An Embodied Creativity Workshop for Artists
July 18th & 19th
Vancouver, BC
This 2-Day workshop offers a practical, repeatable approach to accessing your creative instrument: yourself.
Hosted by:
Thursday · Explore
Friday · Application
Actors work scenes with multiple directors
Directors explore different approaches with actors
Scenes shot by a cinematographer
Participants receive footage
Your Creative Instrument
This workshop offers a practical, repeatable approach to accessing your creative instrument: yourself.
These tools are applicable to artists of all disciplines and can be used while creating, rehearsing, writing, painting, composing, designing, or performing.
The result is not simply more ideas, but a richer connection to your own creative life.
Through embodied concentration, sensory awareness, and creative exercises, you will learn how to work with tension rather than against it, opening new pathways to spontaneity, imagination, and artistic expression. As you develop a deeper relationship with your senses, you’ll discover ways to hear, see, and respond to your work with greater clarity and aliveness.
Day One – Explore
On the first day, participants will explore:
The relationship between tension and creativity
Sensory practices that deepen concentration and presence
Techniques for accessing imagination through the body
Practical exercises that can be integrated directly into your artistic process
Ways to cultivate a more vivid, alive, and responsive creative practice
Day Two – Application
On the second day, participants will bring their own artistic practice into the room and apply the techniques learned on Day One.
Through guided exploration, observation, and creative experimentation, you will discover how sensory awareness can deepen your connection to your instrument and expand your creative choices. Whether you are working with text, movement, visual art, music, or another medium, the focus is on experiencing your process from a new perspective.
Participants leave with footage from the lab and a deeper understanding of how actors and directors work together to create strong scenes.