Bonnie Neubauer's Write-Brain Exercises STARTING SOON!

By Chris Dunmire

While browsing the writing section at Barnes & Noble recently, I spotted The Write-Brain Workbook by our own Bonnie Neubauer (remember the Punny Costumes contest?). I suddenly remembered that Bonnie & I had discussed featuring a series of exercises from her book as well as Take Ten for Writers on Creativity Portal. Thanks to BN, I got back in touch with her and resumed our creative collaboration . . . in more ways than one.

The exciting news is that beginning in February, and over the next few months, you'll be treated to a hand-picked selection of Bonnie's fun-filled writing prompts and exercises (she let me choose 10 from each book), and you'll get to experience her wordalicious-ness play through, among many things, onomatopoeia, 'one sill a bull', 'LINGO-istics', and 'VocabuLeery'. I'm SO looking forward to this!

Stay tuned . . .

Chris Dunmire, Creativity Portal®

P.S. I'm still available as a Master Coach to coaches-in-training in the next Badonsky/Maurer Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach Training session beginning February 15. If you're planning on taking this 17-week creativity- and life-enhancing course and would like to work with me, please request me when you register online.

Not Just a Number

By Peter Clothier

An idea came to me this morning during the half-hour meditation that is my daily practice. I know I’m not supposed to be thinking while I meditate but sometimes — okay, often! always! — the thoughts do come and my mind goes chasing off after them. So it happened this morning. The idea that came turned out to be a delicious one, and I was unable to let it go.

Here’s the thread: For nearly two years now my writing mind has been preoccupied with the book I published early last year, Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce. For a good few months before the publication I was busy assembling this collection of essays that spans some thirty years of observations about art and artists, writers, and others whose lives are devoted to creative work. In the time since publication I have been almost exclusively engaged in doing what any author is obliged to do with the outcome of his work: making it known to the rest of the world. I have been writing about Persist, speaking about Persist, social-networking about Persist. Persisting is after all what the book is about. All of which has been good and proper, and I have enjoyed the trip. But in the past few weeks I have been feeling that old itch to set off in search of something new. Read more »

How to Creatively Transform Tragedy, Loss or Change

By Ronald Alexander

I believe that within all of us lies dormant the potential for tremendous transformation that can lead to greater happiness. In my many years as a mind-body psychotherapist, educator, trainer, and consultant I’ve watched thousands of clients let go of their false beliefs about who they are and what roads are open to them, and observed them as they found new paths to fulfillment and happiness that were previously hidden by their fears. I’ve helped them see their lives as a canvas for self-expression that could, and should, reflect their personal passions and values. You too can open yourself up to the possibility of creatively transforming any crisis, loss or change in your life by following this three-step process based upon my book, Wise Mind, Open Mind.