A creative workshop is aimed at helping people document ideas and thoughts as a therapy alternative. 

 

Often times, we have the ideas, but we don’t have the structure. It’s hard to give ourselves direction and follow that direction 

 

Documenting ideas and thoughts with guidance from a professional or supportive partner offers numerous benefits across personal, professional and therapeutic realms.

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The Idea of a Creative Workshop

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I'm a fan of therapy, or atleast the idea of therapy. I did it weekly for about a year and a half. I like the idea of having a mentor/coach, but I've never actually worked with one outside of a few sessions with a golf instructor. There was value in talking to someone about my problems, about my life, and getting feedback. Someone who would listen and help draw associations between the imagined and reality, to help provide some 3rd person perspective and hopefully objective feedback (as much as someone can without personal bias interfering)

 

However I always felt like I wanted more from therapy. More answers, more notes. Etc. I felt like after a year and a half of me talking about my life, goals, thoughts, reality, ambition, and fears, that I would gain more insight from the other person, but I always felt they may be reluctant to say too much. I know that I tended to work around the problem, and whenver I touched upon something emotional, I would back out and lighten the mood or change the topic. But when I was there, and got to a place that I seemed to touch upon something, it felt good.

 

But it was always a struggle to get back to that point. I always felt like I kept starting over, and could hardly see any progress. Seeing progress is big for me, and probably for so many.

 

Where was the data analyzation of all of the conversations? Where was the keywords that I repeated over and over, what did the pathway look like going from one thought, to the next. Where was the overview of topics, explorations, ideas, and summaries from the past 37 meetings. I walked away from sessions, often feeling better in the moment, but it soon dissipated until the next week.

 

I wanted notes, I wanted more feedback, and more data. I wanted specificity, and action items. I wanted a physical piece of paper at the end the session. An update. A plan.

 

But it never came.

 

That's why I see potential in a more dynamic service than traditional therapy, and not limited to emotions. Being listened to and working with someone makes sense. As much as we like to think we're independent, all of our information that we've collected and gained has come from others. A session that's documented, that the transcript is printed in full, along with a detailed summary highlighting keypoints. A visual component to help bring a new perspective and to track progress.

 

With technology, this is already possible. Antinomic Courtesy hopes to provide a new experience helping individuals document ideas and thoughts to gain clarity and perspective. We don't want to let that information fall into the void. We want to make sure that's able to be accessed and built upon..

 

 

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