Therapy For Rock Groups
2023
Entitles the purchaser to a 100-minute 1-2-1 session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-13
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 100 minutes
Environment: Online or in person
Introduction
How can you focus on the wellbeing of your musicians in complex, challenging environments? Are you looking for a facilitator to mediate in the studio? Or provide cogency on tour? Do you want to embrace group change but don't know where to begin? Where do you place yourself on the axis of success/loss? If so, this session gives you time to reflect on the possibilities open to you. I am inspired by previous, historical interventions into live and studio settings by therapists/psychologists and approach the rock group context like another manifestation of group process. My approach is creative (using the form of therapy to interrogate the problem at hand). I employ a transpersonal model and add to this Jungian blueprint elements of constellation work, REBT, shamanism, Zen Buddhism, process work, creative play and self-compassion (all through my own training). The meeting is conducted online. I am based in London but I am used to working within different time zones/situations. Touring potential is also available. Contact us at counsellor*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. ‘The reality of your own true self’ Kosho Uchiyama
Therapy For Business
2022
Entitles the purchaser to a 100-minute 1-2-1 session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-11
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 100 minutes
Environment: Online
Introduction
How can you develop a creative culture at work? Do you want to be a better leader? What's an imaginative way of growing a conscious business? How do you value wellbeing? If so, this session gives you time to reflect on the possibilities open to you. I have supervised and had successes leading clients through the challenges of change, fundraising, integrating listening models and wellbeing – in small-scale companies and 1000+ employee environments. My approach is creative and therapeutic (using the form of my therapy training to interrogate the problem at hand). I employ a transpersonal model and add to this Jungian blueprint elements of constellation work, REBT, shamanism, Zen Buddhism, process work, creative play and self-compassion (all through my own training). The meeting is conducted online. I am based in London but I am used to working within different time zones/situations. Contact us at counsellor*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. ‘The reality of your own true self’ Kosho Uchiyama
Counsellor Coach – For Careers
2022
Entitles the purchaser to a 100-minute 1-2-1 session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-10
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 100 minutes
Environment: Online
Introduction
Are you feeling stuck? Perhaps you want to change jobs but don't know where to begin? Are there current challenges at work? Do you want the space and time to review your career options? Perhaps you are looking to develop a leadership role but are unsure about the right approach to take? If so, this session gives you time to reflect on the possibilities open to you. I have supervised and had successes leading clients through the challenges of career choice, employment management, job interviews and leadership. My approach is creative. I employ a transpersonal model and add to this Jungian blueprint elements of constellation work, REBT, shamanism, Zen Buddhism, process work, creative play and self-compassion (all through my own training). The meeting is conducted online. I am based in London but I am used to working within different time zones/situations. Contact us at counsellor*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. ‘The reality of your own true self’ Kosho Uchiyama
Counsellor Coach – For Couples
2022
Entitles the purchaser to a 50-minute 1-2-1 counselling session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-9
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 50 minutes
Environment: Online
Introduction
Are you feeling stuck? Perhaps you want to realise your potential – in terms of emotional intelligence? Do you want to interrogate the projections that are present in your couple's dialogue? Perhaps you are looking for a moment of clarity, of transcendence? If so, counselling can help. I employ a transpersonal model and add to this Jungian blueprint elements of constellation work, REBT, shamanism, Zen Buddhism, process work, creative play and self-compassion (all through my own training). Sessions can be 6, 9, 12 weeks or ongoing. The meeting is conducted online. I am based in London but I am used to working within different time zones/situations. Contact us at counsellor*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. *Please note: the price is based on weekly counselling. If you would prefer a one-off session, look at my 'Creativity Now – For Individuals' as an alternative. ‘The reality of your own true self’ Kosho Uchiyama
Counsellor Coach – For Individuals
2022
Entitles the purchaser to a 50-minute 1-2-1 counselling session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-8
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 50 minutes
Environment: Online
Introduction
Are you feeling stuck? Perhaps you want to realise your potential – in your career or in your relationships? Do you want to interrogate the narratives that are running in your head which are holding you back? Perhaps you are looking for a moment of cognition, of realisation? If so, counselling can help. I employ a transpersonal model and add to this Jungian blueprint elements of constellation work, REBT, shamanism, Zen Buddhism, process work, creative play and self-compassion (all through my own training). Sessions can be 6, 9, 12 weeks or ongoing. The meeting is conducted online. I am based in London but I am used to working within different time zones/situations. Contact us at counsellor*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. *Please note: the price is based on weekly counselling. If you would prefer a one-off session, look at my 'Creativity Now – For Individuals' as an alternative. ‘The reality of your own true self’ Kosho Uchiyama
Creativity Now – For Groups
2022
Entitles the purchaser to a 1 day creativity workshop with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-6
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 1 Day
Environment: Live or Online
Introduction
The Creativity Now Voucher entitles the purchaser to a 1 day creativity workshop with Michael Atavar. Creativity Now is an opportunity for you, as a business leader or founder, to work with your team on ideas development using Michael Atavar’s expertise as a workshop leader to interrogate any issues that you might currently be experiencing. What are the ways of getting the best out of people? How can you meet your current challenges? What methods help you to grow your team's potential? How can you create complexity in the work environment? Key areas: group intelligence, creative blocks, team dynamics. The workshop is conducted live at your business premises or online. Note that travel and overnight accommodation costs might be added to the purchase if the workshop takes place outside of London. Please contact us at now*at*kioskpublishing.com if you want to know more. ‘Trust your original seeing of the world – I believe that your experience is unique, intrinsic to you.’ Everyone Is Creative www.creativepractice.com
Creativity Now – For Business
2021
Entitles the purchaser to a 50-minute 1-2-1 creativity session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-5
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 50 minutes
Environment: Online
Introduction
The Creativity Now Voucher entitles the purchaser to a 50-minute 1-2-1 creativity session with Michael Atavar. Creativity Now is an opportunity for you, as a business leader or founder, to work on ideas development, brand narrative/design or product naming, using Michael Atavar’s expertise as a developer to interrogate any block that you might currently be experiencing. Are you looking to develop a new product? Do you want to find your way through a problem? Is your creativity fully engaged with your current merchandise/team? How do you want to present yourself in the online arena? Key areas: Tech space, apps, website UX. The meeting is conducted online. The appointment can also be gifted to someone else. Please contact us at now*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. ‘Trust your original seeing of the world – I believe that your experience is unique, intrinsic to you.’ Everyone Is Creative www.creativepractice.com
Creativity Now – For Individuals
2021
Entitles the purchaser to a 50-minute 1-2-1 creativity session with Michael Atavar.
