Carol Lloyd Carol Lloyd has led workshops in the Life Worth Living process for the past 12 years, helping hundreds of individuals attain their dreams. Since "Creating a Life Worth Living" was published in 1997 with Harper Collins she has traveled around the country, lectured on creativity and the arts at a host of public and private universities and professional organizations including San Francisco, State, Berkeley Theological Union, UC Berkeley, Yale, Wesleyean, Columbia, Barnard and NYU School for the Arts training deans, counselors, theologists and students. Lloyd was featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation, KALW's Career Talk and NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge as well as numerous commercial radio and television shows. Her fiction, essays, and feature articles have appeared innumerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, Salon Magazine, SF Focus and the SF Weekly. Her weekly column Surreal Estate about the Bay Area's land battles and housing crisis currently appears every week in sfgate.com.

As theatre writer and director she received grants, awards, and critical acclaim for her productions, plays and educational innovations including an Audrey Skirball-Kenis Fellowship for Playwriting, a San Francisco Foundation Theatre Grant, a San Francisco Education Innovator's Award, and the Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residency. She has designed and lead theatre and dance workshops for at-risk youth and was founder and director of The Flying Buttresses, a theatre arts summer school for children. In 1991 she founded of The Writing Parlor in 1992, a San Francisco literary arts center and theatre that taught writing, creativity, and artistic self-sufficiency to thousands of students.

"In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves."

-- Saul Bellow

Workshops

These small intensive workshops ranging from one day to eight weeks guide participants through the Life Worth Living process, complete with hands-on exercises, discussions, lectures and personal brainstorming on your particular predicament. The workshops have limited enrollment and are very affordable.

The multi-week workshops are limited to 13 students and are very affordable.

Individual Consultations

Consultations lead clients through a highly individualized process of fulfilling their dreams, building a healthy creative process and working through obstacles. Consultations happen by phone and in person.

Speaking Engagements and Reading

I offer book signings and mini-workshops at bookstores around the country as well as in-depth lectures and intensives in the following areas:

Jumpstart Your Life Worth Living

(for anyone interested in realizing their creative dreams)

Creativity Demystified

(for companies and organizations)

How to Career Counsel Those Forlorn Art Students

(for career counselors, professors, and deans of art, dance, theater, writing, film, and design departments)

You've Got Your MFA, Now What?

Career Sorcery for Students in the Arts

I also offer workshops and talks specifically designed for liberal arts students, theology students, downsized workers, entrepreneurs, and women.