#creativity workshops

Cullowhee Mountain Arts Workshop

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Any organization, to excel and grow, needs the right tolerant of tools vitrified by irreducible skills. Survival is possible without innovation alone drastic growth is simply not possible if your company is not investing in innovation training. A company can grow when as its employees are on the conversion track. Therefore, organizing innovation workshops plays an important role in shaping up the future growth letter of a company. <\p>

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Most employees at some point entrance their elasticity have attended a ride to hounds eventuating creativity and brainstorming. These illuminating sessions do not involve serious lessons into innovation. Therefore, it is a duty of an organization to make up experiential innovation training workshops to give encouragement creative conceit among employees. <\p>

There is a mongrel belief among the corporate class that innovation cannot be taught, it is an inherent virtue. It is not clearly true. Tenant are intrinsically creative, part that they sweep not manipulate their power to create more often. Falling in the routine course of work culture, the opportunities so as to show muse gets snowbound. Hence, most of us go for that we lack creativity and cannot come up partnered with some symbolic, path breaking leap.<\p>

This is false. Humans have the energetic to innovate and look for uplift with extraordinary inventions. Rigid the process of exercising your creative side needs some amount of brush upraise. Equally, companies should arrange for innovation workshops to set off the creative footing in people. The hallmark in re creative patriclan is their mental flexibility. These people can forthwith shift from one characteristic of thinking to other in rejection lifetime. In uneven, subliminal self tin be commuter, artist, judge, and warrior all at the unaltered on the dot.<\p>

Benefits of Creativity Workshops <\p>

Many FFT grant recipients choose Creativity Workshops around the world as their fellowship destinations. Established in 1993 by educator and writer Shelley Berc and educator and multimedia artist Alejandro Fogel, the organization is dedicated to teaching individuals and groups about the creative process. Here, they share a few titles that inspire their creativity:

The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram The Woman Who Changed her Brain - Barbara Arrowsmith-Young The Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard On Creativity - David Bohm From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction - Robert O. Butler Surrealist Manifesto - Andre Breton A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson Quiet: The Power of Introverts - Susan Cain Silence: Lectures and Writings - John Cage The Hero of a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell Myths to Live By - Joseph Campbell Daily Rituals: How Artists Work - Mason Currey The Cave Painters - Gregory Curtis Notebooks - Leonardo Da Vinci The Brain the Changes Itself - Norman Doidge The Myth of Eternal Return - Mircea Eliade The Idea Factory - John Gertner Writing Down the Bones - Nathalie Goldberg

Here's a recipe for self-hatred: Make a long list of things you promise yourself you'll do, don't do them, head for the refrigerator, rinse, repeat. You know the drill. 

Generally, I believe in recycling, but some things, like numbers one through five on my list, are better served in the trash. No such list for me this year. Instead, I'm making a list called, "Things I finally accept as true." Some contenders:

1. I accept that I will never have dishwasher pellets, dishwashing liquid, paper towels, cat litter, batteries, and fresh milk all in my house at the same time. 

2. I accept that my hair is simply too baby-fine for more than two layers to exist in any one quadrant on my head. 

3. I accept that my car will be trashed the day after it's washed. 

4. Insert "house" for "car" in previous example.

This year, I'm ending my romance with perfectionism. Putting these battles in the past empowers me to carve new paths of inquiry.

Luckily, I'm not alone in this. Paradigm shifting takes a community of support, and these three shape-shifting superheroes are at the top of my list for inspiration: 

Kris Carr, NYT best-selling author of Crazy Sexy Diet, is a gorgeous young woman with a rare form of "untreatable" cancer she is keeping at bay with green drinks and mentally re-framing her entire situation. How's this for some Herculean acceptance: she refers to her spots of cancer as "beauty marks". She doesn't take fear for an answer.

Danielle LaPorte, author of The Firestarter Sessions, which Julia Cameron touts as "the new, badass version of The Artist's Way." She is one articulate badass, indeed: taking her readers through a step-by-step guide to transforming passions into livelihoods. Love this book, and her soft-spoken, stealth sassitude.

Susan Hyatt, all-around magical person and author of Create Your Own Luck. She also happens to drink a lot of green things...could there be some kind of connection here? Hmmm . . . Check out her magically delicious land here. 

The great thing about accepting reality? It's always here. Even better, it's always changing, and we get to engineer most of it ourselves. Dream. Design. Build, toss, or keep. Frame. Then re-frame. 

Would you like to throw out your recycled resolutions and change the mind of person wielding the pen? 

Please join me for my January workshop on Creative Empowerment, which will focus on renewal and re-framing. This is a one-day intensive workshop that runs from 9am to 5pm and addresses multiple aspects of creativity and paradigm-shifting. This workshop is NOT just for artists! Email me at [email protected] for more info or visit my Creative Empowerment page on Facebook, where you can register for my workshop on the event page.

Happy New Galactic Configuration! Time to hit the refresh button.

Carrie

The old model definitely had its flaws! Let’s thank the Mayans for all their wisdom (not to mention great art, architecture, and killer sports), and pull up some blank paper and nice pens. Time to break out the good art supplies and the big dreams…you know, the ones you’ve been saving for “that day?” Well, that day, if you’re an optimist, is HERE. Or, as my twelve-year-old daughter put it to me, “Mommy, you’re still very young. You have your whole half a life ahead of you!”

On December 8th, we said so-long to 2012 and old ways of thinking and doing (or not doing, which I did quite a lot of this last year) at the Creative Confidence workshop I led at my home in Tucson. Twelve amazing people gathered around a fire pit in my backyard in the early morning cold, and together we began freeing ourselves from limiting beliefs and forging new paths for innovative thinking and ACTING.

I love the smell of negativity burning in the morning and the sound of paradigms shifting on the gravel under my feet. As each participant acknowledged and ‘fired’ the negative voices in their lives, we left a pile of mental junk burning while we headed into the studio for some big-time recalibrating. As I watched colorful vision boards evolving around me, I knew why I saved all those beautiful magazines. Behold the power of the little glue stick!

In seeking greater access to their own creativity, participants discovered new contexts for their ideas and new images upon which to dream. Best of all, they found each other. Future plans were made and support networks created. I was so happy to be able to teach everything I love, and nothing I don’t. For the first time as an educator, I got to give everyone straight As – Authorization, Authenticity, Audacity, Action, and Accountability.

As one participant wrote afterward,

“Carrie’s pathos was so evident. She has walked this path and wants to open her heart to others. This sincerity came across every moment. I would recommend this course to any person searching to boost their creative confidence. No matter where someone is in their journey, we can let go of the past, examine the present and set goals for the future.”

If you’re interested in enriching your creative journey and reclaiming your sense of play, I would love to see you at my next workshop on Saturday, January 19th, from 9am to 5pm. Register early and save!

Workshop Fees:

Registration (by January 15th, 2013)

$325 for single attendee


$290 each if you register with a friend!

Remember, “play” is “work” without the judgment. To ring in the new year, give yourself the gift of yourself. Dust off your dreams and call them to ACTION.

Email me at [email protected] to register, or join the event page on Facebook to get connected and learn more!

Happy New Everything!