New & Updated Creativity Resources

What is Creativity?

Learn what creativity is, how creativity triggers generate new ideas, and practical techniques for strengthening creative thinking.

Creativity is a Learnable Skill

Learn why creativity is a learnable skill and how training can strengthen creative thinking, idea generation, and problem-solving.

Linear and Nonlinear Creativity

Learn how linear and nonlinear creativity, bizarre ideas, and creative connections can lead to useful innovations.

Climb the Problem-Solving Ladder

An eight-step creative problem-solving process for defining problems, generating ideas, developing solutions, and creating action plans.

1. Solve Organizational Problems
   Bring diverse people together to define problems, generate ideas, develop solutions, and create action plans.
2. Design the Meeting
   Create the right environment, involve the right people, and support productive creative thinking.
3. Creativity Techniques for Problem Solving and Innovation
   Help participants generate, combine, develop, and improve ideas during innovation meetings.

Brainwriting Techniques for Creative Idea Generation

Brainwriting techniques for generating ideas privately, triggering new connections, and strengthening creative thinking in groups or alone.

Future Fantasy Techniques

Creativity techniques and problem-solving methods covering creativity triggers, idea generation, team effectiveness, paradigm shifts, and innovative approaches to solving complex problems.

Like-Improve Analysis: Evaluate and Improve Creative Ideas

Practical creativity techniques for generating, evaluating, improving, and applying ideas to problems at work, school, and everyday life.

9 Magic Dots Puzzle: Thinking Outside the Box

Creative thinking puzzles and practical techniques for challenging assumptions, shifting perspectives, generating ideas, and solving problems in new ways.

Management Habits That Stifle Creativity at Work

Practical insights into workplace creativity, creative management, idea generation, motivation, collaboration, and strategies for creating an environment that supports innovative thinking.

Team Interaction Patterns That Affect Creativity at Work

Building creative teams, improving meeting communication, recognizing unproductive interaction patterns, and creating conditions that support participation and new ideas.

Good Relationships Improve Creative Output

Research on team creativity, creative leadership, innovation, collaboration, and building workplace environments where people can contribute their best ideas.

Can Government Be Creative and Innovative?

Practical ideas on creativity, innovation, brainstorming, problem solving, and building environments where unconventional ideas can lead to useful solutions.

A Paradigm Shift: The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Creativity techniques and thinking tools that challenge assumptions, shift perspectives, generate ideas, and lead to more original solutions.

The Dark Side of Creativity

The surprising ways creative behavior can affect decisions and problem solving.

Everyday Creativity and Card Magic

There I was, writing about the secret behind a fine trick, and it finally struck me as immensely creative.

Natural disaster turns into an artful attraction at Amboy, Illinois, Green River City Park

Chainsaw tree carvings.

Where art lives

The hidden psychology of placement and energy.

The Color Codes

Color is the oldest language.

Art as an act of time travel

Art opens time in ways we rarely pause to notice.

The power of negative space

The paradoxical nature of pauses in art and life.

The myth of the lightning bolt

What real creative revelation looks like.

Where the edge lives

More than just being creative.

The middle space

When your creative voice shifts and refuses to be who it was.

Artists Lead Revolutions

The creative portal we're stepping into.

The Unfinished Painting

What happens to art that never gets completed?

The Art of Seeing: Beyond the Surface

At its core, art is an invitation — to see, to feel, to remember.

Harnessing AI for Artistic Expansion: A Creative Revolution

AI isn't here to replace artists; it's here to expand what's possible.

The Art of Channeling: Creativity as a Portal to Higher Consciousness

There's a moment in the creative process when the world fades away.

Finding Your Voice and Revealing the Unseen

What unseen truth is waiting to rise through your art?

When Art Speaks

Ask your art what it needs, what it wants people to know.

Creativity and 'Just a Quilt?'

What happens when a scientist's curiosity meets a lifelong love of creativity?

14 Lessons for Writing Children's Picture Books

A useful guide to the creative and practical challenges of writing children's books.

Storytelling, Self-Publishing, and Insanity

How do you go beyond simply telling a story to publishing a book?

A Conversation with Susan M. Brackney

Creative careers in the arts interview.

Beat Isolation and Stay Connected as a Creative

Solopreneur isolation and socializing tips.

Screenwriting Success Without Moving to Hollywood

Creativity, inspiration, and the Golden State.

How to Claim Your Copyright

How the copyright process works.

How to Commit to Your Creative Projects

Managing creative overwhelm.

Creativity and Poverty

Living resourcefully, creatively, and meaningfully on limited income.

Five Steps to Unsmothered

Protect your creative time and strengthen your relationships.

Happy and Productive?

Does happiness help or hurt creativity?

Hiding Behind Wordsworth?

Handling creative critics.

How to Fund a Creative Project

Practical advice for artists, inventors and creative entrepreneurs.

Find Your Creative Muse Again

Overcoming creative blocks.

How to Stay Focused and Finish Creative Projects

Focus, finish, and boost creative productivity.

Many Hands Make … Well, You Know

How collaboration helps you finish creative projects.

How to Publish Your Poetry

One poet, many possibilities.

Preserving the Artist's Mystique

Should artists share their sketchbooks online?

Make Time for Creativity

By setting better priorities.

Putting Off Those Pink Slips

How to handle rejection and creative criticism as a writer.

Some Refreshing Honesty in Order

Why truth fuels creativity and authentic living.

Retraining the Brain

How to break mental habits and unlock creative thinking.

The Science and Art of Self-Discipline

Building habits that lead to success.

Finding the Side Door to Success

Targeted promotion, professional representation, and strategic networking.

Time to Start the Freedom Fund

Investing in the future you want to create.

Overcoming Creative Blocks

How to finish what you start.

Overcoming Music Burnout

Silencing your inner critic and rediscovering the joy of making music.

Following Your Passion & Paying the Bills

Balancing artistic ambition with financial reality.