Embrace your dark side….
Some days are just shit. Everything that can go wrong seems to go wrong. It feels like nothing is creative and nothing changes. It appears …
What if I do this every day?
At the time I wrote this piece I was living out on Dursey island for a few months. It was around the time of the …
When the creative process is excruciating
For my previous post I experienced a real challenge in writing about Redefining success and it got me thinking about when the creative process is excruciating: how …
How redefining success effects change
How do societal definitions of success underpin collective decisions and our personal definitions of success, and how could the process of consciously redefining success for …
Why I do what I do
Creativity for change is about recognising the power of our imagination to create better ways of living now and creating a better future for our next …
10 Ways nature can enrich your creativity
Most people would agree that time in nature is good for us: we associate it with fresh air, exercise, health and wellbeing, and maybe also with …
Befriending your creative process
Francis Bacon’s iconic studio, preserved in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh’s manic episodes and the idea …
Why do we create?
In deciding to write a weekly article I have come back to some simple questions about creativity. This week the (apparently simple) question is: Why do …
10 ways creativity is good for you
“If I don’t create something soon I’m going to go mad! ” These are the words of a friend recently expressing frustration at not having regular …
What is creativity, and why is it important for change?
We all know what creativity is, but its interesting that it can be described in so many different ways: it is known as the art …