JOLT creativity and innovation workshop


When was the last time you gave yourself a day devoted to
sparking & reinvigorating a project you feel passionate about?

Imagine...

  • Getting passionately (re)inspired about a dream project
  • Using serious play to overcome resistance and kick-start a project
  • Exploring creativity from an artistic point of view
  • Learning new tools and techniques to cultivate creativity and innovation

Projects

How many unfinished projects are staring you in the face or cluttering up your head? Are you allowing "what-ifs" and "buts" and the lack of time to get in the way of completing your great work? This workshop offers you an opportunity to dedicate a whole day to sparking new ideas, gaining fresh perspectives and taking actions to revive a project that's been longing for your attention.

Sample project ideas include:

  • Envision an interactive sculpture for a park
  • Innovate an iPhone application
  • Design activities for an event
  • Create a new energy food
  • Develop a theme for a website
  • Produce marketing ideas for a service
  • Explore a character for a screenplay
  • Refine the story arc for a novel
  • Organize a vision for a non-profit

To prepare for your JOLT of creativity, we’ll provide you with some exercises to complete prior to the workshop so that we can hit the ground running when we meet July 23 in downtown San Francisco!


Workshop Overview

Sometimes we just have to get out of our own way to get the creative juices going. Participants will work collectively to support breakthroughs with a specific problem on individual projects. Senses will be reawakened and creative energies reinvigorated. At the end of the day, you will leave with a multitude of practical tools and techniques that will continue to jolt your creativity and a series of next steps that will ensure the continued success of your project.

  • Draw out your design thinking abilities
  • Develop your own creativity toolbox
  • Enrich your storytelling skills
  • Overcome fear and resistance regarding uncertainty

What You'll Get Out of the Workshop

After an inspiring day filled with creativity, curiosity and serious play, you will leave with the following:

  • Renewed passion and confidence in your vision
  • New ideas and inspiration
  • Tools and techniques to keep you creative and motivated
  • Creative solutions and next steps for achieving goals on your project

Details


Date:

Saturday, July 23, 2011
Time:

10 am - 5 pm
Location:

323 Geary
 

Suite 407
 

San Francisco, CA 94102

Registration

Workshop Price: $249
Early Bird (by July 15): $147
Bring a Friend: $97 for each person
Register early! Space is limited.

Payment

Questions

Contact Marlene Sinicki at 415.752.2141 or

Facilitator

Marlene Sinicki is a creative catalyst and a skilled facilitator. She uses creative engagement to spark transformational learning experiences. Through experiential workshops and trainings and by sharing practical tools and techniques, her clients and students reconnect to their purpose and reignite their passions.

Trained as a filmmaker, designer and multi-disciplinary artist, Marlene is a visual storyteller who specializes in "big ideas, imaginatively presented." She is a documentary director and producer whose recent work includes a series about creativity. Her multi-disciplinary background includes experience as a web designer, new media producer and editorial photographer as well as an exhibiting artist. Marlene has more than 12 years experience training and mentoring clients and students in the areas of information design, digital imaging, website development and art. She has directed photography programs in Berlin, Munich and San Francisco, and has created site-specific interactive installations and taught art to inner-city youth in Detroit.

Testimonials

Marlene Sinicki's JOLT workshop was fantastic! Not only did Marlene jump-start my creativity, she connected me with a room-full of amazing entrepreneurs. For those of you who have a project that could use a dose of creativity and innovation, be sure to attend her next workshop!
—Julien Adler, entrepreneur and executive coach

Creative minds adore these kinds of personal investigations into our process. We always walk away richer for it—it's like candy to a kid.

I revisited all my JOLT notes today. There are gems everywhere. I'd say that the JOLT experience was even more exhilarating and meaningful today. And as we know really good movies and really good workshops have that characteristic in common.
 —Leo Maseli, screenwriter

Marlene's JOLT Creativity workshop was fabulous. I loved the breadth of activities she offered to spark new ideas and see our projects in new ways. Plus the other folks were interesting and fun.
—Lisa Zimmerman, public spaces consultant

I came away from this workshop with a stronger, more concrete focus to my project. The creative exercises opened up my process in a lovely way.
—Laurie Halsey Brown, artist and instructor

I've known intellectually that speaking was my primary passion and calling. Now I know it in an embodied way. I feel it. Feels Fantastic! Now I can adjust my branding/marketing before it goes public. The timing of this was, not surprisingly, perfect. Thank you!
—Clara Chorley, speaker and executive coach