“Chris is an amazing creator, a mentor, a leader, an inspiration. If you work with her, thank your lucky stars. Then find some more stars to wish on, and wish for the opportunity to work with her again.” — Dave Duggins, Consultant and Creativity Coach, Silvern Studios
Freeing the Creative Within
My Creative Space
The Van Gogh Blues
Through the Eyes of SoulCollage®
Power of Now Journal Prompts
365 Pictures Daily Prompts
The Nine Modern-Day Muses
The Art & Science of Light Bulb Moments
Transforming Change and Loss
Writing Your Way Home
Guided Imagery
Alan Watts on Zen
Art of the Song
Imagination Prompt Generator
Self-Care and Connection
Writing a World-Changing Book
The Art of Is
Inner Critic Care System
Habits to Spark Creative Genius
20Q Interviews
So glad you found your way here today! I have some great news to share with you.
In 2000, I founded Creativity Portal 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. The site has won awards and accolades and is rooted in this virtual space of positivity and creative nurturing.
As we immerse into our our 22nd 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 need to continue to find mutually beneficial ways for sustainability. This is why we're thrilled to offer eScribir, our new online model for you to connect with our creative content.
Yes, for less than the cost of a cafe mocha grande, you can explore, read, engage, and benefit from two decades of our online articles, interviews, projects, and prompts in our expanding content library, and receive special updates in your inbox when we publish new content.
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Warm regards,
For over two decades Chris Dunmire has collaborated with hundreds of artists, authors, writers, coaches, therapists, and thought leaders to produce creativity-inspiring content, expansive series and columns, reflective interviews, engaging writing prompts, and stimulating projects on the award-winning Creativity Portal Web site. Sign up for eScribir for direct access now.
Why are online spaces like this important to nurturing your creativity? Imagine entering through an expansive Creativity Portal with an openness to experience, with the potential to unlock awareness and insights of creativity as a multi-faceted gem with many layers, spirals, opportunities, and possibilities for the perpetual unfolding of inventiveness, imagination, innovation, originality, individuality, artistry, expressiveness, playfulness, inspiration, vision, power, talent, gifts, skills, ingenuity, and outer- and inner transformation. If you are ready for this, please come in!
No Ordinary Time
Creating Your Writer's Life
Journey of Self-Discovery
Look for the Good
Courage and Craft
Learning from Leonardo
Swing Into Creative Play
Flourish In Your Own Creative Style
Creative Through COVID
Freeing the Writer Within
Make Your Creative Dreams Real
How to Draw Lessons
Tightening and Sharpening Prose
Paper Sculpture: Collage Cubies
Light Bulb Moments on Tap
A Year of Writing Dangerously
Opening Your Intuition
Persist
Fabulous Friendship Festival
Higher Levels of Creativity
The Fiction Writer's Journey
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