Be More Creative! Exploring and Understanding your Creative Process (SOLD OUT)

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NLP in Practice is our series of events bringing to you workshops from our PPD Learning trainers and our associates in the field to give you an experience of how people are using their NLP in practice.

Creativity can mean different things to different people, and that is the pure joy of it. If you ask an actor to describe ‘creativity’ you may get a different answer than if you asked an HR Manager. This process is a product of each individual’s map, there is no right or wrong way to ‘do’ creativity it all depends on what context you are using it for.

If you then accept the fact that there is no right or wrong way to “do” creativity, then you can start to look at each individual as being able to become a Creative Genius! It’s just a matter of helping people tap into their own creative resources. Ask yourself, what could you do if you had more creativity in your life? What would become more possible?

On this new NLP in Practice workshop Jonathan Goldsmith and Dido Fisher will be exploring what ‘creativity’ is and will give you practical tools for harnessing your creative potential.

Saturday December 3rd- Exploring and Understanding your Creative Process

‘Creativity as the conversation between the conscious and unconscious minds’

Creativity is talked about as if it exists outside of us in the real world. As any NLPer should know this is a nominalisation, we talk about it ‘as if’ it exists in the external world like a tangible thing!

Furthermore, we can often speak of creativity as an identity level statement, i.e. you either ‘are’ or ‘are not’ creative. Looking at creativity from this perspective one can understand how it appears to be something that is mysterious elusive and ‘being creative’ is the purview of a special bunch of people who identify themselves as ‘Creatives’.

Creativity exists within all of us, it is a process that we tap into whether we are aware of it or not!

The process of creativity although the form and content of which will be deeply personal and often unique to each individual is a process of building connection, and like all processes this can be modelled and taught.

On this workshop will be looking at one description for this process, which comes from Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts’ work on Generative Coaching which is that: creativity exists as the relationship between our conscious (cognitive) and unconscious (somatic) minds.

We will also give you the tools to model out your own creative processes and show you that by learning how to consciously understand your own map of your creative process and you can incorporate more creativity into your everyday life.

You’ll experience how your creative process can be ignited when your cognitive, somatic and field minds are communicating in sync and you’ll explore ways to practice this for yourself. This will give you a practical sense of being able to come up with new ideas, ‘think outside the box’ and develop new kinds of approaches to your goals, plans and projects

You’ll also experience ‘trying on’ different creative maps, utilising embodied (somatic & cognitive) metaphors, giving you the tools to enrich and expand your own creativity.

The promise of NLP, as laid out in Frogs into Princes, was to make the world a more ‘groovy’ place and by giving you the tools to be more creative in all areas of your life is fulfilling part of that promise.

What would an artist paint if they used a scientist’s map of creativity? How would your professional life benefit if you were able to bring a musicians creativity into your work?

Come along and find out!

What you you get from attending this workshop:

• An understanding that Creativity is a process that exists in relationship both internally and externally

• That by being able to practice tapping into our creative processes and you can practice being ‘more’ creative.

• That you can experience other people’s creative process to expand your current maps of what it is for you to be creative.How to create and use embodied metaphors as a way of connecting our cognitive and somatic and field minds.

• Exploring when and where you experience creativity and how this can be applied to all areas of your life, giving you more choice and flexibility when it comes to ‘doing creativity’

Tools that we will be exploring on this workshop:

• Using COACH state as a method to connect our cognitive, somatic and field mindsUsing and creating embodied metaphor (cognitive and somatic) as a way of connecting to our creativity as something that exists inside our bodies as a felt sense.

• Using Somatic Syntax to explore and express the creative process.

• Exploring other maps of creativity through metaphorical modelling, and giving you the experience of trying on each other’s models.

• Chunking up and down the experiences of trying on other maps of creativity to have access to more choice and flexibility with your own map.

• Creating a shared creative resource (a we-source).

• Giving the participants the experience of co-creating a embodied (cognitive and somatic) creative process.

• Exploring NLP 3rd Generation ‘Field mind’ tools as applied to creativityModelling across patterns of using creativity from high functioning contexts, into other areas of your life.

"think left and think right and think low and think high. oh the thinks you can think up if only you try"

Dr Seuss

Who are these workshops for?

Well the simple answer is anyone! Being able to tap into your creative process is something that will benefit all areas of your life, personal and professional.

For those of you working as coaches, therapists, trainers, leaders, you will come away with a felt sense of how to bring more creativity into your professional lives, offering you new choices when working with clients, running trainings and working with generating new ways of functioning in a highly effective in your businesses.

‘Being More Creative’ enables you to solve problems, explore new ways to come up with solutions to issues, bring new types of thinking to stuck situations, progress projects and plans, bringing a newfound sense of excitement and change back into your worlds!

You will also come away with the tools to help your own clients to explore their own creativity, and the benefits that will give them to their overall sense of well-being and self-efficacy *

For those of you that want to explore how to have more creativity in your personal lives, this will be the perfect opportunity for you to experience utilising the creative process for your own pleasure and satisfaction: is there a creative dream that you have always wanted to explore? This is the place to turn that dream into a reality!

In our work over the last few years, running workshops and creative practice groups we have worked with a hugely diverse range of people that have wanted to bring more creativity into their lives : From actors to coaches, lawyers to sculptors, parents to accountants.

No prior NLP experience is needed to attend these workshop and it is open to all levels of experience.