Lessons for living: Emergence

Lessons for living: Emergence

Creativity is a way of being in which life feels new and fresh in each moment. It is marked by exploration and experimentation. This creative way of being is one in which there is deep sense of emergence and presence. Emergence is the experience of fresh perception,...
Lessons for living: Creativity

Lessons for living: Creativity

There was once a boy who banged a drum all day. No matter what anyone else said, he wouldn’t stop. Various people were called in by neighbours and asked to do something about the child. One by one, townsfolk came to warn the boy about his eardrums or that drums were...
Learning for living: Creativity

Learning for living: Creativity

There was once a boy who banged a drum all day. No matter what anyone else said, he wouldn’t stop. Various people were called in by neighbours and asked to do something about the child. One by one, townsfolk came to warn the boy about his eardrums or that drums were...
Pablo Picasso and the creative life

Pablo Picasso and the creative life

It is said that before he could talk, Pablo Picasso could draw. In fact, his mother claimed that the first words out of his mouth was ‘pencil’! When he was small, this young artist would draw circular shapes in the sand. Pablo lived a long and interesting life. Much...
Becoming Promethean: Creativity, courage and compassion

Becoming Promethean: Creativity, courage and compassion

The great god Zeus tasked Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus, who were both skilled craftsmen, with populating the earth. Epimetheus made animals and birds, insects and fish. When he was finished Prometheus stepped forward and made the last creature. He took some...