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Creative Edge Collaborators/Consultants:  Volunteers, Foundations, Social Change Agents

We invite you to come and work directly with us. Our goal is to bring the Creative Edge Focusing™  self-help model into as many settings as possible, providing our two Core Skills of human literacy and preventive mental health world wide for personal and spiritual growth, for conflict resolution, and for group decision making.

You can create, with our support, your own personally-meaningful project. You can also become involved in any of our existing projects. Click on any of the Interest Areas listed in the Sidebar to see our Ten Possible Steps To Take as an example of the kinds of initiatives, large and small, that can begin to bring the Creative Edge Focusing ™ model into each of these areas.

Problems You Face and Our Solutions

  • Problem: You’ve gotten burned out. You’ve watched organizations get consumed by conflict and disorganization. You don’t know where to start, and you know you can’t change the world alone.
  • Solution: In our model, everyone involved learns the Core Skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening for personal growth and conflict resolution. Participants give and receive peer counseling turns to each other, increasing connection and decreasing burnout.

    We work to support each other in creating initiatives that connect with The Creative Edge, the intuitive “passion” of each of us. We get as much as we give, being nourished by the creative insights and empathy and compassion generated through the Listening/Focusing exchange.

    We become a community while we build community in the world. We nurture each other while we try to help others. Through Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid/, the Core Skills are applied throughout our Creative Edge Organization, to conflict resolution and to collaborative decision making. 

    You can become a collaborator by participating in The Creative Edge e-discussion list (click the icon to join if you haven’t). There, you can help create a project which allows you to contribute your “one small thing.” It might simply be handing out bumper stickers, or contacting someone you know on the inside track of a foundation…

    You can also go further and become a Creative Edge Focusing Consultant. This is a more intensive training program. But, if you can convince us that you have a plan to advance the Creative Edge Focusing ™ model in some productive way (be it by helping us with our website or bringing Listening/Focusing into parenting education…), then the training is available at minimal cost.


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Click here to join our Creative Edge e-discussion/support group and immediately download Focusing Instructions to begin practicing

Our Beliefs and Values: Creating at the Edge and The Culture of Creativity

 We believe that every person has a unique mission. The only way to overcome apathy and inspire creativity and commitment is to engage each person at their Creative Edge, the right-brain, “intuitive feel” of the “something more” in every situation.

 We believe that every problem holds within itself its own solution. The Creative Edge, the “intuitive feel” of “the whole thing” holds a wealth of past experiences, present knowledge, and future imagination about the problem and its solution, more than can be put into words by  left-brain thinking.

The PRISMS/S Focusing Process provides a predictable process for turning these “intuitions” into the “Ahah!s” of Paradigm Shifts.

Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid creates possibilities at all levels, from individual to interpersonal to group to organizational, for accessing this wealth of right-brain information and the Creative Edge motivation that comes with it.

The application of our Core Skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening , at home and at work, nourishes a Culture of Creativity Cultura de Creatividad.

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These materials are offered purely as self-help skills. In providing them, Dr. McGuire is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.