Toolbox, Lightning, Ladder:

Creating a Roadmap for Your

Creative Goals

Are you feeling the intensity of your dreams yet desire a creative way to plan?

Do you believe its time to up your game by clarifying your vision?    

This powerful and dynamic 3-hour long workshop led by me, Diana Rivera, will bring together a committed group of creative professionals to get down-and-deep with their personal and professional roadmaps!

You will:

• Learn about the 3 S’s that get creativity into productivity
• Develop a physical roadmap for your personal and professional success
• Create action steps to move it forward
• Reflect with an empowered and productive artist community

In my live facilitations, I like to get the pulse moving so bring stretchy clothing, paper, a pen, water, a smile.

Questions: creativeempowerment@gmail.com

Los Angeles workshop:

Saturday, October 29th at Pieter Performance Space: $35

Time: 3:30-6:30 pm

Address: Pieter Performance Space

420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10. Lincoln Heights, 90031

Parking on street

Buy tickets here: http://toolboxlightningladder2.eventbrite.com/

BIO:

Diana Rivera specializes in the psychology of creativity. As a coach and facilitator, Rivera produces educational and empowering programs that advance the path of creative professionals in their personal and professional life. As a host, she is the producer of the audio interview series, the Co-Creator Series, as well as the figure behind the Youtube series, Creativity Today. As a writer, she drives original content on the psychology of creativity for her blog, Creative Empowerment Coaching, and her academic research in the psychology of creativity.

Blog
http://ccseries.net
http://www.creativeempowermentcoaching.com/

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Interview with LARS JAN

Lars Jan is a director, designer, writer and media artist. His original film performance and film works have been commissioned and presented by Symphony Space (NYC), REDCAT (LA), PianoSpheres (LA), The Edinburgh Fringe, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC). He is the Founder and Director of LA-based, multi-disciplinary art lab, Early Morning Opera.

In 2009/10, he created new works at the MacDowell Colony (NH), EMPAC (NY), and MANCC (FL). He has also taught at Princeton University’s Atelier Program as well as Mount Holyoke, Swarthmore and Amherst Colleges. In 2003/2004, he lived in Kyoto, where he trained and performed with a Bunraku Company designated an ‘Intangible Cultural Treasure’ by the Japanese government. During 2005, he was an artist-in-residence at Kabul University and developed several public arts projects in Afghanistan with the support of the U.S. State Department. Lars is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and completed his MFA in directing and integrated Media at CalArts as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar. He is the recipient of the 2008 Sherwood Award and is a 2011 TEDGlobal Fellow.

The Days of Yore was founded by Astri von Arbin Ahlander and Lucas Kavner in May 2010, but Evan Dumouchel soon joined the team as the technical mastermind behind the project. Interviews are mainly conducted by Astri and Lucas, but they have also featured a number of guest contributors.

www.thedaysofyore.com

Astri von Arbin Ahlander is a writer and translator from Stockholm Sweden. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Shareable.net, The Rumpus, and in the recent e-book “Share or Die: Youth in Recession.” Her most recent translation work is the Swedish bestseller EASY MONEY, by Jens Lapidus, which will be published by Pantheon in November, 2011.

Lucas Kavner is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn. He has performed theater and comedy all over the country, and his work has appeared in the NY Times, Time, MSNBC, Salon, NPR, and elsewhere. He currently writes for the Huffington Post.

Originally from Massachusetts, Evan Dumouchel is an actor and web designer living in Los Angeles. He designed the site for The Days Yore, and his current project is a site for the popular mockumentary film, Balrog: Behind The Glory, based on the boxing Street Fighter character. You can watch Evan’s acting work in the upcoming film, Movie 43, which will be released April 13, 2012.

Toolbox, Lightning, Ladder:

Creating a Roadmap for Your

Creative Goals

Are you feeling the intensity of your dreams yet desire a creative way to plan?

Do you believe its time to up your game by clarifying your vision?    

This powerful and dynamic 3-hour long workshop led by me, Diana Rivera, will bring together a committed group of creative professionals to get down-and-deep with their personal and professional roadmaps!

You will:

• Learn about the 3 S’s that get creativity into productivity
• Develop a physical roadmap for your personal and professional success
• Create action steps to move it forward
• Reflect with an empowered and productive artist community

In my live facilitations, I like to get the pulse moving so bring stretchy clothing, paper, a pen, water, a smile.

