Creativity, Spirituality, & Making a Buck

The success of every small business owner, creative professional, manager, and employee hinges upon creativity — and the focus and clarity needed to unlock our full potential. In this course, renowned Buddhist teacher David Nichtern teaches how to sharpen your creative and professional skills and integrate them with mindfulness meditation to transform your relationship to both work and life.

David has spent 40 years integrating his Buddhist practice with a successful, acclaimed career in the creative and business sides of the music, film, and television industries. David shares the tools and strategies that have helped him succeed in business, thrive creatively, and live a rich and balanced life.

With David, learn how to cultivate stability and clarity from meditation practices, unleash your creativity, and form a grown-up relationship to money and your career. By the end of this course, you will understand how to support your professional and creative endeavors, define clear goals, and create a solid foundation for a balanced and thriving existence.

David Nichtern's book Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck makes for a great reading companion for this course. In it, David offers his lived, learned experience as an entrepreneur, musician, and Buddhist teacher to first help you figure out what “success” means to you and then show you how to get there. If you’re trying to align your spiritual, creative, and financial pursuits and discover what it means to truly live well, this book is for you.

• Creativity, Spirituality, & Making a Buck
• Defining Your Offering - A Preview
• Our Relationship to Money & Creativity
• Taking Your Mind to the Gym
• Building Up Your Mindfulness Muscle
• The Benefits of Meditation
• Finding Your Muse
• Meditation & Creativity
• Don't Lose Your Edge
• Define Your Offering Discussion
• Refine Your Offering
• Know Your Market, Do Your Homework
• Homework Assignment Hot Seat
• Overcoming Poverty Mentality
• The Power of Gentleness
• Connecting Sales and Marketing
• Be Aware of the Competition
• Learn Business Judo
• Relationship with Others in Business
• Team Building & Guided Meditation
• Interdependence: We Are Not Alone
• Summing It Up Pt 1
• Summing It Up Pt 2