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The Creativity Workshop in New York

June 8 - 11 at our Meta Center location - 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM
August 17 - 20 at our Meta Center location - 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM
October 19 - 22 at our One Columbus Place location - 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM

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Program Overview

The Creativity Workshop in New York City will help you get more creative in your personal and professional life. To this end, the Workshop uses the tools of creative writing, memoir, art, photography, storytelling, mapmaking, and guided visualization. New York City is famous for its museums, cultural life, shopping and restaurants. It is a great place to recharge your energy and find inspiration.

The Workshop meets for 3 hours a day. You will have the rest of the time to wander around the city.

The Creativity Workshop is attended by people from many different countries and professions, including business, education, psychology, the sciences and the arts.

Experts agree that creativity is key to success in all professions. It also helps individuals feel more fulfilled, relaxed, and happier.

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Many people who have taken The Creativity Workshop say that it was an essential and transformative experience. It helped them write their books, start new companies, complete long overdue projects, transition to rewarding retirements, and change the way they look at life.

The techniques we explore in class will sharpen your appreciation of New York and the sounds and sights of this dynamic city will surely feed your creative work in class.


What will you learn?

The Creativity Workshop is an experiential workshop of doing and experimenting. You will go straight to the source of your imagination and outrun creative blocks and negative self criticism. The Workshop's exercises, techniques and instructor talks are focused on helping you:

  • Learn practical techniques to stimulate your creativity and imagination
  • Get in touch with the innate creativity you already have
  • Explore creativity as a way of life: a process rather than just a product
  • Find inspiration in the world around you
  • Get over creative blocks and the fear of failure
  • Learn how to make time in your life for creative work
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  • Engage your curiosity every day
  • Work with many different mediums to more deeply develop your creativity in your chosen medium
  • Use your memories to engage your imagination
  • Discover how to use your creativity for a lifetime of learning
  • Give yourself the time, permission, and nourishment to do the creative projects you love
  • Establish a 15 minute a day creativity practice to accomplish these 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.)

Day 1:

  • 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 exercise: 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.

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Day 2:

New York
  • Relaxation.
  • Guided Visualization: Map-making 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 mind 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 on-going creative work in short modules of time.
    • How to use luck and coincidence to jump start creative projects.


New York
Day 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.

Day 4:

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



College Credit Availability for our Workshops in New York

You can receive certificates of attendance, CEUs or college credits for attending our workshops. Certificates of attendance and CEUs are available at no additional charge.
You can earn 1 to 3 graduate or undergraduate university credits for taking The Creativity Workshop. College Credits involve a fee from the granting university.
The credits are issued by the University of Arizona.

Contact us for details


Tuition Fee

$850
To reserve your place for our New York workshop in June full payment is required at this time.
To reserve your place for our New York workshops in August and October we require a non-refundable $50 deposit at this time.
Full payment is required 90 days before the workshop begins.


Hotel Suggestions in New York

We do not offer hotel packages for our New York City workshops.
Here are our suggestions for hotels in New York.

Hotels within a 10-minute walk from the Meta Center location






























Holiday Inn Express NYC - Manhattan W.29th St (1 block from Meta Center)
232 West 29th St
(212) 695-7200
4 stars

Senton Hotel
39 W 27th St, New York, NY
(212) 684-5800
1 star

Hotel Pennsylvania
401 7th Ave, New York, NY
(212) 736-5000
2 stars

Regency Inn & Suites
215 W 34th St
(212) 947-5050
2 stars

Chelsea Star Hotel
300 W 30th St
(212) 465-8664
3 stars

Manhattan Inn Hostel
303 W 30th St
(212) 629-4064
3 stars

Affinia Manhattan
371 7th Ave
(212) 563-1800
4 stars

Four Points By Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea
160 West 25th St
(212) 627-1888
4 stars

Hampton Inn Manhattan-Madison Square Garden Area
116 West 31st St
(212) 947-9700
4 stars



Hotels within a 10-minute walk from One Columbus Place location






























Holiday Inn New York City Midtown 57th Street
440 W 57th St
(800) 315-2621
3 stars

Ameritania Hotel New York
230 W 54th St
(800) 894-0680
3 stars

Skyline Hotel
725 10th Ave
(212) 586-3400
3 stars

Salisbury Hotel
123 W 57th St
(212) 246-1300
3 stars

Amsterdam Court Hotel
226 W 50th St
(800) 894-0680
3 stars

Wellington Hotel
871 Seventh Ave
(212) 247-3900
3 stars

Hampton Inn Times Square North
851 8th Ave
(212) 581-4100
3 stars

The Moderne
243 W 55th St
((212) 397-6767
3,5 stars

Novotel New York - Times Square
226 W 52nd St
(212) 315-0100
3,5 stars

Hudson Hotel
356 W 58th St
(212) 554-6000
4 stars

Park Central New York Hotel
870 7th Ave
(212) 247-8000
4 stars

Mandarin Oriental, New York
80 Columbus Circle at 60th St
(212) 805-8800
5 stars



Low budget hotels in New York, not within a 10-minute walk from where our workshops are held

Not all of these low budget hotels are within walking distance to where the workshop is held. Prices may vary depending on seasons and availability.

Leo House
332 W 23rd St
(212) 366-0100

YMCA New York
224 East 47th St
(212) 371-9713

Hotel Thirty Thirty
30 East 30th Street
(800) 804-4480

Bowery's Whitehouse Hotel of NY
340 Bowery
(212) 477-5623

Educational Housing Services
31 Lexington Ave
(800) 385-1689

Aladdin Hotel and Hostel
230 West 54th St
(212) 977-5700

Big Apple Hostel
119 West 45th St
(212) 302-2603

Chelsea International Hostel
251 West 20th St
(212) 647-0010

Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th St
(212) 545-8000

Jazz Hostels
36 West 106th St
(212) 932-1600

Central Park Hostel & Inn
19 West 103rd Street
(212) 678-0491




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The Workshop enabled me to be a stronger instructional leader. I encourage educational leaders to attend The Creativity Workshop with fellow school administrators. It has helped us be supportive of each other as we implement new curriculum and instructional strategies. The Workshop experience was enlightening for my professional understanding of the creativity journey and enhanced my understanding of students' writing process.”

Anna Marie Erbes, Principal, St. Paul Public School District, MN


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  • Barcelona July 5 - 12
  • Provence July 15 - 22
  • Florence July 24 - 31
  • New York August 17 - 20
  • New York October 19 - 22
  • Dubai December 5 - 10
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