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Updated: Jun 5, 2022
To get the most out of this practice, it's helpful to engage in the ideas as often as you can. Make time and space to engage every day. Let the ideas pass like clouds. Choose a form and let whatever rises through the process to grow. Spend 10 minutes or an hour.
Some big ideas we explore in this series:
Our creativity and writing processes are unique to us, just like our fingerprints. Do you remember fingerprint painting? Children are naturally creative. Connect to the inner child to remember.
Metaphors can be gateways to creative exploration and expression. (The spiral is a metaphor). Invest in a metaphor and see where it leads you.
Consider the act of daily practice and the development of craft as separate processes. Nurture them both. Set learning goals.
Encourage arts to grow by engaging in practice, reflecting on work, referring to elements of style and craft, and by using learning to create something new. Then, repeat.
Reflect: How do you define creativity?
If spirals are in so many things that we can see, then spirals must also shape things we cannot see. How do your life’s lessons move like a spiral?
I want to use the spiral metaphor as a framework for thinking about life too. What can spirals teach us about relationships? Self? Purpose? Our creative work?
Think about the learner and the creator in you. What would happen if they met? How do you describe the relationship between learning and creating?
Over the past couple days, how have spirals appeared in your life?