43 Creativity courses in Bushey

At Dakoda’s Dance Academy, we offer contemporary/lyrical dance classes for children of all ages and skill levels. Our experienced instructors provide a variety of activities that explore different movement styles, helping your child learn improvisation skills and incorporate storytelling into their routines. Our contemporary/lyrical classes are designed to be both fun and challenging, giving your child the opportunity to express themselves through dance while also developing their technique. By participating in our commercial-style classes, children can develop coordination early on which lays the foundation for a successful dancing future at Dakoda’s Dance Academy. We believe that contemporary/lyrical dance is a powerful tool for self-expression and creativity, and our classes provide a supportive environment for children to explore their artistic potential. Join us at Dakoda’s Dance Academy and watch as your child discovers the joy of movement and the power of dance.

With James Larkin Boost Your Career & Confidence On Camera Do you find auditions terrifying? Are you not getting the bookings from your self tapes? Do you wonder why, when you make it onto set, what you thought was your best performance doesn’t make the cut? This exciting new course with Director and actor James Larkin will give both emerging talent and established actors an insight into what works on screen, both small and big. Having worked with Dame Judi Dench, Mark Rylance, Emma Thompson, Sam Mendes and Sir Michael Gambon, James is giving you a unique opportunity to develop your craft and shoot two fresh cinematic scenes for your showreel. Meet Your Tutor James Larkin Director As a Director and Actor James has sat through hundreds of hours of live auditions, self tapes, and worked on many film sets in front of and behind the camera. Everything from big budget movies, to low budget independent films, TV Films, short films, TV soap opera, Serial TV, music ads and commercials and Theatre. James has develop a unique method which addresses this missing link in performance, and has been honing it over the last 30 years and taught it at leading London drama schools – RADA, Guildhall, LAMDA. Course Outline Bring depth, humanity and watchability into your performance, making it far less likely you’ll be overlooked by the Execs employing you, or end up on the cutting room floor. It will give you a comfortable sense of relaxation on set when performing – a knowing that ‘you’ve got this’: an inbuilt confidence and ease, allowing you to step out of your own anxious performance thinking, and bask in a boundless pool of free flowing creativity. This course will enable you to create a performance that is free, hugely watchable, intriguing and undeniably human. Additional Information Features Intensive course Shoot footage for your acting showreel ( 2 scenes) Small Class Size Attracts a varied age range from 17 yrs + Led by Award-Winning Industry Professionals Learning Outcomes Increase your chances of getting work Improved knowledge and confidence in front of camera Learn rehearsal techniques and processes Develop natural immersive acting skills Experience with a professional crew and Director Course Location Actors Studio Pinewood Studios Pinewood Road Iver Heath Buckinghamshire SL0 0NH

This advanced certification drills deep into the latest thinking to develop true digital marketing expertise. Course Overview This advanced certification drills deep into the latest thinking to develop true digital marketing expertise. Learn about Digital Strategy, CX, Search Marketing, Social Media, Leadership and more. Get world class, knowledge and insight: DMI EXPERT is our postgraduate level 140-hour course with an advanced, professional certification. It delivers breadth and depth of understanding of digital marketing and provides the learner with the digital and research skills to work at a management or strategic level. This certification is credit rated at level 11 on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework and awarded 120 credit points by the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority), which is comparable to a postgraduate diploma awarded by a UK university. Program learning outcomes and content: What Will I Learn? We give you the thinking and tools to become a leading player on the digital stage. Create powerful and dynamic digital strategy, and access modern, career-defining training covering all key digital marketing disciplines. Course Content: Social Media Marketing: Learn how to create engaging content on social media and how to plan, execute, optimize and report on social media marketing campaigns across the key social platforms. • Social Research • Social Content • Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest • Twitter • LinkedIn • YouTube & Social Video • Social Apps • Social Commerce & Affiliate Marketing • Social Customer Service • Social Strategy Strategy and Planning: Gain all the key skills and practices associated with planning a successful digital strategy. Everything from digital channels, marketing automation, budgeting, analytics and digital leadership. • Digital Communications v Traditional Communications • Marketing automation and CRM • Budget and Resourcing • Big Data & Analytics • Strategy Formulation and Plan • Digital Communications & Channels • Omnichannel tactics CX, eCommerce and CRO: Learn the key concepts underpinning website optimization, conversion rate optimization and effective e-commerce for every business requirement. Build highly effective user experiences for your customers. • Website Optimization • UX Research & Design • E-Commerce Strategy • Applied E-Commerce • Graphic Design Essentials for Marketers Search and Digital Channels: Plan, implement, refine and report on search marketing campaigns. Drive traffic across all digital channels. Taught directly by Neil Patel and DMI’s experts, you’ll gain knowledge from people who actually use these tactics in the field. • SEO Setup & Content • SEO Workshop • Paid Search & Display Advertising • Measurement with Google Analytics • Email Marketing Strategy • Applied Email Marketing • SEO for ecommerce Digital Selling: Recognize the value of social selling and incorporate digital techniques to better engage with customers and prospects to drive increased conversion rates. • Fundamentals of Social Selling • Finding & Targeting Prospects • Attracting Customers • Closing & Retaining • Increasing Engagement Essential Skills: Gain all the essential skills all marketers, professionals and business leaders need to work effectively, productively and professionally in a collaborative business environment. • Project Planning • Creativity Skills • Personal Skills • Working With Others Leadership and Management: Develop practical skills and techniques that you can use to think strategically, build effective teams, deal with conflict and crisis and persuade and influence others. • Thinking Strategically • Building Effective Teams • Dealing with Conflicts and Crises • Persuading and Influencing DURATION 52 Weeks WHATS INCLUDED Course Material Case Study Experienced Lecturer Refreshments Certificate

