The Creative Path

The Creative Path.net . . . .

A community of creative dreamers and doers.

David's Creativity Workshop class, 1998, following a day of cliff climbing--an exercise in overcoming fear.

Free One-Hour Live Webinar

The Creative Path

A roadmap for turning dreams and ideas into something real.

Do you have an idea you want to develop? Feeling stuck, unsure of how to move forward?

Join David H. Lyman — author, journalist, photographer, lecturer, and entrepreneur — for a free, one-hour live Zoom session. He'll guide you down The Creative Path: a step-by-step journey for transforming an idea into something tangible, marketable, and alive.

What You’ll Discover

In this live, interactive session, you’ll get an introduction to a series of steps that can turn even the vaguest idea into something tangible.

Along the journey, you’ll encounter locked doors to open, walls to climb, and challenges to meet.

You’ll meet a host of characters who will shape your creative journey — the Devil’s Advocate, Gatekeepers who will help you open those doors,

While devils, dragons, demons, zombies, and vampires trying to trip you up.

There'll be heroes, champions, sidekicks, and angels ready to guide and protect you.

Overcoming Fear

Most creative ideas stall because of fear. Together, we’ll uncover what’s holding you back:

• Fear of failure

• Fear of making a mistake

• Fear of not living up to exprectations

• Fear of commiment

• Fear of being hurt, physcially, emotionaly

• Fear of loss

. . . there are more, but these are enough for now. Together, we'll develop ways to turn what scares you into a positive, driving force that propels you and your idea forward.

You’ll Come Away With

By the end of this one-hour session, you’ll understand:

• What tools and skills you'll need to acquire.

• More about yourself — and the power of your own creative

• The essential paperwork and strategic steps to move an idea to market, an exhibition, or publicatiom.

The Creative Path:

A roadmap for getting things done!

I began using this illustration in my lectures in the early 1980. It was a straigbt line at first, but as I discovered more and more, the path grew, until it wouldn't fit on the green board, so I turned the path into a spiril and it worked even better, for as ezch ideaa grows, so does the spiril.

Need Help with Your Ideas?

Every idea needs encoagement and support — and we’re here to help you along the path. Depending on your needs, you can:

• A one hour,

• Schedule a one-hour private consultation on the phone.

• Join a 4-week online workshop where we develop each participant’s idea.

• Join us on a 6-day Creative Retreat in a remote lodge surrounded by fellow creatives each working on their ideas, while collobratinng on others.

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An Intrerative Session

This is very much and interactive webinar, so feel free to chime in and ask questions.

David at the green board delivering his The Monday Morning Creativity Lecture at The Maine Photogr aphic Workshops- c. 2002.

The Lecture:

Every week, for 25 summers, I delivered a one-hour lecture on Living A Creative Life to each newly arrived class at The Maine Photographic Workshops—a summer school I founded in 1973. Part of that lecture included a description of The Creative Path, above. The lecture got everyone thinking about their careers as professional creatives and the work they do and can do better. It was a jumping off point for the rest of six-days of a intensive one-week master class.

This website, The CreativePath.net, is an extension of that lecture and the one-week workshops, Developing Your Creative Potential, that I led each summer for more than 20 years