In a lecture by writer and writing teacher Lyubko Deresh on the tools of creativity, we will learn the fundamental strategies of numerous existing creativity techniques (from brainstorming to neurocreativity techniques) and get not only practical advice on how to enhance creativity, but also an idea of how to create our own techniques to expand our creative horizons.

Lecture outline

• Introduction. Frozen forms of consciousness as a challenge to creativity
• Basic approaches to working with frozen forms: transformation, dissolution, pure creation
• Overview of transformation techniques. Semantic operations and semantic operators of transformations (operators of opposition, perpendicularity, etc.)
• The “alchemy” of creativity: dissolution techniques 
• Amodal contents and orientation in the amodal space of consciousness
• Archetypal images. Working with the unconscious through dreams and imagination
• Overview of pure creation techniques: Zen and methods of innovative breakthrough
• Conclusion. The main tools of creativity: active consciousness, work with attention, work with amodal contents