Ayoa

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mental health is a thorny, multi-faceted topic and one which cannot be comprehensively tackled in a single blog post. That’s why, to mark World Mental Health Day, we’re going to be looking at one specific aspect of mental health – that is, the importance of creative security for mental wellbeing at work. Try it for free.

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The Coaching Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Many people struggle to express their creativity, and your role as a coach is to help them overcome obstacles and unleash their imaginative capabilities. Making a Positive Impact Facilitating the creative process can have a profound impact on people’s lives.

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The Coaching Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Creativity coaching is a type of coaching that focuses on helping individuals, usually artists, writers, and other creative professionals, to achieve their creative goals and overcome creative blocks. Maisel is a Creativity Coach, psychotherapist, author of more than 50 books and speaker.

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 28, 2022

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as, “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity, and leadership.”

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Mind Mapping Software

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Before we know it, we’re in a stressed-out frenzy trying to keep our head above the flood of e-mails, reports, projects, blog posts, updates and sundry that add up to information overload. doesn’t just provide AI-generated keywords to stimulate creativity. How important are questions to the creative process?

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Mind Mapping Software

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Sublime Canvas transforms this experience by seamlessly connecting three critical elements of the creative process: 1. The post New Sublime app rethinks creative work with an AI-powered visual twist appeared first on Mind Mapping Software Blog. Your personal library of collected ideas 2.

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Mind Mapping Software

MAY 21, 2022

Questions are a key part of the creative process. Perfect when you’re brainstorming and don’t want anything to interrupt your creative flow. The post Ayoa and ContextMinds: 2 unique approaches to AI appeared first on Mind Mapping Software Blog. It’s easy. Simply select a topic and GenerateIdeas.ai

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Lateral Action

JULY 26, 2010

Image by digicla This article is part two in Cynthia’s series on making feedback a positive and empowering part of the creative process, following on from How to Ask for Feedback (without it Blowing up in Your Face). The post How to Deal with Stinging Criticism appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Big Rocks Engineering

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creativity is what distinguishes a business from its competitors. Innovation is a creative process. Competition may kill the business, but if it’s innovative enough, then it will have an edge to survive and stand out. It stretches the imagination and offers limitless possibilities. As […].

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Lateral Action

JUNE 26, 2012

Illustration by Oscar Ramos Orozco We all know vegetables and exercise are good for our health – but who’d have guessed boredom was good for creativity? My latest piece for The 99% is about Why Boredom Is Good for Your Creativity, and explains a harsh truth about the creative process – and what to do […].

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Faster Ideas

JUNE 9, 2021

As ever, the purpose here is to tell you how you can use this in terms of creative thinking. This blog has mentioned many times that the brain loves patterns and ordering its perception around things that are familiar to us. When this innocuous thing happens, creative thoughts can thrive. Okay, enough of the grammar lesson.

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The Coaching Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE The post Creativity Coaching Certificate / Diploma appeared first on Coaching Blog.

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The Coaching Tools Company

AUGUST 14, 2024

These articles were first posted on Julie's blog, The Coaching Cube , and have been updated for inclusion here. Ideas: Where you are their scribe while they're brainstorming—they'll be thinking hard and having to note their own ideas could disrupt their creative process!

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Mind Mapping Software

AUGUST 15, 2024

This journey led me to start a blog and, later, a YouTube channel – initially to complement my blog articles with how-to demonstrations, and eventually to focus entirely on YouTube. Starting the blog and YouTube channel was one of the best decisions I’ve made. Frey: What do you wish people knew about visual thinking?

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Lateral Action

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

creativity-relevant skills are the possession of the skill and ability to to think creatively (e.g. Jing Zhou, Christina Shalley, Handbook of Organizational Creativity ). While you are engaged in a creative process make sure that you suspend judgment. Jean Trumbo, Creativity ). (Mind Tools, Brainstorming ).

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Photo by José Encarnação Duff left a thoughtful comment on my post about creative rituals , highlighting a potential danger of incorporating ritual into your creative process: the yin to the yang of ritual anchors is pure novelty. There is definitely something to this argument as well.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Having seen it before made me less afraid of it, and knowing that I had experienced it in more than one creative discipline helped me to realize that if I was finished with what I had to say in one medium, I could always try bringing the creative process to yet another medium. How does this relate to the other symptoms above?

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Lateral Action

JANUARY 28, 2009

This isn’t by any means a claim that people can only do what they’re hired to do, but I don’t think the brainstorm as run in most organizations is the way to bring in outside input to the creative process. Is creativity something we all have naturally, or is it a skill developed by practice? back @Tony, Now we’re talkin’!!! (You

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Faster Ideas

JUNE 2, 2021

South Park has been featured on our FFWDtv strand, with , this video about their creative process. I first heard "fill the tank" while listening to writer and comedian Bill Hader talk about his experience of working on comedy series South Park.

