Quality Dementia Care; Nurturing the Heart: creativity, art therapy and dementia Is a 40+ page pdf document, published in 2007 and authored by Dr Patricia Baines. Dr Baines trained as an Anthropologist, Psychologist and Art Therapist, and now works with Alzheimer’s Australia Tasmania. The document is available here. Table of content INTRODUCTION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EVERYONE IS CREATIVE Creative [...]
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Paper eye candy
Dozens of inspirational creations made of paper. These artists are FAB’ulous. An illustrator’s use of words. Marta Pelrine Bacon A story told in paper; a fascinating video animation. Worth watching. NZ Book Council – Going West
Give yourself inspiration
It’s the holiday season and one thing I like to do is put myself at the top of my gift giving list. Treat myself for working so hard all year round….not that I completely forget to think of myself the rest of the year but lets say I like to spread the giving to myself [...]
Creativity to keep the doctor away
I came across an interesting older article on creativity written in Scientific American (March 24, 2005). The article covers a lot of ground by first demystifying the belief that creativity belongs only to the gifted. « Creative thinking is the norm in human beings and can be observed in almost all mental activities. » However much of [...]
Creativity quotes by psychologists
Contrary to popular belief creativity needs constraints; they provide the boundaries from which form can take shape. Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. (Rollo May) Tolerance for ambiguity [...]
Creativity & Resilience
According to King and Pope (2000) creativity is associated with psychological richness and complexity. Creative people demonstrate: autonomy and independence self control trust their own judgment have more interests are more willing to attend to chaotic aspects of the world tolerate ambiguity have greater acceptance for difference in human nature are more curious about the [...]
