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CREATIVE THINKING
MASTERCLASSES
 

In today’s ever changing and evolving business market, diversity and flexibility are key factors in meeting the new challenges businesses face. An ever increasing part of economic activity is driven by, innovation, knowledge and our ability to think about business in a creative way. This new module responds to that challenge and provides a dynamic approach to personal and professional development.

The purpose of these master-classes is to inspire, develop and stimulate creative thinking. Through a series of arts-based workshops people will be given the opportunity to increase their ability to think imaginatively, critically and laterally. This will help them to apply a wider range of innovative approaches to their work environment or business studies and develop their communication skills.

These master-classes promote the development of:-

	Leadership skills;
	Individual and team work;
	Risk taking;
	Creative use of language;
	Critical thinking and expression
	Analytical skills
	Effective processing  imagination and experimentation
	Vocal clarity and voice control
	Presentation skills
	Assertiveness
	Confidence and self expression
	Spacial awareness and body language
	Positive attitudes
	Conceptualizing, devising, rehearsing, performing, evaluating

Creativity

·     Creativity opens our minds and frees up our thinking, ready to let in new and innovative ideas. It stops us sticking to tired old habits and opens up new ways of working.

·     Creativity is a dynamic and interactive process that helps us assimilate information in a much more imaginative way.

·     Creative ideas help people push the boundaries, take risks and move on to the next level of thinking.  

·     Creativity challenges your perceptions and changes them. It gives you a chance to look at things from a different angle, a different point of view.

The creative process is experiential. It uses lateral thinking, draws from life experience, brings together a range of skills, is metaphorical, interactive, exciting, colourful and dynamic. It's about taking risks, making mistakes and reforming ideas.

Creative Training re-inspires and re-motivates people, giving them a new lease of life. We give people courage and they take that courage and run with it, putting themselves ahead of the game. Hilary Lewis has over 20 years professional experience as an actor, director, teacher, arts project leader and communication coach. Her work has taken her into prisons, schools, universities, charities, County Councils, businesses, community venues and one to one individual coaching. She has a B.A in English and Theatre Studies and a P.G.C.E in Drama. 

Master-classes to choose from

 The master-classes are listed in no particular order. Creative Training work closely with you to decide  how many and which creative workshops would fit into your business, course curriculum or timetable. They are designed as 3 hour, half day or twilight sessions.
 

Ice breaking session – New teams

This seminar is aimed at people who have recently or never met before. It provides a very safe and fun environment in which to explore ideas and the adrenaline rush of a fast creative process. Small groups will be given an envelope containing a variety of resource material. Their challenge, should they choose to accept it, is to devise a short performance piece/showcase that incorporates all the elements they have been given.  This package fosters personal and professional growth in:- negotiation skills, lateral thinking, conception and development of ideas, experimentation, self-expression, confidence building, presentation, team work, creativity, risk taking and critical thinking.
 

Presentation skills – Be memorable for all the right reasons

The aim of this seminar is to help the students look at how they communicate with people, for their personal and professional development. What is good communication and how do others communicate with us? Working as individuals, in pairs and in teams we will develop increased special awareness, body language and eye contact, how we channel and focus energy, self-expression, presentation of ideas, status, use of voice and the empty space. This seminar will be highly interactive, giving people a chance to concentrate on their own individual communication skills in order to deliver a presentation that impresses.
 

A Play In A Day - From storming to performing

This master-class is designed to help people develop successful inter-personal and professional communication skills. From a series of given stimuli teams will work together to plan, develop, rehearse and present, a play in a day.

Teams will each be given a resource and information pack. They will appoint a project leader or 'Director' and spend the day creating their original play to be performed or presented in any way they wish, to the other teams. The atmosphere will be supportive, friendly and safe. No one will be made to stand out or put on the spot.  Teams will delegate roles within the brief into those who work 'backstage' and those who want to perform.

