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INTIMATE WORKSHOPS IN GREAT LOCATIONS San Francisco Deep Writing Workshop
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If you know my books A Writer’s Paris and A Writer’s San Francisco, you know that I believe one of the best ways to fall back in love with your creative work is to periodically take a certain sort of vacation, not from your work but with your work. My workshops are designed as that sort of working vacation, where part of each day is spent deeply involved in creating and part of each day is available for wandering, dreaming, renewing, and just being. |
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San Francisco DEEP WRITING WORKSHOP Come spend a week in San Francisco learning the principles and practices of deep writing and spend the lion’s share of your time actually writing. You’ll write often and for varying lengths of time and in the process experience your connection to your writing deepen. You are encouraged to check in and report what shifts you’re noticing in yourself and in your writing but there are no critiques and no reading aloud of work. Having chosen your focus for the week and having made your commitment, you will relearn how much your writing matters to you and make real progress on your chosen writing project. For writers of every level of experience and suitable whether you want to work on a current project or whether you want to start a new one—with San Francisco as your muse. You will have plenty of time to explore San Francisco and the Bay Area, as the workshop runs from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. each day. In the afternoon visit Golden Gate Park, North Beach, the Valencia corridor, The Legion of Honor, the newly redone De Young Museum, or take the ferry to Sausalito or Angel Island. Continue your writing at a café or wine bar, shop at the Galleria complex, or wander the waterfront Embarcadero. Not only will you connect deeply with your writing, you will enjoy one of America’s favorite cities. For more information and to register, contact Eric.
PLAY DATE IN San Francisco WORKSHOP Come spend a week in San Francisco renewing your creative juices and reconnecting with your creative spirit. We will work and play as we wander the parks and cafes of San Francisco writing, drawing, composing, chatting, strolling and having the creative time of our lives. If you've wanted to sketch in San Francisco, one of America’s most beautiful cities, but never quite got it together to come, this is the unworkshop for you. If you've wanted to sip a little wine, eat a little cheese, and picnic in one of San Francisco’s parks as you scribble notes for your screenplay, this is the unworkshop for you. We will spend the first hour each day chatting about important matters like how to build your creativity practice, how to manage your mind in the service of your creative life, and how to deal with the everyday challenges of creating. Then we'll grow quiet and write, sketch, compose, people-watch, daydream, and enjoy both our efforts and the sights of San Francisco around us. Isn't this the unworkshop you've always dreamed of attending? For artists in any discipline and every level of experience. You will have plenty of time to explore San Francisco and the Bay Area, as the workshop runs from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. each day. In the afternoon visit Golden Gate Park, North Beach, the Valencia corridor, The Legion of Honor, the newly redone De Young Museum, or take the ferry to Sausalito or Angel Island. Continue your writing at a café or wine bar, shop at the Galleria complex, or wander the waterfront Embarcadero. Not only will you connect deeply with your art, you will enjoy one of America’s favorite cities. For more information and to register, contact Eric You can take either one of these workshops or both of them. Workshop enrollment is limited to 16, so register early. Wherever you are on your creative journey, these workshops will serve you beautifully—and so will San Francisco!
TAOS DEEP WRITING WORKSHOP Come spend a week in Taos learning the principles and practices of deep writing and spend the lion’s share of your time actually writing. You will write often and for varying lengths of time and in the process experience your connection to your writing deepen. You are encouraged to check in and report what shifts you’re noticing in yourself and in your writing but there are no critiques and no reading aloud of work. Having chosen your focus for the week and having made your commitment, you will relearn how much your writing matters to you and make real progress on your chosen writing project. For writers of every level of experience and suitable whether you want to work on a current project or whether you want to start a new one—with Taos as your muse. The workshop will be held at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, a retreat center that is wonderfully evocative and secluded and also just a short walk from the Taos Plaza. It is a beautiful spot with a long artistic and intellectual tradition where the likes of Georgia O’Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, Anselm Adams, Martha Graham and Carl Jung have stayed and where workshops are regularly held throughout the year. Once you take a peek at it, you’ll be hard pressed not to sign up immediately! For more information or to register, please contact Viv Nesbitt. NOTE: This workshop can be taken in conjunction with the Taos Creativity for Life weekend workshop. ** WEEKEND WORKSHOPS CREATIVITY COACHING WEEKEND AT ITP The first weekend of every March I teach the creativity coaching component of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology’s Transformational Coaching Training Certificate Program. In 2008 the dates will be March 1 and March 2 at ITP’s campus in Palo Alto, California. Over the course of the weekend I’ll teach the