The Coaching Blog

MAY 30, 2023

We are extremely happy to announce the release of a new programme called Creativity Coaching. 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. Is it for you?

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The Coaching Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Creativity coaches have helped thousands of artists, writers, inventors, entrepreneurs and other creative souls achieve their goals and realize their dreams. The program prepares you to work with creative and performing artists (writers, visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, craftspeople, etc.),

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Mind Mapping Software

JUNE 25, 2022

You can start your work with xTiles in a minute, but the product still gives you a lot of flexibility and doesn’t restrict your creativity. Kuchur: Our ideal user is a creative person. People who like to brainstorm, to write, to research will found xTiles as a valuable assistant in their creative process.

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Mind Mapping Software

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This powerful ideas engine can help its users discover new ideas and insights and explore new paths of thinking and creative solutions they may not have considered otherwise. The amazing human brain responds to creative stimuli. Chuck Frey: What’s changed about the nature of work that makes AI-enhanced creativity important today?

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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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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. So what's the difference between a creative ritual and a mundane routine? What Do You Think?

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Lateral Action

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Everyone knows critical thinking kills creativity. Suspending judgment in order to come up with new and unusual ideas is one of the sacred cows of the creativity movement. Everyone knows that instant judgment is the enemy of creativity. Edward de Bono, Serious Creativity ). Jean Trumbo, Creativity ).

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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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Ayoa

AUGUST 18, 2022

If that’s what makes amazing outcomes, shouldn’t the creative process be the same? So no matter how an idea might be taking shape, or how it is best to share it with another, in true mind mapping style, Ayoa now provides its users even more flexibility when it comes to manifesting their creative thoughts. Cheers all round.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Artist, entrepreneur and creative rock star John T. Unger left such a great comment on the post The Dark Side of Creativity: Burnout we thought it deserved a wider audience. If you've not read it already, you might like to read the creative burnout post to get the context before reading John's response.

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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

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. The critic helps to evaluate and refined the products of creativity. Disney wasn't just a creative thinker. How You Can Use Disney's Creativity Strategy. The Dreamer.

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Lateral Action

MARCH 23, 2009

Lateral thinking is such a familiar concept that it's virtually synonymous with 'creative thinking'. The phrase 'lateral thinking' is frequently used interchangeably with 'creativity'. We take it for granted that creative people think different to the rest of us. It's what makes them creative. What is going on here?

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Lateral Action

JANUARY 28, 2009

In this post I want to highlight one of the threads in the discussion, as it touched upon a fundamental question about creativity -- is it something we all have, which should be encouraged in everyone, or is 'serious' creativity best left to experienced professionals? They should leave creative methods to creative people. #23

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Overview of Coaching ICF (International Coaching Federation) defines “coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Accessed 20 May 2024 Pearl, Robert M.D.

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Mind Mapping Software

MAY 21, 2022

Both tools increase serendipity – the opportunity to generate fresh creative ideas and insights – by analyzing their diagram’s content and then presenting a variety of related concepts. Questions are a key part of the creative process. But they go about it in very different ways. It’s easy. does the rest.

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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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Faster Ideas

JUNE 9, 2021

And asking what in the flipping juxtaposing heck it's got to do with my creative thinking? 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. link] [link].

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Faster Ideas

MAY 19, 2021

Walking isn't just great exercise, it can exercise the mind and help it wander onto a new creative path. I have it on good authority from tons of creatives I know, and many I've read about, that a daily walk is their essential creative hack - either to clear out the current work clutter, or to be inspired for another splurge.

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Lateral Action

AUGUST 31, 2009

Those of us who are actively involved in creative work will know in our hearts what he's talking about. And as we saw in my e-book about motivation and creativity , there's a lot of research evidence to back up Johnny's position. Theresa Amabile, 'How to Kill Creativity', Harvard Business Review, September - October 1998).

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Faster Ideas

JUNE 2, 2021

How stopping what you're doing to fill your mind with inspiration is the best route to your creative goal. South Park has been featured on our FFWDtv strand, with , this video about their creative process. SIGN UP for the Faster Ideas newsletter and get creativity, inspiration and interviews in your inbox every Wednesday.

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Lateral Action

APRIL 13, 2009

Lost in Translation isn't about creativity, although its characters include actors, photographers, singers, musicians and other creative types. But creativity is about life. And the creative process moves in mysterious ways. They've left an indelible impression on each other. Nobody Understands You.

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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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Lateral Action

JANUARY 14, 2009

According to this view, Darwin was a creative thinker of genius who looked at the facts unhampered by the blinkers of professional education and preconceived notions. I'll explain why I find Darwin's own explanation of his creativity more convincing than that given by de Bono. Takeaway: Give in to your creative obsessions.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

So What's This Got to Do with Creativity and Productivity? Meditation is not designed to make you more creative or productive. My aim is to highlight one of the paradoxes of productivity and especially creativity: beyond a certain point, doing more or working harder is actually counter-productive. Absolutely nothing.

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Lateral Action

AUGUST 24, 2009

Sir Terence Conran, quoted in The Creative Economy by John Howkins). Takeaway: Opinion is divided on whether routines stimulate or stifle creativity. And they were often the occasion of bursts of creative activity. About the Author : Mark McGuinness is a poet, creative coach and co-founder of Lateral Action. The post T.S.

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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

MARCH 2, 2009

Regular readers of Lateral Action will know we're pretty sceptical about the idea of creative genius. You've probably noticed we preach a gospel of creativity-as-hard-work rather than the proverbial flash of inspiration. This is one of the most inspiring and practical talks I've seen about creativity for a long time.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It's why Lou 's job is under threat from automation, but Jack has a bright future, safe in the knowledge that a computer will never replicate his ability to think creatively. The humans were non-advertising professionals, given a brief and asked to come up with creative ideas for adverts. Creativity by Numbers?

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Lateral Action

DECEMBER 29, 2008

It's a great read and full of lessons for the aspiring artist and creative entrepreneur. Takeaway: Multiply your talents with creative partnerships. Takeaway: If you're stuck in a creative rut, go somewhere that will disorient you. Takeaway: Look for technology that opens up new creative possibilities.

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Lateral Action

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

In fact, if you're a creative professional, it may be the most important thing you do all day. 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.

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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 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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Lateral Action

JANUARY 26, 2009

In spite of the fact that brainstorming is virtually synonymous with creativity in some quarters, there are plenty of people who would love to erase brainstorms from their working life. But the critics also include some very talented and successful creative professionals, like Huntington or Gordon Torr , formerly Creative Director of J.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Specifically, his book A Whole New Mind provided inspiration for the very first article we published - Innovate or Die: Why Creativity Is Economic Priority Number One - and more recently I wrote about his TED Talk, in Why Rewards Don't Work. What effect did it have on your creative process? It was challenging.

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Lateral Action

JULY 9, 2009

In a world of 101 things to do the idea of waiting for your creativity to come and lend a hand might seem absurd or luxurious at best, but as creative people can we learn from the journey he travelled following his philosophy of “Don’t Try"? There was water in the creative well once more. Photo by Hryck. Too Soon for Success.

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