CREATIVITY
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The
workshop will take place in Barcelona near Paseo de Gracia,
a tree-lined street with some of the finest modernist architecture in
this fascinating city, which inspired Gaudi, Picasso, Dali, and Miro.
Barcelona also has a beautiful beach/restaurant area in which to walk,
sunbathe, or swim. Seaside resorts are only a 30 minute train ride away.
Each day the Creativity Workshop in Barcelona will meet for 3 1/2 hours. 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:
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 in Barcelona
Arrival: Free
day
Time
for you to settle in and relax.
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.
Second
day of workshop:
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.
Third
day of workshop:
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.
Fourth day of workshop:
Today's visualization is The Myth of the Other: imagining ourselves living
a parallel life. The imagination's magic phrase: What If. Autobiographical
exercise: 'Trips to the Past:' Using a foreign environment to spark and
sharpen memories of home.
Exercise 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 and how
to rekindle fearless imagination.
Fifth
day of workshop:
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. Instructor talk: How to get over creative
blocks and the fear of failure. Making our home and work environments
inspiring for the imagination.
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.
FREE DAY: Suggested
visit:
Trip to Dali Museum in Figueras.
FREE
DAY: Suggested
visit:
Trip to the medieval town of Gerona, at one time a center of Jewish mysticism
and Kabbala.
Any
Questions?
Call us at:1 (831) 915-5209
Creativity Workshop
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