basics of creativity coaching, do live coaching sessions, and facilitate role plays and exercises. You’re welcome to participate whether or not you are enrolled in the Transformational Coaching training group. For more information or to register, please contact Dr. Rosie Kuhn, director of the Transformational Coaching Training Certificate Program. CREATIVITY FOR LIFE WORKSHOP IN TAOS Another annual event is my Fall weekend workshop in Taos, New Mexico, sponsored by Vivian Nesbitt and John Dillon, the creators and hosts of Art of the Song Creativity Radio. In this lively workshop you’ll learn important guiding principles for creators that include creating in the middle of things, achieving a centered presence, and committing to goal-oriented process. You’ll learn how to get a mental grip as you reduce negative self-talk, eliminate dualistic thinking, manage anxiety, and promote healthy habits of mind. You’ll also learn effective ways of maintaining a creative life through mindful choosing, appropriate planning, and passionate meaning-making. By the end of the workshop you’ll have deepened your connection to your art, equipped yourself to handle the obstacles and challenges that you face as a creative person, and prepared yourself to create more regularly and more passionately. Excellent for artists in any discipline, it is also a great opportunity for coaches, helping professionals, and other interested individuals to learn more about creativity and creativity coaching.Taos is an active art colony, with hundreds of craftspeople and artists showing their creations in the galleries that surround the beautiful downtown plaza. The workshop will be held at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, a retreat center that is wonderfully evocative and secluded and also just a short walk from the Taos Plaza. It is a beautiful spot with a long artistic and intellectual tradition where the likes of Georgia O’Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, Anselm Adams, Martha Graham and Carl Jung have stayed and where workshops are regularly held throughout the year. Once you take a peek at it, you’ll be hard pressed not to sign up immediately! For more information or to register, please contact Viv Nesbitt. NOTE: This workshop can be taken in conjunction with the Taos Deep Writing Workshop. What Creativity for Life workshop “I loved this workshop. You have a talent for guiding artists through the maze that is the creative process. Just when I thought I’d learned everything from your books, this workshop added clarity and cohesion to your message.” “A friend who knows me well said, ‘You don’t need a workshop in creativity!!’ As it turned out, this workshop is not about creativity alone but about how to manage your days, weeks, years and personality—and how to survive and thrive in your creative life. Contrary to my friend’s advice, I needed this workshop more than anything at this point in my career. Thank you, Eric!” “What a gift to myself—this weekend with other creative souls and a teacher who really understands us just the way we are—because he’s a creative soul, too! I found support for going where I’ve always wanted to go—inside me. Your workshop is a tremendous resource for the creative person!” “I have taken your workshops online and coached with you on the phone but nothing compares with the experience of these two days in Taos. The personal contact and the great group dynamic made for an inspiring weekend, learning about the process of creating meaning in my work. You are a real gift to me professionally and personally. Thank you!!” “This workshop has been a godsend for me in affirming myself more deeply as an artist. Creativity for Life will be my new motto. You are an inspiration beyond my expectations. The workshop was thorough and enlightening and I can hardly wait to get home and get to work. Thank you so much!” “Your workshop is the beginning of a breakthrough for me. I finally feel that I have the ideas and tools to bring my creative work to life. You created a very warm and inviting atmosphere where we could safely discover how to maximize our creative potential. It was a tremendous experience. Thank you so much!” ** In January, 2008 I’ll be participating, along with a dozen other experts, in a week-long teleconference for visual artists. This reasonably priced conference attracts great industry professionals and provides a lot of rich content that you can access from the comfort of your home. Click here for details. ** WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, AND CHATS I present a variety of workshops, lectures, and chats suitable for a multitude of settings. I can work with your university counseling staff and teach them creativity coaching techniques. I can come to your school and present a “creativity across the curriculum” workshop. I can present centering techniques based on my book Ten Zen Seconds at an in-service training or business meeting. I can work with groups of musicians on performance anxiety issues. I can lecture on creativity coaching, the art of the nonfiction book proposal, mindfulness techniques for the creative person, and other subjects—let’s figure out what’s most useful for your group. I’ve presented lectures, workshops, and chats at the following venues and many others: • Romance Writers of America annual conference Let’s find the right lecture, workshop or chat for your setting. Just contact me. Are you someone in Barcelona, Dublin, Prague, Hong Kong, Aspen, Maui, or some other intriguing location (and what location isn’t intriguing in its own way?) who is familiar with sponsoring workshops and would like to host one of my workshops?—or someone who would like to give sponsoring a workshop a try? Let’s put a 2008 or 2009 workshop together! Just drop me an email. We can do a week-long workshop, a weekend workshop, or anything we dream up! |
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