Creative Mornings Derby – Friday 21 July

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Everyone is creative. Everyone is welcome. We’re a free monthly breakfast lecture series for Derby’s creative community.

The Coffee House the new home for CreativeMornings/Derby, for the 3rd Friday of each month Creative Mornings will be in The Coffee House from 09.30am.

We’re thrilled to have Jonathan Leach helping us explore this month global theme of Treasure – Jonathan has been in the field of communication for more than 30 years and is passionate about helping people become better communicators, be it through helping them with effective marketing strategies, crafting creative messages, connecting them through his networking events or developing individuals to become more confident and impactive speakers.

Director of Indigo Drum Communications and previously has been Head of Communications for Derbyshire Police and Royal Mail, Jonathan has trained hundreds of people in communication techniques including preparing chief police officers in dealing with the national and international media, supporting chief executives in delivering keynote speeches and developing business owners in networking and personal communication styles.

He also loves the creativity of the theatre and has run his own theatre company and was commissioned, along with a great team of young people, to deliver supportive messages through drama to over twenty secondary schools. He is currently collaborating on a project to help vulnerable young people find their voice.

Jonathan plans to lead a fun, fast-paced interactive session looking at the psychology behind the fear of public speaking, and importantly he will detail proven techniques as to overcome it and illustrate how to excel and enjoy speaking to any audience, small or large.

July’s Theme is Treasure.

Treasure takes many forms, both physical and intangible. Yours may be a ring that has been passed down to you from your ancestors. A hidden spring of water in a parched land. The budding, implicit trust of a new friend. New photographs of the wider galaxy, full of iridescent swirls of matter and light. The ruins of a people from a faraway time and place.

Our instinct is to clutch them tightly. We seal our treasures in glass cases, to preserve them from time’s decay, to display them as testaments to our worth. We fear their loss, yet in this fear, we lose our ability to cherish them. We must soften our grip and magnify our time spent in their presence, precisely because nothing will stay with us. Eventually, even crown jewels will pass into dust.

What happens when we expand what we treasure beyond the rare, the beautiful, and the precious to the ordinary and the unnoticed? Even graffitied poetry on the side of a bus stop is a relic of someone who had passed through there, leaving traces for future archaeologists to excavate. What treasures can only you discern?

Our Brisbane chapter chose this month’s exploration of Treasure, Spectator Jonze illustrated the theme, and Mailchimp is presenting the theme.

Extend your creative morning at Derby Museums with the Creative Mornings Derby – Derby Museums Day Pass for only £16, including:

• Continental breakfast with tea and coffee at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
• A classic sandwich lunch at The River Kitchen at the Museum of Making
• All day access to The Prospect, the hotdesking space at the Museum of Making

The event is FREE but If you would like to purchase the Day Pass please Book in advance via the link.

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