Creativity and Innovation

Based on the popular books The Artist’s Way and The Artist’s Way at Work: Riding the Dragon, these workshops can be short term interventions for creative individuals and intact teams or can be expanded to include full product development processes.

Training materials include published books, new field research, customized workbooks, and celebrity clips from the Public Television series The Truths of Creativity, hosted by Mark Bryan and based on new proprietary work.

These workshops are taught by Mark Bryan, co-founder with Julia Cameron of The Artist’s Way Workshops and lead author of The Artist’s Way at Work, make use of the original materials and also present a body of new experiential exercises based on new research findings about these beloved creative process and offer many effective new tools for self-realization and creativity.

The Artist’s Way books created a phenomenon, sold 2 million copies by word of mouth. Yet, it has been 20 years and we have learned much during that time from the scientific study of creativity, the social psychology of people who create, and the practical, everyday experience of the creative people and our creative clients around the world.

These workshops shed new light on the Artist’s Way process for fans or previous students and explain many things about it, including which of the tools work best, under what conditions and why as well as how new research on the art and science of creativity can dramatically improve our efforts to achieve creative goals, both personal and professional.

The process of personal evolution, like the evolution of our species, must become an on-going process if we are to arrive at old age happy and well, instead of sad and sick. This is why most of us were intuitively drawn to the original process and continue to search for ways to make our lives better.

CPG workshops help illuminate the next important steps toward fulfillment, financial success, creative expression, and psychological wholeness: All while stripping away the rumors, pseudo-science, pop-psychology, and new age mumbo jumbo that shroud the truly valuable contributions of the original texts and teaching formats.

Central Creativity Workshop Tenets

a. Creativity is teachable, trackable process. Most of us are more creative than we realize.

b. There is creativity in every walk of life: business, science, medicine and the fine arts.

c. Organizations increasingly reward creative individuals.

d. Creativity can inspire, energize and enhance optimism in any organization.
Do you or your organization need to accomplish any of the following frequent outcomes from the AWAW process? They are:

1. Initiate and complete a creative project – in business, science, and the fine arts.

2. Restructure a business, scientific or artistic career, or respond to negative market conditions.

3. Design and develop a new product, process or service.

4. Transition from one career or life phase into another.

5. Balance home life and work life for the benefit of both.

6. Accept and overcome personal loss, career disappointments or abrupt change in circumstance.

7. Find new meaning in life or in work.

8. Increase morale, attendance, and productivity in an individual, team or work force.

9. Identify new marketing, advertising or branding strategies.

10. Leverage the effects of success, wealth and/or fame.

11. Propel initial success into a career.

12. Create respectful dialogue between creative talent and business representatives.

13. Manage recovery from substance abuse, impulse or mood disorders.

14. Organize an adventurous corporate or artistic community that lives on the edge of intuition and creative advantage.

15. Work through the underlying emotions that cut productivity and damage team communication.

16. Utilize the anxiety caused by deadline pressure to produce.

17. Resolve costly conflicts on a creative project.

18. Rediscover the fun and humor in the creative process.

Final Note on Creativity Workshops

Many of us wish we were more creative. Many of us sense we are more creative--but unable to effectively tap into our full creative potential. Our dreams elude us. Sometimes our goal is career oriented – the desire for more success, new ideas for products, a strategy for dealing with a difficult boss.

Sometimes our goal concerns a specific creative longing such as learning to play the piano, paint, act, go back to school, or write. Some hunger for something still more elusive, what might be called creative living-- an expanded sense of inventiveness--in their business or family lives. Regardless of which group you find yourself in, The Artist's Way at Work is built to help you uncover and accomplish your individual creative dreams or corporate innovation goals.

For those of you unfamiliar with the books or original courses, The Artist's Way at Work, is an intensive guided encounter with your own ingenuity. It will put at your disposal a therapeutic and spiritual tool kit that will serve artist and non-artist alike. You will experience a profound encounter with your private villains, champions, wishes, fears, dreams, hopes and triumphs-- and be able to impart this experience in your career and creative endeavors.

Any good creativity process, including ours, will, like life, make you enthusiastic, happy, anxious, angry, afraid, joyous and ultimately, more free. It will, in fact, help you change your life.

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