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Speaker: Ms. Kristin Newton Artistic Director, Right Brain Research, Tokyo
"Imagining a more creative brain through drawing?"
Date: 8 December 2006
Roundtable Topic Do you see problems as a challenge or an obstacle? Does confronting the unknown force your mind to close down or does it get you excited? Are you always looking for the "right answer" or do you stay open to the limitless possibilities? If you hit a wall, do you give up, thinking you cannot scale it? This roundtable will deal with perception, observation and hand-eye coordination by introducing hands-on exercises that untap your Right Brain potential. These drawing exercises may seem frivolous - how, you may say, does drawing connect with problem solving? But the process of developing creative skills goes deeper than just making pretty pictures. Developing creative skills enhances concentration, imagination, visualization, perseverance - traits essential to solving problems by thinking "outside the box". At a time when a lack of imagination and openness has led to so much violence and conflict around the world, this roundtable addresses the endless potential of the human brain and creativity.
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Kristin Newton holds a degree in Fine Art from California State
University, Northridge, and taught there before being invited to
Japan on an art exchange program. From 1982 until 1993, she worked
on many glass and sculpture commissions in Japan, Hong Kong, and the
U.S. for banks, hotels, public buildings, Buddhist temples and
private residences while associated with the Mayfair Stained Glass
Studio, the largest in Japan. Ms. Newton studied under Dr. Betty
Edwards (author of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain") and
also under Dr. Georgi Lozanov (the "father" of accelerated learning)
for more that 10 years. In 1993, she established RBR, Inc., a
creative arts center in Tokyo featuring the “Drawing on the Right
Side of the Brain” techniques. She also regularly conducts Right
Brain workshops for schools and corporations in Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Korea and other locations worldwide.