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An Ongoing Workshop for Discovering and Reinventing Creative Energies
Tab
Ballis, LCSW,LCAS
Insight
Wellness Services
This
workshop will explore the sources and obstacles to creativity in love, work and
play. Utilizing lecture, movement,
visual art and music exercises participants will be guided in addressing the
following goals:
3.
Increasing the comfort and range
of creativity
From
primal cave drawings to modern computer animation, human beings are born with an
intrinsic drive to express themselves in words, symbols and actions.
Through visual, verbal, and kinetic expression we continuously redefine
our humanity and our precarious balance between conformity and rebellion,
attachment and separation, affiliation and differentiation, accommodation and
assimilation.
However,
our individual and collective creative freedom is juxtaposed with the inevitable
censoring and restraint of societal conditioning.
Thus, we are both limited and potentiated by our familial, cultural, and
societal identities, as we act out our archetypal roles (warrior, lover, healer,
ruler, magician, fool). Creativity
need not be learned so much as allowed. It
is as basic a human characteristic as bipedal locomotion or the opposable thumb.
Creative energy is a vehicle for moving through normal developmental
stages and processing biopsychosocial transitions.
Blocks or resistance to creativity, while confounding, can serve as
indicators of areas of potential growth, and mark the path back to creative
freedom.
