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46 Creativity courses in Edinburgh

Masterchef Challenge

5.0(40)

By Courses For Cooks

Unleash your creativity and hone your skills fine dining style...

Masterchef Challenge
Delivered In-Person in DunfermlineFlexible Dates
£215 to £725

Silver clay jewellery taster

5.0(5)

By The Arienas Collective

Learn how to make your own jewellery using silver clay in this half day beginner class in Edinburgh City Centre

Silver clay jewellery taster
Delivered In-Person in Edinburgh + more
£65

Edinburgh - Introduction to Calligraphy

By Panda Scribes

Unlock the Artistry of the Written Word with CalligraphyDive into a world where letters transform into captivating works of art, where each stroke of the pen tells a unique story. Welcome to the enchanting realm of calligraphy, where tradition meets creativity, and ordinary writing becomes an extraordinary masterpiece.My "Introduction to Calligraphy" course is your gateway to the mesmerising world of elegant script and graceful lettering. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to refine your skills, this course offers an immersive journey that will awaken your inner artist and transform your writing into a true work of art.Discover the secrets of calligraphic styles, from the timeless beauty of Copperplate to the bold and expressive strokes of Brush Calligraphy. With expert guidance and hands-on practice, you'll learn the art of manipulating pen and ink to create stunning compositions that captivate the eye and stir the soul.Throughout the course, you'll:Master Essential Techniques: You'll gain a solid foundation in calligraphy techniques that will empower your creative expression.Explore Tools and Materials: Delve into the world of calligraphy tools, from classic dip pens to modern brush pens, and learn how to choose the perfect materials to suit your style.Unlock Your Creativity: Calligraphy is more than just writing—it's a form of self-expression. Discover how to infuse your unique personality and creativity into your lettering, making every piece a reflection of your individuality.Build Confidence: Watch your skills flourish as you gain confidence in your ability to create beautiful, handcrafted letters and designs.Whether you dream of crafting elegant wedding invitations, expressing yourself through decorative lettering, or simply finding a soothing creative outlet, my "Introduction to Calligraphy" course offers the perfect starting point. Join me and embark on a journey of self-discovery, artistic expression, and the timeless beauty of the written word. Unleash your inner calligrapher and let your pen dance across the page in a symphony of elegance and creativity.

Edinburgh - Introduction to Calligraphy
Delivered In-PersonJoin Waitlist
£40

Beginners silver clay jewellery class

5.0(5)

By The Arienas Collective

Beginners silver clay jewellery class in Edinburgh City Centre

Beginners silver clay jewellery class
Delivered In-Person in Edinburgh + more
£125

Introduction to Design Thinking: In-House Training

By IIL Europe Ltd

Introduction to Design Thinking: In-House Training Innovation is the cornerstone of highly successful companies, especially those that continue to be successful over the years and decades. Design thinking practices fuel this continual innovation, as they are the critical links from inspiration to delivery, concept to showroom floor, and start-up to global business. Design thinking is a structured approach to promoting innovation and creative problem-solving. It is not a new approach. It has been around for centuries, as the art, architecture, and inventions of mankind illustrate. By examining the steps to achieving great design and maximum utility of product, design thinking approaches provide a framework in which to develop new solutions to problems and new products to sell. This highly interactive course is designed to help participants think like designers to generate innovation, and to help teams to produce more innovation and creativity. Since design thinking is based on doing rather than thinking, we participants are challenged to apply the techniques, in the classroom, to create new ideas and solutions to a case study project. What you will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Explain the underlying principles and value of using Design Thinking for innovation Describe the basic concepts of the Stanford Model for Design Thinking Evaluate a set of basic Design Thinking techniques for application to your projects Apply tools, techniques, and skills aligned with the 5 stages of the Stanford Model Drive innovation through Design Thinking at some level in your work environment Foundation Concepts Problems and solutions The Design Thinking difference Design Thinking skills and abilities Design Thinking mindset Design Thinking frameworks Stages of Design Thinking Problems and solutions The Design Thinking difference Design Thinking skills and abilities Design Thinking mindset Design Thinking frameworks General Practices Team formation Visualization Improvisation Personalization Empathize Practices Overview of Empathize techniques Observation Engagement Interviews Define Practices Overview of Define practices Unpacking techniques Defining the customer techniques Integrating the Define experience Ideate Practices Overview of Ideate practices Reusable techniques for the Ideate stage New Ideate techniques to explore Prototype & Test Practices Overview of Prototype practices Examples of prototypes Overview of Testing practices Forms of testing techniques Adopt and Adapt Design Thinking Overview of Design Thinking implementation Design Thinking implementation challenges Success in implementing Design Thinking Summary and Next Steps Workshop summary Next steps: Personal Action Plans

Introduction to Design Thinking: In-House Training
Delivered in London or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
£1295

