Getting creative work done with Oliver Burkeman

Learn how to stop procrastinating and start doing at this inspiring evening course

If you’re struggling to fit creativity into your schedule, we’ve got a fantastic masterclass for your diary. This fun evening course with Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman offers tips on how to stop promising to make time for creative work – and actually get things done.

Oliver writes This column will change your life, a regular column for Guardian Weekend investigating productivity and mental wellbeing. During this masterclass, he’ll draw upon psychological research and personal experiments that will help you to manage your own time more effectively. Come along and find out how a bit of organisation can help you to beat procrastination and start fulfilling your true creative potential.

Course content

• How to make creativity a part of your life
• Advice on how to stop procrastinating – and start doing
• The paradoxical idea of scheduling creativity
• Motivational myths – how to distinguish between the urgent and the unimportant
• Advice on how to organise your time more efficiently
• Lessons from modern psychology
• Finding focus – deep concentration methods
• Tips on managing your relationship with technological distractions
• Oliver’s own favourite techniques for getting creative work done
• Q&A

This course is for you if…

• You want to make progress with a creative project alongside having a full-time job and/or family
• You struggle with procrastination, and want to learn how to boost your productivity and get creative work done
• You’re a writer, artist or creative practitioner who wants to learn how to manage your time more effectively

Tutor profile

Oliver Burkeman is one of the Guardian’s best-known columnists, having written This Column Will Change Your Life for many years. In his Guardian Weekend column, he writes on psychology, creativity and the science of happiness. He also writes regularly for Guardian US. In addition, Oliver contributes a monthly column to Psychologies magazine, and is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, published by Canongate. He lives in New York City. Find out more about Oliver on his website.

Full course and returns information on the Masterclasses website