In this practical workbook, creativity coaches from around the world share their best exercises to help the reader meet the demands of the creative process, the creative personality, and the creative life.
This book is packed with an extensive list of exercises that have been vetted by coaches working on the frontlines of creativity, and tried, tested, and proven effective with coaching clients. The hands-on activities cover a wide range of common challenges, including creative blocks and resistance, waning and lost motivation, making time for creating, the pain of disappointment, and more. This guide recognizes the connections between mental health and an alive creativity, and includes helpful advice from professionals who actively and regularly work with individual creatives on issues of process, productivity, motivation and career.
Ideal for coaches and therapists, as well as creatives in every discipline, this book is a valuable aid for achieving creative realization.
Edited by:
Eric Maisel (Private practice California USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9780367374921
ISBN 10: 0367374927
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 05 May 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Eric Maisel 1. Your Master Project List Nadia Arbach 2. Flipping on the Creative Switch Dwight McNair 3. Making Peace with Your Inner Critic Jen Johnson 4. Creative Geometry Francesca Aniballi 5. A Birthday Present for the Muse Elise V. Allan 6. Thresholds: Embracing and Utilizing Liminality Litza Bixler 7. Invoking Your Name Like a Miracle Mantra Aneesah Wilhelmstätter 8. Discomfort as Creative Fuel Gina Edwards 9. Seeing is Believing Liz Verna 10. Intention, Action, Reflection Vinita Joseph 11. Don’t Solve the Problem Drew Richardson 12. Vanquish Your No’s and Overcome Procrastination Jude Walsh 13. Create Your Essence List April Bosshard 14. Making a Space Clare Thorbes 15. Problem-Solving Against the Close Kassie Cowles 16. Relaxed, Determined, Forward Nefeli Soteriou 17. The Confidence Shop Visualization Angela Terris 18. Peace Treaty Beatriz Martinez Barrio 19. Character Activation Ariel Grace 20. Persona Mapping Joran Slane Oppelt 21. The Evening Review Marj Penley 22. Move Yourself! Louise Lohmann Christensen 23. Feeling Your Way to Creativity Mary Ann Burrows 24. Tapping to Relieve Performance Anxiety Dwight McNair 25. The Sense Awareness Ritual Halli Bourne 26. Creative Boxes Midori Evans 27. The Power of Visualization for Creative Focus Nick Lazaris 28. The Sacred Spiral Mindful Drawing Exercise Rosa Phoenix 29. Into the Scene Nefeli Soteriou 30. Art-Making: Sacred but Nothing Special Sasha Boyle 31. Just Five Words Nancy Johnston 32. The Creative Zone Stephanie Christie 33. The ABCDEFG Model Niki Anandi Koulouri 34. Ambition without Grandiosity Rahti Gorfien 35. This, Not That, More, and Less Ann Ditmeyer 36. Draw Your Way Forward Rachel Marsden 37. A Haiku a Day Jennifer Duncan 38. Ask Your Muse Lisa Tener 39. Dance Your Heart Out Steph Cohen 40. Creating Bridging Rituals Sheryl Garratt 41. Alphabet to the Rescue Saundra Alexis Heath 42. Imagine, Create, Transform Steevie Jane Parks 43. Don’t Be Alone with Your Inner Critic Karen Andrews 44. N.A.I.L Freedom Aneesah Wilhelmstätter 45. Flip It! Angela Terris 46. Symbolic Visualization for Creatives Marj Penley 47. Fused Creative Blocks Midori Evans 48. A Creative Ritual Exercise for Performance Cynthia Holloway Kelvin 49. Mind-Movie Muse Stephanie Bianchi 50. Creative Problem-Solving Using Tree & Nature Images Jackee Holder 51. Symbols of the Season Nora Sibley 52. Creative Alchemy Pragati Chaudhry 53. Freedom Within Form Ann Boyd
Eric Maisel, PhD, is a retired family therapist, active creativity coach, and the author of over fifty books including Coaching the Artist Within and Secrets of a Creativity Coach, USA.
