How to Use Creative Play to Build a Better Future Chrissy Levett

How to Use Creative Play to Build a Better Future. I liked the sound of this before I even listened to the exchange between Chrissy Levett of Creative Conscience and David Chislett for the 2021 Playful Creative Summit. I wasn’t disappointed. I’m quoting Levett from within one minute of their conversation: “In order to change…

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Bruce Honig Easy Ways to Fertilize Your Creative Self

Bruce Honig, IdeaGuides, gifted 2021 Playful Creative Summit attendees Easy Ways to Fertilize Your Creative Self in his discussion with David Chislett. Honig has a fascinating definition of creativity: “the act of doing something that we’re not familiar with  initially… Getting from here to there when we’re not really sure how to get there… So…

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Annabel Mangold – Priming Your Environment for Creativity

Annabel Mangold blew soap bubbles to start her conversation, Priming Your Environment for Creativity, with Alyea Sandoval for the 2021 Playful Creative Summit. I’m paraphrasing her very broadly – find touchstones, reminders of your projects, intentions, ambitions, and keep them near – but choose carefully and sparingly. And be very generous in defining touchstones – ANYTHING…

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I used to be a poet – thoughts and a teaser…

I used to be a poet. Attended workshops, co-edited some student-run creative magazines, participated in readings. Here’s the T. Rex in the room: “I used to…” Imaginative instincts never leave you. They just go fallow. I set myself a challenge, June 1, 2021, to start writing a poem a day. Haven’t come close!!! I have…

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Competition ain’t playful

Competition ain’t playful – it can be healthy, if it’s goal-oriented. BUT… don’t confuse competition with play, actively engaging in relaxing, mindless, unstructured, “timeless” and/or energizing pastimes without any purpose other than having fun. Which, by the way, seriously promotes creativity, productivity, and health. Our need for play, our instinct for playfulness, is as fundamental…

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Bradley Charbonneau – Write Your Worst Book Ever

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I’ve been utterly riveted by The Playful Creative Summit I stumbled on months ago. I can’t express how glad I am for that good fortune. I’m listening to presentations while suffering through data entry into QuickBooks. It’s taken the place of my beloved morning radio talk show. I’d be playing them in the car if…

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Organizing for the Creative Person – Dorothy Lehmkuhl & Dolores Cotter Lamping

Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-brain styles for conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching your goals Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping make it easier for people who aren’t comfortable with “traditional” folder-and-cabinet organizing structures to understand why those systems don’t work for them. And why that’s OK!! This book was published waaay back in 2005…

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Celebrate the mystery

Machines can’t crochet. A client taught me that. Looping my chain on-line, sleuthing taught me that no one can build a machine which can pattern and manipulate needles with the complexity of the weaves our hands stitch. There is a contraption shamelessly dubbed a crochet machine, but, in fact, its talent is “warp knitting.” Celebrate…

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