From: Karen Bell
Administrative Associate
kbell@creativityworkshop.com

The Creativity Workshop Studio is a ten minute walk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is having a fabulous Gauguin show through October 20th. For more detailed information on all our workshops please go to our website at http://www.creativityworkshop.com

The Creativity Workshop's goal is to help individuals believe in and develop their creative process and break through the fears and blocks that inhibit creativity through using memoir, creative writing, visual arts exercises, and storytelling. The end product is expanded perception, innovative problem solving, and ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative.

People from all different disciplines, interests, and levels of experience come together to explore their creative process. Whether you are a writer, a businessperson, a teacher, or an artist, we can help you discover and nurture your particular way of expression and break through the fears and blocks that inhibit creativity.

Here's our Upcoming Fall Calendar.

For our Spring Calendar go to:
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
calendar.html#spring

For our Creativity Workshop Summer Calendar 2003 go to:
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
calendar.html#summer

October 19 - 20, 2002
2 day weekend workshops (8 contact hours)
Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Tuition Fee: $300
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
newyork2.html

November 9, 10, 11 (Veteran's Day) and 12 (16 contact hours)
Extensive 4 day workshop.
Thursday through Sunday, 4 to 8 PM
Tuition Fee: $600
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
newyork4.html

November 16 - 17, 2002
2 day weekend workshop (8 contact hours)
Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Tuition Fee: $300

December 7 - 8, 2002
2 day weekend workshop (8 contact hours)
Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Tuition Fee: $300

NEW WORKSHOP:
We have just added a week long workshop/retreat on St. Thomas/US Virgin Islands
December 14 - 22 which will be held at the Marriot Beach Resort.
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
usvirginislands.html

If you are interested in reading more about the Workshop, we can send you some very interesting magazine articles and interviews with the directors, Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel which will give you a deeper idea about the workshop's techniques, origins, and results.

Tools for a Lifetime
The exercises used in the Creativity Workshop are intended to become the tools for a lifetime. Participants are encouraged to draw from all kinds of resources of creativity -such as the oral tradition, dreams, childhood memories, sense perceptions and intuition. Working both individually and in collaborative groups, participants explore their imaginative potential through exercises in writing, drawing, collage, map making, story telling, brainstorming and guided visualization

What people say about the Creativity Workshop;
"This is my third workshop coming up and I can't wait! Shelley and Alejandro ever so gently are able to get us fellow travelers (and not students) in to a discovery mode that emerges us deep into the experience of our very own creativity. You are magicians who invite us to return to the best of our childhoods. Once there we recapture those golden days of play and dream and fantasy. I'm very happy to know and experience the alchemy that you label a creativity workshop. Professor Carroll Blue, School of Communications, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

"The new millennium needs bold, creative men and women who can turn their dreams into reality... Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel show how you can do this through their challenging and inspiring creativity workshops...even a simple first contact will prove what these two talented teachers can do for your own gifts." Dr. Kirpal Singh, Writer, Professor, Singapore Management University.

"I feel as though I now have a focus, a method, a way of evolving my ideas and that the means are just as important as the end. I have created environments just to create in, and environments just to display the work in. My vision of attending to each detail, sound, smell, texture, substance... is starting to find a home. Thanks for opening my eyes to these essential aspects of creating through your guidance and example." Student. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.

"This class was THE MOST enriching, enlightening, inspirational class I have ever taken. The way I work and what I create will never be the same." Student. University of Iowa, USA.

"Shelley and Alejandro's Creativity Workshop is amazing in that it breaks down all your fears about thinking and writing. If it wasn't for them I fear I never would have finished my master's thesis. I was blocked until I took this course." Francesca Salidu PHD candidate in Shakespeare, University of Pisa. San Miniato, Italy.

"Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel taught their Creativity Workshop as American Cultural Specialists under the United States Information Service auspices. To say that they were extremely effective is a vast understatement. I would unreservedly recommend their course. They have abundant creativity, energy, and a wealth of skills." Gloria Berbena, Asst. Cultural Attaché, US Information Service, US Embassy. Rome, Italy.

"A special experience. Berc and Fogel opened us up to new and wonderful ways of looking at our creativity." Belkis Bottfeld, PHD, psychologist. Istanbul, Turkey.

