INTUITIVE FOCUSING: TRANSFORMATION = PHOTOS OF LOTUS FLOWER OPENING
Photos of lotus flower unfolding (in Arkansas!) are metaphor for the gentle opening from potential to actualization that comes from Intuitive Focusing.
FOCUSING AND BUSINESS: BUILDING COMMUNITY AT WORK
Creative Edge Organizations encourage creative, innovative problem solving from each individual's fresh, intuitive, right-brain thinking by teaching Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening as basic skills of "emotional and social intelligence." The exchange of Focusing/Listening turns builds feelings of "buy in" and "community" while encouraging innovation, creativity, and diversity.
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CREATIVITY = THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX = PARADIGM SHIFTS
PRISMS/S PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS Creative genius includes thinking "outside the box," setting aside preconceived concepts and ideas and being able to "look at" a problem from a…
CREATIVITY, INTUITION, AND GLADWELL’S “BLINK THINKING”
INTUITIONS GUIDE CREATIVE DECISION MAKING "Blink Thinking" In his best-selling book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking(Little Brown, 2005), Malcolm Gladwell justified the importance of intuitive, "gut"…
FOCUSING AND CREATIVITY: FINDING TREASURE IN BLOCKS
RELEASING BLOCKS TO CREATIVITY "Treasure Maps To The Soul" Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin, Certified Focusing Trainers, have made a life's work at discovering the treasures that lie within…
INTUITIVE FOCUSING AND CREATIVITY
Intuitive Focusing is a predictable method for "Ahah!" experiences based upon Gendlin's six-step Focusing process. During the act of creation, artists/writers/ innovators naturally stop often and sit quietly, referring to their "inner bodily feel" of the next step in a creative project. Intuitive Focusing provides a predictable, learnable self-help skill for enhancing this "intuitive," right-brain aspect of creativity.
CREATIVITY: FINDING YOUR UNIQUE “TOUCHSTONE”
See previous blog Creating At The Edge: Culture of Creativity for introduction. INTUITIVE FOCUSING EXERCISE: THE "TOUCHSTONE MISSION" So, let's modify the "One Small Thing" Focusing Exercise a little…
CREATING AT THE EDGE: THE CULTURE OF CREATIVITY
(To catch up with this topic, see Week One Empowerment Organization , Week Two Examples of "The One Small Thing") Motivation is a bottom-up, not top-down thing. Each…
EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION : “One Small Thing” Examples — Corporate, Non-Profit, Grass Roots
Kathy's Experience: "One Small Thing" Focusing Exercise (see Week One Empowerment Organization for Introduction) I did the "One Small Thing" Focusing Exercise included below on my own problem/goal:…