Kim Hermanson PhD

Facilitating Creative Breakthroughs

imagination

You don’t need to find your words, you need to find your image. Images help us find our depth.

During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing. Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry.  Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or [ Read more … ]

Six ways to break your creative blocks

Six Ways to Break Your Creative Blocks. Give yourself both internal and external space. Creativity needs space. Pursue what’s important to YOU. Creativity is intrinsically motivated. Embrace your full vision. For your creativity to flourish, it wants your biggest vision. Weed out the things and situations that you find draining or dull, and instead feed [ Read more … ]

my new article in Spirituality + Health magazine

“Most of us typically associate metaphor with the flowery language that poets use or with things that are made up: ‘That’s just a metaphor.’ In other words, we typically treat metaphors as outside of ourselves, when in fact they are the deep, sensory, intuitive language of the feeling center of our brain. To say that metaphor is [ Read more … ]