Create More Business Creatively
Cowardly Lion? Transform Fear
Meredith Heller
Everything Contains Everything
Life is a web of interbeing. Everything contains everything. And we are part of it. By naming the parts and finding the connections, we weave ourselves back into wholeness and belonging, into interbeing. Let's explore this interconnected web of life.
Creativity: Discipline or Willingness?
Creativity and Spirituality
Tempering the Inner Critic
Carl Jung and Gateways Themes
Dreams for Change
Creative Process: The Legacy
Enhancement Through Repetition
Artist Presentation
Artist Support
Personal Renewal
Collective Renewal
Art Careers in Transition
The Need to Create
Creativity and Relationships
Tribute to Paul Newman
How Fall Benefits Creativity
Creating and Fear
Creative Growth
Creative Process
Analysis Paralysis
Inner Critic
The Muse in Timothy Leary
Interviews
Nu Shooz Musician, Teacher, and Coach Valerie Day
Valerie Day is a mother, educator, neuroscience and psychology geek, and creative explorer who fronted the Grammy-nominated band Nu Shooz in the 80s with pop hits in heavy rotation on MTV. Today, she works with singers who want to create a sustainable life in music through the lens of the mantra, "We are all naturally creative, resourceful, and whole."
Muses
Invoking Leanan Sidhe
Darkness can make a fascinating subject for an artist to explore. Try a little free-writing about shadowy subjects inspired by the Dark Faery Muse of the Emerald Isle.
Meredith Heller
Sanctuary: Create Inner Peace in a Crazy World
Writing provides a refuge in which we can pause, commune with deep self, and nourish ourselves back into equanimity.
Chris Dunmire
Creativity Step 2: Incubation
Dr. Lucas D. Shallua, President of Mount Eagle College and University, has a thoughtful take on the unfolding of dreams, likening it to the egg-hatching process of an eagle and Graham Wallace's 4 Steps of Creativity.
Meredith Heller
Belonging
We are tribal beings. We need and want each other. We long to be included in the clan, to live in interdependence, and to participate in the natural tides of giving and receiving. Even those of us who prefer being alone seek belonging, whether to self, place, or something bigger than us.
Valery Satterwhite
The Muse in Timothy Leary
The 60s represent a colorful and creative explosion of the human spirit. Timothy Leary was one of the most outspoken proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD and coined the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
Meredith Heller
Zen Bones: Boil Your Poems Down to the Essence
Come along with me and commune with nature. Touch the essence of who you are, bone-deep. Together we'll discover the metaphors in nature that help weave us back into the great web of life.
Sara Avant Stover
Dancing with the Dark Goddess
Our lives are composed of interweaving, interdependent threads of light and dark. And still, darkness gets a bad rap. We’re afraid of it. We resist it. We project it onto others. We avoid it at all costs. And for good reason. Darkness reminds us of our vulnerability.
Nellie Jacobs
What Box?
I've interviewed and written about creative people in all kinds of fields: What drives them? How do they get their ideas? Was using their imagination encouraged at home? What, and who, were their influences? Why do some people follow through with their inventions and others not? How does anyone reach their creative potential?
Isette Façìon
The Velveeta® Elvis Not-So-Trivial Parody Game
Ever wonder where the phrase "Velvet Elvis" came from? Or what "Black Velvet" means in the song sang by Alannah Myles? Both pay tribute to The King and capture the essence of his impact on the world of music and popular culture. But wait! There's more. See how weaving cheesy into something can easily make a game out of it.
Cathy Salser, Founder of 'A Window Between Worlds' (AWBW) Interview
Q. In 1992, you founded A Window Between Worlds — how did you come up with the name?
A. When I was traveling across the country, it was so incredible to see how just one art workshop could change somebody. It could open something they didn't think was possible and change their relationship — how they see their child or how they interact with a parent — it could transform their relationship just by having that window of time, and that is why it was called A Window Between Worlds, because the art was like a window of time that would take you from one place to another.
ADVENTure #10
Graham Wallas' '4 Steps of Creativity'
When we look at creativity through the lens of "process", a common framework emerges as stages to research, develop, and implement ideas and solutions.
"Creativity is the very Essence of Life! Our beloved Earth, for example, wouldn't exist if not for the Gift of Creation. As Creator Beings, every moment of every day, we are creating our reality; thus it is so important to be aware of this and to strive to live more consciously, cooperatively and compassionately." —Roslyn Rus, Workshop Facilitator and Writer
Creativity ADVENTures
Enjoy the antics arising from group of hired elves staying one day ahead of you, ambigous wisdom from a deck dealer from Kaffeklubben Island, joyous imperfection from Muses, and plenty of imaginative lessons, playful activities, and random play. The whole elephant's included, A Piece at a Time, in this series based on a book written in 30 days.
SoulCollage® Prompt
Gain Inner Awareness
Become aware of your own inner critic. Notice your own reaction to what your inner critic is telling you — do you believe the insults and criticisms, or are you able to shrug them off and go on about your business?
April Fool's Word Search Puzzles
Growing Poetree Playbook
Origami Money Plant Project
Valerie Day Interview
Invoking Leanan Sidhe
Muses
Following La Fauna
Valerie Satterwhite
Sara Avant Stover
Zaaron Crosby
Meredith Heller
Muses
Following La Fauna: A Journey to the Heart
I had a dream of a strange city in the desert. I passed a man who said, "I am lost here! This is my home, but I cannot find my way." Because I could not find his way for him, I simply nodded and smiled.
Art of the Song
6 Ideas to Taking a Creative Escape
A creative escape is a little time-out-of-time that you carve from your schedule to devote to running away to art. A creative escape is like getting away for a romantic weekend with your lover — except in this case your lover is your creative nature.