My life journey has taken has brought me to a place where I am discovering my own creativity. I am passionate about encouraging others to be creative as well. Ususally the response is the same that mine used to be, “Oh, I am just not the creative type.” That is a LIE from the enemy.
To deny our creativity is to deny that we are made in the image of the Creator. I believe that we may all express our creativity in different ways … Picasso was an painter, Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect, Rachel Ray is a cook, Bill Gates is a computer geek, … but each is creative in their thinking and in their expression.
My friend at Living Abundantly is a creativity coach and has posted a great video from the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. This guy makes the point that our methods of education are nuturing creativity and independent thinking, in fact are very well squelching the creative process. It’s about 20 minutes long, you don’t even have to watch it, just listen. Trust me it is well worth the time.
The discussion now needs to be how to do something practical … how to release and nurture creativity in ourselves and our children, regardless of where and how they are being educated.
Any thoughts?
Immersed in the Mystery,
Cynthia
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beth said,
November 17, 2006 at 9:31 pm
hi Cynthia!
thoughts on nurturing creativity in our kids, AND ourselves? Sure, read good literature, LOTS of free time, buy the best QUALITY art supplies you can, and then LET THE KIDS USE THEM (keep them within their reach, teach them to clean up after themselves, so that they’re not always waiting on Mom to be able to create themselves), and experiment, and JUST DO IT, without waiting for the *right* time, or thinking that you’ve got to read every book or blog about HOW to do it, just DO it! LOL And don’t worry about making sure the kids do it “right” (well, once they’re shown the basics of a given tool/media)… And then (key here) set aside the time (or should I say just drop everything for awhile) and join in on the creative fun yourself (MYself, preaching to myself here)!
Practically speaking though, for the above to happen, we’ve found that it means not overscheduling our days, going too many places, etc. Creativity takes down time, at home…