• Explore the process of creativity, rather than simply focusing on the product.
• Discover how to find inspiration in the world around you.
• Get over creative blocks and the fear of failure.
• Work with many different mediums to develop your creativity in your chosen field.
• Use your memories to trigger your imagination.
• Engage your curiosity every day and make it work for you.
• Establish a 15 minute a day creativity practice to accomplish your goals after the Workshop ends.

• The Creativity Workshop in Bruges will take place near the Bruges Market (the main square). It is dominated by the Halle with the belfry – Bruges most distinctive landmark – soaring above it. The Halle construction begun in 1248. The building encloses a picturesque courtyard, and the balcony above the entrance was once used by the city fathers to promulgate their statutes to the populace assembled beneath.

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.

• The importance of play in creative work.
• Valuing creative process over product.

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”) 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.

Miniature Worlds: Storytelling with found objects.

Writing in Cafes: an exercise that will continue to take place over the next 2 days.

Instructors’ talks may include:

• How to do ongoing creative work in short modules of time.
• How to use luck and coincidence to jump-start creative projects.

Day 3:

The Myth of the Other: Imagining yourself living a parallel life. What would you do that you aren’t doing now?

Writing in Groups: How writing and/or drawing with others can stimulate your imagination and expand your point of view.

The Sand Mandala: Making an Illuminated Manuscript.

• Final Group Exercise.

Instructors’ talks may include:

• The Gift of the Amateur.
• Creativity is a Muscle: Use it or Lose it.
• Making your home and work environments inspiring.
• How to stay creative after The Creativity Workshop ends.

• Explore the process of creativity, rather than simply focusing on the product.
• Discover how to find inspiration in the world around you.
• Get over creative blocks and the fear of failure.
• Work with many different mediums to develop your creativity in your chosen field.
• Use your memories to trigger your imagination.
• Engage your curiosity every day and make it work for you.
• Establish a 15 minute a day creativity practice to accomplish your goals after the Workshop ends.

• The Creativity Workshop in New Delhi will take place near The Red Fort (Lal Qila). A brilliant red sandstone fort built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (who also built Agra’s Taj Mahal) as his ruling palace. Completed in 1648, the years since have not treated the buildings kindly: the rooms have long since been stripped of all objects, the marble inlays are long gone and quite a few buildings are off limits. Still, the scale remains imposing and the gardens are kept lush and green even in midwinter.

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.

• The importance of play in creative work.
• Valuing creative process over product.

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”) 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.

Miniature Worlds: Storytelling with found objects.

Writing in Cafes: an exercise that will continue to take place over the next 2 days.

Instructors’ talks may include:

• How to do ongoing creative work in short modules of time.
• How to use luck and coincidence to jump-start creative projects.

Day 3:

The Myth of the Other: Imagining yourself living a parallel life. What would you do that you aren’t doing now?

Writing in Groups: How writing and/or drawing with others can stimulate your imagination and expand your point of view.

The Sand Mandala: Making an Illuminated Manuscript.

• Final Group Exercise.

Instructors’ talks may include:

• The Gift of the Amateur.
• Creativity is a Muscle: Use it or Lose it.
• Making your home and work environments inspiring.
• How to stay creative after The Creativity Workshop ends.

• Explore the process of creativity, rather than simply focusing on the product.
• Discover how to find inspiration in the world around you.
• Get over creative blocks and the fear of failure.
• Work with many different mediums to develop your creativity in your chosen field.
• Use your memories to trigger your imagination.
• Engage your curiosity every day and make it work for you.
• Establish a 15 minute a day creativity practice to accomplish your goals after the Workshop ends.

• Our Workshop takes place in the 5 star Due Torri Hotel in Verona’s historic center, a UNESCO heritage site. It is a walker’s paradise, full of elegant shops, delicious trattorias, countless picturesque cafes, and grand public gardens.
• You can also make easy afternoon trips to Venice, Padua (Giotto’s frescoes), and Vicenza (Palladian architecture). A little farther afield, you will find the resort towns of Lake Garda. You can also visit the Veneto countryside with its lush farms and famed vineyards.

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Day 5:

The Legend of the Hand.

Automatic Writing and Drawing with a new twist.

Cafe exercise: Writing, drawing, photographing about people you find in local cafes.

The Sand Mandala: A collaborative exercise in combining mediums and perspectives.

Instructors’ talks may include:

• The Gift of the Amateur.
• Creativity is a Muscle: Use it or Lose it.
• Making your home and work environments inspiring.
• How to stay creative after The Creativity Workshop ends.