CREATIVITY |
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:
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 by Day schedule for Crete, Barcelona and Florence
Day by Day schedule for New York and Carmel
Day by Day schedule for Crete, Barcelona
and Florence
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.
Day by Day schedule for New York and Carmel
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.
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