Autumn 2002 Workshops at Writers & Books

A Weekend of Engaging the Creative Mind

• Presenters:
  • David Tinling
  • Clayton Eshleman [ bio ]
• Saturday & Sunday, October 19 & 20, 10 am–4:30pm
• Fees: $100 W&B members, $130 non-members
• Lunch will be provided for participants

Saturday, October 19

10 am–12:30 pm

Origins of Creativity: Part 1, finding the “someone else.”

“I is somebody else,” Arthur Rimbaud wrote in 1871, upon discovering that he was a poet without poems. Clayton Eshleman will work through the ramifications of Rimbaud’s sighting of this latent “other” via examples from Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, DH Lawrence and his own life. He will also discuss metaphor as the DNA of poetry and propose that it occurred at the very beginning of image making.

2–4:30 pm

Whole Brain Functioning, Part 1

David Tinling will teach how engaging both brain hemispheres can facilitate the creative process. Participants will learn kinesiology and energy psychology practices that neutralize negativity and bridge the right and left brains. With demonstrations and guided instruction, participants will learn how to include simple and easy techniques to improve functioning in all creative pursuits.

Sunday, October 20

10 am–12:30 pm

Whole Brain Functioning, Part 2

David Tinling will give feedback on what students learned the first day and answer questions about the pragmatics of whole brain functioning. The many aspects of whole brain functioning will be explored. Narrative practice will be presented as exemplary ways to open up both hemispheres and to enhance creative development. By the end of class, participants should be able to follow daily energy practices that enhance performance.

2–4:30 pm

Origins of Creativity: Part 2, the first “somebody else.”

The origins of image making occurred between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago, when Cro-Magnon man made engravings and paintings in the rock shelters and deep caves of Southwestern France. Clayton Eshleman will show slides and comment on his 25 year poetic investigation of the origins of imagination, and discuss why such images may have occurred when and where they did.

This workshop is part of “A Week With Clayton Eshleman”. See the October Programs & Events listing for more.

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