CREATING AT THE EDGE: THE CULTURE OF CREATIVITY
(To catch up with this topic, see Week One Empowerment Organization , Week Two Examples of “The One Small Thing”)
Motivation is a bottom-up, not top-down thing. Each unique individual must be in touch with their own Creative Edge, their own “felt experience” of aliveness and creativity.
Below you find an explanation of why taking the time to “sit with,” pay attention to the “intuitive feel,” the “something more than words” leads to maximum motivation as well as maximum creativity and innovation:
“Core Creativity Cultura De Creatividad
- Every individual is born with a unique blueprint. Personal growth is the unfolding of this blueprint
- Every problem holds within itself the exact next steps needed for solution
- The site of new insights and creative solutions is at the edge of what is already known. This edge, The Creative Edge, holds implicit within it all past and future knowing about the problem, more than could ever be put into words in a linear way
- The Creative Edge is a right-brain phenomenon and is physically experienced as the murky, intuitive “feel” of the whole issue
- Creating at the Edge involves a back-and-forth nonlinear process between left-brain “symbolizations” and right brain “felt experiencing”
- The Intuitive Focusing skill teaches specific steps which make problem-solving at The Creative Edge and “Ah, hah!” insights a predictable process
- Central to Intuitive Focusing is learning to silently “sit with” the murky, intuitive, preverbal “felt sense” underlying an issue before attempting to find words, gestures, or images as “symbolizations
- The Focused Listening skill is a powerful tool for helping another person to create symbolizations out of The Creative Edge and especially in finding the “intuitive feel” for each person in interpersonal situations, turning conflict into creativity
- Focused Listening also allows for empathic understanding of the Other and the possibility for conflict resolution which comes from empathic understanding.
- The Creative Edge Organization Method ensures maximum creativity and motivation at every level by encouraging Intuitive Focusing by individuals and Coordinated Collaboration in groups and teams
- Maximum motivation arises when people are encouraged to create their lives and solutions to problems from their own Creative Edge.
- Individuals are motivated when they are engaged at their Creative Edge. When organizational structures lose touch with The Creative Edge of individuals, apathy is created.
- True change, at any level, from personal to global, can only happen by engaging The Creative Edge of individual human beings. There is no lasting way to impose change from the outside.
- Lasting change is empowered from the individual entering into collaborative action with other individuals.
Paradigm Shifts
- Paradigms are fixed perceptual schemata, or Gestalts, which determine beliefs, emotional reactions, and behaviors
- Paradigm shifts are the source of true creativity, innovation, and change
- Intuitive Focusing results in shifts at the level of paradigms. The kaleidoscope turns, a new Gestalt is created, and new thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are able to arise
- Paradigm shifts at The Creative Edge release blocked energy as well as creating new solutions”
Read on at this link or en espanol for the full model of how the use of Listening/Focusing turns within organizations insures motivation rather than apathy and creativity rather than stultification.
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The site of new insights and creative solutions is at the edge of what is already known. This edge, The Creative Edge, holds implicit within it all past and future knowing about the problem, more than could ever be put into words in a linear way
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