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Creating a Business: Last fall I gave a short workshop on small business development for my local SCORE chapter -- a wonderful community... -
Creativity and Empowerment: Both our sense of empowerment and our sense of our creativity arise from a connection with the self -- and... -
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Tag Archives: creativity
Creating a Business
Last fall I gave a short workshop on small business development for my local SCORE chapter — a wonderful community resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The content was focused on using the creative process deliberately as a tool … Continue reading
Creativity and Empowerment
Both our sense of empowerment and our sense of our creativity arise from a connection with the self — and both have a forward-facing aspect as well, as we experience the many ways in which the world responds to us, … Continue reading
Newsweek on the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking
NEWSWEEK ON THE TORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING Back in November, I offered an homage to E. Paul Torrance and his ground-breaking assessment of creative potential, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, or TTCT. (I morphed it to the “Timely … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, measuring creativity
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European Conference on Creativity and Innovation
I will be traveling to Brussels at the end of October to present a workshop at the 11th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation. It’s a great opportunity to get to know some people in the creativity field in Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in creative process, creativity, innovation
Tagged creative process, creativity, ECCI, innovation
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Riding the Arc of the Story: Inciting Obstacles
All of a sudden, you have it: a beautiful idea! It comes to you full blown and shimmery. Perhaps something brand new you’ve never before conceived, or perhaps the result of pondering long and hard. Regardless, there it is: exciting, … Continue reading
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Fear of the Pink Tutu
Over the past several months, I’ve been part of a team developing an experiential program on creativity and innovation for business audiences. We are now stepping up our marketing efforts for the program, and in the course of this I … Continue reading
Primary and Elemental
Two books in my current stack, having a conversation with each other: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, by educator par excellence, Sir Ken Robinson, PhD; and poet David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage … Continue reading
Janus and the Big Tent
Janus is the Roman god with the two faces, one looking forward and one back (or: in opposition). In the 1970′s, psychiatrist Albert Rothenburg coined the term “Janusian Thinking” to describe the oppositional energies that are often present in creativity. … Continue reading
Buffalo Bound: The Creativity Quest
Recently I’ve become aware of the many ways that people respond to the question of “creativity.” For some, it ‘s a fluffy,vague, floaty immateriality—the stuff of bohemia. For others it bespeaks their own artistic expressions–expressed, or stifled. Others see creativity … Continue reading
