Show & Tell Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Workshop: Creating Your Future

The act of producing creativity is often a lonely journey filled with boundless possibilities and subjective results and yet the words often attached to ideas, the inspiration of creative expression, involve external objects. We float ideas and bounce them off sounding boards. Fundamentally, for a solitary idea to come to life and flourish, it often needs another entity to not only contain it, but also give it meaning. –Paul Sanbar,  Life Coach at OPI

Have you ever had something you needed to release from your soul? Whether it be a painting, a script, or an innovative design of some kind, you know in your heart and mind that making movement on this personal project would give you purpose and allow you to create the future that you believe is possible. Have you ever had all day, even all month to produce this masterpiece but, ironically you just couldn’t find the right time? You are keenly aware that development on this artistic project would allow you to feel like progress is being made along your journey towards a creative career. Almost as important, it would also serve to signify to your family that this IS what you’re supposed to be doing with your young adult life.

All this knowledge breathes life into your project, and yet you sit motionless in front of your computer due to the increasingly more detracting awareness that the only thing standing in your way is you. You throw your hands up, as paradoxically each idea unproduced weighs on your head putting more pressure on your shoulders. Each project started, but not finished, clouds your mind from achieving simpler daily tasks. Every creative road not taken makes you feel even more directionless.   You keep telling yourself, ‘if only I had this or that’ or ‘I wish I had somewhere to go to bounce ideas off of or hold me accountable to my boundless passion.’

Created specifically for the fledgling young artisan, Show & Tell is a workshop that not only quenches your creative thirst; it also whets your appetite for more food for thought. It gives “if only” a home base to launch towards “then.” Even better, it replaces “I wish” and transforms it into “I will.” Show & Tell serves to provide a framework by demarcating how to transform your ideas into action while the group’s members help to give it meaning through positive feedback and fellowship. The facilitator, a creative artisan with extensive training in the art and science of solution-focused coaching sets the pace for the group and gently attempts to hold accountable the generally inexplicable journey towards creative mastery.

The six-week workshop begins with each member setting forth a goal for their personal project to which everything else will flow. Your creative coach helps to define the direction with future focused questions that invite discussions and produce insight into your process. By releasing these creative ideas, no matter the extent of their formulation, you set up intentions for yourself that provide the roadmap to follow throughout the week.

At each workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to get individual coaching to visualize future success or work through what might have befuddled you the previous week. A creative space is also provided to work on your project allowing for even more momentum to make progress throughout the week. No longer is this a lonely journey without a tangible direction. This is a supportive environment that elicits action. A place where you can Show what you have done and Tell us what you will do by the time we meet the following week. Your boundless passion now has a hopeful and helpful home; a creative sounding board to float your ideas and sail towards your artistic future.

At Optimum Performance Institute, we offer compassionate, clinically sophisticated intensive residential help for young adults who suffer from a variety of mental health issues and learning disabilities. The Show and Tell: Creating Your Future Workshop is part of our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)/Day Treatment Program at OPI.  We treat the individual, not the diagnosis.  OPI is a diverse community of passionate, highly skilled individuals working together with you to help you find your joy and express it.   For more information on OPI’s IOP/Day Treatment Programs in Woodland Hills, CA (just outside of Los Angeles) and our measures to help young adults with Bipolar Disorder, call us at (888) 814-5985 or click HERE to submit an online form. We’ll be in touch promptly.