Practice and Technique for Cultivating Creative Flow

This hands-on workshop provides participants with innovative methods to maintain and enhance creative flow and the opportunity to dialogue about their processes with other writers. Through discussion and writing exercises, writers explore ideas and techniques and gain understanding into why we can experience blocks. Examples of how contemporary artists address these issues are also offered. Sharing of writing is encouraged in a welcoming, non-critical environment.

Participants who attend this workshop should gain:

• A greater understanding of the process of creative writing
• A greater understanding of creative blocks, why we have them and how to avoid them
• Positive experience of sharing writing with others
• Positive experience of discussing issues of creativity with other writers
• Clearer self-understanding
• Creative inspiration

Marni Norwich has been facilitating writing workshops for over 20 years. She offers courses through her Meetup group (vancouverwritingcourses.com), Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Continuing Studies). She holds a degree in magazine journalism and has written for a wide variety of publications, including the Globe and Mail and Georgia Straight. She works as a writer, editor and consultant on creative, business, journalistic and academic projects. Marni’s poetry collection, “Wildflowers at my doorstep” (Karma Press), won an international Independent Publisher Book Award, and she has performed her work at festivals, clubs and benefits, sometimes with an ensemble of dancers and musicians.