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Creativity Tips for All Weekly

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Overview

Get tips that can help you nurture your spontaneous impulses and leverage your innate creativity in all areas of your life.

Syllabus

Ben Long: Creativity Is a Skill
  • What is creativity?
  • What is an impulse?
  • The start of an idea
  • Spontaneity
  • Impulse roadblock
  • Tying up your rational self
  • Lost in the noise
  • Nothing to fear but...
  • A taxonomy of creative fears
  • Antidotes to creative fears
  • Creativity and self-confidence
  • Creativity as a practice
Amy Wynne: Obstacles and Antidotes
  • The creative cycle
  • Connection through meditation
  • Journaling for self-reflection
  • Trust the process
  • Multitasking vs. monotasking
  • The joy of letting go
  • Engagement through ritual
  • Natural curiosity
  • Bring back boredom
  • Don't think too much
  • Connect to your senses
  • Pure perception
Stefan Mumaw: Hands-On Exercises to Boost Creativity
  • There's no one right creative process
  • Problem-solve with relevance and novelty
  • Restriction in the creative process
  • Remove implied restrictions
  • Document to promote novelty
  • Divergent vs. convergent thinking
  • Others' opinions in the creative process
  • Start from scratch
  • Hyperfocus
  • Everyday inspiration
  • Unexpected associations
  • Novelty is worth the effort!
Denise Jacobs: Hacking the Creative Brain
  • Creativity is our natural state
  • Tap into your imagination
  • Relax your brain
  • Our creative brains are always active
  • Put your relaxed brain to work
  • Remove distractions
  • Silence your inner critic
  • Laugh yourself creative
  • Get your creative brain moving
  • Embody creativity
  • Incubate ideas by immersion
  • Experiment yourself creative
  • Set the stage for flow
  • Intend inspiration
  • See with new eyes
  • Engage in a dialogue
  • Be bad on purpose
  • Expand your inspiration input
  • Actively embrace boredom
Julian Velard: The Craft of Creativity
  • How do I start?
  • Inspiration is a child
  • Evolving your process
  • Stop making sense
  • The brain likes to build
  • When you're out of gas, you're out of gas
  • Creator versus editor
  • Clarity is everything
  • How to know when you are done
  • The rules of sharing your work
  • Do it all again
James Krause: Creative Cross-Training
  • What is creative cross-training?
  • A notebook and pens
  • Cameras teach art
  • Taking photos vs. making photos
  • Brainstorm yourself
  • Learning aesthetics
  • Bite-sized writing projects
  • Amalgamate: Now!
  • How vital is vitality?
  • Great movies for creative inspiration
  • Master the mini movie
  • Be a shriner
  • Show it off
Tracey Clark: Everyday Creativity
  • Introducing creativity into your daily life
  • Everyday creativity begins with what you wear
  • The details are in the accessories
  • Culinary creativity
  • Creating with table-setting ambiance
  • Display creativity in your home decor
  • Add creative touches with wall art
  • Life enrichment through homemaking
  • Creativity in the garden
  • Creativity with plants and flowers
  • Finding creativity with writing
  • Enrich your life with music
  • Find creativity with photography
  • Find creativity with crafts and hobbies
  • Bring creativity into planning a celebration
  • Creativity with thoughtful gift-giving
  • Bring your creative self into relationships
  • Plan travel with creativity
  • Nurture creativity with movement
  • Add creative spirit to your spiritual practice
George Maestri: The Creative Mind
  • Until something is created, you are not creative
  • Create new brain patterns to create new ideas
  • Get more dots to connect
  • Feed the brain, then give it time to digest
  • Think inside the box
  • Change the process
  • Create by subtracting
  • Do things for the first time
  • They're just ideas; don't marry them
  • Meditation to help creativity
  • Stop thinking and start doing
  • Get out of your own way and into flow
  • Be consistent
  • Fitting in is overrated

Taught by

Julian Velard, Stefan Mumaw, Amy Wynne, Jim Krause, Ben Long, Tracey Clark and Denise Jacobs

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