World Famous Comics: Inspiring Creativity: An Anthology of Powerful Insights and Practical Ideas to Guide You to Successful Creating
Inspiring Creativity: An Anthology of Powerful Insights and Practical Ideas to Guide You to Successful Creating
From: Creativity Coaching Association Press Publisher: Creativity Coaching Association Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Creativity Coaching Association Press Number of Pages: 224 Publication Date: April 15, 2005 Release Date: April 15, 2005
Product Description: Inspiring Creativity is an anthology of essays by 22 professional creativity coaches. The articles explore a wide variety of issues that can help people undertaking any type of creative work. The back cover reads as follows: Whatever type of creative work you do – writing, painting, acting, dancing, composing, crafting, or inventing – Inspiring Creativity will transform your results. Written by 22 practicing creativity coaches, this anthology presents a fascinating array of thoughtful approaches, practical tips, and valuable insights to engage your mind and help you become a more productive, successful creator. You’ll learn how to give yourself permission to create, find muses to arouse your imagination, develop big ideas and techniques to work deeply, and find time to live your creativity every day. You’ll receive the encouragement and support you need to honor yourself and face the challenges of the creative life. Powerfully motivating, the 22 articles in Inspiring Creativity represent the collective wisdom of a diverse team of knowledgeable, sensitive coaches who stand ready to guide you to your full creative potential.
A bunch of letters If the result of this book, based on the title was to inspire, It does not!.
I found it like a set of letter about creativity, but the organization, the quality of content and the topics where not enogh to inspire something.
Of course always we can find something good, but I just found only 2 dossiers that you can see the writter really work for what they get payed.
Less than Inspiring A collections of writing from top creative coaches with anecdotes. Somehow I found the stories are boring and suggestions didn't inspire me to be creative. Very disappointed.
Creativity coaching Since ten years, I have been teacher of Creativity and Inventive of Engineering's students, the courses of educational formation in high education and of postdegree of teaching in high education, and this book is really one of the best ones than I have read. I widely recommend because it presents tips practical to help us to develop our creative potential by creativity coaching of another person and ourselves. Specially, the ideas to live our daily life creative are very valuable to enjoy the creative process and product.
Midwest Book Review, October 2005 Issue In the last five years, the field of coaching and mentoring creative artists has taken off as its own little cottage industry. Eric Maisel, more than any other writer/teacher/psychologist, seems to have had a major role in this genesis, so it's no surprise that this anthology is kicked off with a Foreword by Maisel. He says, "If you get it into your head that you must write novels, compose symphonies, prove or disprove string theory, or in some other way really manifest the potential of your heart, mind, and hands, you have set yourself on a journey that traditionally you have had to navigate alone. Now you need not feel completely alone: creativity coaches are available to help" ( p. xi).
The book is broken into six sections: Give Yourself Permission to Create, Choose a Muse for Inspiration, Create Big Ideas and Work Successfully, Live Your Creativity Every Day, Express and Honor Yourself, and Challenge Yourself to Higher Creativity. The sections form a natural progression, and each section contains three or four pieces. More than just tips and easy ideas, most of the articles advocate philosophies for approaching creativity that would be beneficial to all areas of art, writing, acting, or inventing. The only thing missing in this first edition is an index and a list of resources for further study and research. Perhaps as the field expands and later editions are created those items will be included.
The 22 professional coaches and experts who contributed to this volume are some of the best minds in the still nascent industry of creativity coaching. Four particularly good articles were: "Igniting a Creative Spark Within: How to Establish Creative Focus" by Suzanne R. Roy; "The Hero Within: Using the Mythic Journey to Discover Meaning in your Creative Work" by Michael Mahoney; "Of Flying Monkeys and Modern Day Muses: Who You Gonna Call?" by Jill Badonsky; and "Get BeMused: How to Find Yourself a Creative Muse in the Unlikeliest of Places" by Kaylen Bennett.
This is a fascinating collection, particularly for writers, but it would also serve as an excellent source for the college and online courses springing up to teach the art of creativity coaching. ~Lori L. Lake, Midwest Book Review
Creative "Jaws of Life" in this book of inspiration 22 coaches of creativity provide their insight into delving the mind and spirit for inspiration. Some of this is intellectual; creativity as your spiritual birthright, how to tap the Muses by understanding how the personification of the arts is meaningful. Other advice is the type that writers need--how to write a memoir, getting unstuck, focus and self-awareness.
I found this book more aimed to the writer than the visual artist; still, there is a lot of wealth and wisdom here. If you are in any of the creative arts or in business, where creativity is a useful skill in problem-solving, then you ought to have a copy of "Inspiring Creativity" on your shelf. It just may get you unstuck someday. Think of it as an emergency "jaws of life" for those days when the juices just don't flow.
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