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By Chris Dunmire
Dear Creative Friends,
So glad you found your way here today! I have some great news to share with you.
I founded Creativity Portal in 2000 as an online repository and dynamic community for creatives of all kinds to both enjoy and participate in. This growing resource has connected individuals with essential creative content, tools, and resources and access to thought leaders and coaches who make a true difference in our world.
As we enter our 21st year online, our vision is to continue to hold invaluable online space to foster creativity, uplift, inspire, and inform. Thriving independent Web sites like ours are fueled by passion and integrity and we need to continue to find mutually beneficial ways for sustainability. This is why we're thrilled to offer eScribr, an all-access model for you to directly connect with our creative content.
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SARK Names Creativity Portal 'Excellent Writing Resource'
Bestselling author SARK includes Chris Dunmire's Creativity Portal as an "excellent writing resource" in her colorfully artful signature-style hand-printed book Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually DO It.
Invitation to Creativity Authors
Did you just write a book?
We want to hear from you! If your new (or about-to-be published) book explores creativity through an expressive, therapeutic, holistic, spiritual, or practical lens, or is related to art, writing, crafting, or other modes of creative expression please contact us and tell us about it.
9 Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) 12
Meet Jill Badonsky's amusing muses Aha-phrodite, Albert, Marge, Bea Silly, Spills, Audacity, Lull, Shadow, Muse Song, and Arnold (the Bodyguard) and learn how they can masterfully guide you through the stages of your creative process.
Alan Watts on Zen 3
In Zen, Watts captures the essence of Zen Buddhism as a religion and a way of life, including the influence of Zen in the arts. Includes The Momentous Harmony, The Cultural Effects of Zen, and Direct Pointing.
Habits to Spark Creative Genius 9
Author Jeannine McGlade is an expert on creativity and innovation and takes you through nine strategies to spark your creative genius in this engaging series.
Project Tutorial
Collage Cubies: How to Create Innovative 3D Paper Art 5
Collage Cubies are a fun play on traditional collage art which results in a three-dimensional sculpture with delightful, and often unexpected results. This step-by-step project includes two printable Collage Cubie templates for large and small cubes. Try making Collage Cubies once and you'll never view paper collage art from 'inside the box' again!
Creativity Portal Featured in 'Web-Based Learning'
Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers and Karen L. Rasmussen use Creativity-Portal.com as an example "portal structure" Web site in the textbook Web-Based Learning: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation (Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall). The book "equips readers with strategies for designing effective online courses, creating communities of web-based learners, and implementing and evaluating based on an instructional design framework."
Guided Imagery Meditations for Your Creative Journey 9
Guided Imagery intertwines words and imagination to evoke positive scenarios and possibilities to stimulate and inspire your creativity. This collection of meditations center around the themes of discovery, expansion, surrender, nurturing, trust, courage, play, freedom, and comfort, inspired by the Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™ model developed by Jill Badonsky with Robert Maurer, PhD.
Creating Your Writer's Life 9
Author and writing coach Cynthia Morris leads writers to creating a productive writer's life through a priorities inventory, overcoming excuses, and realizing their most valuable writing tool.
Eric Maisel on Creativity, Depression, Meaning 11
Creativity coaching pioneer Eric Maisel is the author of Making Your Creative Mark, The Van Gogh Blues, Mastering Creative Anxiety, Brainstorm, and many other books on creativity.
NCTE's 'English Journal' Recommends Creativity Portal
The English Journal is "NCTE's award-winning journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools." In this affirming review, editor Colleen A. Ruggieri highlights Creativity Portal's dynamic writing and blogging tools, expanding writing and photo prompt library, and examples of useful articles teachers can use to inspire writing in the classroom.
Random Imagination Prompt Generator 1
Engage your innate world of imagination and uncover hidden gems through the element of surprise. Open to possibilities and allow this inspirational instrument to help you reach beyond the surface and dip deeply into your creative well. Are you ready?
Freeing the Writer Within with Natalie Goldberg 9
Classic Writing Down the Bones author Natalie Goldberg offers an abundance of wisdom for writers through interviews and selections: Beginner's Mind, Pen and Paper; Engendering Compassion; Alleviating Writer's Anxiety; Warning! (To Writers); What is Practice?; Flourishing in Your Writing; and more.
Writing Your Way Home 6
Satya Robyn is a novelist, psychotherapist, Buddhist priest and the co-founder of Writing Our Way Home. Through the practice of mindful writing, Satya leads you through the experiences of slowing down, fear, gratitude, and joy.
In Praise of the Creative Spirit 11
Peter Clothier is a long time observer of the contemporary art world, and a widely published writer. Enjoy thoughtful conversation and pieces from Persist, Slow Looking, and Mind Work.
Light Bulb Moments on Tap 7
Imagineer Tom Evans invites you to change the way you think so your mind works to your advantage and you are not a slave to your thoughts.
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Writer's Digest Names Creativity Portal a '101 Best Website'
Creativity Portal is a multi-year recipient of the golden Writer's Digest '101 Best Websites for Writers' award. This illustrious award is given annually to select Web sites in eight categories ranging from creativity and writing advice to agents and publishing/marketing resources. We're honored!
365 Pictures: Daily Photo and Prompt 1
This hidden treasure's inspired untold teachers, students, and writers since 2009. Our photo-prompt-a-day feature is the result of the collaborative efforts of scores of artists, photographers, writers, teachers, and creatives worldwide who answered the call to participate. Their contributions combined personal pictures, images, art, and illustrations with global perspectives to spark your imagination.
Creativity and Success 10
Creativity coach, author, and workshop leader Susan Ann Darley works with people from all professions to increase personal awareness and enhance creativity through creating life strategies, marketing talents, and defying the odds while developing courage to live true to personal vision.
SARK on Creativity and Transformation 5
Our juicy collection where best selling author and artist SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) explores creativity, inner critics, change and loss, and perfectionism.
Mini-Series: Zen with Alan Watts
How wondrous, how miraculous, this— I draw water and I carry fuel! —Zen Poet
The New York Times has called Alan Watts, "the foremost Western interpreter of Eastern thought for the modern world." Timeless wisdom carries forth from generation to generation through thinking minds and expressive hands.
This new mini-series on Creativity Portal is based on Watts' 1948 classic Zen, and captures the essence of Zen Buddhism as a religion and a way of life, including the influence of Zen in the arts.
How does Zen relate to creativity? The journey is yours to discover.
Selections include The Momentous Harmony, The Cultural Effects of Zen, and Direct Pointing.
Mindful Writing Practice with Satya Robyn
Learn how to use your creative passion for writing as a way to slow down, work through fear, and experience more gratitude and joy in this enlightening series by Writing Your Way Home co-founder Satya Robin. As a novelist, psychotherapist, and Buddhist priest, Satya demonstrates how writing in small stones can help you pay more attention to the world around you and practice praise.
Explore The Joys of Mindful Writing; Writing Your Way Towards Slowing Down; Writing Your Way Towards Gratitude; Writing Your Way Through Fear; and Writing Your Way Towards Joy.