Workshop: The Power of Gathering

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Trainer/Workshop , Creativity

1,5 hour

A room large enough and with a screen to

NL

Discover stories with your smartphone's camera! In this creative workshop, you will discover how to come up with surprising new ideas using simple observations, images and storytelling. Armed with a smartphone, participants will set out to collect extraordinary images, stories and insights. Playful, inspiring and accessible to all.

The power of collection -
Creative workshop
by Timo Sorber

For over 28 years I have worked as a photographer, artist and creator of extraordinary stories and projects.

From that background I give creative workshops and inspiration sessions for organizations, in which imagination, observation and storytelling are central.

Central to my work is the question: how do you revisit what you already know? How does an idea emerge? And how can you use simple observations to create new stories and insights?

In addition to my work as a photographer and artist, I developed several books and projects, including Famous Coffee, Rockingnames, The Giants of the City and Great Antlers. In all these projects, collecting, looking and making meaning play an important role.

Workshop: The Power of Collecting
In this creative team workshop, participants discover how powerful working with images and observation can be.

Instead of searching for the perfect photo, participants create small collections of images with their smartphones. Together, these images form a story, a theme or a new perspective on the environment.

Through watching, collecting and associating, unexpected insights, stories and ideas emerge.

The workshop shows how creativity is not something abstract but arises by looking differently at the everyday.

Participants actively engage with an assignment or theme and then build their own visual collection.

The workshop is playful, approachable and suitable for everyone regardless of experience. The goal is to stimulate creativity, collaboration and fresh thinking within teams.

It begins with a plenary explanation in which I talk about where my passion for collecting and storytelling comes from. Then the participants go out, on a hunt or even an adventure to create their first collection and are encouraged to create a short story to go with it. In the final session, the collections are presented and participants tell their ideas, choices and sometimes already complete stories.

This creative workshop is suitable for everyone, regardless of experience. The goal is to stimulate creativity, discover new perspectives and have fun in the process of collecting and creating.

Practical
Duration: 1 to 2 hours (expandable as desired or multiple groups in a row)
Location: indoor or outdoor (For longer travel distances, an additional travel fee will be included in the quote)
Group size: flexible
Language: Dutch or English

The workshop is often used during team days, inspiration sessions or as a creative break from strategic meetings.

Quotes from participants:

"What started as just taking some pictures ended in a mini-story that I hadn't seen coming myself. Very inspiring."

"Timo knows how to unleash your creativity without you even realizing it. Wonderful to be allowed to look and fantasize so freely."

"Our whole department participated and it was SO much fun to hear everyone's view and story. A nice way to get to know each other differently."

"A playful and surprisingly deep way to encourage collaboration and creativity."
"I am never much into images, but this workshop made me feel that everyone has stories within them. Even with a few simple pictures."

"A perfect workshop for teams looking for fresh ideas or a new angle."
"The nice thing is: you immediately created something you thought of and saw for yourself. That's satisfying."

"Timo's approach is light-hearted and creative, but really puts something in motion. Very suitable as part of a team day or strategy session."

About Timo Sorber:

Timo Sorber loves to create, both with the camera and with his hands.

For over thirty years he has worked as a portrait and reportage photographer. In addition to his commissioned work, he is constantly looking for new subjects that inspire him.

He has published three books:
Famous Koffie, with portraits of Dutch celebrities and their favorite coffee moment,
Rockingnames, about children with unusual names,
and recently The Giants of the City, in which ten city trees come to life as giants hiding among us.

Over ten years ago, in addition, he began the project Great Antlers. What started as a photographic idea grew into a craft art project in which he uses found branches to make antlers, each with its own name and story.

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