ATTC-4
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 50 minutes
Environment: Online
Introduction
The Creativity Now Voucher entitles the purchaser to a 50-minute 1-2-1 creativity session with Michael Atavar. Creativity Now is an opportunity to work on your current creative problem, using Michael Atavar’s expertise as an artist and a developer to interrogate any block that you might currently be experiencing. Are you looking for a new direction? Do you want to find your way through a problem? Is your creative potential fully realised? The session requires no definitive objective; you might simply be searching for a creative direction and need more inspiration and guidance to help you. The meeting is conducted online. The appointment can also be gifted to someone else. Please contact us at now*at*kioskpublishing.com if you would like to arrange this service or want to know more. ‘Trust your original seeing of the world – I believe that your experience is unique, intrinsic to you.’ Everyone Is Creative www.creativepractice.com
How To Be An Artist
2009
Develops your creativity and grows the potential of your own artist.
ISBN-13: 978-0953107315
Paperback: 256 pages
Size: 180mm X 120mm
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Introduction
This is a book about how to develop your creativity. If you want to tap into that unexplored part of yourself that gets bulldozed by work, commitments, lack of space, then this is the book for you. I believe that you can grow your artist in a nurturing and supportive way, giving it the time and resources to develop and blossom. This is a book that takes the inner artist seriously – the playful, the complicated, the difficult part – leading it on a journey that includes starting, building a practice and planning long term goals. If you are an experienced practitioner, there is also much to discover in this book about getting in touch again with the key ideals that drew you to creativity in the first place. For everyone, I suggest reading the book from page one onwards, or alternatively dipping into it, using your artist’s compass to recognise that wherever you begin, and on whatever page, wherever you find yourself, is exactly the right place for you.Contents
PART 1 HOW TO START Simple methods for overcoming the fear of beginning. Blank Paper / How To Start / Pen, Notepad, Eye / Sort It Out Later / Be Seen / Simplicity / Amplification / Mood Board / It Doesn’t Have To Be Perfect Now / ABBA / Dotted Line Technique / One Sentence / One Long Line / Working With Limitations / Voices Of Criticism PART 2 DEVELOPING A PRACTICE Building an artist’s vocabulary that’s distinctively your own. Invitation To Process / No Magical Manager / Developing A Vocabulary / Artist’s Compass / No boundaries / Scraps / Tell Us How It Feels / Ideas For Cash / Grow Your Own Artist / Curiosity / What’s Inside You / Time / Doing Nothing / Titles / Slogans / The Flower Is Red / The Child Part / Give Them Something For Free PART 3 WORKING ON YOURSELF Intuition and feedback as the basis for your ongoing process. Value Yourself / Work For Free / Parent And Child / Generosity / Go Where The Energy Is / The Us And Them Wall / A Day Without Money / Why Do You Do It? / Intuition / Feedback / Draw Your Day / How To EndSample
Blank Paper The piece of paper is in front of you. You might feel afraid. But courage, my friend. Pick up a pen and without thinking begin to write. It’s not important what it is, or what you say, simply write. Within this automatism, these endless words, you will begin to see sentences and structures form. Perhaps they don’t mean anything yet, but that’s OK. You have got over the first hurdle – the emptiness of the white page. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you will always meet this feeling. It’s part of being an artist, being creative. Your choice, your journey is to address this sense, each time you start. With practice, and with endless attempts, it will get easier. The page starts to look inviting, open, challenging, even warm. It holds enrapture, magic, possibility. The energy that you feel when beginning to write will carry you forward, beyond the first page, into all your writing. Follow the energy, follow the road, follow the words – let the sentences take you with them.