This master-class provides an opportunity to work with people in an exciting and highly creative environment. It  is your chance to explore new effective processes and ways to 'get the message across'. The process demands leadership, quick thinking and originality, experimentation, initiative and decision making, effective interpersonal communication, risk taking, new approaches to working methods, imaginative and innovative thinking.

Effective workplaces – the happiness theory

A happy team is more effective, even when dealing with serious or complex issues. True or false?

This masterclass looks at the value of a happy workforce and how to create that ethos and environment. Does happiness increase performance and therefore increase sales? If the answer is yes then how can managers help their staff to be happier and therefore perform at their best?  By creating a great place to work.

Through a range of creative processes we look at how we manage and how we like to be managed, feedback, freedom, attitudes, trust, the working space, making failure a positive, successful systems and emotional intelligence.

Unmasking The Mask – Non verbal communication

This seminar is designed to help people see how important body language is in the communication process. The group will be lead step by step through devising their own mask character and creating a short and simple performance based around a given theme. The workshop includes the following elements; non-verbal communication, body language, status, use of imagination, making choices and developing dramatic ideas with creativity and originality and structuring them for performance. Risk taking, spontaneity, Development of clarity, spacial awareness, control, timing and pace.

Poetic Symphony  - Use of voice

This package links music and creative expression with a set of easy steps to performance of a poem set to music. The workshop contains the following elements: creative writing, structuring written work around a given theme, exploration of language and sound, percussion, structuring work in small groups independently of the trainer, presentation, clarity, fluency, control, timing, pace and dynamics.
 

Make ‘Em’ Laugh – Body language

This masterclass is a hugely enjoyable lesson in how to get yourself noticed at work!  Small teams are pitched against each other in order to create the most innovative comedy presentation they can devise out of the elements they are given. This package includes:- non verbal communication, delegation of roles, negotiation, narrative, energised team work, use of imagination, sound effects, captions, music and comedy presentation.

Soundscapes – Visual presentation

This package takes the group through the process of turning artwork into music and culminates in a presentation of pictures as a percussion piece. The workshop uses the following elements:- Art and design, imagination, working individually and in small groups creatively, structuring ideas for performance, team work, percussion, listening, vocal techniques and  presentation.

Creative Confidence Building

The aim of this seminar is to provide a fun and inspirational experience for the students. It will focus on personal development using a highly practical and creative approach. Using a range of drama based exercises we will look at promoting confidence and self-expression, fostering positive attitudes, team building, communicating with one another in a stimulating environment and creativity, using imagination and lateral thinking. The group will work as individuals, in pairs and in small teams. There will be an easy- going and light-hearted element to this seminar.

Dreaming in colour – From storming to performing

This package involves the group splitting into teams to devise their own story based around a given theme, making shadow puppets and performing on a small cinema style screen. The end result will be a colourful animated story set to music. The workshop contains the following elements:- teamwork, imagination, narrative, art and craft skills, working in small groups creatively, structuring ideas for performance, puppetry, organising technical elements.

Intelligent play – learning fast

As children we do not make a distinction between play and work - we are active learners in a stimulating environment. We are encouraged to think for ourselves and make choices, we take risks and experiment in order to find the best way of doing things. We interact and learn from each other. Should this process stop when we become adults? Should we constrain ourselves to the point whereby we are simply managing resources rather than developing new and exciting ways of thinking and working? Creative Training believes intelligent play should be placed at the centre of any innovative business or organisation.

We develop intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically through play.

We learn about the world and we learn our social and communication skills through play. We learn to listen, understand, focus, cooperate with each other and work on our own as individuals.

These are the foundations from which we grow and these are the foundations from which we can continue our development as adults and throughout our lives.

Market leaders are always one step ahead of their competitors. They stay ahead of the game. In order to maintain their position in the market the leader not only has to be good at the game he/she is playing at the moment but at the same time be working on inventing a new game, one with new rules. Then he/she can call the shots, control the market and continue to lead the way while others follow. So let’s play....

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