Creativity Workshop

The Creativity Workshop, an enticing program of writing, drawing, storytelling and memoir offered over 4 days in New York City and Carmel, CA or 8 days in Europe. Creativity is a talent we are all born with. But it needs practice to stay vibrant and grow. Created in 1993, the creativity workshop is taught worldwide by instructors, Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel. The Creativity Workshop's goal is to help individuals believe in and develop their creative process through exercises intended to become the tools for a lifetime. The end product is expanded perception, innovative problem solving, and ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative. Participants taking the Creativity Workshop can obtain up to 3 graduate or undergraduate credit hours. Many of the teachers obtain credits to be applied to their Continuing Education or Teacher Development requirements.

We started the workshop in 1993 after many years of teaching in a traditional University setting. We felt there were a lot of programs that taught techniques of creative expression, but very few that focused on the creative process itself. We decided to provide a workshop that spoke to that neglected area. From our experience as educators, thinkers, and artists we developed a unique series of exercises dedicated to inspiring and keeping alive the life of the imagination.

We teach from the point of view that people are by nature creative and that creativity, like DNA, is unique in each individual. To access and develop creativity, our workshops use exercises in: sense perception, free form writing and drawing, associative thinking, map-making, constructive daydreaming, and sensitivity to our environment.

Workshop tools are simple: pad, paper, and you Requirements are curiosity and a desire to explore the creative abilities. We also work with learning to recognize and trust your imagination's instincts, trusting your process, combating debilitating self-criticism and the fear of failure that lead to creative blocks.

Our exercises are broad paradigms that each participant can easily tailor to her/ his own goals, whether it be a particular specialty or life in general.

We believe that creativity is best served in a playful, nurturing, and non-competitive environment where freedom and focus go hand in hand. We concentrate on creative process rather than product and on the idea of creativity as a way of viewing and appreciating life.

We designed the workshop to help you: find new sources of inspiration, break through creative blocks, take pleasure in your imagination, discover images from your unconscious, give yourself the permission, time, and encouragement to do creative work, and develop a daily practice to accomplish these goals.

And, most important of all, like the imagination itself, the Creativity Workshop is fun.

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Head Office 25475 Rio Vista Dr Carmel CA 93923 USA

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