This work provides a 12-week course that guides the reader through the process of recovering their creative self. It aims to dispel the I'm not talented enough conditioning that tends to hamper the creativity of many people.

The critically acclaimed, national bestseller available in paperback: One of the world's leading creative artists and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents - at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist's Way and Bird by Bird.

With insight, humour, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skilfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and solid advice on many aspects of the writer's craft: on writing from 'first thoughts', on listening, on using verbs, on overcoming doubts - even on choosing a restaurant in which to write. Goldberg sees ...

By examining the seven essential aspects of Da Vinci's way of thinking, this guidebook gives you the tools you need to enhance aptitude in every area of your life. Numerous exercises, anecdotes and illustrations help you master these techniques to create a personal and professional renaissance of your very own.

A sequel to The Artist's Way that presents the next step in Julia Cameron's course of discovering and recovering the creative self. Full of valuable strategies and techniques for breaking through new creative ground, this is the intermediate-level of the programme.

An inspirational handwritten and illustrated guide that teaches readers to open their lives to creativity and fulfilment by re-learning how to draw.

A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques.

A textbook of creativity. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated.

Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.

A guide designed for everyone who writes or wants to write. Goldberg teaches a Zen-like method that aims to take the reader to the source of creative power. Advice includes: finding time to write; discovering a personal style; making statements come alive; and how to overcome writer's block.

Deals with using writing to bring clarity and passion to the act of living. This book contains techniques illustrative stories which help make writing a natural, intensely personal part of life. It includes the details of the author's own writing processes.

This psychology title explains how, by altering our perspective, we can achieve happiness, dispel disharmony and enter a state of perfect equilibrium - a state of flow .

Helps businessmen to develop techniques of creative thinking in the boardroom.

A fully revised edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book.

Learn how you can unleash the remaining 99% of your brain with the power of mind maps in this definitive, full-colour illustrated edition of The Mind Map Book.

Describing himself as a visual jackdaw , master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distills this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind.

Believing that creativity is central to our being, May outlines the limits to what we know and do not know about creativity. He links the element of courage to creativity to reveal the process of discovery in which a person generates new forms and patterns that build new social systems.