12 Rules Of Creativity
2011
Contains twelve practical steps that help to stimulate your creativity.
ISBN-13: 978-0953107322
Paperback: 272 pages
Size: 180mm X 120mm
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Introduction
12 Rules Of Creativity is a book of twelve practical steps that help to stimulate your creativity. Michael Atavar guides you through the basic principles of the creative process – how to begin, developing an original voice and working with creative blocks. From beginner to famous artist, everyone at some time in their career will become stuck. These twelve rules will help you to navigate the stages of impasse, freeing up the log-jam of ideas. Packed with tips and insider information, the book represents a useful repository of original ways of thinking – methods that can be applied to any area of creativity. If you take one thing away from the reading of this book, it should be that creativity, as it manifests within you, is always possible. 12 Rules Of Creativity is the follow-up to Michael Atavar’s best-selling How To Be An Artist.Contents
RULE 1 No Lightning Flash / Marks / Today My Eyes See RULE 2 The Automatic / Basic Materials RULE 3 Tuning In / Tent / Interview Yourself RULE 4 Is That Me? / Lasso RULE 5 Switch Places / Listening Space / Working With Shadows / Being Here / What’s At The End Of Five RULE 6 Magnify The Negative / Reduce Your Options / Confucius Says / A4 RULE 7 Be A Receiver / Brick Wall / Leaps In The Mind / 24 Hours RULE 8 Use Colour RULE 9 Boredom / Change Your Name / Become Invisible RULE 10 2CG / From The Floor / Cut-Up RULE 11 Microphony / Left Hand / Tokyo Subway RULE 12 Call Out My Name / 16 / Tuning Out / Sleep / 12 Rules Of CreativitySample
Open your eyes. What can you see? Carry a notepad and pen with you at all times and use it to write about what’s around you – words, illustrations, sentences. Because they come from you, these observations will necessarily be individual, unique. Every pair of eyes is tuned to an original way of seeing. Each pair of ears hears different things. The things that you might write in your notepad are – • The colour of cars. • Descriptions of faces on the train. • Snatches of conversation. • Sunlight. • Abandoned furniture. • LED displays. • The beeps of mobile phones. • Sunsets. Don’t let some elevated idea of what creativity might be dissuade you from recording what you see every day. Allow yourself to develop a practice of just looking.
Everyone Is Creative
2013
Focuses on the power of creativity and how it can transform your life.
ISBN-13: 978-0953107339
Paperback: 256 pages
Size: 180mm X 120mm
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What do we need to be creative? Actually we already have the tools within us; we carry them with us every day – our eyes. All that‘s required is that we see, use our vision and accurately record the world around us. Nothing more is needed. This book offers some suggestions for developing your ability to see – where to place emphasis, what to look at, where to start. Always encouraging you to develop your ‘unique eye’, a vision of the world that I believe you already innately possess. Everyone is creative. Everyone is creative, whether they admit it or not, whether they accept it or not. So try being an ‘artist’, embrace the ‘A’ word. Look around – what is happening right now in front of you? Try it. What have you got to lose? Everyone Is Creative is the third in Michael Atavar’s series of books about creativity, following on from How To Be An Artist and 12 Rules Of Creativity.Contents
ONE IDEA On Your Own / Basics / Rucksack / Leave The Stage Empty MATERIALS I Start With Materials / If You Think... / Sensuality & Surface / Use You / Emergence & Risk / Factory Blue / Foggy Landscape ARTIST'S STATEMENT I Believe / A Piece Of Fiction / Fireworks / Write In Reverse / Chop Wood MANIFESTO You Are Not Alone / Anti-You / This Page Is Left Blank / Draw Blood THINK SMALL 100-1% / Playing Scales / Blurred Pictures / Offending The Audience UNIQUE EYE One Book / Nothing To Say (I Don’t Believe You) / X-Rays / Poor Art / Write It Down / I’m Drawn To Ideas X, Y, Z SEEING Taboo Against Looking / What Do I See? / Use Whatever Is Already There IMAGES An Opening Into You / Draw Approximations / The Desert / Wild Horses On The Wall / Found Material / Le ‘C’ Dream / The Reverse I SEE A Glass On A Table / Rods / I See A Palm Tree / Long Stories / Laser Cone / Ishihara EVERYONE IS CREATIVE Art Is... / Rhododendrons / Dirty Water / The Fountain / Close Your EyesSample
Art is easy... However, being an artist is more difficult. It requires discipline, bravery, originality and perseverance. (None of these are easily won.) To accomplish these goals, focus on your day-to-day creativity, rather than attempting to make ‘Art’ with a capital ‘A’. If you follow this modest path of everyday achievement, you won’t go far wrong. Forget all sorts of fixation with creating products; it won’t help you. Instead, invest in a daily process as the mainstay of your practice. Look at things – even if this first appears difficult. Keep your eyes open all your life; look at shapes, faces, colours, lights. Even if there’s ‘nothing there’, even if there’s a brick wall, or grey clouds, there is always something worth looking at. Trust your ‘unique eye’, your original seeing of the world. It’s the basis of all art and the centre of your creativity. Your world is unique, intrinsic to you.