March 24 - 30, 2012

Creativity Workshop in Prague

Program Overview

Prague, the city of Mozart and Kafka! The Creativity Workshop will take place within walking distance of the exquisitely preserved Old Town with its exquisite clock tower and famous Jewish synagogues and cemetery. Musical concerts and puppet theatre performances are just a few of the cultural events of this beautiful city.

Prague invites you to wander its winding, cobblestone streets aimlessly. It seems that everywhere you turn you see a jewel of Baroque or Art Nouveau architecture. Prague's old cafes are famous for their beauty, their luscious desserts, and their relaxing atmosphere. Prague's beauty and culture are perfect for inspiring the creator in you.

What will you learn?

The exercises and talks by the instructors will focus on ways to:

Learn practical techniques to stimulate creativity, imagination, and innovative thinking
Get over creative blocks, writers block, and paralyzing self criticism
Find new sources of inspiration in everyday life

Explore creativity as a way of life rather than just a product
Discover how to use your creativity for a lifetime of learning
Establish a 15 minute a day creativity practice to accomplish these goals

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.

Saturday, March 24, 2012: Arrival. Free day

Time for you to settle in and relax.

Sunday, March 25: First day of workshop

Introduction to the hows and whys of the Creativity Workshop. Exercises in relaxation technique and guided visualization.
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 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

Monday, March 26:

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.

Tuesday, March 27:

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 on-going creative work in short modules of time
How to use luck and coincidence to jump start creative projects

Wednesday, March 28:

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"

Thursday, March 29:

Guided Visualization: The Legend of the Hand.
Automatic Drawing and Writing continues with a new twist.
Cafe exercise: Writing, drawing, 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

Friday, March 30: Departure

Tuition and accommodations packages

Our tuition and accommodation packages include a wide range of possibilities.

SHARED ROOM (5 STARS): $2,000
This package includes tuition, 6 nights hotel (with A/C) and breakfast. You'll be sharing a room and bath with another workshop participant at Hotel Paris (5 stars) or similar. If you are coming alone and register for a shared room, we will assign you a roommate of the same sex.

PRIVATE ROOM (5 STARS): $2,600
This package includes tuition, 6 nights hotel (with A/C) and breakfast in a private room with private bath at Hotel Paris (5 stars) or similar

We have special hotel prices for participants bringing a spouse, friend or family members. Check with us for details and pricing.

TUITION ONLY: You can register for the Creativity Workshop and make your own housing arrangements. Check with us for details and pricing.

To reserve your place: full payment is required.

By registering you agree with our Terms and Conditions.

The Creativity Workshop in Prague will take place at Hotel Paris (5 stars), a historical monument and beautiful Art Nouveau building. The hotel is located in Prague historical center, near the Powder Tower, the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square.

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.

DISCOUNTS

$500 off for participants taking the workshop for the third time or more.
$300 off for participants taking the workshop for the second time.
$150 off each participant for groups of 4 people or more registering together. (Prague, Dubai, Crete, Barcelona, Provence and Florence workshops only).
$100 off Bring a friend to one of our Prague, Dubai, Crete, Barcelona, Provence or Florence workshops and get $100 off.
$100 off each participant for groups of 3 people registering together. (Prague, Dubai, Crete, Barcelona, Provence and Florence workshops only).
$50 off each participant for groups of 2 people registering together. (Prague, Dubai, Crete, Barcelona, Provence and Florence workshops only).

Share a double room with another workshop participant and save on the package price.
Special offers and discounts cannot be combined.

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.

By registering you agree with our Terms and Conditions.

"A new self-awareness came to light for me during the Prague Workshop, a realization that the creative and personal issues of my life were not there by accident, that they were in fact central to my growth. I reached this awareness due to the Workshop's special exercises focused on Prague. What was remote became intimate, and your view of yourself and your perception of the past, present and future is amplified."

Stephen Bracco, Freelance Writer, Brooklyn, NY

Upcoming Workshops
2012

New York March 16 - 19
Prague March 24 - 30
Dubai April 4 - 10
New York June 8 - 11
Crete June 26 - July 3
Barcelona July 5 - 12
Provence July 15 - 22
Florence July 24 - 31
New York August 17 - 20

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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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Creativity Workshop in Prague

Program Overview

What will you learn?

Daily Schedule

Tuition and accommodations packages

Jumpstart your Creativityin just 15 minutes a day

About Us

Special Information

Take a Workshop

On-Site Training

Testimonials

Pricing

Register

Contact us

Jumpstart your Creativity
in just 15 minutes a day