Sustaining your focus and creativity under lockdown

For small businesses around the country, the COVID-19 crisis and the ongoing lockdown has caused immense stress and threatened livelihoods, particularly in the craft and design sector. For creatives, this time of anxiety, depressed opportunities for sales, and a general mood of fear in the country, has no doubt had a profound impact on creativity and one’s confidence to navigate the challenges faced.

Because it is so vital to feed the creative spirit, we are running a free webinar series that is geared to doing just this – this lockdown does not have to mean a shutdown.

Run over five days, for an hour each morning (9:30 -10:30), experienced facilitator Jane Solomon will help inspire you to move forward.

This interactive webinar series aims to guide you – using creative drawing, writing, and visualisation exercises – to process thoughts, feelings and anxieties around the future of your business; use resources available; access your personal strengths; and get to grips with what’s holding you back.

The process will help you to reflect and re-articulate the purpose of your business; and to appreciate the value of what you do, so that you can emerge from lockdown with intentions in line with your business vision.

Dates: 4 to 8 May 2020

Time: 09:30 to 10:30 am every day

Outline of webinar series programme:

Exercise 1 – Day one: Drawing exercise 1

This will help you to find clarity and focus by putting thoughts, feelings, worries, anxieties, ideas and hopes you are carrying around down on paper.

Exercise 2 - Day two: Drawing exercise 2

To identify personal strengths and talents that will help you to reinvigorate yourself and your business through this tough time and to acknowledge which behavioral patterns/fears are holding you back.

Exercise 3 – Day three: Making/experimenting using off-cuts and recycled materials

A creative exercise to help you to see new dimensions of your practice (if you work 2D, work 3D and vice versa). Looking at things in a new way can help unlock new ways to move forward and possibly conceive new products or apply new techniques.

Exercise 4 – Day four: Sorting ideas and writing lists

Use the lockdown time to access, complete and move forward with projects/ideas you were busy with pre- lockdown; or reinvigorate products/projects you have started on but never finished in the past.

Exercise 5 – Day five: Creating a collage/mood-board

This exercise will help you to affirm the value and purpose of your products and business; and set an intention for business outcomes.

Please note places are limited for this webinar series. Once you have booked, we will send a link to the webinar to the registrants.