Creating Creativity: Embodying the Creative Process

Creating Creativity: Embodying the Creative Process

What gets in the way of us creating effortlessly and easily? As artists and/or in our everyday life, this book offers you a unique doorway into the world of creating. Are you creative? Do you know anyone who is creative? These are questions I ask when I teach. The answer to the second one is always "Yes, of course I know someone who is creative". Sometimes they know several people who are creative. It is my assumption that you too know someone who you think of as being creative. Have you ever considered what it is that makes them creative? Were they born that way? Or did they have some special training? Maybe they are creative in a particular domain or maybe everything they touch comes alive with a particular vitality... ...What makes them different from you? Did you ever think of yourself as being creative? Was there any time in your life when you made something you felt yourself to be creative? Often when I ask this question the answer is "No, well maybe once, but I was just a kid". When is it that most of us began to feel we were no longer creative? How is it that the creativity that is so evident in children does not always survive in us as adults?... ...Let me ask you another question. Do you think you have the potential to be creative? The response to this question is usually more positive, "Yeah, I guess I have the potential, but I don't know where it is". I love that answer, as if potential resided someplace and we could just go and find it. I have not yet met someone who I did not see as having the potential to be creative, think creatively or act creatively...