Finding your Creative You – Workshop Jan 22nd 2012

Wish you were more creative? We all have moments where we need to find an original thought and all our minds can come up with is a version of something we have read or heard. So how do we tap into the new, the fresh, the imaginative and the original thoughts and ideas? The secret is stopping the endless chatter of the mind and making space for your creative you to be heard. Imagine me Creative are holding a series...

Letting go via gratitude – a personal story from the writer of The Gratitude Diary and Daily Planner

This is a very personal story from the writer of of  The Gratitude Diary and Daily Planner about how her life and finances came crashing down around her, ruining her plans for the future and leaving her in a big hole. Then a simple breakthrough  allowed her to let go and a new future opened. It’s hard to know when things began to fall apart. Looking back,  it felt doomed from the beginning. Our  motivation...

Manly Daily Write Up of Davidson High Creative Writing Workshop

quoted from – Manly Daily Saturday September 21st 2011 @Davidson High  Local author Alice Flanagan held a creative writers’ workshop for 60 year 7 to year 10 students at Davidson High School. The focus was to get past writer’s block and get a “rollicking good story”, Ms Flanagan said. One challenge was learning to structure a good story in an interesting, informative and fun way. The...

Imagine me Creative Workshop at Davidson High

I was recently invited to run the ‘Imagine me Creative’ workshop at Davidson High on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The ‘Imagine me Creative’ workshop is a creative writing course designed to give students practical techniques for tapping into their creative side and ‘catching’ imaginative and inspired stories. The day started with a buzz of activity as the 60 young writers filed into the room. Facilitated...

Love in a Frame

“The essence of the rose was impregnated with words that were never spoken, with tears that were never shed, with joy that was not expressed, and with wondrous thoughts that spanned an eternity…”  Quote – Triumph of Joy. The rose in this photograph was given to me by my husband. The giving of the rose; which was given with such joy, carried the seeds of hope for our future. Four days after...