Questions: creativeempowerment@gmail.com

Los Angeles workshop:

Friday, August 19th at Pieter Performance Space: $35

Time: 7-10 pm

Address: Pieter Performance Space

420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10. Lincoln Heights, 90031

Parking on street

San Francisco workshop: 

Wednesday, August 24th at a.Muse Gallery: $35

Time: 7-10pm

Address: a.Muse Gallery 

614 Alabama Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

BIO:

Diana Rivera specializes in the psychology of creativity. As a coach and facilitator, Rivera produces educational and empowering programs that advance the path of creative professionals in their personal and professional life. As a host, she is the producer of the audio interview series, the Co-Creator Series, as well as the figure behind the Youtube series, Creativity Today. As a writer, she drives original content on the psychology of creativity for her blog, Creative Empowerment Coaching, and her academic research in the psychology of creativity.

Blog
http://ccseries.net
http://www.creativeempowermentcoaching.com/

http://www.lafigaproject.com/

CHEF TIBERIO SIMONE

LaFigaCatering.com

Born in Neviano, a small town in the “boot heel” of Southern Italy, chef-author and cultural provocateur Tiberio Simone is also an award-winning food artist. After a stint as an elite paratrooper in the Italian Special Forces, love brought him to Seattle where he joined the restaurant industry. In 1995, while pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel, Simone won a James Beard Award for one of his signature chocolate creations. Now the owner of La Figa Catering, Simone shares his love of food and sensuality by nourishing others with his culinary delights. He is also a popular and passionate speaker about his vision of a life made full through a diet of both food and sensual touch.

MATT FREEDMAN

SilentColor.com • Facebook Fan Page

Long-time Seattle resident Matt Freedman is a professional photographer and professional technologist. He combined his photography, writing, and technical talents to produce the first iPhone app about the Burning Man festival, and is now recognized as a leading expert on photographing the event. He is also the former staff photographer and director of technology for the bi-monthly magazine JUST CAUSE and has had his photographs published in the book Trekking Nepal: A Traveler’s Guide and the French book, Artivisme: Art, Action Politique et Résistance Culturelle. He is now a freelance photographer, as well as a professional iPhone app developer.

Director and host of The Artist Toolbox, Jacobsen is the director of the recent short films “Arthur,” winner of the Best of Fest Award, and “Spinning.” Jacobsen also directed the feature film “Around the Fire” which premiered at The Seattle International Film Festival where it was nominated for The Best Independent Filmmaker’s Award, moving on to take top prize at the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy.

John has also produced feature films and numerous award winning shorts. He has directed over thirty plays, assisted legendary Broadway director, Hal Prince, produced the “Tribute to Katherine Dunham” on CBS’s Emmy Award winning Kennedy Center Honors, and worked under the Academy Award-winning documentary maker, Charles Guggenheim. He has served as the Vice President of Seattle’s ACT Theatre, one of this country’s leading regional theatres and is President of TheFilmSchool which he co-founded with actor Tom Skerritt, Stewart Stern and other leading filmmakers. He managed the Motion Picture and Television Department at UCLA Extension, and was a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute (AFI). He is a partner in the production company Moga Jacobsen, is a screenwriter, and teaches writing and directing around the country.

http://www.theartisttoolbox.com/

Check out segment of his interview with John Legend

Steven Dahlberg is the director of the International Centre for Creativity and Imagination, which is dedicated to applying creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations and communities. He has 20 years of experience collaborating with artists, scientists, business people, educators, nonprofit and government professionals, and others to help people develop and apply their creativity.

Steve teaches “Creativity + Social Change” at the University of Connecticut and teaches about creativity in nonprofits at Rhode Island College. He regularly speaks about creativity topics and leads professional development workshops about creativity in education, organizations and communities. He serves on the board of the National Creativity Network, and is co-developing Connecticut Creates, a statewide creativity initiative. He edits the Applied Imagination blog, co-hosts the Creativity in Play online radio show, and authored the foreword to the book, Education is Everybody’s Business.

He’s served as an adviser to the Guggenheim, helped toy inventors launch a creativity consulting business, headed a creativity foundation and taught a community-college course on creative problem solving for incarcerated men. He has worked with Yale University, Teachers College at Columbia University, Yahoo!, Americans for the Arts, UNESCO, the Louisiana’s Office of the Lt. Governor, Lincoln Center Institute, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, among other places around the world.

