Melissa Dinwiddie
Melissa Dinwiddie’s superpower is enabling creativity, whether you believe you’re creative or not, helping you push to the fearlessness side of things to spark innovative ideas all throughout your company. Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, she helps your team “think with their hands,” getting their ideas on the table in 3D. As a visual practitioner, she gets their ideas up on the wall in graphic form, so you can see the big picture—themes AND gaps. Whether in a half-day workshop, a multi-day offsite, or anything in-between, her methods are fun and engaging, and people feel heard and respected while activating both left and right sides of the brain. Teams rave for months about how much fun they had learning. Melissa is a mutiply-certified facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods and materials. A professional artist & calligrapher for 15 years, I bring a creative outsider’s perspective to your corporate setting, and now channel my background into graphic facilitation. Also, as a trained improv performer and jazz singer, Melissa teaches teams the skills of collaboration, communication & leaning into uncertainty in high-stakes contexts. As an online business owner since 2010, Melissa has developed the skills to deliver online sessions for distributed, virtual, or hybrid teams.
Melissa Dinwiddie
Melissa’s Book:
The Creative Sandbox Way
Want to live a full-color life? Need a boost in your momentum and confidence? Life is too short to not express the innate creativity inside of you and The Creative Sandbox Way is your path to living a more creative life than you ever thought possible.
Filled with paradigm-shifting lessons and stories, journal questions, thought-provoking creative prompts and coloring pages, The Creative Sandbox Way will help you take the fear out of creating and bring back the joy.
An excellent antidote for creative burnout, as well as a primer for anyone just getting started with creative pursuits, whatever your form of creative expression and expertise this playbook for creative living will help you learn to be comfortable with and embrace your own, authentic creativity, while offering a compassionate approach to dealing with your demons.
You’ll learn:
Melissa’s 10 fool-proof Guideposts that have helped thousands get joyfully creating.
5 reasons why creative play is good for you, AND for the world (it’s neuroscience, baby!)
Why “I’m not creative” is always a lie, and how to bust it.
How to turn creative blocks into friends.
In short, The Creative Sandbox Way is a new approach to your creativity that will transform how you relate to it forever. Whether you’re stalled by perfectionism, impostor complex, or any other form of resistance, this book will help you move forward, learn to play again, create more work, and infuse your life with more happiness as a result.
Contact Melissa:
I help large and mid-sized tech companies unleash creativity at every level to...
...increase productivity
...foster innovation
...improve customer satisfaction
...be more competitive
How? Through PLAY!
Custom-designed and facilitated workshops and offsites using LEGO® Serious Play®, applied improvisation, art methods, and graphic facilitation.
Watch Melissa in action:
https://youtu.be/99_8ADMsqHw
Author of The Creative Sandbox Way™
http://creativesandbox.solutions <--consultancy website
http://melissadinwiddie.com <--personal website
http://creativesandboxway.com <--book website
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadinwiddie/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_creative_life/
