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Creativity:
A celebration
The most powerful way to develop creativity in your students is to be a role model. Children develop creativity not when you tell them to, but when you show them.
Robert J. Sternberg in How to develop student creativity
Topics in creativity:
Traits and states: Selection criteria for selecting highly creative students
On the importance of persistence and reflectivity in fostering creativity
Bringing creativity to the workplace -- How to make it work.
In the words of others - Notable thoughts related to creativity
Caring for the inner muse - A separate series of pages devoted to techniques, suggestions, and thoughts for maintaining creative inspiration.
Just for Fun
copyright Leslie Owen Wilson
Learn to Celebrate: Yourself, Others and Life
by Leslie Owen Wilson
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it [support]. . . . We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. Annie Dillard
We are like spokes on a wheel, all radiating out from the same center. If you define us according to our position on the rim, we seem separate and distinct from one another. But if you define us according to our starting point, our source -- the center of the wheel -- we're a shared identity. Marianne Williamson
Being and feeling creative are often a state of mind and of being. Creativity is not always an act that relates specifically to the development of a product, the completion of a project, or to solving a problem. We create everyday and in many ordinary ways. In this context learn to celebrate your accomplishments, experience something new, take safe risks, and savory moments of joy. Learn to experience the wonders of life in new and different ways. Here are some suggestions and starting places for creating joyful living:
Reinvent yourself in some way -- discover a hidden talent; tackle something you've always wanted to do; take a new and different route home; comb your hair another way; try a new food.
Throw something away that is no longer of personal use, or which has meaning or function and celebrate simplifying your life. Literally say good bye to this object, and enjoy the empty space.
Rearrange or move something in your home or office.
Paint or clean something and sing or hum as you do it.
Praise someone else's efforts -- out loud!
Commit an act of random kindness or beauty. And, don't expect others to notice.
Dance, whirl, sing loudly or do something silly in a public place.
Cheer for someone else, or for yourself.
Wake up in the morning and announce -- "I back and I'm here to stay."
Find something or someone to celebrate.
Get excited about some little thing and show it.
Laugh a lot. Laugh out loud. Laugh 'til you cry.
Buy some different type of music and play it loudly -- and dance.
Cook something you've never tried before, or order something you've never tried in a restaurant..
Surf the Net on some bizarre topic.
Have a conversation with or sing to something that isn't human.
Get a massage, or a reflexology foot rub and try to remain in that moment celebrating the gift of healing touch..
Say something nice to a total stranger.
Anthropomorphize something non-living -- give it a name, does it have any human characteristics -- expensive toys, cars, appliances deserve naming!
Create other celebrations, often.
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est.1997, updated 2005
