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History of The Artist's Way at Work
From hand-bound, self-published copy to one-million copy bestseller.
Twenty years ago at the New York Feminist Art institute, Julia Cameron began teaching the principles that later became The Artist's Way. In a workshop for writers and artists suffering from creative blocks – where students paid by dropping $5.00 into the kitty – Cameron started to refine her methods for unleashing creativity. Not long after, she met Mark Bryan, then a graduate student in Chicago studying marketing. When she told him about her project, he was initially skeptical, but put those feelings aside and started the program. It changed his life. "I couldn't talk to myself in the morning pages for very long before I had to take a good look at myself… I changed my body, got fit, started lifting weights. Eight months into the program, I had visions that became my first film script. I became a writer using the tools [of The Artist's Way]."
"Taking The Artist's Way was like reading a great short story," says Bryan. "When you're in the middle of it you think you know how it is all along, how it's going to end – you have your own agenda – but are surprised and thrilled by what then turns out to be the real ending."
By 1989, co-teachers Cameron and Bryan were hand-binding xeroxes of their course notes, making 50 at a time (the number that happened to fit in a box), and bringing them by the trunkload to local independent bookstores.
Expanding the workshop-tested tools of The Artist's Way, the million-copy bestseller that began as the country's most successful course on creativity, The Artist's Way at Work embraces Mark Bryan's Harvard training in organizational psychology, group dynamics and human development; Julia Cameron's two decades of experience developing and teaching the principles of successful creative practice; and high-tech consultant Catherine Allen's twenty years of international experience in new product and business development.
The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
by Mark Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine Allen
Pub Date: June 1998
ISBN: 0-688-15872-2
$26.00
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