Giving a quick shout-out to my book GETTING MESSY: A Guide to Taking Risks & Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches & Mentors.
Check it out at online retailers or your local bookstore. Thanks! 🙂
Facilitating Creative Breakthroughs
Giving a quick shout-out to my book GETTING MESSY: A Guide to Taking Risks & Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches & Mentors.
Check it out at online retailers or your local bookstore. Thanks! 🙂
Creative power is Godlike. When we’re on fire, nothing can stop us.
Can a boulder block a stream?
No. The stream is going to go somewhere whether the boulder is there or not. A boulder can’t stop it.
The Deep Creative is the power of that stream and it’s possible for us to harness it. Deep Knowing is the divine wisdom and creative powers that are only accessible when we move beyond the linear mind. Because our culture has been so highly focused on knowing and perceiving through the left hemisphere, we’ve dismissed the extraordinary powers of our right cerebral hemisphere.
The language of the right hemisphere is metaphor and engaging with it in a deep way will shift your state of being, align you with your own deep knowing, and hook you up to an incredible realm of divine wisdom.
Check out my book Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Knowing on Amazon.
Eight Essentials for a Creative Life.
1. flexibility
2. the ability to play
3. sensitivity to beauty
4. openness to experience
5. a willingness to be confused
6. an internal locus of evaluation
7. an inclination to let curiosity lead the way
8. the ability to hold opposing ideas in mind at the same time
inspired by Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person
I see so many people spend tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of dollars on training, certifications, and degrees because they’re afraid to embrace their true gifts. They think that they just need the proper credential and then they can finally do the work that’s been calling them.
They feel that what they DO know isn’t “good enough.” They feel they need outside validation.
But true gifts are by definition UNIQUE. Your gift is yours alone to validate and own.
And when you value it, the rest of the world will value it too.
I’ve never had the proper credentials or certifications. What I’ve had is resourcefulness.
If you’re a creative person with innovative ideas, you may not have a track record of being validated by the world…yet. And you probably don’t feel you have the proper training and ‘credentials.’
How could you? By definition, creativity is something the world hasn’t seen before.
I have yet to work with a client who needs more training in order to achieve her life purpose and express her creative gifts. In fact, it’s amazing how many smart people (especially women) collect endless certifications and credentials and spend all kinds of money (and time) on training after training, because they fear their real gifts aren’t legitimate or good enough.
I don’t mean to disrespect training programs. I just object to the knee-jerk tendency to solve every career dilemma or redirection with yet another certification.
One of my clients calls it “kicking the can down the road.” Her focus is always on something outside of herself that she needs to get. Once she gets it, she kicks the can again.
The problem is, she never gets there.
Our thinking minds tell us we need more training. We think we need something outside of ourselves and all we need to do is “get” it.
But your gift is already present within you. You need to own it and then share it with the rest of us.
I had a fun, rich, deep conversation with Jennifer Louden about the potency of creativity. Jen is a super thoughtful resource for all things creative and I love her podcast. It brings so much substance to the conversation about creativity and creative work.
Here’s the full link to the podcast: https://jenniferlouden.com/create-out-loud-2/episode-38/?fbclid=IwAR3yBU0LhYKCAw6JBbH_XEb_kemQcCezyiSGQiK0_cgy0keOUzzKSQPk5SA