The Creativity Workshop

Using the Tools of Creative Writing, Memoir, Art, Photography, Storytelling and Mindfulness


The Creativity Workshop In Singapore

The Creativity Workshop In Singapore

The Creativity Workshop in Singapore is not scheduled this year.
Please see our Calendar for our current schedule.

The Creativity Workshop in Singapore 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.

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What Will You Learn?

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.

  • 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.
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Why Singapore?

This pristine city-state is home to several different cultures, making this the perfect spot to excite your imagination, as creativity flourishes in places where different traditions and histories converge.

  • Opportunities for inspiration and discovery abound in this thriving international city, whether you use your free time to visit the historic Chinese Heritage Museum, go to the beach, share breakfast with an orangutan at the renowned zoological gardens, or have a proper Victorian high tea at the elegant Raffles Hotel.
  • The techniques we explore in this creativity course will sharpen your appreciation of Singapore, and the sounds and sights of this multicultural city will surely feed your creative work in class.
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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.

  • 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.
Cathy Kee
Choreographer, Singapore, Singapore
”I had a great time at the Workshop. It made me realise that I can do more for myself and possibly influence others, as well. As I did the writing d...
Rita Haque
Branding and Marketing, Haq Centre, Singapore, Singapore
“Shelley and Alejandro take you on an adventure that ignites your creative spirit and opens you to greater choices in your life! We were encouraged ...
Nazarudin A. Bakar
Teacher, Bedok View Secondary School, Singapore
“The Workshop techniques are so simple yet, so relevant to today’s learning context. They teach how to examine the world for details, which at mos...