Welcome to The Insightful Creative!
This is a space about being creative and living creatively, sharing stories and ideas,
learning from others, and forging our own paths.
Telling stories and sharing ideas around our creativity builds a sense of shared understanding, common ground, and empathy. All these stories and shared ideas - or insights - around creativity invite reflection, thought, and dialogue. When we see others sharing their personal stories and experiences about their creative process, it creates space for deeper conversations for ourselves and others. The word “creative” is meant to be broad and inclusive - creativity in all its forms – evoking the idea that creativity isn’t confined to traditional artistic fields but is a way of thinking and approaching life.
What is your way you like to be creative?
What insights do you have to share?
What path are you forging?
#20 Leanna Keith: All sounds are good sounds
What ways do you feel authentic/vulnerable in your work?
What ways can you welcome further authenticity/vulnerability into your practice?
#19 Anastasia Mousouli: from Oblique Strategies to Bowie - pushing beyond boundaries
What moments have sparked your belief in potential?
What possibilities are waiting for you to uncover?
How can you begin tapping into them?
#18 Laura Souza: The journey, not the finish line
Are there ways you can trust your creative process more?
What is your obvious, your “gut knowing?”
What has inspired you and led you to create something new?
#17 Choosing curiosity
How might you choose curiosity over fear today?
How could you let curiosity guide you (rather than passion)?
#16 Paula White: Hearing ideas even in silence
What do you do to stay inspired?
In what ways do you “hear ideas in silence?”
How does inspiration from others impact what / how you create?
How does creating teach you about yourself and others?
#15 D. Colin: The only way is through
What are you doing today to care for yourself?
How are you "working through” something?
What art are you terrified about creating but do it anyway?
#14 Jeff Dunn: The art of administration & creating opportunities for others
What work do you do to support others in their ability to create or follow a creative path?
Who has supported you on your own creative path?
#13 Jon Russell: Make Space to Think & Feel, Follow Your Obvious
Are you creating space for thinking, for feeling?
What’s your obvious?
#12 Tiffany Valvo: Being interested & amazed (quantum level)
How can you be more interested today?
#11 Morgann Elyce Davis: Deep self-knowing & defining your own success
What work or life feels closest to your true self?
#10 Why “The Insightful Creative?”
It’s been almost a month since starting this blog and 10 posts in, with 310 of you reading over this past month. That’s amazing. Thank you for being a part.
What are you paying attention to today?
What are you astonished by?
#9 Maria Brandt: Practicing empathy
How do you think empathy can help reveal something new about yourself or others?
Has empathy ever led you to see a situation or person differently?
#6 Joanne Metcalf: Fueled by love
She looked over some questions I had shared with her before our conversation and said, “I love that you ask first about love. Every piece of music I write, all the choices I make… they are fueled by love."
#4 But what are we even alive for if we don’t do something we believe in
We could fail, but what are we even alive for if we don’t do something we believe in?
What are you “alive for?”
Have you tried to make it happen in some way?
#3 No choice but to persevere
What can’t you live without, so there’s no choice but to persevere (even through hardships)?
#2 Chris Cresswell: Create the life you want so you can do the creative work you want
How can you set up your life to do the creative work you want to create?
#1 Love, Listen, Risk, Create
What is your way you like to be creative?
What insights do you have to share?