A private beginner embroidery workshop from Hoop & Fred tailored just for you!

A masterclass in devising therapeutic metaphors This inspiring online training day gives you powerful, non-intrusive ways to help distressed young people – and others – overcome difficulties in their lives – the skills you will learn can also be used with adults Accredited CPD: 6 hours Length: 1 day (9.15am - 4.00pm GMT) LIVE ONLINE – Join Pamela Woodford live online on Tuesday 18th June 2024 for this enjoyable, experiential CPD accredited training day – you will have plenty of opportunities to ask questions, take part in exercises to practice the steps involved, come up with pertinent metaphors and create your own story. Limited numbers. BONUS RECORDING – you will also get a recording of the tutor sessions for a limited time afterwards to maximise your learning. >> If you can’t make this date please register your interest below and we’ll let you know as soon as a new date is available. Fantastic online training, engaging and thought-provoking throughout. The confidence Pamela has given me will impact positively on my everyday practice, I am truly inspired...PSYCHOTHERAPIST Why take this course Children’s natural affinity with stories gives us an incredibly powerful, non-directive way to help emotionally distressed and abused young people, who can sometimes be hard to reach in any other way. On this practical live training event you will learn how to tap into your own metaphorical brain to create therapeutic stories and metaphors ‘in the moment’ that are appropriate to each individual’s circumstances and experiences. Throughout the day Pamela – a master storyteller and highly experienced psychotherapist – draws on her own case histories, metaphor and story examples as she guides you through the steps involved in ‘thinking on your feet’ and creating a story yourself in the moment. By the end of the day you will have lots of new, innovative ways to engage with and help distressed children deal with the experiences they have had – whilst also offering them hope, understanding, and new ways of thinking and feeling about life and themselves. Indeed, you may well be surprised at how quickly positive psychological changes occur as a result of the stories you will create and tell ‘in the moment’. Stories also play a crucial role in child development – through the ways the different characters think, act and overcome difficulties, children gain important templates for understanding the world and dealing with the challenges and situations they will meet in life – both now and in the future. They are a wonderful way to help build resilience. Storytelling and the careful use of therapeutic metaphor are crucial elements of successful counselling and psychotherapy – they help bypass assumptions and rigid thinking to offer a new, broader way of looking at things, awaken innate resources and offer crucial hope – just what struggling children need… Wonderful, interactive online course. Pamela is a joy to listen to – I learnt so muchCOUNSELLOR What will you learn A clear understanding of how to address emotional issues in children Simple ways to calm and relax children – “it’s the way you tell ‘em” Tips for igniting your own imagination and creativity How to ‘think metaphor’ to find the right one for each situation A step-by-step guide to creating your own stories – the 6 steps for creating short stories with metaphors specifically tailored to quickly bring about positive psychological changes in children and young people Breathing life into inanimate objects and taking inspiration from nature – how to tune into your metaphorical mind Valuable experience in creating your own therapeutic story from scratch How to use your stories and metaphors The importance of paying attention to the words children use when telling you something Case histories which illustrate the effectiveness and flexibility of stories – and show why they are such powerful therapeutic tools, even with difficult cases How to find your own metaphors and connect them emotionally to distressing situations Using embedded suggestions in stories – exercise Different ways to use therapeutic stories, such as those in Pamela’s acclaimed Brighter Little Minds series, to develop emotional literacy The importance of incorporating all of our senses How to adapt stories to use with adolescents and adults Tips for thinking creatively ‘on your feet’ to come up with suitable metaphors and ideas there and then in the moment Flexible skills that can easily be adapted to working with adults Why subtly entwining a child’s interests into a story makes its impact stronger How to introduce a story or therapeutic metaphor naturally into your conversation Feedback on the story you create and time to ask questions of the tutor – a highly experienced and creative psychotherapist who has spent decades working therapeutically with distressed children and young people A greater appreciation of the subtle power of metaphor, imagination and embedded suggestions and how to use them to help the young people you care for Increased confidence in creating and telling therapeutic stories yourself A variety of story examples and ‘scripts’ Lots of new ideas from Pamela Woodford’s ‘treasure chest of healing spells’ to spark your own creativity Tips for improving your own storytelling abilities Such a helpful live online training day – the use of metaphor via story form is a powerful toolHEAD OF BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT SERVICE – EDUCATION Course Programme The ‘How to create healing stories for distressed children’ live online workshop starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm. (GMT). 9.15am Join the Zoom meeting 9.30am What can go wrong for children? How stories can help 11.00am Comfort break and discussion 11.10am Using metaphor, relaxation, imagination and embedded suggestions 1.00pm Lunch break 1.40pm Setting the scene and creating the story 3.10pm Comfort break and discussion 3.20pm Sharing the stories you have created 4.00pm Day ends Who is this course suitable for? Anyone working with emotionally distressed children or young people, including: Psychotherapists, therapists and counsellors Teachers and educational professionals Childcare and healthcare professionals (and students) Foster carers Adoptive parents – and perspective adoptive parents Social workers Parents and carers Interested friends or family who wish to help a young person they know And anyone who would like to attend for personal reasons This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training. On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.

