{"id":94,"date":"2008-02-23T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2008-02-23T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:52:32","slug":"creating-at-the-edge-the-culture-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/creating-at-the-edge-the-culture-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATING AT THE EDGE: THE CULTURE OF CREATIVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n(To catch up with this topic, see <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.constantcontact.com\/fs018\/1101671080238\/archive\/1101968252243.html\" title=\"Week One Empowerment Organization\"><strong>Week One Empowerment Organization<\/strong><\/a><strong> , <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.constantcontact.com\/fs018\/1101671080238\/archive\/1101977299385.html\" title=\"Week Two One Small Thing Examples\"><strong>Week Two Examples of &#8220;The One Small Thing&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><strong>)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMotivation is a bottom-up, not top-down thing. Each unique individual must be in touch with their own Creative Edge, their own &#8220;felt experience&#8221; of aliveness and creativity.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelow you find an explanation of why taking the time to &#8220;sit with,&#8221; pay attention to the &#8220;intuitive feel,&#8221; the &#8220;something more than words&#8221; leads to maximum motivation as well as maximum creativity and innovation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n&#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a11.php\" title=\"Creating At The Edge Core Concept\"><strong>Core Creativity<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/howwework\/4g2.php\" title=\"Cultura De Creatividad Core Concept website link\"><strong>Cultura De Creatividad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every individual is born with a unique blueprint. Personal growth is the unfolding of this blueprint<\/li>\n<li>Every problem holds within itself the exact next steps needed for solution<\/li>\n<li>The site of new insights and creative solutions is at the edge of what is already known. This edge, The Creative Edge, holds implicit within it all past and future knowing about the problem, more than could ever be put into words in a linear way<\/li>\n<li>The Creative Edge is a right-brain phenomenon and is physically experienced as the murky, intuitive &#8220;feel&#8221; of the whole issue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a1.php\" title=\"Intuitive Focusing\">Intuitive Focusing<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating at the Edge involves a back-and-forth nonlinear process between left-brain &#8220;symbolizations&#8221; and right brain &#8220;felt experiencing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0 Intuitive Focusing skill teaches specific steps which make problem-solving at The Creative Edge\u00a0 and\u00a0 &#8220;Ah, hah!&#8221; insights a predictable process\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Central to Intuitive Focusing is learning to silently &#8220;sit with&#8221; the murky, intuitive, preverbal &#8220;felt sense&#8221; underlying an issue before attempting to find words, gestures, or images as &#8220;symbolizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a2.php\" title=\"Focused Listening\">Focused Listening<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Focused Listening skill is a powerful tool for helping another person to create symbolizations out of The Creative Edge and especially in finding the &#8220;intuitive feel&#8221; for each person in interpersonal situations, turning conflict into creativity<\/li>\n<li>Focused Listening also allows for empathic understanding of the Other and the possibility for conflict resolution which comes from empathic understanding.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1a.php\" title=\"Creative Edge Organization Method\">Creative Edge Organizations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Creative Edge Organization Method ensures maximum creativity and motivation at every level by encouraging Intuitive Focusing by individuals and Coordinated Collaboration in groups and teams<\/li>\n<li>Maximum motivation arises when people are encouraged to create their lives and solutions to problems from their own Creative Edge.<\/li>\n<li>Individuals are motivated when they are engaged at their Creative Edge. When organizational structures lose touch with The Creative Edge of individuals, apathy is created.<\/li>\n<li>True change, at any level, from personal to global, can only happen by engaging The Creative Edge of individual human beings. There is no lasting way to impose change from the outside.<\/li>\n<li>Lasting change is empowered from the individual entering into collaborative action with other individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Paradigm Shifts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paradigms are fixed perceptual schemata, or Gestalts,\u00a0 which determine beliefs, emotional reactions, and behaviors<\/li>\n<li>Paradigm shifts are the source of true creativity, innovation,\u00a0 and change<\/li>\n<li>Intuitive Focusing results in shifts at the level of paradigms. The kaleidoscope turns, a new Gestalt is created,\u00a0 and new thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are able to arise<\/li>\n<li>Paradigm shifts at The Creative Edge release blocked energy as well as creating new solutions&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a11.php\" title=\"Creating At The Edge \">at this link<\/a>\u00a0 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/howwework\/4g2.php\" title=\"Cultura de Creatividad\">en espanol\u00a0<\/a> for the full model of how the use of Listening\/Focusing turns within organizations insures motivation rather than apathy and creativity rather than stultification.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Download Dr. McGuire&#8217;s article\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/freedownloads\/CollaborativeEdgearticleFinal.pdf\" title=\"PDF Collaborative Edge Decision Making\">Collaborative Edge Decision Making Method<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/pdf\/MetododeTomadeDecisionesdelBordedeColaboracionandHandoutsFinal.pdf\" title=\"PDF Metodode Tomade Decisiones\">en espanol<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=79\" title=\"Links to Resources\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">free articles, personality tests, multi-media\u00a0Self-Help training, Classes and workshops<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/about\/index.php#kathy\" title=\"Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Dr. Kathy McGuire<\/font><\/a>, Director<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/about\/index.php\" title=\"About Creative Edge Focusing (TM)\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Creative Edge Focusing (TM)<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">www.cefocusing.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The site of new insights and creative solutions is at the edge of what is already known. This edge, The Creative Edge, holds implicit within it all past and future knowing about the problem, more than could ever be put into words in a linear way\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 (To catch up with this topic, see Week One Empowerment Organization , Week Two Examples of &#8220;The One Small Thing&#8221;) \u00a0 Motivation is a bottom-up, not top-down thing. 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