The Artists Way Programme

The Artist's Way - 12 Week Programme

Facilitator: Anima Ganguly

Audience: Open to TU Dublin staff only

Duration: 12 weeks

Workshop Delivery:  Fortnightly Online Group Facilitation of Artist's Way.

The Artist’s Way is a seminal text for creative unblocking and was published in 1992 by Julia Cameron. The Artist Way is the start of a journey to discover and care for your creative self. Julia Cameron, believes creativity is a spiritual path, a way of tuning in and listening to yourself and as we create and allow ourselves to be creative, we become more and more ourselves. The aim is to create a collaborative and supportive group where we are all involved in the process of supporting and encouraging each other’s creativity and wellbeing.

Over 12 weeks, we look at gradually discovering what blocks us from living a creative and joyful life and start taking steps towards treating ourselves as wonderful, creative and inspired beings. All participants need is a copy of the Artist Way book, pen/paper and a willingness to give it a try. Every week you are asked to do daily morning pages, two of the weekly tasks and one artist date. Morning pages are 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing- to clear the sludge from your brain - handwritten and ideally done at the start of your day. You just write the thoughts as they pass through your head without censoring them.

The Artist Date is a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore something that interests you. The Artist Date need not be overtly “artistic”– think fun more than effort. Artist Dates fire up the imagination and they encourage play.

Schedule of upcoming events:

Week	Topic	Date	Delivery
	Introduction to Artist Way	Tuesday 13th January 2 - 2.45pm	Online: Microsoft Teams
1	Recovering a Sense of Safety	Tuesday 13th - Monday 19th January	Individual focus and Yammer
2	Recovering a Sense of Identity	Tuesday 20th - Monday 26th January	Individual focus and Yammer
	Check in on weeks 1 & 2	Tuesday 27th January   2-2.45pm	Online: Microsoft Teams
3	Recovering a Sense of Power	Tuesday 27th- Monday 2nd February	Individual focus and Yammer
4	Recovering a Sense of Integrity	Tuesday 3rd Feb- Monday 9th February	Individual focus and Yammer
	Check in on weeks 3 & 4	Tuesday 10th February 2-2.45pm	Online: Microsoft Teams
5	Recovering a Sense of Possibility	Tuesday 10th- Monday 16th February	Individual focus and Yammer
6	Recovering a Sense of Abundance	Tuesday 17th - Monday 23rd February	Individual focus and Yammer
	Half way point celebration and check in on how it’s going so far	Tuesday 24th February	Online: Microsoft Teams
7	Recovering a Sense of Connection	Tuesday 24th - Monday 2nd March	Individual focus and Yammer
8	Recovering a Sense of Strength	Tuesday 3rd March- Monday 9th March	Individual focus and Yammer
	Check in on weeks 7 & 8	Tuesday 10th March 2-2.45	Online: Microsoft Teams
9	Recovering a Sense of Compassion	Tuesday 10th - Monday 16th March	Individual focus and Yammer
10	Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection	Tuesday 17th - Monday 23rd March	Individual focus and Yammer
	Check in on weeks 9 & 10	Tuesday 24th March 2-2.45pm	Online: Microsoft Teams
11	Recovering a Sense of Autonomy	Tuesday 24th- Monday 30th  March	Individual focus and Yammer
12	Recovering a Sense of Faith	Tuesday 31st March - Monday 6th April	Individual focus and Yammer
	Celebration of Completing the Artist Way	Tuesday 15th April 2-3pm	GW302, Greenway Hub, Grangegorman

For more information contact healthandwellbeing@tudublin.ie.