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Program: In-House Training

By IIL Europe Ltd

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Program: In-House Training This learning series is designed to enable participants to fulfill the important role of a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and to incorporate the Lean Six Sigma mindset into their leadership skills. Green Belt is not just a role, it is also a competency required for leadership positions at many top companies. This learning series is designed to enable participants to fulfill the important role of a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and to incorporate the Lean Six Sigma mindset into their leadership skills. With a real-world project focus, the series will teach the fundamental methodology, tools, and techniques of the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control Process Improvement Methodology. This course is delivered through sixteen 3-hour online sessions. What you Will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Identify strategies for effectively leading high performing process improvement teams Analyze whether projects align with business strategy Apply process improvement methodologies to DMAIC steps, based on real world scenarios Explain ways to appropriately respond to process variation Distinguish among best practice problem solving methodologies Evaluate and effectively communicate data-driven decisions, based on real world scenarios Introduction Lean Six Sigma & quality The vision The methodologies The metric Project Selection Why Projects Random idea generation Targeted idea generation CTQs (Critical to Quality) & projects Project screening criteria Quick improvements Introduction to Define Project Planning Developing the core charter Developing a project charter Facilitation Process Management Business process management Top-down process mapping Voice of the Customer Voice of Customer Stakeholder analysis Communication planning Kicking off the project Define Summary Introduction to Measure Data Collection Fact-based decision making Data sampling Operations definitions Data collection plan Measurement system analysis Graphical Statistics for Continuous Data Meet Six SigmaXL Graphical & statistical tools Data stratification Graphical Statistics for Discrete Data Pareto analysis Dot plots Plotting data over time: Looking for patterns Variation Concepts Variation is reality Special Cause and Common Cause variation Example of standard business reporting Individuals Control Chart Process Capability Genesis of process capability Calculating the metrics of Six Sigma Yield metrics: Measuring process efficiency Cost of Poor Quality The Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) Cost of Quality categories Calculating the Cost of Poor Quality Measure Summary Introduction to Analyze Process Analysis Introduction to process analysis Value-added analysis Cycle time analysis WIP & pull systems Analyzing bottlenecks and constraints Cause & Effect Analysis Fishbone/Ishikawa diagram 5-Whys analysis Graphical & statistical tools Advanced Analysis Why use hypothesis rests? Hypothesis tests Correlation and regression analysis Analyze Summary Introduction to Improve Solutions Creativity techniques Generating alternative solutions Solution selection techniques Introduction to Design of Experiments Introduction to DOE DOE activity Error Proofing Failure mode & effect analysis Poka-Yoke Project Management Fundamentals Successful teams Project roles Conflict management Standardization Standardization The Visual Workplace 5S Piloting & Verifying Results What is a pilot? Evaluating results Improve Summary Introduction to Control Statistical Process Control Review of Special & Common Cause variation Review of Individual Control Chart P-Chart for discrete proportion data Transition Planning Control plan Project closure Control Summary Summary and Next Steps

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Program: In-House Training
Delivered in London or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
£5295

Managing with NLP (In-House)

By The In House Training Company

Self-understanding is a prerequisite for leading and managing others responsibly and honourably. The field of Neuro Linguistic Programming has helped us to gain a better insight into how we all think and behave. Upon completion of this course participants will be able to: Gain an insight into the purpose and functions of the unconscious mind Develop flexibility to increase their for behaviours in different circumstances Appreciate how different people experience the world Create and set effective goals and direction Understand the NLP Model of Communication Adapt their communication style to maximise effectiveness Influence and persuade others by connecting with people Understand how empowerment can make life easier Appreciate how creativity works Learn creativity techniques to tap into the power of the team 1 Self-awareness Autopilot - your unconscious mind Developing flexibility How identify, values & beliefs shape our behaviour Models of the world 2 Creating direction Describing present and desired state Designing your direction Making it happen Self-mastery 3 Communication The NLP Model of Communication Insights to the way people think Understanding representation systems Reframing the way people think about negative experiences Using metaphor 4 Influence and persuasion Building trust Connecting with people Purpose intention and outcomes The difference empowerment makes 5 Creativity and innovation Hindrances to creativity and innovation Your natural state of creativity Getting unblocked Creativity techniques 6 Action plan Course summary and presentation of action plans

Managing with NLP (In-House)
Delivered in Harpenden or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
Price on Enquiry

