Workshops

We are all creative, as individuals, we all have our own unique sources of inspiration. We just need to discover it, find out what it means to us, and learn how to apply it through creative expression.

Creative Workshops are an opportunity for us to explore our inner creative, by learning new skills, techniques, methods, and applications. We are given the freedom to be inspired, take part in an activity, have fun and experience using practical creativity as a form of purposeful self expression and representation.

Whatever inspires us personally, can be interpreted in many different ways through creativity. We can set our own boundaries and utilise the resources available to us. By exploring, we can discover new ways to express ourselves, and develop new skills that represent our thoughts, feelings, ideas and emotions.

Creativity is an informed expression of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. It can bring out the best in us by exploring our inner freedom and discovering many ways to interpret this. Through visual, applied, and performing arts, we are able to achieve this, both physically and mentally. By taking an intuitive, imaginative, and uninhibited approach, we can express ourselves freely with effective results.

If we consider “Mindful Creativity”, and how it can be used to apply focus, freedom, inspiration, and expression, we begin to understand the importance of the need for a relaxed approach to aid creativity. Relaxation will enable us to balance our thoughts, feelings, and emotions, which will result in ordered creativity. Although this is the case, random creativity and impulsive forms of expression, can be as equally effective and justified!

Being creative is often associated with artistic flair and abilities manifesting as a visual form or creation. However, having an idea or a vision can be interpreted in many different ways, and applied using a variety of strategies - you don't have to be an artist to be creative! Most professions and businesses require a strategy and plan of action. By merging emotion and logic, creative strategists; or creative thinkers, will take ideas, then develop appropriate and realistic strategies. These are usually based on partnerships between, dreaming and doing, theory and reality. The mind is very active and adaptable, when our minds conceive, it is important to allow for “head space” to make sense of an idea or concept, recognise patterns, then translate the patterns into actionable ideas, identified by visual representation.

Whatever form our creativity takes, there is common ground; a process, adaptation, recognition, freedom of expression, and representation. Through “Mindful Creativity”, we can practice how to translate our ideas and concepts into reality, achieved by learning new skills, techniques, methods, and applications, then implementing them.

“Creative workshops are intended to bring out the artist in us all”