Find more about his work at www.appliedimagination.org

Picture of Billy Holiday

Jennifer Hamady is a voice and performance coach specializing in emotional issues that interfere with optimal self-expression. Based in New York City, Jennifer works in private practice with musicians and non-musicians alike to discover, develop, and confidently release their best personal, professional, and performance potential. Her clients include Grammy, CMA, Emmy, and Tony award-winners, as well as corporate clients across a wide array of industries. Jennifer’s insights and experiences have been captured in her book: The Art of Singing, heralded by Back Stage and Variety as a breakthrough in the psychology of personal and musical performance. She conducts workshops and lectures frequently around the world on matters of creative expression, and writes regularly for Psychology Today and Examiner.com.

LINKS:

Jennifer Hamady:  www.jenniferhamady.com

The Art of Singing: www.theartofsinging.com

Psychology Today: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-your-voice

Examiner.com: www.examiner.com/creativity-and-community-in-national/jennifer-hamady

to die having left undone.”–Pablo Picasso

Are you getting increasingly frustrated by not going full force into completing your creative project or business plan?

Are you thinking you’d love for 2011 to finally be the year for your creative work to profit but you’re struggling with energy, structure or time management?

Do you wish there could be a way to complete your vision with the support of other collaborators?

The Creative Frequency 10-week facilitation in Los Angeles: from Empowerment to Product

is your creative instigator!
Pablo Picasso painting with light

• 2 week of presentations to the group

Who is this for: Committed individuals in a creative field–from theatrical to design– with a product/project in mind to develop, who yearn for new skills, strategies and accountability

Where: Anywhere in the world as all facilitations will be conference call style, but be in Los Angeles for your presentation

When: Mondays, 7:30-9pm, January 31st to the 1st week in April, 2011 (please note: February the 14th’s facilitation will be on the 15th; final two session dates TBD and discussed 1st day)

Group Facilitator/Coach/Wrangler: Diana Rivera is a respected Personal Development Coach certified through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching specializing in creative process and profession; she is an undergraduate of the University of CA at Santa Cruz and a Masters candidate of Psychology and Creativity at Saybrook University and Research Institute. http://www.creativeempowermentcoaching.com/contact.html

Guest Consultants:

Bob Bates, Artistic Director/Founder of Inner City Arts will focus on the  power of creative vision: http://www.inner-cityarts.org

Aaron Ross of Unique Genius will focus on the unique genius business model: http://pebblestorm.com/about/

Lynn Hasty and Charlene Boehne of Green Galactic PR will focus on understanding promotion: http://www.greengalactic.com/

Cost: $500 https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DXW3MM5C8W5CC

Contact Diana at creativeempowerment@gmail.com with questions!

“The artist entrepreneur: Honing in on your unique genius

and making it a business!”

Aaron Ross is the founder of PebbleStorm, which is helping 100 million people “make money through enjoyment” by combining happiness and money.  Aaron Ross’ Unique Genius work (www.UniqueGenius.com) shows people how to discover your purpose & passions and turn them into a successful business. He loves motorcycling, meditation and adventure!

Aaron is the author of “CEOFlow: Turn Your Employees Into Mini-CEOs“, which is about one of PebbleStorm’s programs designed to help leaders free up their time and energy by turning their employees into mini-CEOs that help them run the business like high-level executives.

Of course, it’s hard to enjoy work if your revenue isn’t predictable, and Aaron’s “Create Predictable Revenue” sales consulting practice helps companies with B2B sales organizations do just that.

Before PebbleStorm, Aaron Ross was an EIR (Entrepreneur-in-Residence) at Alloy Ventures, a $1 billion venture capital firm. Prior to Alloy, at salesforce.com Aaron created a revolutionary Cold Calling 2.0 inside sales process and team that helped increase salesforce.com’s revenues by $100 million.  Aaron was CEO of LeaseExchange (now eLease.com), an online equipment leasing marketplace. As an entrepreneur, he has been in Time, Businessweek and The Red Herring. Aaron graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Civil Engineering.

Aaron is also the cofounder of DataSalad (“Fresh B2B Marketing Data”), and on the advisory boards of Clickability, 4INFO, ConnectAndSell, AfterCollege, ExpertCEO and Flywheel Ventures.  His B2B sales blog is Build A Sales Machine.  He is an Ironman triathlete, graduate of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School and volunteer mentor at SCORE, “Counselors to America’s Small Business”, and an avid motorcycle rider (www.MotoCEOs.com).