CREATIVITY |
Each
day the Creativity Workshop in Europe will meet for 3
1/2 hours. We 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:
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:
Arrival. Free day. Time for you to settle in and relax.
Day 2:
First day of workshop.
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 3:
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 4:
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 5:
Today's visualization is The Myth of the Other: imagining ourselves living
a parallel life. The imagination's magic phrase: What If. The Graphic
Novel: Hw a team can recognize and use their creative instincts together.
Doors and Windows: exploring how to focus on the details of your environment
using photography, writing and drawing. Importance of detail in making
creative work come alive. Finding inspiration in the world around us.
Topics of instructors talks may include: honoring our innate creativity;
how to rekindle fearless imagination.
Day 6:
Visualization exercise using maps and legends to tell our stories. Automatic
drawing and writing exercises continue. How to be our own trickster and
transform ourselves and our creative ventures. Exercise using postcards.
Cafe exercise: Writing, drawing or photography to search for characters.
Exercise in stimulating our perceptive abilities and discover and use
images from the unconscious. The Lesson of the Sand mandala: How process
can also be product. Instructor talk: How to get over creative blocks
and the fear of failure. Making our home and work environments inspiring
for the imagination. Life after the Workshop: Ways to keep using these
techniques to keep our imaginations alive and flourishing. How to give
yourselves the daily time, permission and nourishment to do creative
work.
NOTE:
There are no classes on the final 2 days of the workshop. These days are free
for participants to put to active use the various techniques learned in
the workshop and to explore the cultural, historical and natural riches
of each location and its people. It is suggested you make your sightseeing
plans during your stay and not before you come to allow for flexibility
in your itinerary. Most excursions are available with very little time
in advance.
Excursions are not included.
Day 7:
Free day.
Day 8:
Free day.
Day 9:
Departure.
Any Questions?
Call us at: 1 (212) 767-9815
Creativity
Workshop
We can help you learn to be more creative.
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