January 2-27, 2012

Living a Creative Life (Without Starving in a Garret)

by Mary O'Gara

Is creativity leading you on a flight of fancy, or is your muse kicking your shins and burning holes in your tummy? Is creativity a humiliating pattern of shoulds and have tos, or is your creative life playful, fun and the strong flexible backbone for everything you do? It takes a creative life to support creative work. In this month-long workshop, this class will explore ways to enhance your creativity and make a creative life for yourself without upsetting the relatives and neighbors or neglecting your children. Among other things, the discussion will include:

• Using your creative cycles for sustained productivity
• Recognizing the four basic creative modes
• Setting goals and standards-and thriving on the difference
• Balancing, centering and fending off creative anxiety
• Finding and building supportive networks and communities
• Staying creative when life goes crazy
• Moving from self-sabotage to strength
• Developing creative processes that lead naturally to finishe projects

Mary O'Gara is a creativity coach and an award winning poet and short-story writer. Mary is an experienced online writing instructor. For this workshop, she draws on her own extensive experience with self-sabotage as well as her training in kabbalah, neuro-linguistic programming and creative processes.

To register for the January “Living a Creative Life (Without Starving in a Garret)” course, click HERE.

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