Does your classroom need a creative reboot? Teachers, are you looking for ways to energize your own creative capacities? Parents, have you considered sharing creativity with your children? Find new creative energy as you unlock possibilities using everyday objects. By revisiting an ordinary object and expanding its possibilities with your imagination, you open opportunity spaces […]
7 Days, 7 Ways
7 Days, 7 Ways Maximize Your Creativity In Only One Week Each week is a fresh start for you to create something new and learn about yourself in the process. Keep your creative practice simple and focus only on the next seven days in front of you. Take small steps each day and see just […]
What Is A ‘Creative Practice’?
What Is A ‘Creative Practice’? Define Yours – Explore these 5 approaches Every day the world is demanding you to be more creative — at work, at home, and in your life. Everywhere you turn you are faced with a new responsibility to ‘be’ creative, but you are struggling to get there. Creative experts […]
Creative Blocks Can Be Good
Creative Blocks Can Be Good Reframe the Purpose of Temporary Creative Barriers Creative Blocks. We all get them. Every single one of us will experience the closed channels to our creative capacities at some point during the creative process. Creative blocks can last a moment, a couple of weeks, or go on for great […]
Make Space For Your Creativity
Make Space For Your Creativity How to Prepare for Your Creative Practice Building a physical and mental space for your creative practice is the first step to becoming an active creative practitioner. Think of the physical space that you create as the portal between your thought space and that which you imagine becoming a reality. […]
Creative Invention
Creative Invention Borrow creative rhythm from children’s book authors to launch your imagination. I grew up with the rhyming and storytelling genius of Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss, and the collected fairy tales and nursery rhymes of Mother Goose. I lived those stories in my imagination, and I welcomed the characters as my childhood friends. […]
Adapting Your Creative Practice
Adapting Your Creative Practice In Times of Uncertainty Like many during this pandemic, I feel overwhelmed after months and months of being distanced from my usual creative practices. Oh, how I miss conversing with other creatives at art openings, visiting museums, dancing or singing in the studio, collaborating in groups, and traveling to new cities. […]
The Importance of Creative Reflection
A crucial part of the creative process is taking time out to reflect. Making sense of your own creative process and creative practices is just as important as what you make. Reflection supports your creative process by helping you understand WHY you are doing it in the first place. I encourage all of my students […]
Practice, Practice, Practice
Practice, Practice, Practice. To be creative you have to do creative. And the do is the practice. This is the first lesson I give my students when introducing them to creativity. Like anything you want to develop or grow, you must expect to put in the required time and practice. Creativity is no different. It […]
Why Beginning Is Everything
Creative beginnings are never easy. Even the most experienced creative practitioners deal with the intimidation of creative beginnings. Just the thought of beginning something new can trigger any worn-out narratives you have lined up from your inner naysayer and send choruses of self-doubt singing on cue. Even when there is creative confidence, you may hold […]