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Faster Ideas

MAY 19, 2021

Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs, David Mitchell, Snoop Dogg - all have gone on record to say how important walking is to their creative process. So said Nietzsche, who happened to know a thing or two about thinking. Nikola Tesla, J.K. But why does walking rate so highly for mental stimulation over any other form of exercise?

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Lateral Action

AUGUST 31, 2009

I'm sure there are plenty of people reading this who would love to be able to focus on their creative process all day long, and hand over the messy business of business to someone else. You could also argue that Johnny is in the fortunate position of having someone else to worry about marketing and shipping the 'product'.

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Lateral Action

MAY 4, 2009

Robert Dilts uses this statement as the basis of a brilliant analysis of Walt Disney's creative process, in his book Strategies of Genius: Volume 1. You never knew which one was coming into your meeting. Ollie Johnstone and Frank Thomas, The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation ). Walt Disney, 'Growing Pains').

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Lateral Action

APRIL 13, 2009

But creativity is about life. And the creative process moves in mysterious ways. Whatever else they do, Bob and Charlotte will never forget those few days they spent together in Japan. They've left an indelible impression on each other. Sometimes getting nothing done is the most productive thing you can do.

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Lateral Action

MARCH 23, 2009

For him, the idea of extraordinary creative thinking processes is part of 'the Genius myth' , in which creative achievers are placed on pedestals above the rest of us mere mortals.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

It feels counterintuitive, but in the context of your creative process, sometimes the most 'productive' thing you can be doing is chilling out at a barbecue, lying on a beach, watching a DVD or mucking about with your friends. Apart from any effect on your career and your business, it will do you the world of good.

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Lateral Action

JANUARY 14, 2009

Writing this, it's just struck me that I must be a creativity otaku. I didn't enter the Darwin exhibition with a completely open mind - I went looking for evidence of Darwin's creative process. When I found it, I had to start scribbling in my notebook. Now, I feel compelled to share it with you.

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Purple Crest

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Especially with a creative process like writing, you always start with a former conception. When an artist is drawing, s/he always has some emotion, some abstract in their mind. Even though the canvas seems empty, they have a picture in their brain. It is the best example to explain that no one ever starts from scratch.

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Lateral Action

AUGUST 24, 2009

Looking at the big picture, the alternation of hard work and relaxation can be seen as an important part of Eliot's creative process. The Waste Land , considered by many his greatest poem, was largely written while on sick leave from the bank, with sections written at a sanatorium in Switzerland and on holiday in Margate.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Dooney doesn't pretend it's easy: as the subtitle of her widely read blog puts it, Art Is War. I rarely offer works for sale via the web – although, very recently, I offered two print series priced under $1,000 via Twitter and my blog as part of a process of 'democratising' my art for younger, less moneyed collectors.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

For example: right now you’re reading this blog post so you’re probably in ‘reading mode’ which makes it easy to absorb these words and relate them to other things you’ve read - whether in books, blogs, journals or other sources. But you don’t spend your whole life reading blogs (do you?). Your Creative Rituals.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 21, 2009

What effect did it have on your creative process? As for the longer term effect on my creative process, it gave me even greater respect for the power of story in the persuasion and learning. Johnny Bunko has been a resounding hit, so you obviously achieved your goal with regard to your audience. It was challenging.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 5, 2009

"To suspend criticism and think any idea is possible or good may ultimately be destructive to creativity," said Dr. Goldenberg. As we saw last week, critical thinking is central to the creative process. And according to Goldenberg's fellow researcher Dr Mazursky, "Humans can criticize themselves, and computers can't".

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Lateral Action

JANUARY 26, 2009

(Gordon Torr, Managing Creative People ).

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Lateral Action

MARCH 2, 2009

Now you might find this account hard to believe, but I've heard about - and seen - very similar creative processes when working with artists in one-to-one coaching sessions. I originally trained as a hypnotherapist, so I know how easy it is for people to experience vivid auditory and visual hallucinations.

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Lateral Action

DECEMBER 29, 2008

Cocaine seems to have been a normal part of the creative process for musicians on the LA scene at the time, fueling marathon recording sessions.

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Lateral Action

JULY 9, 2009

Let yourself be a vessel to fill with new encounters and see if you can use these experiences in your creative process. Look for things that incite a reaction and remind you you’re alive. Tap into Unexploited Resources. Not trying might not be walking away from your work, but creating without a specific purpose.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

In his thinking the 'art' stage of creative production, which he identified with the careful procedure of making studies, sketches and working drawings, was the menial and mundane side of the business, where is true merit was to him displayed in the rapid and apparently effortless execution of a painting or sculpture. The Art of Work.

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