Blogging Creativity Workshop

Robin Horton is the creator, designer, and writer of Urban Gardens, an award-winning green lifestyle and design blog that explores innovative and eco-friendly designs, trends, and ideas for the stylish urban garden. Urban Gardens is the recipient of the prestigious Platinum Creativity Award, the Garden Writers Association Gold and Silver Awards, and was nominated for a Webby, hailed by the New York Times as “the Internet’s highest honor.” Since its launch in April 2009, Urban Gardens has developed a following of more than 30,000 readers and over 3400 Twitter followers. Robin has been a guest blogger at other blogs, including Farm to Table. Her writing has been published in the Fairfield Weekly.

Robin has been a creative director and designer for over 30 years, the last 20 as Principal of
Robin Horton Design, an award-winning creative communications design consultancy. Robin believes good design and good writing are about one thing: good thinking. Both begin with the same question: What am I trying to accomplish? As a creative catalyst, she partners with clients to analyze issues, generate ideas, and inspire creative solutions. Prior to establishing her firm, Robin was VP, Manager, Design Services, at Burson-Marsteller, where clients included Andersen Consulting, Merrill Lynch, GE, AT&T, and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Robin has a BA in French from the University of California, Berkeley and a BFA in Design
from The Cooper Union. She has studied writing at The New School in NYC, The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and completed the Cours de Civilisation Française at the Sorbonne in Paris.

James Navé began telling stories and performing poems thirty years ago at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough,TN. For three decades, he’s traveled the globe as a spoken word poet, strategist, and creativity consultant facilitating, provoking, and inspiring his clients and students to generate ideas and answers, and create solutions that engage and inform. The stories continue to unfold in his one-on-one consulting, strategic development seminars, creativity camps, educational retreats, creative writing intensives, idea salons, speech and performance workshops, spoken word presentations, and in this blogging creativity workshop.

Founder of The Imaginative Storm Writing Salon, writing and creativity workshops and consultancy; Co-producer/teacher with Julia Cameron of The Artist’s Way Creativity Camp; Founder of Poetry Alive!, international theater & touring company; Chief Creative Officer at Strategic Stiletto; Consultant, Loud and Clear, public speaking consultancy. Published in numerous literary magazines and journals.

James Navé has an MFA in Poetry, BA in International Relations, and is a certified Appreciative Inquiry facilitator. He has memorized over 500 poems.