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Creative Problem-Solving Using Tree & Nature Images by Jackee Holder ** Exercise purpose Trees are associated with generative and often restorative associations including balance, alignment, rhythms and cycles, loss and resilience. Trees remind us of the natural...

The Sense Awareness Ritual: How mindfulness helps you create by Halli Bourne ** Description of the exercise When imagination runs amok … Among the numerous many strengths we creative people possess is our ability to imagine. We can create whole worlds from snippets...

Just Five Words by Nancy Johnston ** Exercise purpose   The purpose of this exercise is to help creatives who are working on writing projects reconnect with their projects and make small steps toward restarting or kickstarting the writing process. It will also support...

Symbols of the Season By Nora Sibley ** Exercise purpose This exercise helps creatives connect with their senses and the season as a vehicle for building personal meaning in the work. By connecting the physical and mental associations, new creative sparks fly and...

15 Great Artists on Beauty “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”-- Francis Bacon “If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”-- Frank...

As winter descends, let's hear from twenty great artists on their relationship to nature. 1. "I have gone into roses and have over a thousand planted. There is nothing like making pictures with real things." -- Mary Cassatt 2. "Wherever I go I need a period of...

Symbolic Visualization for Creatives by Marj Penley ** Exercise purpose Symbolic visualization benefits creative folks in numerous and powerful ways. For example, symbolic visualization enables us to become aware of the obvious and obscure aspects of ourselves and to...

Creative Alchemy by Pragati Chaudry ** Exercise purpose This exercise uses colors to alchemize gremlins by awakening a creative’s sensory, nonverbal intelligence. Breakthroughs in brain science are now confirming that the nonverbal portion of the brain plays a...

Peace Treaty: A Dialogue Between the Critical Voice and the Creative Voice By Beatriz Martinez Barrio Exercise Purpose To soften the power of the critical voice and to allow creative energy to express its needs and desires. Exercise Description When there is a...

The ABCDEFG Model by Niki Anandi Koulouri ** Exercise purpose This journaling exercise, based on Albert Ellis’s ABC model, can help creatives work through the process of ABCDEFG questioning and help them challenge themselves by disputing negative self-talk. Doing this...