Learn Powerful Creativity and Stress Relief
Techniques at Stanford in March
If you’ve been craving a chance to develop your inner creativity, or you’ve been drowning in overwhelm, time pressure, and general anxiety (or both!), help is on the way!
I’ll be at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, Mar 7-14 leading two classes:
Creativity as Your Personal Well-Being Strategy
Three sessions beginning Thurs Mar 7-14
Finding Your Inner Balance with HeartMath
Half-day workshop, Mon Mar 11, 1:30-5pm
CREATIVITY AS YOUR PERSONAL WELL-BEING STRATEGY (three sessions)
Are you expressing your creativity to the fullest? Do you greet each day with exuberance, joy, and a sense of deeply held mission? Do you make time to nurture yourself and your highest aspiration for living?
We all need more creativity to solve problems, start important projects, repair relationship challenges, help others in need, and simply to be the fullest expression of ourselves we can possibly be.
It is my firm belief — I know this in my bones! — that since every human being is designed with the power to create life, we are all powerfully designed to be creative!
Thanks to significant research in disease prevention, we now know that creativity is also good for our health. Finding our creative flow — our unique creative brilliance — in artistic or other soul-satisfying endeavors makes our immune system stronger, our cardiovascular system more efficient, and our cognitive function sharper and more clear.
In this 3-session course (3.5 hour session followed by two 75 minute sessions), through music, art, dance, creative writing and other forms of creative expression, you will be immersed in exploring your own creativity.
You will learn the science supporting the link between creativity and enhanced health; how to refine talents you barely knew you had; and how to keep creativity alive in your life as your personal well-being strategy.
As a part of the class, each participant will receive a thumb drive containing an audio series of guided meditations, a 19-slide inspiration slide show, a video mini-documentary of the What Makes Your Heart Sing project, and 2 articles on creativity.
PLEASE NOTE the 3 class dates and times: Class 1 on March 7, 1:30-5:00pm in the Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Rm 4205. Classes 2 & 3 on the following Tuesday and Thursday, March 12 in the Medical School Office Bldg., Rm 303 and March 14 will be held 12:00 – 1:15pm in LKS, Rm 308.
To register:
FINDING YOUR INNER BALANCE WITH HEARTMATH
We all have the power to use an “intelligence” in our heart to transform stress and powerfully enhance our personal and work life.
In this fun, interactive science-based program you will learn techniques you can immediately apply to increase focus and energy, improve sleep, and reduce the symptoms of stress and anxiety.
Each participant will receive Inner Balance, an innovative app-based biometric device designed by HeartMath that can help manage the overwhelm of stress in real time.
This Inner Balance technology, together with behavioral techniques learned in the workshop, are designed to enhance your ability to self-regulate emotions and physiological responses, or choose how you feel independent of what’s happening around you.
HeartMath serves hundreds of organizations worldwide, including Stanford University (for more than 20 years), Boeing, NASA, Yosemite National Park, Cisco, the Mayo Clinic and Kaiser.
PLEASE NOTE: Each participant will receive an app-based sensor device to monitor and assist in emotional self-regulation called the Inner Balance Bluetooth® sensor for Android and iPhone. The sensor works on Apple iOS v9 and newer or Android v5 and newer.
Before you come to class, you will want to download the free Inner Balance App from the App Store for iOS, Google Play for Android, or Amazon for Kindle Fire.
To register:
Instructor: Bruce Cryer is the Founder of Renaissance Human, an advisor to health care organizations, and Senior Advisor and former CEO HeartMath (11 years). He mentors executives and entrepreneurs, is the lead author of “Pull the Plug on Stress” (Harvard Business Review) and has taught HeartMath programs at Stanford since 1997, including 12 years for HIP and 13 years for the Stanford Executive Program.
