Venturing Forth onto your Creativity Journey – Stage 2
You are an explorer. You made the choice, walked through the door and began your creativity journey. On this adventure, you will reawaken your creativity and you will find that your unique voice becomes loud enough for you to hear. You will reconnect with your authentic self and begin to …
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Act – Make Your Lists
Exercise #4 in Stage One – Feel the Pull It is now time to prepare for your journey. Just as you would before leaving on a trip, make a list of what you need to do before you leave. (If you aren’t a list-maker, but someone who packs just before …
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Create – Stepping Off
Exercise #3 in Stage One of the Creativity Journey When I first did the exercise described in the Imagine section I was stunned by how powerful it was. My creativity coach Robyn asked me to stand and imagine myself committing fully to my art. I closed my eyes and I …
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Explore – What’s Whispering to You?
If you’ve decided to begin this creativity journey something whispers to you just as it did to me. The sound may be coming to you faintly, coming from a place deep in your soul, but the whispers are likely there. Can you hear them? If the whispers are faint, try …
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Imagine – Walk Through
This is the first exercise in Stage One of the Creativity Journey. Find a comfortable chair and start your journey. One of the things that I love about traveling is the excitement that builds before the journey begins. Before my bags are packed I imagine what I will do on …
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Feeling the Pull Toward Your Creativity
Over the years you may have felt the pull of your own creativity. Perhaps you were an armchair traveler, daydreaming of a creative adventure. On occasion you may have indulged in a creative project and felt the stirrings in your soul. But now that tug on your heart has gotten …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Beating Burnout with Creativity
I’ve been writing a lot about burnout in the Facebook group because I realized that’s something I’ve been suffering from. Back in February, I had three days when I was just too exhausted to move (two of which came during my vacation!!!) The first day I took a sick day …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Why?
I have been writing this newsletter for more than five years now, exploring the nature of creativity, exhorting the value of play and experimentation, and mapping the creativity journey. But why? Why does any of this matter? Because our creativity is at the very core of who we are as …
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Creative Play Newsletter – It’s Time
Yesterday was a blur. I was back in my cube for the first time since March 13, 2020, and my day was full. But, there is one thing from the day that stayed with me. I was listening to a podcast during my morning commute (not at all happy about …
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The Evolution of “3 Ferns”
Because I am talking about where ideas come from in my Creativity Explorers Facebook group this month, I thought I would share the evolution of my most recent piece to show how the idea for it changed over time. This piece began, of course, with the three fern cyanotypes. I …
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