The Creativity Workshop in Paris

Second day of workshop:

• 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 take place over the next 3 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.

Third day of workshop:

• 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

Fourth day of workshop:

• 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 Excercise.
• 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
• Cafe exercise: Writing, drawing, photographing people you find in local cafes
• The Illuminated Manuscript: A collaborative exercise in combining mediums and perspectives.

Departure