chart, and tell fictional stories and true
life
experiences. Exercise in Automatic Writing. How
automatic writing allows you to brainstorm and create in new and surprising
ways. How we can use automatic writing to get over creative blocks
and discover new ways of developing and editing work, while avoiding
self-censorship. Why alternating between writing and drawing aids us
in developing creative flexibility. The Interview: Listening and experiencing
a life outside our own. How listening is as important as doing in creative
work.
Day
3:
Today's visualization exercise uses letter writing as a way to explore
voice in writing. Miniature Theatre: an exercise in storytelling with
found objects.
Automatic Writing continues with Writing in Groups. How writing and/or
drawing with others can stimulate our imaginations and expand our points
of view. Topics of instructors' talks may include: the importance of
play and the need to value the creative process over product. Enforced
Cafe-Sitting: the art of relaxed observation. How to carve out time for
creativity in a busy schedule. How to do on-going creative work in a
short modules of time. How we can use luck and coincidence to jump start
creative projects. Creative freedom requires discipline: Developing daily
practice.
Day
4:
Today's visualization is The Myth of the Other: imagining ourselves living
a parallel life. The
lesson of the sand painting: How process can also be a product. Automatic
drawing and writing exercises continue with a concentration on collaborative
work. Instructor talk: Giving ourselves the time, permission, and nourishment
to do creative work. How a team can recognize and use their creative
instincts together. Life after Workshop: Ways to keep using these techniques
to keep our imaginations alive and flourishing.
College
Credit Availability for
our Workshop in Carmel
Through an agreement with The University of Arizona participants
taking the Creativity Workshop in Carmel can obtain graduate or undergraduate
credit hours. Contact us for details.
Any Questions?
Call us at: 1 (831) 915-5209
Creativity
Workshop
We can help you learn to be more creative.
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