Based on The Artist’s Way book:

1. Recognizing and dealing with criticism; feeling about a chosen path
2. Self-doubt to self-assertion
3. Anger and shame as messengers; the sense of "Yes, I Can!"
4. Reviewing beliefs, desires and how we spend our time
5. Recognizing our limits, virtue traps and joy of dreams
6. Money and sources of luxury and wealth; relationship with Source
7. Inner awareness; risk taking; desire indicators; inspiration
8. Ways of ‘survival’; gains disguised as loss
9. Compassion for self and others, fear, creative U-turns, self-care
10. Personal potential; limits; addictions
11. Following and planning a vision; acceptance; success
12. Leading from the heart, mind and spirit; mystery; trust

Rooted in state-of-the-art concepts on creativity theory, behaviour and group dynamics, this process is quite modern, yet can seem timeless as it blends methods of personal reflection that are thousands of years old with 21st-century behavioural science.
A groundbreaking book, it has helped more than a million people access their creativity and realize their dreams.  

WHO ATTENDS
This workshop purposely attracts an eclectic mix of participants, many who wish they were more creative - or richer, healthier, happier. Workshop members have included business professionals, health care providers and educators, as well as accomplished and amateur artists. Regardless of their background they often desire forward movement in one or more of the following areas:

- Initiate and complete a creative project in business, science or art
- Work through emotions that block insight and creative expression
- Gain understanding into current personal or business relationships
- Uncover their unique voice and personal values
- Plan transition from one career or life phase into another
- Overcome burnout or find new meaning in work
- Increase levels of optimism, joy and productivity

Louise Lalande, of coCreations, is the leading accredited ‘Artist Way’ facilitator in Canada since 2008.

It has long been asserted that ‘verbally expressing experiences by writing or talking improves physical health, enhances immune function, and is associated with fewer medical visits’. To take just one example, the lymphocyte count of HIV patients has been found to increase following repeated half-hour bouts of emotional writing, with positive changes in health correlating with the use of positive words, presumed to be a result of raised levels of insight.

Diane S. Berry and James W. Pennebaker, ‘Nonverbal and Verbal Emotional Expression and Health’, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 59, 1993, p. 11.

Keith J.Petrie, Iris Fontanilla, Mark G. Thomas, Roger J. Booth and James W. Pennebaker, ‘Effect of Written Emotional Expression on Immune Function in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Randomized Trial’, Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 2004, pp. 272–5.