Chris Dunmire's Creative Impulse
One's Contribution to the World of Creativity
Chris Dunmire is an artist and humorist and the driving force behind the award-winning Creativity Portal Web site. She's also a certified creativity coach, trained with America's Foremost Creativity Coach Eric Maisel, PhD, and Kaizen-Muse™ founder Jill Badonsky, MEd.
Chris is the author of several books, including the ever-popular April Fool's Joke Word Search Puzzles and Origami Dollar Bill Money Plant. Learn more at www.chrisdunmire.com.
Creativity Features
A Quest through Maisel's ‘The Van Gogh Blues’
A reflective guide for self-discovery and group discussions.
How to Make a Desktop Zen Garden
Use the art of Zen gardening to relax, rejuvenate, and enhance creative flow.
Forget What They Say
Before you can be a published writer, you have to be a practicing writer.
Soul Food Cafe Interview with Chris Dunmire
Heather Blakey asks Chris a few intriguing questions.
5 Ways Dragon NaturallySpeaking Can Enhance Your Creative Process
Dragon is a great non-judgmental listener, idea capturer, and virtual assistant.
Southwest Arizona Series Photo Prompts
After three weeks traveling in the Arizona desert, I've turned my collection of photos and journal memories into a series of writing prompts.
Are You Validating Your Creativity by Blogging Your Journey?
Are you documenting your creative life by capturing bits and pieces, visual snapshots, and honest memories of it to share with others?
Holding On to Artistic Aspirations
We can be sorted into categories in classrooms and by critics, but we cannot be separated from the longing of our spirit to manifest its creative potential.
Graphic Design Lesson: Mixing Web & Print Graphics
A quick lesson in the ethical, legal, and common-sense reasons why not to use images downloaded from random Web sites in your newsletters and other print projects.
A change in thought by one person can potentially change a bunch of people, even
This is the 6th in a series of how poems and photos can inspire writing.
If you spend your time and energy looking for reasons why things can't work or can't be done, you end up
You've probably heard of the first rule of comedy improvisation: never say no.
Part 3 and final installment of author Sam Bennett's OVERCOMING
There was something about these images that spoke to me, and so I followed that inner leading and placed them all on a
The worst thing you can do to someone who is sad is to tell them to snap out of it, or that things
Perfectionism would be so great...if only it worked.
Get cognitively stronger! Use the following three-step cognitive technique. Refresher Course of
Know your own rhythms. Honor your unique process by making room on your calendar for
Set grand goals and
Be Mused!Be Mused, an informative Q & A column by Susan M. Brackney offers inspiration and good advice for anyone looking to live their dreams — no matter what they may be. Be Mused is a complementary project to Susan's ground-breaking book, The Lost Soul Companion: A Book of Comfort and Constructive Advice for Black Sheep, Square Pegs, Struggling Artists, and Other Free Spirits and its sequel, The Not-So-Lost Soul Companion: More Hope, Strength, and Strategies for Artists and Artists-at-Heart.
