Highlight Picks

The Red Door:
Expanding Your Capacity for Inspiration
Break through creative blocks with this guided imagery exercise.

Learn:

Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned Painting
Clear Writer's Block: Reader-Centric Writing, Profiling Your Readers
Your Book's Bottom Line: Tracking and Totals
There is No Wrong Way to Doodle
Being Open... for Creativity
What is Creativity? (9 Creativity Triggers)

Flavor 18: Composition
From: Flavours of Thought, Recipes for Fresh Thinking—By Tom Evans

20 Questions—Be Inspired!

Meet Cynthia Morris, certified coach, writer, speaker and enthusiasm generator.

Fiona Robyn has something to share with you about writing and the fear of failure and overcoming it with these useful tips.

Freedom for...
What do you really want when you want freedom?—By Kevin Nixon

Creativity Triggers for College Students
Having taught college students for 30+ years, Edward Glassman, PhD provides guidance to college students about staying creative in school.

The Anxiety Of Performing
A leading creativity coach Eric Maisel discusses "performing" as a classic anxiety producer. It consists of a great many different fears: the fear of being seen as flawed, the fear of criticism, the fear of disappointing people, the fear of being in power, the fear of embarrassment and humiliation, the fear of imperfection, the fear of loss of control, and even more dramatic fears like the fear of loss of love and approval and the fear of annihilation.

The better a job you do of detaching from outcomes, getting a grip on your negative thoughts, and approaching life philosophically, the more likely it will be that you will be able to perform.

Authors : Lisa A. Riley

Integrative Therapy for the Artist & Creative Person

Lisa Riley is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Creativity Coach. She has worked with creative individuals such as actors, musicians, writers, and artists. Lisa has assisted clients on issues uniquely related to the creative process and artistic personality. By utilizing various approaches such as Art Therapy, Visual Journaling, Eastern Philosophy, Guided Visualization, Spirituality and Mindfulness Meditation, she has helped clients reach their creative potential and achieving a more balanced life. Lisa has also written various articles on the creative process & artistic personality. For more information visit TheArtofMind.com and The Art of Mind Blog.

Creativity Articles by Lisa Riley

Creativity-Training Through The Senses
By Lisa A. Riley
Smells, sounds, surroundings - our senses can become a vehicle to arouse creativity.

Highly Sensitive Personality and Creativity
By Lisa A. Riley
Throughout my practice, I have encountered a connection between highly sensitive people and their own creative impulses.

Depression: The Repressed Voice of Creativity
By Lisa A. Riley
Creative energy turned inward and suppressed can manifest into depression.

How to Re-enter the Creative Process
By Lisa A. Riley
After the creative person has been in an immersed state of creative flow, at some point he or she must exit this space.

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Creativity Coaching Spotlight

Creativity Portal® founder, artist, creativity coach, and mentor Chris Dunmire, KMCC, provides deep listening, good humor, and compassionate guidance to anyone desiring to excavate and process their rich experiences of living and reach deeper, more meaningful levels of creativity, artistic expression, and everyday being. Learn more at CoachingYourCreativity.com.