LITERATURE

Dorota Stańczyk

  • Session 1: Conscious Creativity

    This immersive talk explores the power of creativity; how to access our imagination and stimulate our deeper thinking, leading to greater productivity and satisfaction. The training can include: the science behind flow states, creativity and mindfulness, improvisation and creative work that will unlock greater self-expression and authenticity, heuristics technique exercises that will improve abstraction operations, deductive & inductive reasoning, metaphorical thinking.

  • Session 2: Re-Invent Who You Are - Discover the Power of Self-Perception

    Discover and eliminate your hidden beliefs, self-limiting perceptions and self-sabotaging programs to allow you to see yourself from different perspectives and increase your self-esteem, confidence and self-trust. You will be guided through emotional blockages and learn to express a deeper and more authentic version of yourself, allowing to reach greater alignment and to be a greater leader.

  • Session 3: Inner Wellbeing

    Taking the time to look after your emotional and physical well-being is essential to us all if we want to reach our full personal and professional potential. Learn about Neuroscience and your brainwaves. Learn how to use simple, daily techniques to centre yourself and keep your mind and body calm, recognise signs that you need to prioritise your well-being, and how to manage that process, and implement healthy habits to reach your happiest self.

Renaldo Lawrence

  • Session 1: That Single Thought That You Just Let Pass, Could Have Been Your Path to Happiness

    Each one of us have thought each and everyday that comes in and out of our heads. If someone across the room from you died within 20 minutes of you meeting them, it changes your perspective.

  • Session 2: Today Your Life is Determined by How You Treat the Next Person

    In this session Renaldo will talk about how every interaction with another human being could and should be special.

  • Session 3: Your Dreams are Determined by Your Daily Thoughts

    In this session, Renaldo will talk about his life treating hernia operation that allowed him to realise not only his value to the world but how it is important that you understand yours.

Richard Krueger

  • The Deep Un-Regarded River of Our Life: Creativity & Uncertainty

    Creativity is important because it casts us into uncertainty. Life is uncertain. So. Through creativity we grasp at the life force. Death is certain. When we grasp at habits, routines, or stay exclusively within the frame of existing logic we grasp at death. And yet, while creative individuals do express a desire to grasp at the life force by examining that which they do not understand, they also struggle with the uncertainty associated with such acts. The lecture will examine uncertainty as vital to creative acts, and also provide ways for thinking about and managing the uncertainty that often plagues creative minds.

  • Vital Ambiguity: Thoughts on the Power of Ambiguity

    It could be said that a successful artwork is one where the different strands of interpretation – ie: the ambiguities - add up, multiply or complement one another, (not unlike Aristotle's "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts") as opposed to subtracting from or detracting from one another. Nevertheless, as creative individuals we must often consider the difference between productive ambiguity and ambiguity that dilutes the power of a poetic expression. The lecture will consider both forms and provide means for considering the power of ambiguity.

Soren Stockman

  • The Artist as Maker vs. the Artist as Vessel

    Earlier civilizations viewed the artist as a vessel by which human beings could communicate emotions, which were considered the ultimate origin point of art. Over subsequent centuries, an idea of the artist as the ultimate authority and point of origin has coalesced into the trope of the "tortured artist" toiling to plumb the depths of the soul. This leaves an essential question: do we make art, or do we channel art? What are the implications for the creative process?

Joel McKerrow

  • When Inspiration Has Left the Building… (A creative process for all seasons of the creative life).

    Join creativity specialist Joel McKerrow as he takes us through his own creative process from finding inspiration to pushing past creative blocks to the construction of something to be proud of. This session will certainly help you find your creative flow but even better than that…it will help you create anyways, even when the flow has all but dried.