Artistic Recovery: Working through Writer's Block
Length: 12x 3-hour workshops
Suitable for: Writers and artists of all levels and disciplines
Cost: $900 per person
Course Overview | Course Outline | Bookings or Enquiries
Suitable for: Writers and artists of all levels and disciplines
Cost: $900 per person
Course Overview | Course Outline | Bookings or Enquiries
Creatively blocked? Having trouble finding inspiration or doing any creative work at all? This course is for you. Drawing on the work of Julia Cameron and the basic psychology of creativity, this course aims to help participants recover their creativity and become the vibrant creative beings they are. Each week participants will learn about different aspects of their creativity, check in with themselves, and participate in activities within and outside the workshops in order to relocate their creative selves so they can continue creating.
Disclaimer: Some of the topics A. R. Levett covers in this course may be confronting to some individuals. If you feel you may have issues with some of this material, A. R. Levett recommends consulting a clinical psychologist or counsellor first and during the course because A. R. Levett is not a trained psychologist or counsellor. The course is about your personal journey and that requires that participants take responsibility for their own well-being for the duration of the course.
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Disclaimer: Some of the topics A. R. Levett covers in this course may be confronting to some individuals. If you feel you may have issues with some of this material, A. R. Levett recommends consulting a clinical psychologist or counsellor first and during the course because A. R. Levett is not a trained psychologist or counsellor. The course is about your personal journey and that requires that participants take responsibility for their own well-being for the duration of the course.
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Week 1: Recover a sense of Safety
Week 2: Recover a sense of Identity
Week 3: Recover a sense of Power
Week 4: Recover a sense of Integrity
Week 5: Recover a sense of Possibility
Week 6: Recover a sense of Abundance
Week 7: Recover a sense of Connection
Week 8: Recover a sense of Creative Strength
Week 9: Recover a sense of Compassion
Week 10: Recover a sense of Self-Protection
Week 11: Recover a sense of Autonomy
Week 12: Recover a sense of Faith
Course Outcome: To recover and understand your creative self better so you can continue to create.
For the full benefit, participants are expected to partake in directed activities outside of the workshops.
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- Identify your shadow artists
- Examine your core negative beliefs
- Uncover your affirmative weapons within
- Develop personal creative affirmations
- Learn how to use the three basic tools of creative recovery
Week 2: Recover a sense of Identity
- Learn how to go sane
- Identify poisonous playmates and crazymakers
- Overcome learnt scepticism
- Redirect your attention towards your creative life
- Learn the “Rules of the Road”
Week 3: Recover a sense of Power
- Examine the concepts of anger, synchronicity, and shame
- Learn how to deal with criticism
- Understand how to grow as an artist
Week 4: Recover a sense of Integrity
- Discover how to implement honest changes
- Explore your buried dreams
- Understand the benefits of depriving yourself of external stimulation
Week 5: Recover a sense of Possibility
- Understand your limits
- Locate the river of your creativity
- Learn our the virtue trap
- Engage with forbidden joys
- Make a wish list
Week 6: Recover a sense of Abundance
- Learn about the great creator
- Create luxury
- Discern your money making perspective
Week 7: Recover a sense of Connection
- Learn to listen out for your inner artist
- Understand the perils of perfectionism
- Discover the importance of creative risks
- Create a map of your creative jealousy
Week 8: Recover a sense of Creative Strength
- Learn how to survive creative losses and how they can become creative gains
- Examine common excuses for not doing the work
- Understand how to take recovery and projects one step at a time
- Uncover debilitating patterns from your early creative growth
Week 9: Recover a sense of Compassion
- Understand fear, enthusiasm, and creative u-turns
- Explore how to blast through creative blocks
Week 10: Recover a sense of Self-Protection
- Examine the dangers of the creative trail, including workaholism and creative drought
- Discover how to overcome creative drought
- Learn how to cope with competition and fame
Week 11: Recover a sense of Autonomy
- Learn how to cope with success
- Discover the benefits of physical activity for creativity
- Establish how to build an artist’s altar
Week 12: Recover a sense of Faith
- Learn how to trust our inner artist and the mystery of creativity
- Encourage our imagination to play
- Discern how avoid the desire to escape from our creativity
Course Outcome: To recover and understand your creative self better so you can continue to create.
For the full benefit, participants are expected to partake in directed activities outside of the workshops.
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