[Special] Designing Your System for Creativity
SHORT NOTICE: Online class by Oliver Burkeman runs Mar 11-12, 2023
Short notice about a great class offered this weekend
Class: “Designing Your System for Creativity.”
Offered by: Oliver Burkeman.
Cost: $58 USD.
More info: Course description and registration. (If you get a warning about this link, ignore it and proceed to the webpage.)
What it’s about: “Build a personalised practice for getting creative work done, consistently and enjoyably, in the face of distraction, procrastination, and endless competing demands on your time.”
It’s “a practical event, informed by the philosophy of ‘embracing your limits’, for anyone who knows they could make solid progress on their creative goals if only they could integrate them with the realities of daily life.”
Time and Place: The course is in 2 parts and live on Zoom. It will be recorded and available afterwards only to those who registered.
Saturday March 11: 11 am - 1pm Eastern Standard Time (10am CT, 9am MT, 8am PT).
Sunday March 12: 12 noon - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (11am CT, 10am MT, 9am PT).
Burkeman’s local times for the course (in England) are Session 1: Sat 11 March 2023, 4-6pm GMT and Session 2: Sun 12 March 2023, 4-6pm GMT.
Oliver Burkeman makes so much sense.
A British writer, he explores the roadblocks we humans constantly bump up against like moths against a lit bulb. His compassion and empathy take the sting out of accepting and working with those limits.
4000 Weeks (Bk) is my favorite of his books. Since reading it about a year ago and studying his thoughts, I’m accomplishing more AND relaxing more. If you happen to know me personally, you know how big a change this is for me.
Why this class will be worth your time and money.
Having read most of Burkeman’s work, I think he’s uniquely qualified to help us in the Creativity Nation make the time to create regularly and often. Plus, his writing is laced with humor and striking observations, so I expect the course to be a joy to attend.
I hope you are reading this in time to register and attend or watch the recorded Zoom sessions. There’s a chance I won’t be able to attend the live sessions; if so, I will go through the recordings as soon as I can afterwards. Then I’ll write a review of the course in a future newsletter.
Thanks for reading!
—Mary Anne Shew (@maryanneshew)