Events List

An Introduction To
Living Creatively 

Tapping your natural ability to create, and develop your potential in all areas of your life

Event: Workshop Series: An Introduction to Living Creatively:
Tapping your natural ability to create, and develop your potential in all areas of your life.
Facilitator: Lee Gershuny, Ph.D., Artistic Director of The Elements World Theatre.
Organiser: Jointly organized by the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity SC038996, and, The Elements World Theatre, a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland No. 283766, Scottish Charity SC022072.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.

Event: Day Workshop:

Saturday 14 November 2009, Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Basic Tools and Principles of the Creative Process.

Event: 4 Evening Workshops:

Wednesday 18 November 2009, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Health and Well-Being.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Relationships.

Wednesday 2 December 2009, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Community Experience.

Wednesday 9 December 2009, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Work, Service and Leisure.

Event Description:

The series starts with a full day workshop in order to introduce the tools and principles of the creative process and provide opportunities to practice using them in interactive exercises. Each evening session following on from the day workshop will provide additional practice with these tools in different areas of your life:

1. Health and Well-Being
2. Relationships
3. Community Experience
4. Work, Service and Leisure

The whole series aims to unlock your creative potential by enabling you to: 

1. Clarify what’s most important to you in the moment;
2. Find the most direct route to your goal without using force or abuse;
3. Make choices based on your priorities;
4. Take risks you never thought you could take; and,
5. Become more aware of your own creative process – what works and what doesn’t.

This experiential workshop series offers a supportive, non-judgmental environment with discussion, movement, sharing and interactive exercises in large and small groups. In the process, we may discover new insights and actions for living creatively and peacefully in our daily lives.  

We highly recommend starting the series with your own journal.

The purpose of this workshop series is to enable you to develop your natural ability to create what you want in all areas of your life, including – health and well being; relationships; community experience; and work, service and leisure. 

Facilitator Biography:

Lee Gershuny, Ph.D., award-winning playwright in both the USA and UK, is also an internationally published poet and founder/Artistic Director of The Elements World Theatre Company.  She has developed new forms of theatre and facilitated creative development workshops with a diversity of participants in England, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Scotland and the USA including professional artists, youth, older people, primary school children, people with physical and learning difficulties, homeless people, survivors of physical and substance abuse, users of mental health services and refugees.

She is a founding member of the Research Society of Process-Oriented Psychology/UK and has designed and facilitated workshops in creative conflict facilitation in local, national and international festivals and conferences, including the Alternative G8 Summit (Edinburgh 2005), the SUBUD World Congress (Innsbruck, 2005) the World Youth Congress (Stirling 2005), Roars, not Whispers (Scottish Youth Parliament Leadership Training, 2008), International Civicus Youth Assembly (Glasgow 2008), and the MESP from 2004 to the present. 

Living Creatively Workshop Series Poster and Flyer

Cost and Booking:

On-Line Booking

Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions) for the Day Workshop.
Cost: £8/£6 (Concessions) for each Evening Workshop.
£45/£35 (Concessions) for the whole series of workshops. For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 0131 331 4469.