Dust Off Sessions Creativity Weekend

The $55 Story
Last June I was able to go to New York to attend a creativity workshop. The instructors had great resumes, the city was amazing and I thought all this would lead to an amazing creative week.
The conference was 3 hours per day for 4 days. It cost $850 to attend. The hotel was $400 a night. New York City was amazing, but the conference was a huge disappointment.

It should have cost $55. I came away from the 12 hour workshop with two new ideas. One of those was a $5 idea, the other was pretty big and is worth about 50 bucks to me.

I met great people and spent an incredible week with my wife and our six month old baby. I had just had knee surgery, so we are hiking around NYC with me on crutches and my wife with a baby and stroller. It was a trip I'd do again under the same conditions in a heartbeat.

This weekend workshop will deliver 10 hours and 45 minutes of creative ideas, motivation and inspiration for the $55 I should have paid in NYC. I have great guest speakers coming who will share their insights and experiences with you.

JOIN ME JANUARY 18-20 for a weekend of investigating creativity and finding our creative core. Uncover your most fulfilling 12 months in 2013! We will dust off old projects and renew interest in forgotten ambitions. Come partner with us to complete that children's book, painting, song or the product design that have been sitting on the shelf or in the drawer. Use this time to rejuvenate and find meaning for the new year!

FREE GIFT FOR FIRST 10 PARTICIPANTS!!!
Copy of Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon's 2012 finalist for book of the year. A must have for all creators!

Guest Speakers: Musicians, authors, song writers, and graphic designers share their creative insights and processes.

Schedule is:
Friday 6:00-9:00 pm
Saturday 9:00-12:00, 1:15-4:00
Sunday 6:00-8:00 pm (Topic to fit the day will be creativity as a spiritual gift.)

Location:
Crystal Inn, 853 S. Main, Logan, Utah 435.752.0707


Questions? email mitchpeterson11@yahoo.com
Cell 435.890.0434

Friday, December 14, 2012

Cotton fields and sweat shops

Stephen J. Gould once said- "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweat shops." What other areas are genius, creativity and talent being wasted? The weight of this comment is huge when you think about broken systems like education, foster care and adoption. Our prisons house great numbers of inmates who need, in order to be made whole, a creative outlet for their talents. How many migrant farm workers today have ideas but no access to move them? Access to me is easy, but for a migrant farm worker or a girl forced into modern slavery, it's most definitely of reach.
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