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December 4 - 7, 2013   9:30 AM to 1:30 PM each day

The Creativity Workshop in Dubai

Long Weekend Intensive Workshop
Register Now Early registration: $200 off if you register by August 1, 2013.



Dubai

Program Overview

  • The Creativity Workshop in Dubai will help you become more creative in your personal and professional life; the creativity training we provide uses the tools of creative writing, memoir, art, photography, storytelling, mapmaking, and guided visualization.
  • Participants come from many different countries and professional fields, including business, education, psychology, the sciences, and the arts.
  • Many people who have taken the Workshop say that it was a transformative experience, helping them to write their books, start new companies, complete long overdue projects, transition to rewarding retirements, and change the way they look at life.



Program Details

  • This Long Weekend Intensive Workshop meets for 4 days, 4 hours per day (from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM). You will have the rest of the time to sightsee.
  • Class will take place in Dubai's Marina district at Marina Byblos Hotel, just a 5-minute walk from Jumeirah Beach.


Why Dubai?

Dubai
  • This vibrant international city is a place of dynamic
    contrasts, where luxurious ultramodern malls, ancient marketplaces, pristine beaches, and vast deserts live side by side.
  • Opportunities for inspiration and discovery abound, whether you use your free time to visit traditional local handcrafters in nearby Sharjah, have a moonlight picnic in the desert, hunt for bargains in the local antiques and gold markets, or go skiing on the world's tallest indoor ski slope.
  • The techniques we explore in this course will sharpen your appreciation of Dubai and its surroundings, and the sounds and sights of this fascinating city will surely feed your creative work in class. For those attendees who are from Dubai, our creativity exercises will help you look at the city and your surroundings in a whole new way.

What Will You Learn?

The Creativity Workshop is an experiential workshop 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.

More on What You Will Learn
  • Work with many different mediums to develop your creativity in your chosen medium more deeply.
  • 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.


Daily Schedule

(Order and kinds of exercises and instructors' talks may vary. Some exercises are done individually while others are collaborative.)

Dubai

Tuesday, December 3: Arrival. Free day

  • Time for you to settle in and relax.

Wednesday, December 4: First day of workshop

  • Introduction to the hows and whys of The
    Creativity Workshop.
  • Relaxation: Exercises in 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.

More on Daily Schedule


Thursday, December 5:

Dubai
  • Relaxation.
  • Guided Visualization: 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.


Dubai
Friday, December 6:

  • Guided visualization: Letter writing as a way to express voice, character, and audience.
  • Miniature Theatre: Storytelling with found objects.
  • Automatic Writing: 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.

Saturday, December 7:

Dubai
  • Guided visualization: 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:
    • 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.


Sunday, December 8: Departure



Tuition and Accommodations Packages

We offer tuition and accommodations packages for most of our workshops.

PRIVATE ROOM (4 STARS): $1,995
This package includes tuition, 5 nights hotel (with A/C) and breakfast in a private room with private bath at the Marina Byblos Hotel (4 stars).
(This package is for the nights of December 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 . You will be departing on December 8).


We have special hotel prices for participants bringing a spouse, friend or family members. Contact us for pricing.



TUITION ONLY: You can register for The Creativity Workshop and make your own housing arrangements. Contact us for pricing.

To reserve your place: we require a non-refundable $50 deposit.
To secure your place after August 15: you need to pay a deposit of $450.
After September 15: full payment is required.

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By registering you agree with our Terms and Conditions.


The Creativity Workshop will take place at the 4 star Marina Byblos Hotel adjacent to Jumeirah Beach. The rooms are air-conditioned and buffet breakfast is included. The hotel has a pool and spa service.

NOTES

1- We cannot guarantee the quality, cooling level, or functioning of the hotels' air conditioning. Air conditioning in Europe is seldom up to American standards of cool.
2- European hotel rooms tend to be smaller than American ones.


Promotions

  • $100 off each participant for groups of 3 or more people registering together. (Workshops in the United States excluded).
  • li>$50 off each participant for groups of 2 people registering together. (Workshops in the United States excluded).
  • $500 off for past participants taking the workshop for the third time or more.
  • $300 off for past participants taking the workshop for the second time.


Spouses/companions who would like to travel with their partners but do not want to attend the workshop may share a room for an additional fee.
Vacancies are limited and hotel rooms will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. We encourage early registration in order to obtain the level of accommodations you seek.


Register Now

By registering you agree with our Terms and Conditions.





“I only wish that more people could experience what you have to offer. You gave me a feeling a freedom that I NEVER felt before. Shelley and Alejandro have a great gift to share with others. They give of themselves in a way that is incredibly beautiful. Thank you for touching my soul, for helping me soar!”

Dianne Stuckey, Teacher, American School of Dubai, United Arab Emirates


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