One morning, earlier this week, I woke up from a deep, dreamy sleep to the sound of my alarm. Before the alarm went off I was dreaming that I was trying to write a text on my phone, when suddenly it started to ring. I immediately pressed the green telephone symbol on the keypad to answer the call, but to my frustration my phone just kept ringing. And that's when I woke up realizing that my morning phone alarm had gone off. When I checked the time, I was horrified to discover that it was an hour later than I had expected. I had incorrectly set the alarm before going to sleep. I began frantically rushing around trying to get myself dressed and ready for an appointment that I was now going to be late for. As I headed towards the bathroom to take a shower I became aware that my legs felt heavier than usual. In fact they felt like ten-ton weights. As a result I seemed to be moving in slow motion. The effort of trying to heave my body towards the bathroom door caused me to yell out and just at that moment I heard my phone alarm go off yet again.
She worked on hers and I worked on mine. My friend has a problem, she is one of the people who has the need to be creative in order to nourish their soul, but for whatever reason, she is not doing it. Does this sound familiar?
I did the same thing for years, until I could not live like this anymore. So just talking about creative projects, collecting a bunch of magazines and sitting down together, chatting and ripping out inspiring pages, looking at each other's bounty and getting inspired by watching each other got us into the creative flow. My friend stayed up until late that night, because she could not stop. I went to bed earlier, my board was half the size of hers and by now I am pretty fast, I am not methodical creative, and I am impulsive and fast.
Image Streaming This exercise is to be carried out in pairs or individually. The exercising student closes her eyes and asks herself a question. The exercising student then describes out loud her mental visual imagery either to another student or to a tape recorder. Describing of the mental images should be flowing and streaming. In the process of describing the images she sees in her mind, the student should concentrate on sensory details. For example, "I feel the softness of the fresh laundry", "my feet are pressed against the cold tiles", "I smell the rain-soaked air." The student should aim to make her live or potential listener vividly experience what she sees. In order to develop and maintain the flow of streaming imagery, the student should ask herself new questions as to the nature of objects she sees in her mind and explore them in detail. Relaying the mental images should be done in a hastened pace to avoid judgment and critical thinking. Image streaming is to be exercised for at least 10 minutes each time. Over time, this exercise improves creativity and intelligence.
We kept admiring each other's work and came up with numerous ideas on how we will continue these creative get-togethers and expand to other friends and community.
The Gods Must Be Crazy An African Bushman, unaware of white culture, discovers an empty Coca Cola bottle in the Kalahari Desert. The bushman closely examines this mystical object (casually dropped by a passing pilot), wondering what it is good for. He then tries blowing into it, and is very pleased to learn that it makes a noise. In this creativity exercise you encourage your students to become Bushmen. I mean it. You need to collect 5 to 10 props. You display a prop to your students and ask them to find a new use for it. This exercise encourages creativity since it forces the thinking process to erase or ignore what is known and come up with fresh ways of looking at something familiar.
Music's Story Play a piece of classical music, preferably one that your students don't know. Dim the lights, instruct your students to close their eyes and listen closely to the music. The music tells a story, it tells about the weather, about a poor or rich man, about mad love that is now dying. Ask each student to follow every plot twist, every change of atmosphere. Then stop the music and ask your students to write down their stories, with as much detail as possible.
She worked on hers and I worked on mine. My friend has a problem, she is one of the people who has the need to be creative in order to nourish their soul, but for whatever reason, she is not doing it. Does this sound familiar?
I did the same thing for years, until I could not live like this anymore. So just talking about creative projects, collecting a bunch of magazines and sitting down together, chatting and ripping out inspiring pages, looking at each other's bounty and getting inspired by watching each other got us into the creative flow. My friend stayed up until late that night, because she could not stop. I went to bed earlier, my board was half the size of hers and by now I am pretty fast, I am not methodical creative, and I am impulsive and fast.
Image Streaming This exercise is to be carried out in pairs or individually. The exercising student closes her eyes and asks herself a question. The exercising student then describes out loud her mental visual imagery either to another student or to a tape recorder. Describing of the mental images should be flowing and streaming. In the process of describing the images she sees in her mind, the student should concentrate on sensory details. For example, "I feel the softness of the fresh laundry", "my feet are pressed against the cold tiles", "I smell the rain-soaked air." The student should aim to make her live or potential listener vividly experience what she sees. In order to develop and maintain the flow of streaming imagery, the student should ask herself new questions as to the nature of objects she sees in her mind and explore them in detail. Relaying the mental images should be done in a hastened pace to avoid judgment and critical thinking. Image streaming is to be exercised for at least 10 minutes each time. Over time, this exercise improves creativity and intelligence.
We kept admiring each other's work and came up with numerous ideas on how we will continue these creative get-togethers and expand to other friends and community.
The Gods Must Be Crazy An African Bushman, unaware of white culture, discovers an empty Coca Cola bottle in the Kalahari Desert. The bushman closely examines this mystical object (casually dropped by a passing pilot), wondering what it is good for. He then tries blowing into it, and is very pleased to learn that it makes a noise. In this creativity exercise you encourage your students to become Bushmen. I mean it. You need to collect 5 to 10 props. You display a prop to your students and ask them to find a new use for it. This exercise encourages creativity since it forces the thinking process to erase or ignore what is known and come up with fresh ways of looking at something familiar.
Music's Story Play a piece of classical music, preferably one that your students don't know. Dim the lights, instruct your students to close their eyes and listen closely to the music. The music tells a story, it tells about the weather, about a poor or rich man, about mad love that is now dying. Ask each student to follow every plot twist, every change of atmosphere. Then stop the music and ask your students to write down their stories, with as much detail as possible.