Workshop #2

Title: Dreaming Your Creativity Awake
Leader: Paula Chaffee Scardamalia

Description: Dreams have inspired artists and performers since the first cave paintings, yet we too often dismiss them, forget them, or ignore our most abundant creative resource. Learn a few simple techniques for recalling, recording and understanding sleep dreams and discover how accessible dreams are and the insight, guidance and inspiration this unending and ever-renewing resource can provide. Learn the basics of dream recall and recording and discover how a few techniques for using your sleeping and waking dreams can enhance your creativity and your life. Resource and dream journaling handouts included.

Paula Chaffee Scardamalia, an active dreamer since childhood, has studied dreams, especially the shamanic approach to dreams, for more than 20 years and shares her knowledge and personal experience of the power and gifts of dreams with private clients, groups and organizations across the United States. She enjoys teaching dream workshops at events such as the annual International Women's Writing Guild Conference at Skidmore College in New York since 1999 and through writing for publications like Novelist's Ink newsletter, NINK.

Workshop #3

Title: Journaling for All Creative Types
Leader: Diane Eastham

Description: Discover the secret of journaling and create a journal page tailored to fit your needs and interests. You have within you all the necessary talent and ideas, whatever your creative interests. Learn where to begin, how to conquer a blank page and then capture the wonderful array of creative ideas already streaming through you. Whether your journal work is complete by itself or gives rise to future ideas, journaling makes a solid foundation on which to build your creative practice.

Diane Eastham brings many years experience and expertise as a working artist, creativity coach, writer and educator to her classes, workshops and mentorship practice. She holds a M.Ed. from the University of Toronto and a certificate in counseling skills from Wilfrid Laurier University. She now works full-time in her creative career.

Workshop #4

Title: Your Life is A Performance: how to capitalize on performance skills in order to enhance what you already do!
Leader: Steve Harper

Description: Use the tools that trained performers rely on to make any public moment come alive. Many of us think of performance as what we see in the theatre or on screen. In truth, the rules of performing can be applied to any interaction. This workshop will walk you through a series of simple techniques you can use in one-on-one meetings and group presentations. Explore unique strategies of preparation, rehearsal, performance and post-show de-briefing. Discover how to apply those skills to the work you do. Learn ways to tap into your authentic self when you’re not alone.

Steve Harper is a professional actor, a produced playwright and a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry. Other creative adventures include producing and writing for radio and television, directing film and theatre projects, writing for print and online publication and teaching multiple disciplines. Steve is a member of the Creativity Coaching Association and a graduate of Yale, The A.R.T. Institute at Harvard, and the Juilliard playwriting program. His coaching clients range from artists and individuals facing life/work issues to corporate officers developing projects.

Workshop #5

Title: Create is a Verb- an invitation to your
intuitive mind
Leader: Stacey Rasfeld

Description: Incorporate creative expression into your daily life. Beginning with a discussion of meditative, mythological and symbolic traditions, this workshop presents helpful techniques and exercises designed to give you hands-on experience in forging a reconnection with your inner quiet. The activities will stimulate your intuitive mind through the use of simple tools and exert your right brain for a burst of single-minded focus, “single-tasking” to accesses your creative self via small actions. You will learn how to slip a creative jolt into any day.

Stacey Rasfeld of Los Angeles, CA, artist, author and creativity coach, originally trained as a musician, and expanded gradually over two decades into the visual arts. Drawing heavily upon her experience in several mediums, she has worked with a variety of clients during the past eight years, coaching individuals, facilitating staff retreats and leading group workshops. She leads workshops that focus on series of multi-disciplinary sessions layered with exercises designed to enhance participants’ creative fluidity, body-mind integration and overall wellness.

Workshop #6

"Mining" Your Creativity Every Day
Leader: Nellie Jacobs

Description: Ignite spontaneous, flexible thinking. This workshop offers ideas to ignite imagination and immediate actions to boost creativity. Through examples and exercises, participants are encouraged to analyze and let go of personal restrictions and take a fresh look at themselves, their environment, procedures, patterns and approach, while exploring the deepest regions of their creative core -- the place within us where imagination, passion, and creativity meet … and soar.

Nellie Jacobs, a Canadian creativity coach, loves to share techniques to effectively "mine" and stimulate personal creativity. She's an award-winning artist and former kindergarten teacher who practices what she preaches, drawing from her daily experiences. Featured by International media while a stay-at-home mom raising four children, Nellie co-founded mothers and tots "Creating Together" programs; co-published MAMMA, a quarterly newspaper with subscribers worldwide; co-developed and hosted a weekly phone-in interview TV show; co-produced mini-conferences; acquired a communication degree; and became a best-selling author.

Workshop #7

Title: Experience Creative Abundance Now
– It's Your Birthright
Leader: Dave Storer

Description: We are all born with creative abilities and few things make us happier. It is our birthright! The choice to create is ours. No one has the power or authority to stop us. Learn 10 tips to creative abundance right now. Fully occupy this creative moment and immerse yourself in the creative work you've always dreamed of doing. No one but you can stop you!

Dave Storer of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a CCA certified creativity coach, teaches others how to create from their authentic core through classes, workshops and individual coaching. His experience as a fiction writer and his education, with degrees in English, Biology and Technical Writing, give him a unique perspective on the inner workings of creation – how to embrace the process, and give voice to our deepest, truest selves. Through marketing his practice, he has learned vividly the power of telling our own, authentic stories.

Workshop #8

Title: Create Word-of-Mouth Buzz about You!
Leader: Melissa A. Rosati

Description: Are you puzzled by the apparent overnight successes of books, movies or art exhibits? Does the techno-gobbledygook language of 'viral marketing' confuse you? In this workshop you learn how word-of-mouth, the oldest and boldest form of human communication is still the most valuable communication tool, especially for writers, artists and performers. Learn to create a plan for yourself that's easy, fun and effective.

Melissa A. Rosati, CPCC, is a creativity coach, writer, and speaker who works with artists, writers and entrepreneurs. Recognized for her marketing expertise, Melissa is an Advisory Board Member for the Independent Press Center. As a faculty member, she leads marketing seminars for global publishing professionals who attend the International Publishing Institute, Pace University, New York City, where she also teaches graduate-level courses in marketing. She is a Premier Coach with the Women's Mentor Network and a member of the International Coach Federation.

Workshop #9

Title: A Creative in Business: You as the Hero on
This Journey
Leader: Beth Barany

Description: Start from where you are. This first stage of the hero's journey, as inspired by Carl Jung and by Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, will be the focus. Using personal assessment and validation, we will address the criteria for evaluating your creative vocation as a business. What are your creative and entrepreneurship abilities? How do you get both working for you today at optimal levels? Leave this workshop with a unique "next step" and new understanding of the Artist Entrepreneur.

Beth Barany, a CCA certified creativity coach, helps creative individuals become the hero of their book writing adventure. A fiction and nonfiction writer, Beth has worked in the book industry for over 20 years: in libraries and bookstores, as a book publicist, book reviewer, journalist, editor and book layout artist. As a sole proprietor and entrepreneur, she has channeled her passion for writing, books, and the creative process into a business, balancing the demands of her writing career with that of her coaching and consulting business.