Interested in boosting your creativity with a very different take on how to construct a script?  I’ve been keeping my eyes and ears open for effective creativity enhancing methods, and having some experience of Constellations decided to host a day when a select group will get to go through this fascinating process together.

“I could see the whole story before me.”  Writer/director Huw Morgan, Imaging and Communications Tutor, De Montfort University, on a previous Constellations session with Risaria Langley.

I first experienced Constellations in use at a workshop exploring dreams.  Those present were invited to play a role in enacting dreams that had touched people, and even though we knew nothing about that person or their dreams, the results were astounding.  Somehow, the dynamics of what was going on for that person were laid out in the form of an interactive tableau that became a powerful learning experience not only for the dreamer, but the other participants and witnesses to what unfolded.

Intrigued, I wanted to find out more.  And discovered that writer/producer Risaria Langley — who I knew for her invaluable support at an earlier stage of my writing career when she worked at EM Media – was now conducting Constellations workshops since learning the structures behind them in Germany, where the methodology is more commonplace.

Risaria principally uses Constellations work to help writers work with the dynamics of their stories.  And it’s equally adept when helping people to explore situations at work, in their families, or in their dream lives: it’s fine to come to the day with anything that Risaria is happy to work with.  As well as influences from Gestalt psychology, Constellations is influenced by systemic thinking approaches and African tribal custom: an eclectic and powerful mix.

The workshop costs £75, and will take place in central Nottingham.  To secure your place, email me asap: adrian at youdothatvoodoo dot com.