Last week I posted information about Lisa Sonora Beam’s retreat and a few weeks ago I reviewed her book The Creative Entrepreneur. Lisa is also offering two summer on-line workshops (summer camps):
PowerFULL Magical Visual Journals: a creative process that can change your life (seriously!)
Most creatives suffer from split brains, and often spend their lives wondering what’s wrong with them. But the split brain syndrome is not only found in creatives, the traditionally educated engineers, managers, MBAs etc. also suffer from the same syndrome. The symptoms of Split Brain Syndrome are a limited ability to integrate both the logical and the creative, in other words a lack of whole brain perception.
Designed to provide similar material and guidance as the live version this class will be an online workshop that includes:
- 90 minute self-paced mp3 tutorial
- Full-color course workbook loaded with examples and visual journal prompts
- Access to private workshop discussion forum moderated by Lisa Sonora Beam
In the Power Visual Journaling workshop you will learn:
- The secrets to creating a journal you will actually work in and use regularly
- All about art supplies: the best, cheapest, funnest— and most meaninigful— ways to incorporate imagery into your journal
- Ways of dealing with procrastination, self-criticism, judgments and other emotions that keep us from not working
- How deal with wanting your pages to look “artistic” and still get your rough ideas down. Yes, you can have both!
- All about writing: what to write, when to write, how to write and layer images—learn the techniques that work for you
- How to return to your journal after an absence
- Ways of finding support and comraderie for your creative process that support your ways of working
- What we mean by “Secret”: Surprising and fun ways of getting your ideas out without fear of prying eyes
- How to integrate your practices: What about morning pages, dream journals, gratitude journals and other stuff?
What you’ll get
These are incredibly powerful practices that align your conscious and subconscious mind, and make the most of your left and right brain strengths. We will practice and apply these tools using fun, engaging visual journaling processes that you can adapt and continue to use on your own, long after the workshop.
You will leave with a custom-created visual journal brimming with texture, pattern, color, and verbal and visual cues to kick start your imagination, along with plenty of inspiration and support to keep going long after the workshop.
The contest
Throughout the month of July I will be holding a contest to win a free workshop with Lisa Sonora Beam. Each week beginning today a new contest will be posted,the contest duration will from three to seven days just to make it interesting. Also the entry requirements may vary just to get you thinking.
Win this workshop:
I will select 1 winner from those of you who comment on this post between July 1,2009 and Tuesday July 7. The winner will be posted on July 8 and will receive a free “ticket” to this amazing on-line workshop. Visual Journaling is a tool for all who feel they need to do some work around integrating the left and right sides of their brains.
To Enter:
Just comment below and tell us why you think Visual Journaling will help you and what you think it can help you with. Are you experiencing a creative block? Are the two sides of your brain getting along or is one more dominant than the other? What is your biggest barrier to engaging your left brain or for that matter the right brain? Be imaginative, be creative and don’t be afraid.
After a long and exhausting scientifically random, selection process .…
Don’t worry folks there are three more weeks and three more possibilities to win.
The next contest will be announced shortly like today and next week this contest to win the Visual Journaling workshop will be repeated.
I never really believed in split brain before until now. I just considered myself one of those persons who had the ability to think productively with an added bonus of creative thinking with a flair. As a marketing director in my former life I could always design and produce the materials needed rather than use an ad agency. It was a huge bonus to design with freedom and create, from concept to complication. As a small business owner of a pottery studio, I constantly stuggle with right brain/left brain issues. When I’m in the studio creating, designing, glazing and firing, my mind is in the office thinking about all the marketing pieces that need to be completed. When I’m on the computer I feel guilty that I have a studio of work that needs to be completed in a timely matter. I resent the amount of time the computer steals from me on a daily basis for accounting, shipping, marketing, advertising classes, maintaining the website etc. I’m exhausted just thinking about it as I type! Because I feel so passionate about my work, I feel I can’t market it properly. It’s not a widget business, but an extension of me into each piece. Am I making any sense? It just drives me crazy, so I do belive in brain split, I do, I do! Now I know the name and can label it and accept it. Thank you!
I look at other people’s art journals and always wish I had the ability to draw well enough to actually capture a visual image or idea. I also would like to develop a knack of writing thoughts out in my own words so that I could use them in my artwork. I keep thinking maybe something somewhat profound or universal would come out that would be valuable to share. I am a calligrapher, you see. I love words themselves and I love bringing words to life.…as in full color and lively lines (as opposed to black ink, black letters, and straight black lines of text which is so often associated with calligraphy. I feel that journaling thoughts and image ideas would be one of the best way to develop my artwork. But, I’m overwhelmed by the idea of starting a journal and having the time to maintain it. This workshop is appealing to me in that I’d have a bit of encouragement and guidance to do journaling.
I moved from an urban environment to a quiet, rural, in-the-middle-of-nowhere place that gives me the opportunity to look out my windows and see birds, trees, sky, and watch grass growing. I believe having contact with a gifted teacher and an opportunity to create a visual journal will ‘get me going’ in art making. Warm regards, Joyce Yamamoto
.… because the book is fantastic, but I READ it more than DO it … I have had a strong DESIRE to keep a visual journal but keep finding excuses…because keeping a visual journal just might be the missing link (for me) between analysis paralysis and the deep (sometimes confusing) sea of infinite ideas …
.-= Kit´s last blog ..Inspiring Radiographs =-.
I’ve been thinking about split brain since reading this workshop description and responding a week ago. Part of my split brain behavior is that daily I am confronted with what I ‘think’ I should do and what I ‘want’ to do. Most often, I give in to what I ‘think’ I should do rather than doing what my artist-self ‘wants’ to do. How to change my behavior? How to act on my artist’s insticts?! How to deal with split brain?! THAT is the daily life struggle! Warm regards, Joyce Yamamoto