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Flaming Muse Workshop:
Angi Sullins has a light-hearted approach to coaching people in the ways of creativity. See these 4 video workshops to rekindle your creativity:

• Session 1: Fanning The Flames
• Session 2: Ash
• Session 3: Flame
• Session 4: The Hearth

Improvisation Helps Children Learn
Improvisation helps children integrate concepts and helps them practice creative thinking skills by putting two or more ideas together to form something new. Listed are ten ways improv can help children.

Getting Started With Macrame
Do you enjoy working with the threaded arts & crafts?

Macrame can be used to create almost anything you can think of—bracelets, earrings, necklaces, purses, belts, wall hangings, frames, curtains, dresses, shorts. It's extremely versatile as an art form. This article will help you to understand the basics and get you started.

Creativity : Cultural Creatives: A Growing Subculture Changing the World

Cultural Creatives: A Growing Subculture Changing the World

According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, "Cultural Creatives is a term coined by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson to describe a large segment in Western society that has recently developed beyond the standard paradigm of Modernists versus Traditionalists or Conservatists. The concept was presented in 2000 in their book The Cultural Creatives. How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (Harmony Books, NY), where they claim to have found that 50 million adult Americans can now be identified as belonging to this group."

Learn more about this growing subculture changing the world and see if you may fit into it by exploring the following of Cultural Creative resources.

Cultural Creatives Websources

Spotlight on:
Cultural Creatives 1.0 —
THE (R)EVOLUTION is a documentary made by Frigyes Fogel, a Hungarian independent filmmaker, on the topic of the Cultural Creatives, people who are taking an interest in improving the quality of life and making it sustainable for future generations. It is NOT a global organization or any kind of political movement, yet there are an increasing number of people showing an enormous change in consciousness, providing examples through their own initiatives, and giving humanity an opportunity to find solutions to the issues of the 21st century. The Cultural Creatives comprise over one third of the adult populations of the US, Europe, Japan, and many major cosmopolitan cities worldwide, all with a similar mindset. In the midst of many world crises, they are anticipating the future as an abundant opportunity.

Cultural Creatives 1.0 — THE (R)EVOLUTION
"This is the first historical documentary showing increasing numbers of people that have experienced enormous changes in consciousness and providing examples through their own initiatives, thus giving humanity an opportunity to find solutions to the issues that we face in the 21st century. You will find many examples in the US and Europe from different sectors of society that give testimony to inspiring ideas and how you and your friends can connect with this phenomenon happening around the world that the actual political elite cannot stop. This film is not about the problems. It is about the possible solutions. 200 million people worldwide, all with a similar mindset are anticipating the future as an astonishing opportunity never before available to mankind throughout the whole course of it's history here on earth."

"Cultural Creatives" at Wikipedia
Online encyclopedia article entries discuss the two types of Cultural Creatives (core, green), characteristics, values, place in business, and further reading.

Alternatives Magazine: Resources for Cultural Creativity
"Alternatives Magazine works (and plays) with the ideals and activism of the emerging culture. We are a forum to express and/or locate the holistic ideas, practitioners, products and events that support a life well-lived."

Cultural Creativity at Work Blog
"Share your ideas about responsible business practices, conscious consuming, social responsibility, the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) and sustainability."

The Cultural Creatives: We Are Everywhere
Interview with Paul Ray from Alternatives Magazine.

Cultural Creatives Meetup Groups Worldwide
Meet other local Cultural Creatives to network and get more involved in positive social change through Meetup.com's interface with organized events.

Cultural Creatives to Dominate in the Age of Enlightened Economics
May 2008 article by Ron Robins, MBA, from his blog "Enlightened Economics, Economics for an Enlightened Age."

The Rise of the Cultural Creatives
Article excerpted from the Jan/Feb 1997 New Age Journal discusses the emerging phenomenon in American culture.

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