OrganicsYes!
Grow Your Creativity Organically
OrganicsYes!
Susan Loughrin
Workshops to Inspire your Creative Cycle
- Seed-choose a workshop
- Plant-experience new ideas
- Nurture-reflect
- Grow-try something new
- Cut-change old patterns
- Harvest-try out new ideas
- Repeat
For more information, to schedule a date and learn about fees, contact Susan Loughrin:
organicsmi (at) hotmail (dot) com
OrganicsYes Blog
ArtsEd Bookstudy
Creativity Workshops
Below is a list of creativity workshops offered by Susan Loughrin. Each workshop has been designed to explore the nature of creativity and can be modified to meet the needs of any group.
Creativity and Kids Workshop
This is a hands-on session designed to connect children to their own creative journey. Hands-on activities created to nurture creative play and thinking. Exploration of music, visual arts, journaling and movement are the focus of these sessions.
Audience: Pre-school/Elementary Teachers, classroom presentations, parents
Artful Thinking
The goal of the Artful Thinking program, based on Project Zero research, is to help teachers, parents, and students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning in the arts, and across school subjects.
Hands-on workshops for staff to support thinking using art as an entry point. Exploration of visual arts, movement, and music are the focus of these sessions. The Artful Thinking Routines are used to elicit discussion and create a “visible thinking” structure.
Audience: k-8 educators, educational staff retreats, parents of young children, museum docent programs
Thinking with a Line
This program demonstrates strategies for working with materials while introducing the process of line printing to young children.
Hands-on opportunity to utilize “print” making materials through a variety of activities
Based on research by Thinking with a Line creator Cathy Topal
Audience: early childhood/elementary educators, classroom presentations, retreats/workshops for educators
Music and Movement
A delightful way to learn about language is through song and movement activities.
Songs/movements are the focus of these sessions to develop a community of joy and learning.
Sessions will lead participants through many familiar songs with movements that will bring everyone to their feet
Audience: early childhood/elementary educators, classroom presentations
ArtsEd Book Studies
Creativity explored through on-line book studies! Click here for the next upcoming book study on-line!
Links for past book studies:
ArtsEd Book Study: Wreck This Journal
ArtsEd Book Study: Coaching the Artist Within