Is your lifestyle too sedentary? Do you feel sluggish by the end of the day? Wrecked by the end of the week? You need to vary your regime at work. You need to work with, rather than against, your physicality in order to boost your energy levels in a sustainable way - without recourse to coffee, sugar or other stimulants. Take away: Four quick and easy ways to make you feel good and re-energised. You will have the opportunity to: Explore how even just small amounts of physical activity can impact your mental and general health and wellbeing, creativity and productivity. Learn what to do about a sedentary lifestyle Get some tips on what to do about your posture Deskercise - try out some easy stretches and exercises you can do at your desk

Proven to be effective and to improve the prospects of quiet, shy, self-conscious and introverted people. Would you love to Express Yourself and let the real you out? Want to play more in life – and have a whole lot more fun? Want to overcome your fear of performing in front of groups In this unique one-day self-confidence workshop you will be discovering the keys to an authentic confidence and how to exude the kind of magic and passion for life that enables you to look and feel good. The workshop provides a context to express yourself in a safe environment with other people who feel in the same boat as you, and are 100% committed in supporting you in making breakthroughs in the area of self-expression, confidence and overcoming your fears of performing/speaking in front of others. This helps to counteract the effects of having your confidence undermined in the past.

A photography workshop on how to use shutter speed creatively, including night photography and light trails. Workshop takes place in Central London.

This one-day programme explores the role of intellectual property (IP) in relation to innovation and creativity. It examines the different forms as well as the key processes, together with some of the oddities and idiosyncrasies of the legal regime that protects IP. It delves into the various IP models you should be aware of as well as key IP facts and figures and current IP trends across the global economy. This session is designed to give you a deeper understanding of: The main forms of intellectual property The importance of IP - both to your organisation and to the wider economy The key processes in the creation, commercial exploitation, and legal protection of IP The different models for the use of IP Some more advanced concepts for reviewing, valuing and managing IP 1 Main forms of intellectual property (IP) Patents Trademarks Copyright Design Trade secrets 2 Global IP business context Global IP facts and figures Figures for key jurisdictions Analysis of a company using IP data IP trends Overview of the key entities in the IP sector 3 Key IP processes IP creation IP portfolio management IP enforcement IP exploitation IP risk management 4 IP models IP models explained IP licensing IP litigation 5 IP concepts The IP maturity ladder Relative IP value and risk Axis of control 6 IP as an asset class Costs Valuation Financial perspective

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of creativity and candle-making! Craft your bespoke soy wax candle, personalised with your own scent and design, guided by Precious, founder of Gia Como. All materials provided – leave with your own 45-hour burning masterpiece. Perfect for groups, friends, and family. Book your spot today!