Creativity and The Self: Mixed-media Storytelling

Join for a multifaceted workshop on balancing life with creativity. Scholars, researchers and creative types from across the globe, all tell of improving one's well-being through creative practices. Whether an entrepreneur, parent, or someone holding multiple jobs or commitments, creativity is fuel for staying forward and free in a world full of digitization, fault, and fun.

This workshop will include a talk, with group discussion, about creativity and centering/expanding self, facilitated by Justin of Disruptive Cheerleader Productions, home to The Human Prototype Lab, and a major fantastic hands-on workshop of mixed-media storytelling led by Sevgül of Evil Strawberry Illustration & Design.

What’s Included

✅ All supplies (paper, adhesives, scissors, magazines, paint etc)

✅ Drink of choice from bar/restaurant

✅ Creative support from your host

✅ A small, encouraging take-home gift

✅ Gezellig vibes!

🗓️ Where

13:30 - 16:00

Mostly-private room at Gastropub Van Kinsbergen

Prins Hendrikplein 15, 2518 Den Haag

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Just bring yourself - your experience, voice and truths. We are excited to share a space with you!

Yours in optimism and realism,

-Justin W. Nadolski
Creative Event Guru, Thought Partner, & Community Enthusiast
Founder, The Human Prototype Lab
Owner, The Disruptive Cheerleader | Global Home
Instagram: Disruptive.Cheerleader

-Sevgül S. Dielemans
Illustrator, Graphic Designer, & Arts Guru
Owner, Evil Strawberry Illustration & Design | site
Instagram: Evilstrawberry_id

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Questions? Email me Justin@DisruptiveCheerleader.NL

About Your Hosts

About Sevgül, your creative co-host and founder of Evil Strawberry Illustration & Design. Creative activities will be led by co-host, graphic designer and illustrator Sevgül Sümer Dielemans of Evil Strawberry Illustration & Design. Sevgül is an organizer and facilitator for a phenomenal evening, international drawing group. She has mentored designers, and she has taught people how to become fabulous painters. Her free time is fiercely coveted to enjoy nature for inspiration, as well as time with her husband and two cats. Some of Sevgül's current hot projects are illustration for (top secret) and creating a graphic novel (also top secret). She is a Dutch citizen, originally from Turkey, bringing a warm, welcoming force for community and atmospheric-level collaboration for all. For more about Sevgül, visit Evil Strawberry Illustration & Design!

About Justin, your co-host and founder of Disruptive Cheerleader & The Human Prototype Lab. Justin Nadolski takes great pleasure in organizing groups, events, and giving people an easy, intimately safe place to connect and sometimes unravel. As an immigrant from de Verenigde Staten, he arrived in the Netherlands with husband and two cats just this January 2025. From being a visual artist, poet, and veterinary hospital administrator, to recruiting director and regional trainer, Justin stands by this motto: What each person creates for their world, in their life, for their moment, is something no one else can do, not even a machine. Motivating others or holding a space for other humans to speak truth in intimate, safe spaces, is his purpose in life. Though constantly reading about self-development, brand creation/management, and odd academic research around creativity, he can also be caught watching a horror movie now and then. He goes against norms, especially as traditional ways do not work in such a fast-shifting world of creativity, business and community protective relationships, hence the business name The Disruptive Cheerleader. More at Disruptive Cheerleader and The Human Prototype Lab.

Some Literary references

Some interesting reads referenced have been:

1. Creativity and Well-being: A meta analysis, Acar, S. et al, Leiden Universteit (2020)
2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin (2023)
3. Creative Therapy: Using Art to Improve Your Mental and Emotional Health, Wayne Pascall (2023)
4. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life, Twyla Tharp (2003)