Jumpstart your Creativity in just 15 minutes a day

"This stuff WORKS! I have already used writing and drawing exercises in our business to jumpstart our team's creativity."

~ Bill English, Management Consultant, Chick-Fil-A Restaurants, Atlanta

"A flood of new ideas for tapping into our students' creativity and expanding their ability to learn!

~ Jack Degelia, Teacher, Fund for Teachers Fellow, TX

"Thank you for the great, great inspiration and fun of the Creativity Workshop. It helped me get a whole screenplay done."

~ Doris Doerrie, Award winning Filmmaker, Munich, Germany

"Shelley and Alejandro take you on an adventure that ignites your creative spirit! A journey that makes you see life in a whole new way."

~ Rita Haque, Branding and Marketing, Haq Centre, Singapore

"The Workshop was exactly what I needed to reclaim the writer in me."

~ Hanna Fox, Writer, Publisher, Red Hummingbird Press, Princeton, NJ

"I am now using your visualization exercises with 200 children. Your workshop is touching the lives of many people here in South Africa."

~ Lanette Breedt, Artist/Teacher, Gauteng, South Africa

Finding inspiration everywhere

Think of this book as a toolbox for inspiration. We developed it from our belief that we can find creativity and inspiration pretty much everywhere in our every day lives.

15 Minutes a day is what we ask you to spend letting your imagination speak to you through the exercises in this book. Pretty soon you will be finding all kinds of ideas and projects that you didn't know you had.

No preconceptions,
no agendas

You will be asked not to think about anything other than the text and images in the book. Respond to them by writing, drawing, painting, performing, photographing, or storytelling, etc. The key is to let those creative actions out before your critical mind stops you. No preconceptions, no agendas, nothing but the page you find staring up at you. We believe this is the simplest way to bring deep creativity, or the imaginative self below the conscious level, come to the surface.

The root of all discoveries

We humans are hard wired to see patterns and form connections, which are the root of all the discoveries, stories, and advancements of civilization. We may be physicists or impressionist painters--the motherlode of new paradigms starts from the same root: our ability to perceive patterns and make connections that others have never noticed before.

We need to be surprised

This book is full of exercises to help you surprise yourself. It encourages you to break all the rules. Follow our techniques and you will find ways to let your wild, free-flowing thoughts outrun your rational, analytical brain. You will find yourself thinking in ways that are new to you, ways that are sure to unleash your creativity.
Once the creative impulse has had its say, the critical side of our nature is most welcome to return. It will clear the underbrush, clean up the chaos and help us make sense.

Experiment and improvise

Jumpstart Your Creativity in just 15 Minutes a day is designed to let the wild, creative self we are all born with have its day.
Why is it important? Because the creativity of your inner conscious sees the big picture, the essential themes, the patterns that are the core of your unique originality. It likes to work fast and sloppy. It loves to experiment and improvise with big, bold strokes. This is the way the creative you puts in action what your logical, detail oriented inner critic cannot.

Great on an iPad, computer or paper

Use Jumpstart Your Creativity on your iPad, computer, or with your own paper notebook to do the exercises. You can do a color print out of the entire book or some of the pages and bind it into a book with extra pages for you to write and draw on.

Jumpstart your Creativity in just 15 minutes a day