Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity

Course details

Imagine a world where you trusted your ideas and felt good about what you created. This world, where you can create more easily and more often, exists. Creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs is the founder and CEO of The Creative Dose, where she promotes techniques to unlock creativity and spark innovation in people, teams, and workplaces. In this course, Denise helps you silence the voice of self-doubt and start doing your best work now. Learn how to stop self-sabotage, kick-start idea generation, lose your fear of judgement, and build a fresh and improved mindset—the foundation for maximum unfettered creativity. By the end, you’ll have a roadmap of how to get unstuck, do your best work, and channel your creativity as a force for positive change in the world.

Learning objectives
Removing creative blocks
Silencing the negative voice in your head
Breaking the cycle of self-doubt
Unlocking idea flow
Kick-starting idea generation
Transforming self-talk and envy
Focusing on your success
Sharing your brilliance with the world

Concepts

Introduction

Imagine trusting your ideas and feeling great about what you create

Remove Your Creative Blocks

The origin of creative blocks and why we need to remove them
Creativity and the inner critic
Recognize your inner critic

How to Silence the Inner Critic

Our mental power tools
Using neuroplasticity to silence the inner critic
Using mindfulness to silence the inner critic
Using self-compassion to silence the inner critic

Own Your Creativity and Initiate Idea Generation

Discover your creativity
Stop killing your ideas
Become an idea machine

Develop Mental Mastery and Break the Cycle of Self-Doubt

Transform self-talk - Give your self-talk a reboot
Be self-referential and release shoulds
Break the cycle of rumination
Learn to deal with criticism with ease

Stop the Comparison Cycle and Own Your Talents

Transform envy
Focus on your successes not comparative failures
Stop toning yourself and your talents down
Be and share your brilliance

Apply What You Have Learned

Welcome back to your creativity