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

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Magic Dots And Research & Development
This exercise will help you to expand your ability to solve problems. Many times we set boundaries for ourselves when problem solving. We've got to think outside of the box, way outside of it. When literal definitions are not so important, we can redefine our creative process when deriving a solution to life's challenges. Who says that a line is completely without width? These dot puzzles will challenge you to rethink your creative problem solving boundaries.

Sisters and Brothers in Arms: The 100th Monkey Syndrome —by Tom Evans
A change in thought by one person can potentially change a bunch of people, even a whole nation.

Isolation and Education: Two Themes that Inspire Writing —by Hank Kellner
This is the 6th in a series of how poems and photos can inspire writing. Read more...

How the Creative Mind Works —by Michael Michalko
If you spend your time and energy looking for reasons why things can't work or can't be done, you end up with nothing.

Nurturing Young Imaginations: Never Say 'No' to Creativity
You've probably heard of the first rule of comedy improvisation: never say no. Read more...

Creativity : Mind Mapping

Explore Mind Mapping

Easy Diagrams Map Out Your Creative Ideas!

Mind Map (aka mind-mapping, idea map): A diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.

To help you appreciate the simplicity of creating mind maps to help you organize your ideas around a theme (and how useful they are in the creative process!), we asked artist Violette to illustrate a simple mind map related to the writing of her book Journal Bliss: Creative Prompts to Unleash Your Inner Eccentric. Her mind map below illustrates how she planned out her chapter ideas.

Notice the central idea ("Journal Bliss") in the map middle surrounded by six smaller items linked with arrows: Fanciful Lettering, Funky Envelopes, Image Transfers, Bodacious Borders, Doodling and Faces, and Groovy Backgrounds. See, even writers use mind-mapping to plan out their creative projects!

Mind-Maps, Mind Mapping Features

How Mind Mapping Integrates Creativity and Organization
By Jabe Ziino
Are you looking for a tool that will help you to think creatively while also providing a way to stay organized and goal-focused?

ThinkBuzan: Generate Creative Ideas with Mind Mapping
By ThinkBuzan
Article series from ThinkBuzan, the official Web site of Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping software. Tony Buzan is credited with inventing the Mind Mapping process.

Mind Mapping: A Powerful Tool for Visual Folks
By Violette
Have you ever Mind Mapped before? It's a visual way to get your thoughts and goals down on paper. Mind mapping is a powerful tool for visual folks.

Mind Mapping: Making the most of your right- and left-brain
By Linda Dessau
"Mind mapping is a whole-brain method for generating and organizing ideas, originated by Tony Buzan, and largely inspired by Da Vinci's approach to note taking."

Creativity Maps: Getting the Most from Your Creative Life
By Dan Goodwin
Anyone familiar with Mind Map techniques will see how easily that technique can be modified for the purpose of producing Creativity Maps.

Mind-Mapping Resources

Think Buzan
The official website of Mind Mapping and its inventor, Tony Buzan. The Mind Mapping technique is now used by 250 million individuals worldwide to help them plan, organise, innovate, present and project manage.

Mind Mapping at Wikipedia
"A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing."

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