When I work with clients, it’s so apparent that deep creativity is not of the head or thinking mind. It’s coming from an entirely different place. Their creative visions are coming from a place that’s ALIVE. We need art because to change our world, we need what is alive. Click here to read the full…
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…
When I’ve felt stuck in my creative journey, I’ve found that sometimes the smallest shifts can unlock surprising breakthroughs. Here are In my article for Greater Good Magazine, I share six powerful ways to clear creative blocks and reignite that spark—methods I’ve used personally to nurture my own creativity and help others discover theirs. Give…
Creative breakthroughs happen when we perceive what lies beyond our ordinary ways of looking. Writing a fairy tale offers that much-needed shift in perception, opening up new realms of possibility that logic alone can’t access. Fairy tales offer surprising and insightful answers that can’t be found through the thinking mind. As I often remind my…
“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…
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