The Creativity Workshop
- All levels
- 18 and older
- $1,095
- Earn 10,950 reward points
- 20 River Rd, New York, NY
- 12 hours over 4 sessions
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May 3rd
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The Creativity Workshop in New York City will help you become more creative in your personal and professional life. We use many techniques in creative writing memoir, art, photography, storytelling, mapmaking, mindfulness and guided visualization to help you explore your inner creativity.
The Creativity Workshop is an experiential course of doing and experimenting. Our exercises and instructors’ talks focus on helping you learn practical techniques to stimulate your imagination and innovative thinking.
Why New York City?
Famous for its museums, cultural life, shopping, and restaurants, New York City is a great place to recharge your batteries and find inspiration.
Daily Schedule
Some exercises are done individually while others are collaborative. Here is a day by day schedule:
Day 1:
Introduction to the hows and whys of The Creativity Workshop.
Relaxation: Relaxation techniques to help your imagination flow.
Guided Visualization: Calling forth the vocabulary of your imagination using the myth of the hero’s journey as a framework.
Automatic Drawing: Finding our hidden imagery.
Show and Tell: Retrieving and sharing childhood memories to spark new ideas. This exercise will sharpen your storytelling skills.
Instructors’ talk: How some famous writers, scientists, and artists found their inspiration, and how you can use some of their methods to find yours.
Day 2:
Relaxation.
Mapmaking: Mapmaking as a way to find, chart, and communicate your creative process and projects.
Automatic Writing: How automatic writing (also known as “free writing”Â) can help you create in new and surprising ways. How you can use automatic writing to outrun your inner judge, get over creative blocks, and discover new ways of developing and editing written work. How alternating between writing and drawing can help you develop creative flexibility and mental dexterity.
The Interview: Listening to and experiencing a life outside your own. How listening is as important as doing in creative work.
Writing in Cafes: an exercise that will continue to take place over the next 2 days.
Instructors’ talks may include:
Day 3:
Letter Writing: Letter writing as a way to express voice, character, and audience.
Miniature Worlds: Storytelling with found objects.
Writing in Groups: How writing and/or drawing with others can stimulate your imagination and expand your point of view.
Instructors’ talks may include:
Day 4:
The Myth of the Other: Imagining yourself living a parallel life. What would you do that you aren’t doing now?
The Sand Mandala: Making an Illuminated Manuscript.
Final Group Exercise.
Instructors’ talks may include:
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No refunds. Credit to take another workshop depending on when the cancellation takes place.
Get quick answers from CourseHorse and past students.
The Creativity Workshop is based in New York City and is taught around the world.
It was 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 their creative processes.
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The Creativity Workshop
Roosevelt Island, Queens
20 River Rd
New York, New York 10044 Roosevelt Island, Queens
20 River Rd
New York, New York 10044
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