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Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 08:25AM

People often ask me, "Why are you so passionate about creativity and what is head hand and HEART all about?"

In this first head hand and HEART blog post I'll attempt to answer both these questions and open a door for you to see creativity, your creative potential and yourself as a creator, in a whole new light.

Talk to any highly accomplished and recognised creative person and it's likely they will tell you that perception is a critical faculty and a key part of the creative process. Perception is all about how we see and interpret the world.

You probably know from experience that no two people see the world in exactly the same way; we all have our own very unique point of view or perspective. What's more, our perspective determines not only what we look at but also what we see and what that means to us.

So let's explore some perspectives on creativity and how you relate to creativity and yourself as a creator.

When I explain head hand and HEART as a program designed to develop and uncover creative potential many people respond with the claim "Oh, I'm really not creative"

It's a common, but truly remarkable perspective, given the overwhelming evidence that humans as a species and as individuals are creative beyond imagination.

Look back over the past 200, 100, 20, 10, 5 years. We are witness to the most remarkable explosion of creative enterprise that our species has ever seen. The combined forces of the industrial and information revolutions are literally reshaping every aspect of our lives, our communities and our planet.

Humans are creative at their core. We create to learn, we create to explore, we create to improve, we create to solve, we create to enjoy, and we create to engage with others.

Whether we do it consciously or not we create our homes, our careers, our communities, our characters, our relationships, our families, our collections of possessions, and our beliefs. Literally everything about our world is created.

Look back over your own life to the time of your childhood. There was a time when creative play was one of your most important and well-loved experiences. Creativity is not something we have to learn. Creative is something we are, from birth. Creativity is our birthright.

Unfortunately for some of us, somewhere during our development, our free and playful sense of innocence is lost. Somewhere along the line some of us either take on the belief 'I'm not creative' or restrict our creative endeavors to a narrow specialist field.

There are many pressures both biological and social that encourage us to conform as we question and form our identity and our capabilities. In a world where the 'artwork' of creative experts; musicians, painters, movie makers, architects, designers etc. is everywhere, it is all to easy to compare our 'child like' creative expressions with the works of the experts. It's easy to feel like we are falling short. Once we stop exercising our 'creative muscle', it, like all muscles, withers and retreats to a place of 'safety' where its exercise can't be questioned or criticized.

In fact, what most people are saying when they claim to not be creative is "I'm not creative in the traditional sense of the word" - "I can't paint, draw, sing, dance, write poetry, etc like the experts."

When we associate creativity with traditional arts it's easy to see ourselves as not creative or lacking in any creative talent. But just for a moment I'd like to expand our view and explore some different perspectives on what creativity could be.

Let me ask you, how do you view your world?

Is it an overwhelming, incomprehensible and endless cacophony of challenges and demands that you struggle from one day to the next to meet? Or is it a field of infinite potential, an amazing, multidimensional canvass into which you paint your hopes and dreams?

How do you view your life?

Is it a well-scripted play from cradle to grave with you a well scripted character playing out a predetermined role? Or is it an unfolding mystery, an amazing journey, a masterwork, with you a master artist or at the very least a Master’s apprentice?

How do you view your creative capability?

Are you the kind of person that says, ‘I’m sorry, I’m just not creative, I can't even draw a straight line!’ (As if drawing a straight line was a pre-requisite for creative success!)? Or, do you recognise and realise the wealth of creative ability and potential that is yours by pure dint of the fact that you are born human - homo creator?

Know it or not, acknowledge it or not, act on it or not you live in a universe that is creative beyond either our imagination or our intellect to comprehend.

Know it or not, acknowledge it or not, act on it or not, you are a creative being.

By your very existence you are constantly engaged in creative acts – consciously and proactively or passively and unconsciously. Once conceived, (conception itself is a mind boggling creative miracle), you enter the world as 'homo creator' and from that moment forward your every breath, movement and thought is a creative act leaving its footprint upon the earth.

Which brings me to why I'm so passionate about creativity and what head hand and HEART is all about.

I believe that to deny our creative capability is to deny something that is at the very heart of who we are as individuals and as a species. Something we lived and breathed as children - open, innocent, imaginative, wide eyed and full of possibility and wonder.

I believe that to deny our creative expression is to miss out on one of the purest, deepest, richest parts of our very humanity. The deeply soul satisfying experience of creative play.

I believe that to deny our creative potential is to miss out the possibility of being the captain of our own ship and the master of our destiny.

I believe that to deny our creative contribution is to deny the possibly of that our dreams, hopes and desires can be realised and in doing so positively transform the world.

Conversely, to realise our creative capability, creative expression, creative potential and creative contribution is to open up a whole world of possibility.

head hand and HEART will not teach you to be creative. You cannot teach something to someone when they already have what it is you are trying to teach!!!

head hand and HEART will simply alter your perspective and help you deal with the voice of judgment and false belief may be holding your 'creative child' captive.

head hand and HEART will provide a safe environment in which your dormant creatively can be nurtured and brought back to life.

head hand and HEART is awakening to yourself as the creative being you were purposed to be.

head hand and HEART is a catalyst that will lead you into the realisation of your amazing creative potential.

head hand and HEART is a call to awaken to yourself as a conscious creator and through that to the beautiful contribution that you can make to your life and the lives of those around you.

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