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Unlock Your Creativity
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5(1 rating)
1 students
Created byKathryn Laity
Last updated 5/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Tap into your innate creativity.
  • Gain confidence in your creative skills.
  • Challenge yourself with new arts.
  • Create a practice to sustain your creating.

Course content

3 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 10m total length

  • Introduction1:41

    What this course is about and why I am so passionate about creativity.

  • Humans Create7:43

    It is an essential part of our nature to create. Many things in the modern world aim to make us forget that. But the proof is abundant: creating makes us happier and healthier.

  • Where did you lose that spark?8:32

    A meditation on losing -- and finding! -- that spark of creativity. There are a couple of links below to articles on the positive effects of creativity on health and happiness.

    Footage in this lecture comes from Buster Keaton's Balloonatic (1923), which you can watch in its entirety at the Internet Archive (link below). I've also included a number of other vintage works to spark your imagination. They are not requirements; they are just for fun.

  • A Visualisation10:14

    A short visualisation to give you a relaxed invitation to remember your creative abilities. If you have any trauma issues around childhood, read the transcript first to be sure you feel comfortable with the process, as we do think back on that time.

  • Your Tools4:27

    What tools do you need to complete the exercises? They can be very simple, but they should be tangible rather than virtual. While you can do exercises on your phone or tablet, it's best to do them in a notebook or journal. You can do the assignments in any order, skip around them, take them in completely different directions from what I gave you --just have fun. There isn't a wrong way to do them. They're meant to kickstart your muse.

Requirements

  • No skills required: Just an honest desire to recover the joy of creating.

Description

‘The creative adult is the child who survived…’

Ursula K. LeGuin

Have you lost your creative spark? Or are you afraid you never had one? This self-paced workshop will help you find inspiration and learn to nurture it in the face of this cold, cruel world.

We are born to create.

Yet our culture does its best to crush creativity. It's a familiar story. As children we created as naturally as breathing. But the negative messages come early and often: Are you really any good at that? Is it going to make you any money? Why are you wasting your time?

There's a fundamental disconnect in the culture around us. We're told that the arts aren't important, yet great artists are paid huge sums of money (especially once they're safely dead). We're told that creativity is for kids, then crush their dreams as soon as they try. We know that art takes lots of practice, but we tell each other there's no time for that. We have to spend our time working to pay rent, insurance, groceries, and bills -- but what about life? Are we really living?

Art doesn't have to be worth millions to be valuable. Creativity is our birth right. The oldest records we have of our kind are paintings in caves and on rocks. Images that say 'I was here!' or 'Look, I caught a bison!' or 'This is my family.' One of the simplest joys in life is making. They don't have to be valuable. They don't even have to last. But making art changes the way we see the world and what we notice.

Creativity is a way to live. This course was NOT CREATED WITH AI! It's all about the joy of human creativity.

Who this course is for:

  • People who fear they are not creative (but they are!).

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