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March 31 - April 6, 2014 9 AM to 12:30 PM each day

The Creativity Workshop in Dublin

Register NowEarly registration: $200 off if you register by December 20, 2013.


Dublin

Program Overview

  • The Creativity Workshop in Dublin 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

  • The Creativity Workshop in Dublin meets for 5 days, 3 1/2 hours per day (from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM). You will have the rest of the time free to sightsee.
  • Class will take place at the O’Callaghan Alexander Hotel in central Dublin, close to Trinity College and Grafton Street, which is known for its fashionable shops and street performers called “buskers.”


Why Dublin?

Dublin
  • Rich with culture, Dublin is famous for
    its writers, such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as well as for traditional Irish music.
  • This vibrant city of green parks, vast museums, and historic landmarks is wonderfully compact, conducive to strolling around and relaxing. The fine Georgian area, as typified by Merrion and Fitzwilliam Squares, is only a short walk from the famous St. Stephen’s Green.
  • Just half an hour from the city center, you will find mountain walks, stately homes and gardens, sandy beaches, and charming fishing villages.
  • At night, the city comes alive with everything from trendy cafe bars along the cobblestone streets of the area called Temple Bar to the more traditional Dublin pub.
  • The techniques we explore in this creativity course will heighten your appreciation of Dublin and its surroundings, while the sounds and sights of this beautiful locale will help spark your creative work in class.


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

Here is a sampling of just some of the exercises and techniques we will be working with in class. Participants tell us the time in workshop seems to fly by. The order and kinds of exercises and the instructors' talks may vary. Some exercises are done individually while others are collaborative.

Dublin

Monday, March 31, 2014: Arrival. Free day

  • Time for you to settle in and relax.

Tuesday, April 1: 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 excercise: Finding your 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


Wednesday, April 2:

Dublin
  • 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.


Dublin
Thursday, April 3:

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


Friday, April 4:

Dublin
  • Guided Visualization: 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”

Saturday, April 5:

  • Guided Visualization: The Legend of the Hand.
  • Automatic Writing and Drawing continues with a new twist.
  • Cafe exercise: Writing about, drawing, and photographing people you find in local cafes.
  • The Illuminated Manuscript: A collaborative exercise in combining mediums and perspectives.
  • Instructors' talk 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, April 6: Departure

 


Tuition and Accommodations Packages

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

PRIVATE ROOM (4 STARS): $2,850
This package includes tuition, 6 nights hotel (with A/C) and breakfast in a private room with private bath at O’Callaghan Alexander Hotel (4 stars).

This package is for the nights of March 31, April 1 , 2, 3, 4, and 5. You will be departing on April 6.)

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

To reserve your place: we require a non-refundable $50 deposit.
To secure your place after December 20: you need to pay a deposit of $450.
After January 20: full payment is required.

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

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By registering you agree with our Terms and Conditions.


The Creativity Workshop will take place at O’Callaghan Alexander Hotel (4 stars).

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

Save money on packages for The Creativity Workshop.

Offers are not combinable with any others. These offers do not apply to our Workshops in New York and Singapore.

  • $700 off for participants taking the workshop for the third or more times. (Offer does not apply to Workshops in New York and Singapore.)

  • $500 off for participants taking the workshop for the second time. (Offer does not apply to Workshops in New York and Singapore.)

  • $150 off each participant for groups of 4 people or more registering together. (Offer does not apply to Workshops in New York and Singapore.)

  • $100 off your registration if you bring a friend to other than New York or Singapore. (The $100 off will be credited to you after your friend pays for the full tuition.)

  • $100 off each participant for groups of 3 people registering together. (Offer does not apply to Workshops in New York and Singapore.)

  • $50 off each participant for groups of 2 people registering together. (Offer does not apply to Workshops in New York and Singapore.)


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.

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“The Workshop was a wonderful celebration of our individual possibilities. Everyone jumped in wholeheartedly and supported each other's undertakings. One of the biggest surprises was the effect of drawing on my work and life. I'm one of those non- drawing people, but as I sketched, it helped me to see more and more. I can't wait to take the Workshop again. It is food for life.”

Stephanie Satie, Actress and Playwright, Los Angeles
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