The workshops

March 9th-13th

Cynthia Morris will do a 5-day workshop called  Sketch Crawl: Capture Your London in Words and Images

We’ll make our way through London, pausing for brief word or drawing sketches. Learn how to interact with a place in a more meaningful and fun way. Develop the ability to create quickly and on site. You can then use these skills and the confidence you gain to make progress on any creative project.

 

9:00 – 1:00 Monday through Thursday

9:00 – 12:00 Friday

 

 

Gather the world in your journal. Using quick sketches of words and drawings, you’ll explore London from the artist’s eye. We’ll scout for the marvelous and the mundane and bring it to the page.

 

Interacting with the city in this way sharpens your perception, develops your awareness, and enhances your ability to translate inspiration to the page. For creative professionals and amateurs alike, this creative urban excursion will refresh the creative spirit.

 

On the first four days, we’ll foray into London. Most of our expeditions will be inside, but if there’s fine weather, we’ll seize the opportunity to enjoy London’s vibrant street life. We’ll visit the Tate Modern, get a bird’s eye view from the London Eye, and explore London via the page.

 

At the end of our sessions, we’ll gather in a café or pub to share our findings. On the last day, we’ll meet to discuss what we’ve learned and how to take the gleanings back to our work, art and lives.

 

Coach, writer and creative traveler Cynthia Morris has lead Sketch Crawls in Paris, Lisbon, Arles, Denver and Boulder, and loves seeing creativity sparked through a direct conversation with the urban environment. No creative writing or drawing experience is necessary.

 

For inspiration pre-Sketch Crawl, read An Illustrated Life and Every Day Matters, both by Danny Gregory. Bring a notebook you can sketch in easily, drawing and writing utensils (one pen and pencil should do it). No cameras, please.

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Eric Maisel will do a workshop called Deep Writing.

Write deeply under the guidance of Eric Maisel, best-selling author and America’s foremost creativity coach. Learn essential skills that will help you connect with your writing and improve your writing practice. Time is devoted to writing, not critiquing, as you settle in to write and learn valuable lessons: how to quiet your mind so that you can access your best writing; how to strongly hold the intention to write no matter what else is going on in your life; how to honor the creative process; and how to get out of your own way so that your writing flows more easily and naturally.

  A DEEP WRITING WORKSHOP participant explained:

 “Fifteen of us gathered in Edmonton, Alberta for a Deep Writing Workshop. We ranged from beginning writers to published authors, with participants working on fiction, creative non-fiction, personal essays, memoirs, spiritual reflections and stage plays. Eric presented principles and practices of deep writing throughout the week but the lion’s share of the time was spent actually writing. We wrote often and for varying lengths of time, from 15 minutes to over two hours. By so doing we had the visceral experience of ‘honoring the process,’ a fundamental principle. 

“We learned how much writing we could do, even in a small amount of time, when we were able to ‘drop everything that interferes with writing’ and have our whole brain available to us. We were challenged to dispute our negative self-talk about ‘not having enough time to write’ and learned that when life gives you a moment,  ‘return to your writing.’ 

“Unlike many writing courses, we did not read our writing aloud. There were no critiques. We were encouraged to write in order to honor our own process. We made our writing matter to us. We checked in regularly to report what shifts we were noticing in ourselves and in our writing. We left feeling the good tired of having really written and pleased with what we had experienced. A community of writers had formed in that week and some of the connections are bound to continue.”