Lisa Canning has devised a quiz based on two lists of competencies.
The first is a list that Eliot Eisner from Stanford University developed on how the mind processes art
Qualitative relationships in the absence of rules
Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal
Learning to explore possibilities within a medium
Using imagination to see multiple perspectives
Learning to pay [...]
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My wish for the New Year is for all of you dear subscribers to find the time for contemplation and creative expression. I know some of you are closet artists too busy being captains of industry to take the time to paint, but as the Talmud asks, “If not now, when?
My second wish is for [...]
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In this Issue:
Upcoming public workshops
Creativity at Work across the Commonwealth:
Vancouver, Victoria, Singapore, and Sidney
Rituals and Celebrations:
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
~ Leonard Cohen ‘Strange Music’
I used to think rituals and ceremonies (especially religious ones) were a colossal [...]
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Nearly 40 Percent of Employees Say Companies Are Not Creative
One in five U.S. workers also say they would take less money to work at a more creative company, according to a new survey. When asked about their company’s creative potential, 39 percent of respondents said they do not think of their company as a [...]
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Posted in Creativity, Home on Sep 30th, 2007
I was asked this question recently by a neuroscientist who is interested in conducting a study on creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. I spent a week contemplating the answer and this is what I came up with:
Creativity involves two processes: imaginative thinking, then producing or implementing that which you conceive. If you have ideas, but [...]
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