The Creativity Workshop has been taught at educational and government institutions and for corporations.

Education and the Arts
National Institute of Education at Singapore University. Singapore.
University of Iowa. Iowa, USA.
Munich Television and Film School. Munich, Germany
Yldiz University. Istanbul, Turkey.
Nerengi Institute. Istanbul, Turkey.
Scuola Drammatica San Remo. San Remo, Italy.
Academy of Drama and Film. Milan, Italy.
Prague Summer Writers Workshop. Prague, Czech Republic.
Writing Beyond the Walls. Lucca, Italy.
Spoleto Arts Symposia. Spoleto, Italy.
United World College. Trieste, Italy.
Australian National University. Canberra, Australia.
Australian National Playwright Conference. Canberra, Australia.
NSW Writers Workshop. Sydney, Australia.
Performance Studies Department. University of Sydney. Sydney, Australia.
Hungarian Ethnic Artists Festival. Kisvarda, Hungary.
Art School of the Aegean. Samos, Greece.
Scuola Sagarana. Lucca, Italy.
The Art Alliance. New York, USA.
Portland Stage Company. Portland, ME, USA.
Media Communications Association, USA.

We have taught and trained teachers sponsored by the following schools:
University of California Berkeley
DePaul University
Columbia University
San Diego State University
University of Michigan
George Washington University
The American School of Warsaw
International School of Prague
Washington International School
The American School of Asuncion
Hong Kong International School
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Southampton College
La Guardia Community College
Sidwell Friends School
The University of Vermont
Minnesota State University Moorehead
Diablo Valley College
Atlanta International School
Dominican University of California
University of Missouri-Columbia
Sarah Lawrence College
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Northern Michigan University
Creighton University
IB World School Canadian Academy
The American School in London
The Overlake School
Brown University
Macquarie University
California State University Chico
Open Society Institute - Budapest
St. John's International School
Indiana University
The University of Wisconsin Madison
Florida International University
The University of Western Australia
East Carolina University
Saint Louis Priory School
The American International School of Budapest
The University of Prince Edward Island

Government
US State Department, Washington, D.C., USA
US Embassy. Tel Aviv, Israel.
US Embassy. Rome, Italy.
US Consulate. Milan, Italy.
US Embassy. Istambul, Turkey.
US Embassy. Canberra, Australia.
US Embassy. Budapest, Hungary.
US Embassy. Singapore.

Corporate and Business
The Walt Disney Company
Procter & Gamble
Bristol - Myers Squibb
Colgate-Palmolive
Caterpillar
Berlitz International
Bayer AG
HBO
Chartercom
Breslow Partners
Negotiation Mastery Inc.
i-traffic
Go2net
LPK
KFAssociates
Cross Country Travcorps
lL'actualité
The4 [creative network]
The Nature Conservancy
Zimmerman Financial Group, RIA
Sprint PCS

The teachers Shelley Berc is a writer and teacher. She was a professor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa from 1985-2000. Her novels, plays, and essays which include 'The Shape of Wilderness', 'A Girl's Guide to the Divine Comedy' and 'Theatre of the Mind' have been published by Coffee House Press, Johns Hopkins Press, Heinemann Books, Performing Arts Journal and Theatre Communications Group Press. Her plays have been produced by theatres such as the American Repertory Theatre, the Yale Rep, and the Edinburgh Festival.

Alejandro Fogel is a visual artist and teacher working in painting, site installations, video and digital art. He has exhibited his works in galleries and museums in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States and Germany. His ongoing project 'Root to Route' chronicles his father's journey through the Holocaust years. His work is in private collections and museums around the world. Berc and Fogel explain in theory and demonstrate in practice the concepts of originality, 'appropriation', memory and imagination. Under their guidance, participants explore their own creative processes through different writing and drawing exercises. They emphasize the intimate link between personal and public spheres, individual and social practices, history and myth, dream and reality. The focus of the workshop is on process not product and to help participants find life-long tools of creative expression.

Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel have taught their Creativity Workshop internationally. They have lectured on creativity and their own work at universities and cultural centers throughout the world.

For more information please contact Karen Bell:
kbell@creativityworkshop.com
Tel: (212) 249-2676
Register online at: http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
register.html