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

Monday, February 11, 2013

A working theory

I am working through this post, still trying to revise and understand better, but here goes. I read a chapter from Blake Mycoskie's book Start Something That Matters today with my students. Blake is the founder of TOMS shoes. We read a selection about fear and as we were discussing it, we came to realize that we fear being our best selves because it is unknown. I am very familiar with who I am now, as I've chosen to be who and how I am. It's my normal. While I don't like all of who I am, maybe I am comfortable. I am more attuned to the tough parts of myself. I am more familiar with my anger than my patience. Conflict over calm. Ego and selfishness over humility and selflessness. I know how low I can go, but have yet to see how high I can fly. So the low is familiar and more normal than the me I want to be. Who I want to be is a person I've never seen, so it is unfamiliar and scary. I fear the unknown and prefer the known. Me now is known. Me at my best is unknown. What I have to do is slowly familiarize myself with me at my best and make it my new normal. Again, a work in progress, but I had to start spelling it out for myself.
Posted by at No comments:

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Lost in success

Things sometimes just don't feel right when everything is going good. Life gets too comfortable and I get too complacent. Success is good in short bursts. Success marks a way, but so does failure. Humans get antsy and restless when life is too smooth. I get agitated more when I don't have things to do or projects to work on. I get to thinking I have it all figured out, when in fact I have nothing figured out. The solution? Fail often. Take risk, take initiative. Not everything I initiate is going to go well. Some will go terribly wrong. But I'd rather that than not trying.
Posted by at 1 comment:

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Ideas that fly

Ideas that fly are born from discovering neglected worldviews, and then creating something to fill the void.-Bernadette Jiwa Owning and harnessing our creativity are neglected worldviews. Fill the void through self discipline, ignoring everyone and doing the work.
Posted by at No comments:

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Lottery tickets for creativity

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature- all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won. - from The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Posted by at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)