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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
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.
