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  • Learn Self-Hypnosis to Improve Your Creativity 2 day Courses for Writers

    Learn Self-Hypnosis to Improve Your Creativity 2 day Courses for Writers

    Listed on March 11, 2014 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    An overview of how creativity can be developed when the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind work together.

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  • 3 day Photography Course

    3 day Photography Course

    Listed on March 10, 2014 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    During your visit to Dumfries and Galloway we aim to explore and photograph some unique and varied locations in the area. We will then spend time, using Photoshop, processing your images, and, if required, we have the facility to print high quality images up to A2 size.

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  • Residential Writing Course

    Residential Writing Course

    Listed on March 10, 2014 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    Durhamhill’s writing courses are back for 2014 by popular demand! 3 day residential workshops with Margaret Elphinstone & Mary Smith 12th-14th May 2014 / 6th - 8th October 2014.

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  • Residential Writing Course

    Residential Writing Course

    Listed on March 10, 2014 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    Durhamhill’s writing courses are back for 2014 by popular demand! 3 day residential workshops with Margaret Elphinstone & Mary Smith 12th-14th May 2014 / 6th - 8th October 2014.

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  • Self-Hypnosis to Improve your Writing Creativity

    Self-Hypnosis to Improve your Writing Creativity

    Listed on September 6, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    Hypnosis is a normal and natural state of mind very like daydreaming. In hypnosis your attention is turned inwards to some degree and the mind is settled. It’s much easier in this state to notice the drift of your thoughts. The state of hypnosis allows access to the subconscious and our amazing resources of memory and imagination.

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  • History Writing

    History Writing

    Listed on June 9, 2013 by Arvon in Featured Courses

    We believe that true narratives can be as gripping, as literary and as appealing to the general reader as imagined stories, and we have evolved writing techniques to reflect those standards. Explaining our methods, we will help participants enhance their own capabilities in non-fiction and provide a practical toolkit for realising them.

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  • Fiction

    Fiction

    Listed on June 8, 2013 by Arvon in Featured Courses

    A course to help you in your search for the best narrative voice for this particular story, and guide you on that steep uphill journey from rough idea and draft to arriving at your destination.

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  • Creative Writing Course

    Creative Writing Course

    Listed on June 4, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    Whether you need help to get started, or to edit and develop your work, or simply to get new ideas and inspiration, this could be the course for you

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  • Photography

    Photography

    Listed on May 30, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    A three day residential photographic course, located in the beautiful countryside of south west Scotland.

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  • Willow Weaving

    Willow Weaving

    Listed on May 30, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses

    This two day course will be an introduction to working with willow. Students will learn all the basic techniques required to make a traditional basket.

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