• 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.

• It is a small, friendly city of enormous contrasts, making it a perfect place for creative regeneration.
• You will find beaches and castles, world class art, ceramics and history museums, picturesque old neighborhoods and cutting edge new design, a relaxed day-time cafe culture and a vibrant night life, and great cuisine.

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”) 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:

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

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:

• The importance of play in creative work.
• Valuing creative process over product.
• How to do ongoing creative work in short modules of time.
• How to use luck and coincidence to jump-start creative projects.

Day 4:

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

Trips to the Past: Using a foreign environment to invoke memory and inspire transformation.

The Close-Up: Using photography and drawing to focus on details and change the way we see.

Instructors’ talks may include:

• Following your innate creativity and listening to its intuition.
• How to rekindle fearless imagination.
• The Power of the Magic phrase: “What If”.

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.