at the beginning of every creativity workshop that i do, i go over these simple guidelines. i find using these guidelines helps to create a space of possibility and true connection to our creativity and intuition. honouring these guidelines creates an opportunity for new creative energy and ideas to emerge. of course i will not come into your home and enforce them, but i do find that the more you can stay within these guidelines while doing you creative journaling, the more powerful the experience will be for you.
creativity workshop guidelines
1. we are here to play by staying in a playful spirit you allow your creativity to flow, when we get into perfectionism, or taking a “work-like” attitude instead of a playful one, we begin to pinch off our creativity.
2. we are here to encourage & support ourselves and others. when you are interacting with others in the workshops in the comments section, remember to be encouraging and supportive. this helps everyone feel more comfortable and safe exploring new parts of themselves and diving into exciting creative unknowns. more difficult than that – we will also want to keep our own self-talk positive and encouraging. this can heal creative wounds and allow us to soar to new creative heights.
3. value the process, not the product we are here to be in our creativity and let it flow. so we value that process and that experience and we do not focus on trying to make our creative expressions look a certain way. how it looks is irrelevant. this is not an art class, this is a creativity workshop. the more we do this the more we will value and appreciate our creative outpourings, but the focus of the workshop must remain on the process of being in our creativity and letting it flow. focus on the inside.
4. honour your intuition when it comes to how you do the workshop. your intuition is your best guide. listen to the lessons and the exercise videos, and then make any changes to the exercises that your intuition suggests. this is your time, do it your way.
i am so excited to begin. i am working on our first super fabulous creative journaling exercise and will be posting it today or tomorrow…