Leadership & Team Dynamics in Oil & Gas

By EnergyEdge - Training for a Sustainable Energy Future

About this Training Course One of the main challenges for today's managers is effectively leading and successfully communicating vision that inspires employees to perform. Good leadership engages people and employees who feel both engaged and enabled contribute to higher levels of growth and productivity. They will remain longer with the organisation, perform better and ultimately deliver better service to your customers. This popular 3 full-day course will equip you with key skills that you can utilise to maximise your staff's performance in line with the company's objectives. This interactive course will also empower you with strategic approaches to overcome the people challenges that you may encounter while enabling you to optimise your business strategies successfully. An ILM Recognised programme. Training Objectives What are the benefits that you will gain from attending this course? * Enhance your personal effectiveness and decision-making * Learn how to boost your influencing capability * Inspire enthusiasm, motivation and commitment * Communicate effectively across a multi-cultural team * Nurture your relationships and strengthen your team * Develop an empowering partnership team culture Target Audience Who should attend this course? Anyone involved in leading a business unit or a project team can attend. It covers relationships with host governments, contractors, suppliers and local communities which constitute critical alliances for the development of a project. This course is essential for team leaders, supervisors or managers from the following functions: Project management engineers from various technical disciplines Ad-hoc or special project team leaders in legal, technical & financial disciplines Country managers or business development officers of contractors JV management executives or officers Government officials or industry liaison officers Procurement or contracts executives or officers   Trainer Your course leader is the author of Spirit IntelligenceTM and specialises in executive leadership facilitation and management development. He gained a first class honours degree in chemical engineering from Edinburgh University in Scotland and has undertaken postgraduate studies in psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Your course leader's corporate career spanned 14 years in Oil and Gas with BP, Amoco and AGL. Since 1993, he has worked across five continents with more than 170 clients including Rothschild, QBE, AT&T, Intel, Towers Perrin, Thomas Cook, Fujitsu, Nortel, Frank Russell, Electrolux, Arab Bank, Cable and Wireless, GSK, Merck, Sharpe and Dome, World Vision, Ericsson, IBM, Placer Dome Gold, Jim Beam, Ernst & Young and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He focuses on what he calls tapping The Hidden Advantage to unleash the power of the whole person - the power of the body and mind, the passion of the emotions and the enthusiasm, motivation, commitment, initiative, creativity, resilience and persistence of the spirit in business. He is very experienced internationally in both skills enhancement and the strategic facilitation of tough and intractable client challenges. His approach is pragmatic. He provides his clients with a powerful range of practical tools and approaches to enable management to tap The Hidden Advantage latent in their staff and achieve optimum performance and results. A powerful and compelling speaker, he combines humour, energy and passion. He draws on a wealth of personal experience and thorough research. POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations

Leadership & Team Dynamics in Oil & Gas
Delivered in Internationally or OnlineFlexible Dates
£2579 to £2999

1st December FREE GENTLE YOGA FOR BACK PAIN

5.0(42)

By Art and Spirituality CIC

Are you struggling with back pain or discomfort? Our Gentle Yoga for Back Pain class offers a soothing, mindful approach to easing tension and improving mobility. Specifically designed for those with back issues, this class combines slow, deliberate movements, gentle stretches, and mindful breathing to help alleviate pain and promote healing. What to expect: Gentle stretches tailored to relieve stiffness and improve flexibility in the back, hips, and legs Breathing exercises to relax the nervous system and reduce stress Postural alignment techniques to reduce strain and support long-term relief Restorative poses that gently encourage relaxation and recovery Whether you’re dealing with chronic pain, recovering from an injury, or simply looking to improve your posture, this class is ideal for all levels. It’s suitable for beginners and anyone seeking a slower-paced, therapeutic yoga session to address back pain and enhance overall well-being. Join us for a calm, supportive environment where you can begin your journey to greater comfort and flexibility. This class is sponsored by The Volant Charitable Trust Small Grants Programme, administered by Foundation Scotland. It is FREE and is aimed at WOMEN only from ETHNIC MINORITY BACKGROUNDS living in Edinburgh as per this funding application . This means “international”, from every foreign country. (Irish, any other white background, mixed ethnic, Asian/Asian British, Black/African/Caribbean, Black British, Arabic or other ethic groups) However we do welcome locals too so just sign up. We prioritize the area of Gorgie-Dalry-Saughton where our studio is based.  By attending this class you release the teacher, Giada Gaslini and Art and Spirituality Cic, from any liability arising out of any personal injuries, emotional or physical release, death, expectations of results, theft in the venue or damages that may happen to people and objects while attending.

1st December FREE GENTLE YOGA FOR BACK PAIN
Delivered In-Person in Edinburgh
FREE

Outdoor Photography Course

By Ami Strachan

Learn how to capture stunning outdoor shots like a pro with our hands-on Outdoor Photography Course – join us and unleash your inner shutter Outdoor Photography Course Join us for an exciting Outdoor Photography Course where you can unleash your creativity and capture stunning moments outside your comfort zone! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced photographer, this in-person event is perfect for everyone. I will guide you through various techniques to enhance your skills and make your photos stand out. From composition to lighting, you'll learn how to create captivating images that truly tell a story. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the great outdoors while mastering the art of photography. Grab your camera and get ready to capture the beauty of the world around you! Location: Edinburgh - Scotland. The place to meet: We will confirm a week before the event date. We will learn: Macro Portrait Landscape Candid Indoor

Outdoor Photography Course
Delivered In-PersonFlexible Dates
£120