Who are these people that I attribute this description ‘Creative Consciousness’?
You won’t see it stamped on their forehead or does it appear in a title or cert, it is hiding in plain sight. It is stamped all over their lives, their careers, everything they touch and the expansive positive impact of their energy on others. If you happen to spot someone that is content, fulfilled, positive, passionate and free spirited, and cause others to feel or aspire same, they probably have it. Some have it, many are on their way to having it, many more aren't aware of its availability.Why do some get it and others not? I’ve got a theory. When trying to understand creativity, many try to find it in what I will call ‘The Symptoms’, Symptoms like sustainable success, the ever expansive products of innovation, the explosion it technology or the achievements of great artists. An uncomplicated, minimalistic lifestyle could also be a symptom of creative consciousness, feverishly doing and accumulating isn't mandatory. It helps to look but if we really want to understand, then I think we should be also exploring the ‘Cause’. As a matter of fact I think that if we don’t seek and study the ‘cause’ we will be forever left with the question of why some achieve great things and the rest of us just dream about greatness and why some people are incredibly fulfilled by a simple quiet life. The conclusion of this theory is; Creativity, the essence/core of which is like a spiritual experience, when you have one you get it, you’ve had an insight into the unknown. Explaining this to another is nigh impossible, what do you say? I suggest a reply would be ‘go explore and when you experience it you will get it.
“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” (Sir Ken Robinson)
My wish for 2012 is that any innovations or re-inventing the education system will be guided by Creative consciousnesses, or at least our minister will seek counsel and pay heed. Listening to students wouldn’t be a bad thing either (client centred), if there is anything observable about today's youth is their determined sense of individuality and creativity ( more freely expressed outside school hours). Another feature is an nonconformist nature, useful when seeking freedom from the status-quo of 'sameness' and old thinking.
If creativity and education is important to you, please check out Sir Ken Robinson video in the blogs – He is one of ‘them’ that have got it. He is a visionary authority on creativity in education.