Stage 4 – Forging Your Creativity Path
You will focus more on your own path during this stage. The play that you rediscovered in Stage 3 will continue to be important for feeding your creativity throughout the entirety of your journey. As part of a regular practice, play can help keep your creative juices flowing and when …
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Act – Relive a Memory
Exercise #4 in Stage Three – Play What was something you remembered doing as a kid? Try it again. If you have kids, raid the toy box for toys you loved playing with when you were young. Fashion Plates™ still exist. (I know because I just ordered some, ostensibly for …
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Create – Make Dots
Exercise #3 in Stage Three – Play You may have no memory of the joy of finger painting, of what it felt like as a kid to plunge your fingers into paint and to experiment with mixing colors, with moving paint around on a page, but your body remembers. Locked …
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Explore – What Do You Love?
Exercise #2 in Stage Three – Play For this exercise, start a list of the media that may interest you on your creativity journey. First, go back to the notes you took on your childhood creativity in the last exercise. What media did you love most as a kid? Did …
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Imagine – Remembering Your Childhood Creativity
Exercise #1 in Stage Three – Play How did you play as a kid? Most likely if you are reading this book you engaged in some form of creative play as a child. Your play profile is probably that of the “Artist” and you found joy in making things. Think …
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Learning to Play Along Your Creativity Journey – Stage 3
As children, our creativity flows effortlessly from us. We have not yet learned to question ourselves. We don’t yet hear the negative voices and see no distinction between our created selves and our authentic selves; there is no artifice yet. For this reason, a vital step in your creativity journey …
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Act – Get Ready
Exercise #4 in Stage Two – Starting Out The action that you took in the last chapter was to create your To Do list of prep items. As if you were preparing for a journey, you created a list of the things that you would need to do to get …
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Create – Paint Your Vision
Exercise #3 of Stage 2 – Venture Forth As you imagined the start of your journey in the earlier exercise, what did you see? Get out some poster paints, watercolors, crayons or whatever you have handy, and paint it. But wait, as soon as I placed that period I could …
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Explore – Who Are You?
Exercise #2 in Stage Two – Venture Forth You will learn a lot about yourself during this journey of a lifetime. You will discover strengths that you didn’t know you had and you will uncover your authentic self. But you start this journey with more than you realize too. Take …
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Imagine – Your Creativity Journey Starts Now
Exercise #1 in Stage Two – Venture Forth Now that you have ventured forth, where does your adventure begin? Though I didn’t realize that I was on my creativity journey at this stage, when I do think about my trek, I envision a jungle. You walked through the door or …
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