Waking up your Creative Giant Workshop with Mr. Mehul Upadhyay- Day 1

Switch off your shyness, doubts; hesitations like you would ‘switch off ‘ your mobile and believe me for these three hours like you would believe your ‘breath’.

This striking sentence jolted everyone for the first minute or two and left each one of us quite baffled as to how they could do this. Breaking of mental locks was what this two-day workshop was heading towards and it had started off with trying to eradicate the rust off these locks before the attempt to unlock them.

To break the regional proximity, a variety of actions, like ‘Go stand facing the wall’ or go and ‘Drink a half bottle of water’ etc. were assigned to the members, by the members before their being acquainted to each other. Then came a list of mental blocks the participants began voicing out like ‘I can’t dance’ or ‘I can’t sing’ and Mr. Mehul, the speaker instantly brought a halt to these fears and in a way evaporated them by the classic solution- Do it now. The action of ‘dancing’ then just transformed into an action, rather than a ‘fear’ or ‘blockage.’

As the workshop proceeded we were exposed to the difference between ‘confidence’, ‘belief’, ‘creativity killers’, ‘programming structures’ of our brain through various activities and clips. A particular clip from Matrix was repeatedly shown and it did make me wonder why and later I realized the essence was in the meaning of it and not the visuals.

We were realizing gradually how he was circling around the psyche of the human brain and trying to break mental locks of diffidence, disbelief and it making us realize how easy it is to say ‘YES’

We were also exposed to a different school of thought of domains where Mr. Mehul explained to us how an idea is generated through a very interesting method.

Delving deeper into the domains he spoke about dissolving our matters, desires, filters and opening mental locks, exploring different domains. Dissolving the ‘I’, one begins to think in many other domains rather than just doing what he/she has been doing or what he is expected to do, can enhance creativity.

He ended the 1^st day with the sentence- ‘you can’t defend what you can’t predict’…which left us all thinking for what was next. J